‹Nina Jackon, author of Of Teaching, Learning and Sherbet Lemons and one of the happiest, most effervescent personalities in education today, has recently begun using her blog as a platform for sharing some great teaching ideas for the classroom by forging through the alphabet and picking out an idea from each letter as a starting point. 

So, to begin at the beginning, she has picked out ˜Alliteration™ as a teaching focus - and you can take a look at her ideas here!

SchoolsWeek have written a review for Gary Toward, Chris Henley and Andy Cope˜s title The Art of Being a Brilliant Middle Leader.

You can read the review on their website here and if you want see a bit of the book for yourself, you can take a sneaky peek at some of the pages inside here.

Juliet Robertson, author of Dirty Teaching: A Beginner™s Guide to Learning Outdoors, continues to champion the benefits of outdoor learning in schools nationwide and, as a helping hand to all other outdoorsy teachers in thinking outside the box and the classroom, has written up a few ideas for outdoor maths activities.

Click here to read her blog post, and here to visit her homepage.

SchoolsWeek have recently written a charming profile of the ever-popular John Tomsett, author of This Much I Know About Love Over Fear..., covering a variety of topics ranging the span of his life and career within school headship.

Click here to read the article in full.

Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas, authors of Educating Ruby, have written a piece on their blog acknowledging their peers who have recently contributed to the annual Open Dialogue volume published last week by The British Psychological Society - The Psychology of Education Review, Volume 1, Spring 2016. Here is the last article in the Review in which Guy and Bill reflect on the opinions of reviewers in the eight articles which make up the collection.

You can take a look inside the book here before ordering your own copy here.

Jarlath O'Brien, author of the forthcoming title Don't Send Him in Tomorrow, has written a new blog post on Independent Thinking's site discussing the 'no excuses' approach to behaviour. Does treating all children the same way represent a fair and rigorous method of discipline? Or does punishment for non-compliance ignore the complexity of the task at hand?

Click here to read Jarlath's commentary, and click here to take a look at his title which is due for publication in September.