"If you are a senior leader or a middle leader, and want to develop CPD practice in your school, this book will serve as either an excellent starting point or a Hayne’s manual to check on, build and reflect on your current practices. I recommend it." Read an excellent review of Zoe Enser and Mark Enser's new book 'The CPD Curriculum'.

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Co-authored by Zoe Enser and Mark Enser, The CPD Curriculum: Creating conditions for growth shares expert and practical guidance for schools on designing and delivering continuing professional development (CPD) that truly lives up to its name.

Zoe and Mark explain how schools can overcome issues with CPD that can leave teachers plateauing in their development after just a few years, and share a variety of case studies that illustrate the key components of an effective CPD programme that builds on teachers’ prior knowledge.

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Don't Doubt the Rainbow is a new contemporary middle-grade detective series with a difference to solve each mystery, 13-year-old Edie Marble must harness the Three Principles, a new approach to understanding how the mind works that is currently proving invaluable in improving mental health and well-being in children internationally.

Walking back from her mother's grave, 13-year-old schoolgirl Edie Marble finds a note in a pocket of the sheepskin coat that she hasn't worn since the day, a year earlier, when she received the awful news of her mother's death. The note is from her mother, who had been looking into a corporate human rights violation and had become fearful for her life after receiving death threats. She trusts only Edie because of their special bond and Edie's intelligence and has laid a trail of clues for Edie to find that will help her to shed light on the violation and uncover the mystery around her death. Discover the book here.

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Written by Louise Hutton and Dawn Cox, Making Every RE Lesson Count: Six principles to support religious education teaching brings together the latest curriculum developments with evidence-informed practice and shares practical strategies for use in the RE classroom.

Writing in the practical, engaging style of the award-winning Making Every Lesson Count, Louise and Dawn provide teachers of religious education with the means to help their pupils unpick the big questions of religious belief and practice, and of morality and philosophy the things that make us human.

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In Independent Thinking on Restorative Practice: Building relationships, improving behaviour and creating stronger communities, Mark Finnis shares a practical and inspiring introduction to the use of restorative practice in educational settings.

Drawing on his many years experience working with schools, social services and local governments across the country, Mark shares all you need to know about what restorative practice is, how it works, where to start and the many benefits of embedding a relational approach into any educational organisation that genuinely has people at its heart.

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101 Days To Make a Change is a constructive and compassionate companion that will help get you back in the driving seat of your life - in just over three months. Its expansive ideology is grounded by an achievable process with a realistic timeframe to help chart progress and acknowledge results. Discover the book here.

PROS

• An oft-neglected area of professional development, this book offers a fantastic guide of the skills and requirements of a school middle leadership role.

• Adam offers a great mix of anecdotal stories from his own experiences, sharing ideas, resources and research that help underpin his own ethos.

• The book explores key aspects of middle leadership including: subject expertise; teaching and learning styles, CPD, pastoral situations and wellbeing.

• Each chapter offers a fantastic summary and key points, along with reflective questions that middle leaders can apply within their own context.

• This book is well placed for teaching colleagues who are considering the step up into middle leadership, offering tools, reflections and tips on how to successfully achieve in the role.

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Written by Adam Robbins, Middle Leadership Mastery: A toolkit for subject and pastoral leaders aims to enhance middle leaders expertise so that they can make informed decisions and communicate them effectively to both staff and students.

Instead of relying on generic leadership theories, Middle Leadership Mastery gathers perspectives from psychology and cognitive science to share evidence-informed guidance on a wide range of topics from supporting staff and students in crisis and managing wellbeing, to quality-assuring teaching and curriculum design. It also sets out a holistic view of the role of middle leaders covering people management, teacher development, teaching and learning, decision making and pastoral issues.

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