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Scrapbooking the School Years
A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensEbenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children.But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward.This finest of all Christmas stories is beautifully illustrated with Arthur Rackham's superb line drawings.
When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic Shifts in School Behaviour
In When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic Shifts in School Behaviour, Paul Dix upends the debate on behaviour management in schools and offers effective tips and strategies that serve to end the search for change in children and turn the focus back on the adults.You can buy in the best behaviour tracking software, introduce 24/7 detentions or scream NO EXCUSES as often as you want but ultimately the solution lies with the behaviour of the adults. It is the only behaviour over which we have absolute control. Drawing on anecdotal case studies, scripted interventions and approaches which have been tried and tested in a range of contexts, from the most challenging urban comprehensives to the most privileged international schools, behaviour training expert and Pivotal Education director Paul Dix advocates an inclusive approach that is practical, transformative and rippling with respect for staff and learners. An approach in which behavioural expectations and boundaries are exemplified by people, not by a thousand rules that nobody can recall.When the Adults Change, Everything Changes illustrates how, with their traditional sanction- and exclusion-led methods, the punishment brigade are losing the argument. It outlines how each school can build authentic practice on a stable platform, resulting in shifts in daily rules and routines, in how we deal with the angriest learners, in restorative practice and in how we appreciate positive behaviour.Each chapter is themed and concludes with three helpful checklists Testing, Watch out for and Nuggets designed to help you form your own behaviour blueprint. Throughout the book both class teachers and school leaders will find indispensable advice about how to involve all staff in developing a whole school ethos built on kindness, empathy and understanding. Suitable for all head teachers, school leaders, teachers, NQTs and classroom assistants in any phase or context, including SEND and alternative provision settings who are looking to upgrade their own classroom management or school behaviour plan.Contents include:1. Visible Consistency, Visible Kindness2. The Counter-Intuitive Classroom3. Deliberate Botheredness4. Certainty in Adult Behaviour5. Keystone Classroom Routines6. Universal Microscripts: Flipping the Script7. Punishment Addiction, Humiliation Hangover8. Restore, Redraw, Repair9. Some Children Follow Rules, Some Follow People10. Your Behaviour Policy Sucks!11. The 30 Day MagicNamed one of Book Authority's best education reform books of all time and one of the best education books of all time.
The School of Life: An Emotional Education
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERGive the gift of inspiration: an essential guide to living wisely and well, no matter what challenges the world throws at you - from Alain de Botton, the bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of LoveThis is a book about everything you were never taught at school. It's about how to understand your emotions, find and sustain love, succeed in your career, fail well and overcome shame and guilt. It's also about letting go of the myth of a perfect life in order to achieve genuine emotional maturity. Written in a hugely accessible, warm and humane style, The School of Life is the ultimate guide to the emotionally fulfilled lives we all long for - and deserve.This book brings together ten years of essential and transformative research on emotional intelligence, with practical topics including:- how to understand yourself- how to master the dilemmas of relationships- how to become more effective at work- how to endure failure- how to grow more serene and resilientPraise for Alain de Botton:'What he has managed to do is remarkable: to help us think better so that we may live better lives' Irish Times'A serious and optimistic set of practical ideas that could improve and alter the way we live' Jeanette Winterson, The Times'Alain de Botton likes to take big, complex and write about them with thoughtful and deceptive innocence' Observer
The School of Life: An Emotional Education
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERGive the gift of inspiration: an essential guide to living wisely and well, no matter what challenges the world throws at you - from Alain de Botton, the bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of LoveThis is a book about everything you were never taught at school. It's about how to understand your emotions, find and sustain love, succeed in your career, fail well and overcome shame and guilt. It's also about letting go of the myth of a perfect life in order to achieve genuine emotional maturity. Written in a hugely accessible, warm and humane style, The School of Life is the ultimate guide to the emotionally fulfilled lives we all long for - and deserve.This book brings together ten years of essential and transformative research on emotional intelligence, with practical topics including:- how to understand yourself- how to master the dilemmas of relationships- how to become more effective at work- how to endure failure- how to grow more serene and resilientPraise for Alain de Botton:'What he has managed to do is remarkable: to help us think better so that we may live better lives' Irish Times'A serious and optimistic set of practical ideas that could improve and alter the way we live' Jeanette Winterson, The Times'Alain de Botton likes to take big, complex and write about them with thoughtful and deceptive innocence' Observer
The Sharp Edge of Silence
Students at Lycroft Phelps are marked for success.As a straight-A student and girlfriend of the school's star rower, Charlotte believes in what the school has to offer. Meanwhile, scholarship student Max is struggling. Until he's asked to join the rowing team offering him popularity - but at what cost? Then there's Quinn, a sixth-generation legacy student, who should be able to lay claim to the school in a way others can't. Who instead must watch the boy who assaulted her continue to play at the top of the school's food chain. Only in the dead of night does Q realize the solution to her suffering: Colin Pearce must die.But Lycroft Phelps has more than one dark secret at its heart, and as the three students uncover just how far the school will go to keep those ugly truths hidden, there's a lot more than reputation at stake...A tense and timely thriller with a revenge plot that'll have you on the edge of your seat. Perfect for fans of Kathleen Glasgow, Chelsea Pitcher and Louise O'Neill.(Trigger warning: this book contains descriptions of sexual violence that some readers may find upsetting.)
What They Dont Teach You At Harvard Business School
"Business demands innovation. There is a constant need to feel around the fringes, to test the edges, but business schools, out of necessity, are condemned to teach the past."
-- Mark H. McCormack, from "What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School" published by Bantam Books.
Mark McCormack is the founder of International Management Group, a multimillion-dollar, worldwide corporation that is a consultant to fifty Fortune 500 companies, a major producer of television programming and credited as the single most important influence in turning sports into big business.
Listen to McCormack as he tells you how to read people, create the right first impression, take the leading edge, run and attend meetings, and the secrets of successful selling and moving up within the organization.
McCormack shares his experience, technique and wisdom, his street smart insights and skills, in a practical, how-to manner. Business will never be the same!
-- Mark H. McCormack, from "What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School" published by Bantam Books.
Mark McCormack is the founder of International Management Group, a multimillion-dollar, worldwide corporation that is a consultant to fifty Fortune 500 companies, a major producer of television programming and credited as the single most important influence in turning sports into big business.
Listen to McCormack as he tells you how to read people, create the right first impression, take the leading edge, run and attend meetings, and the secrets of successful selling and moving up within the organization.
McCormack shares his experience, technique and wisdom, his street smart insights and skills, in a practical, how-to manner. Business will never be the same!
What They Still Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School
Between The Theories Of Business School And The Real World Of Business, There Is Still A Gap - One That Can Only Be Filled By Experience, Helped By The Knowledge Of Someone Who Has Already Done It.over A Lifetime As One Of The World's Most Influential Business Leaders, Mark Mccormack Gathered More Insights Than Could Ever Fit In One Book: Here He Has Distilled The Strategies, Techniques And Wisdom That Everyone Needs To Get Organised, Get Ahead And Gain And Keep The Competitive Edge.building On The Previous Book, This Straight-talking, Practical Guide Offers Essential Tools And Skills - From Negotiating To Managing, Advancing Your Career To Building A New Idea - That Will Help You Be A Leader At Any Level.
What They Still Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School
Between The Theories Of Business School And The Real World Of Business, There Is Still A Gap - One That Can Only Be Filled By Experience, Helped By The Knowledge Of Someone Who Has Already Done It.over A Lifetime As One Of The World's Most Influential Business Leaders, Mark Mccormack Gathered More Insights Than Could Ever Fit In One Book: Here He Has Distilled The Strategies, Techniques And Wisdom That Everyone Needs To Get Organised, Get Ahead And Gain And Keep The Competitive Edge.building On The Previous Book, This Straight-talking, Practical Guide Offers Essential Tools And Skills - From Negotiating To Managing, Advancing Your Career To Building A New Idea - That Will Help You Be A Leader At Any Level.