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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 15 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book I Heard What You Said by Jeffrey Boakye
    I Heard What You Said - by Jeffrey Boakye

    £16.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529063745 | ISBN 10: 1529063744

    Thought-provoking, witty and completely unafraid, I Heard What You Said is a timely exploration of how we can dismantle racism in the classroom and do better by all our students.  'Essential reading' Guardian 'Sharp and witty with moments of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England by Richard Beard
    Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England - by Richard Beard

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529114805 | ISBN 10: 1529114802

    In 1975, as a child, Richard Beard was sent away from his home to sleep in a dormitory. So were Boris Johnson and David Cameron.  In those days a private boys' boarding school education was largely the same experience as it had been for generations: ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Prison Teacher: Stories from a Women
    The Prison Teacher: Stories from a Women's Prison - by Mim Skinner

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781841883335 | ISBN 10: 1841883336

    Step inside one of Britain's most notorious prisons...   During her time as a prison teacher Mim Skinner met every type of criminal. But her job was not to judge them, it was to teach.   In this compelling, inspirational memoir Mim takes you b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Teaching in the Online Classroom: Surviving and Thriving in the New Normal by Doug Lemov
    Teaching in the Online Classroom: Surviving and Thriving in the New Normal - by Doug Lemov

    £15.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781119762935 | ISBN 10: 1119762936

    A timely guide to online teaching strategies from bestselling author Doug Lemov and the Teach Like a Champion team.  School closures in response to the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic resulted in an immediate and universal pivot to online teaching. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation by Tom Sperlinger
    Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation - by Tom Sperlinger

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782796374 | ISBN 10: 1782796371

    Is 'Romeo and Juliet' really a love story, or is it a play about young people living in dangerous circumstances? How might life under occupation produce a new reading of 'Julius Caesar'? What choices must a group of Palestinian students make, when pu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Without You, There is No Us: My Secret Life Teaching the Sons of North Korea
    Without You, There is No Us: My Secret Life Teaching the Sons of North Korea's Elite - by Suki Kim

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781846044830 | ISBN 10: 1846044839

    It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, except for the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. This is where Suki Kim has accepted a job teaching English. Over the next six months she w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Little Book of Dyslexia: Both Sides of the Classroom by Joe Beech
    The Little Book of Dyslexia: Both Sides of the Classroom - by Joe Beech

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781350102 | ISBN 10: 1781350108

    The only book for teachers of students with dyslexia written by a dyslexic student teacher.   Who better to help teachers support students with dyslexia than someone who is a dyslexic student teacher? The Little Book of Dyslexia references bot ... more

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  • Cover image of book Show Me the Prisoner - And I
    Show Me the Prisoner - And I'll Show You a Young Man: A Memoir - by Patricia Farren

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781780880518 | ISBN 10: 1780880510

    Show Me the Prisoner is written from the perspective of a prison teacher who later served on the prison monitoring body. It covers a 15-year period of involvement in two of Northern Ireland’s prisons during the troubles, when terrorists hogged ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hands Up! A Year in the Life of an Inner City School Teacher by Oenone Crossley-Holland
    Hands Up! A Year in the Life of an Inner City School Teacher - by Oenone Crossley-Holland

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780719521270 | ISBN 10: 0719521270

    Dear Ms Crossley-Holland, I didn’t Oink at you yesterday but I do admitt I did oink it was a private joke between me and Billie. Know I do Admitt I should not of been making noises so I am sorry for making noises but yeah as I said I am only sorry fo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Schools within Schools: Human Scale Education in Practice by Wendy Wallace
    Schools within Schools: Human Scale Education in Practice - by Wendy Wallace

    £8.50   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781903080122 | ISBN 10: 1903080126

    England has 25 contemporary ‘monster schools’ – of more than 2,000 students, four times as many as a decade ago. There are 263 English secondaries – twice as many as when Labour took office – of 1,500 to 2,000 students. Large schools are cost effecti ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Class by Francois Begaudeau
    The Class - by Francois Begaudeau

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781583228852 | ISBN 10: 1583228853

    Winner of the Prix France Culture/Télérama prize, The Class explores timely issues of race, class, identity, colonial history, immigration, and education, "suspend[ing] judgment and liberat[ing] the raw words of kids in a deconsecrated classroom" (L ... more

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  • Cover image of book I 8 Skool by Mr Read
    I 8 Skool - by Mr Read

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781905399369 | ISBN 10: 1905399367

    Where to find a book about teaching by a teacher? All I could find were grim behavioural manuals that all started with 'Getting The Buggers To...' or alternatively the comfort read, those nostalgic fests about a village school in the 1950s and 1960s. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Challenges and Negotiations for Women in Higher Education by Pamela Cotterill, Sue Jackson & Gayle Letherby.
    Challenges and Negotiations for Women in Higher Education - by Pamela Cotterill, Sue Jackson & Gayle Letherby.

    £69.99   hardback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781402061097 | ISBN 10: 1402061099

    There is much ambivalence in women’s experience of the academy as teachers and students. Allthough today many more women follow academic careers than in the past, they do not find the welcome that they had hoped for and expected. Additionally, women ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Freedom Writers Diary by The Freedom Writers, with Erin Gruwell
    The Freedom Writers Diary - by The Freedom Writers, with Erin Gruwell

    £12.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780385494229 | ISBN 10: 038549422x

    Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance.  For many of these students – whose ranks included substance abus ... more

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  • Cover image of book White Teacher by Vivian Gussin Paley
    White Teacher - by Vivian Gussin Paley

    £16.95   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780674002739 | ISBN 10: 0674002733

    White teacher, black children: Paley approaches this largely unexplored minefield with candor and incisiveness. In this humane and beautifully written account, the wit and sureness of her observations are compelling. Repeatedly, she uses anecdotes to ... more

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