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Teach to the Top is a research-informed guide to aspirational teaching, focusing on how embedding higher-level knowledge in the classroom empowers students to succeed and to enjoy learning.Questioning existing orthodoxies around ability, Teach to the Top sets out a vision for an education system in which pupils of all attainment levels are enabled ...
Mary Myatt
Aug 25, 2021Mary Myatt
Jul 02, 2021If we do not ensure, first and foremost, that our teachers are feeling physically and mentally well, they cannot be their best for their students. Consequently, a school which does not prioritize staff wellbeing is disadvantaging its own students. ‘Students first’ is a misplaced sentiment: the best thing for students is a happy, healthy, motivated,...
Mary Myatt
Apr 13, 2021Mary Myatt
Apr 13, 2021Leadership literature is drowning in abstract theories and models of heroic leadership, but an agreed definition of the term is elusive. School leadership suffers from this lack of clarity and consensus. Generic approaches to school improvement dominate the sector, which have left the workforce feeling anything but 'well led'. What exactly should s...
Mary Myatt
Apr 13, 2021Jonathan Bryan has severe cerebral palsy, a condition that makes him incapable of voluntary movement or speech. He was locked inside his own mind, aware of the outside world but unable to fully communicate with it until he found a way by using his eyes to laboriously choose individual letters, and through this make his thoughts known. In Eye Can Wr...
There are many models of schooling; some work, some don't. Mastery is an entire model of schooling with over 100 years of provenance, its impact has been researched for decades, with many of the world's greatest education minds testing and refining the approach. It's one of the models of schooling that actually works. In this book, Mark McCourt exa...
Mary Myatt
Apr 12, 2021
Rekenrek 101
Pushing Mathematical Understanding
Designed and developed by a mathematic curriculum researcher at the Freudenthal Institute at Utrecht University, the rekenrek is an exciting and innovative classroom tool that enhances and supports the natural development of number sense in children. It encourages learning across a range of mathematical skills and concepts, from simple addition and...

The Biggest Surprise
Jadon And The Talking Trains
A beautifully illustrated children’s book that will be loved by all. The main character Jadon is autistic, but he is so much more. He is handsome, smart, caring, friendly, energetic and a collector of different types of toy trains. The story outlines a lovely surprise with his latest collection. Inspired by real-life events....
Mary Myatt
Sep 07, 2020
Trivium 21c
Preparing Young People for the Future with Lessons From the Past
Universities in the Middle Ages focused on three skills to develop the intellectual abilities of students, one - grammar, two - logic, and three - rhetoric. In this well-researched and fascinating work discover how these three tenets are as relevant in education today as they were eight hundred years ago.Martin Robinson has taught for twenty years ...
Mary Myatt
Sep 30, 2019Written by Chris Curtis, 'How to Teach: English: Novels, non-fiction and their artful navigation' is jam-packed with enlivening ideas to help teachers make the subject of English more intellectually challenging for students - and to make it fun too! Never underestimate your duty and power as a teacher of English. English teachers help students to t...
Mary Myatt
Jul 27, 2019