Whether you are a practitioner or manager, the Professional Development Manual, 3rd edition, will provide you with guidance and advice on how to plan and evaluate successful staff development in schools. The manual presents you with practical solutions to real problems relating to the management of professional development. It sets out to provide you with knowledge and understanding of professional development, theory and practice and recommends courses of action to deliver results.

Remodelling Schools Manual

by Sonia Blandford

Published 21 November 2005
This manual will provide you with detailed guidance and advice enabling you to successfully implement, develop and evaluate workforce reform. The manual is both a guide and resource, providing you with solutions to real problems. Definitions and descriptions of new initiatives and government legislation will also keep you completely up-to-date.

School Discipline Manual

by Sonia Blandford

Published 4 November 2003

Managing all of a school's resources represents a considerable challenge. Demanding business acumen, financial awareness, planning ability, IT knowledge and excellent management skills.

Resource Management in Schools has been specifically written to give you sound and practical advice on all the areas you need to become a better more effective manager. Packed with practical advice and backed up with case studies and models of good practice, this text explains how school budgets can be effectively managed. With:



advice on how to build and manage your budget (including using IT)
fund allocation details and income generating opportunities for your school
case studies which you can relate to yourself and your school
how to relate resource management to your school development plan
help in how to establish benchmarks for good practice.

Relevant to both primary and secondary schools, this practical introductory guide is essential reading for all head teachers, deputy head teachers, bursars and governors.

The expertise and experience of your teachers and support staff are your school's most valuable asset. However, to ensure they continue to deliver their best performance, it is essential that they develop new skills and abilities. To help you achieve effective staff development in your school, the"Professional Development Manual, 2nd edition "has been updated to provide practical solutions to the real problems relating to the management of professional development. This practical training manual also sets out to provide an understanding of professional development, the theory and the practice and recommends courses of action to deliver results.This easy-to-use manual takes you step-by-step through the process of managing professional development.
Using practical examples, it helps you to:address the real problems associated with the management of professional development provide knowledge and understanding of professional development link professional development to staff development and the school development plan understand the purpose of appraisal and the appraisal process co-ordinate and identify professional development opportunities plan, monitor, evaluate and review professional development within a school plan whole-school in-service education for teachers.