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Making Sense of School Data:
Leadership Practices that Support Learning and Reduce Workload
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Making Sense of School Data is a short, practitioner-focused book for teachers and school leaders who want data to support learning rather than drive workload, anxiety, or performative practice.Drawing on classroom experience and leadership practice, the book explores why data so often feels burdensome in schools and reframes it as a leadership practice shaped by culture, judgement, and everyday decisions.
With a particular focus on early years and primary settings, it examines the relationship between assessment, data, and professional judgement, and the impact this has on teachers, leaders, and children.Rather than offering templates or technical systems, the book focuses on meaning.
It is written for middle leaders, senior leaders, and practitioners who want clearer, more thoughtful approaches to data that protect professional judgement, support staff wellbeing, and keep learning at the centre.
Teaching Children to Read for Meaning:
How Understanding Develops from Reception to Year 2
Teaching Children to Read for Meaning is a practitioner-focused book for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 teachers, and for parents who want to better understand how children develop as readers beyond phonics and word recognition.
Drawing on classroom experience and early literacy practice, the book explores why so many children can decode accurately yet struggle to fully understand what they read. It reframes reading not as a checklist of skills, but as a gradual process of meaning-making shaped by language, knowledge, experience and thoughtful adult guidance.
With a particular focus on early years and primary settings, it examines how understanding develops from Reception to Year 2, including literal comprehension, inference, self-correction, fluency and expression, and what these look like in real classrooms and everyday life.
Rather than offering worksheets, scripted questions or quick fixes, the book focuses on development. It provides clear explanations, practical examples and calm guidance to help adults support reading in ways that build confidence rather than pressure.
It is written for teachers, leaders and families who want reading to remain thoughtful, humane and meaningful, keeping understanding, not speed, at the centre.