Improving teaching is the key to genuine & sustainable school improvement. Improvement involves persuading teachers to change & develop their practice. This book focuses on what head teachers & school leaders can do to manage the change process & improve the quality of teaching in a school. Esentially Tweak to Transform is a practical handbook that seeks to address three questions:
- What do we know about change?
- What do we know about learning?
- What do we know about leading & managing the improvement process? While there is no single successful recipe for improving teaching in a school this book attempts to establish some key principles. The result is a collection of thoughts activities strategies & models that have been developed & successfully implemented in a wide range of schools.


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Sadie is Protestant Kevin is Catholic
- & on the tense streets of Belfast their lives collide. It starts with a dare
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This new edition of Twelfth Night is part of the established Cambridge School Shakespeare series & has been substantially updated with new & revised activities throughout. Remaining faithful to the series' active approach it treats the play as a script to be acted explored & enjoyed. As well as the complete script of Twelfth Night you will find a variety of classroom-tested activities an eight-page colour section & an enlarged selection of notes including information on characters performance history & language. ...

The gentle melancholy & lyrical atmosphere of Twelfth Night have long made the play a favourite with Shakespearian audiences. The plot revolves around mistaken identities & unrequited love but is further enlivened by a comic sub-plot of considerable accomplishment. In it Sir Toby Belch & his companion outwit the pretentious Malvolio who despite suffering their most outrageous & insulting practical jokes emerges as an almost noble figure. ...

Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf she is stunned to find herself the object of his beloveds affections. With the arrival of Violas brother & a trick played upon the countesss steward confusion reigns in this romantic comedy of mistaken identity. ...

Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf she is stunned to find herself the object of his beloveds affections. With the arrival of Violas brother & a trick played upon the countesss steward confusion reigns in this romantic comedy of mistaken identity. ...

Shakespeare turned a tale of unrequited love family dispute & fatal shipwreck into a miraculously evergreen Christmas favourite. At the beginning of the story everyone is alone; by the end everyone
- well almost everyone
- has found their other half.

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Over the years startling evidence has been unearthed challenging established notions of the origins of Earth & life on it & suggesting the existence of a superior race of beings who once inhabited our world. The product of thirty years of intensive research The 12th Planet is the first book in Zecharia Sitchin's prophetic Earth Chronicles series--a revolutionary body of work that offers indisputable documentary proof of humanity's extraterrestrial forefathers. Travelers from the stars they arrived eons ago & planted the genetic seed that would ultimately blossom into a remarkable species...called Man. The 12th Planet brings to life the Sumerian civilization presenting millennia-old evidence of the existence of Nibiru the home planet of the Anunnaki & of the landings of the Anunnaki on Earth every 3 600 years & reveals a complete history of the solar system as told by these early visitors from another planet. Zecharia Sitchin's Earth Chronicles series with millions of copies sold worldwide deal with the history & prehistory of Earth & humankind. Each book in the series is based upon information written on clay tablets by the ancient civilizations of the Near East. The series is offered here for the first time in highly readable hardbound collector's editions with enhanced maps & diagrams. ...

THE TWELVE Death-row prisoners with nightmare pasts & no future. THE TWELVE Until they were selected for a secret experiment. THE TWELVE To create something more than human. THE TWELVE Now they are the future & humanity's worst nightmare has begun. THE TWELVE The epic sequel to THE PASSAGE ...

Sooner or later everybody pays
- & the dead will set the price... Gerry Fegan a former paramilitary contract killer is haunted
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