Driving Change through Simple Acts of Kindness
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the anti-bullying national charity Kidscape, 12 charities come together in How to Create Kind Schools to offer an insight on…
Category: Education
Read the first chapter of The Essential Manual for Asperger Syndrome (ASD) in the Classroom
Click here to read the opening chapter of Kathy Hoopmann’s incredible new teaching manual. “If every primary/elementary school teacher read this book, the lives of all young people who…
“It’s just a bit o’ banter, innit?” – Why “That’s so GAY!” still needs to be challenged
Jonathan Charlesworth is the Executive Director of the charity Educational Action Challenging Homophobia (EACH), UK, and author of That’s So Gay! – Challenging Homophobic Bullying. He has…
Supporting young people suffering with self-harm and eating disorders – three key lessons
Pooky Knightsmith is a specialist in student mental health and emotional well-being, and author of Self-Harm and Eating Disorders in Schools. Through her company In Our…
Call for Comic and Graphic novel submissions
Jessica Kingsley Publishers and Singing Dragon (an imprint of JKP) have recently started developing an exciting new line of comics and graphics novels and we…
‘Contact with Nature can be immensely healing.’
Caroline Jay founded and runs the Seeds of Hope Children’s Garden, a national charity which aims to promote the use of nature in helping children manage…
Learning about Sexuality and Safety with Tom
Learning about Sexuality and Safety with Tom The idea for storybooks about sexuality and safety came from being the single mother of a boy with…
How using colour coded visuals can reduce anxiety when a child with autism starts school.
For many teachers coming to the end of the summer holidays now is the time to start preparing for the new academic year. With that in…
Listening skills for busy school staff – An interview with Nick Luxmoore
Nick Luxmoore is a school counsellor, trainer, teacher, youth worker and UKCP registered Psychodrama psychotherapist. He has over 35 years’ experience of work with young people…
Change Happens… Teaching a child with autism to handle a ‘whoops!’
Teaching a child with autism to handle a ‘whoops!’ It’s raining and that lovely day at the beach that’s been on the calendar ‘FOREVER’…