Product reviews for How do they do it?

How Do They Do It? is a timely and valuable book that provides an evidence- and experience-based guide to improving schools, based on insights from highly successful schools and teachers.

The book is structured around Ofsted’s Education Inspection Framework (EIF), which both authors know intimately, with chapters on quality of education, behaviour and attitude, personal development and leadership and management. Each chapter provides a helpful and accessible overview of key areas (for example, assessment or pupil behaviour). They are helpfully structured around what each concept is and why it matters, where things can go wrong and what it looks like when things go right.

This book is fundamentally optimistic. It is a celebration of good schools and of how we can develop all schools by building on the talent of leaders and teachers already working there. As such, it is highly recommended for anyone working in education.