A Practical Guide to a Big Education
Balancing Head, Heart and Hand
1st Edition
Published on 12. March 2026
272 pages
978-1-80199-794-2 (ISBN)
Description
A Practical Guide to a Big Education offers a bold new vision of an expansive education that is academic, relational and creative and shows you how you can make that shift in your school.
Discover practical guidance and tools to help you offer a more holistic education, balancing 'Head, Heart and Hand' (academic learning, relational wellbeing and creativity) across your leadership, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment practice. Covering a broad range of topics from belonging to behaviour, lunchtimes to learner profiles, design thinking to developing agency in teachers, school leaders from across the UK bring advice and insights to help you in your transformational journey. Each chapter explores inspiring changes you can make, the difference these can make to learners and practical, realistic ideas of how to achieve this change along with case studies and reflective questions.
Big Education is a Multi-Academy Trust and charity working to transform the education system, ensuring young people receive a balanced education. Big Education run their own schools, as well as provide programmes to develop leaders and teachers.
Discover practical guidance and tools to help you offer a more holistic education, balancing 'Head, Heart and Hand' (academic learning, relational wellbeing and creativity) across your leadership, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment practice. Covering a broad range of topics from belonging to behaviour, lunchtimes to learner profiles, design thinking to developing agency in teachers, school leaders from across the UK bring advice and insights to help you in your transformational journey. Each chapter explores inspiring changes you can make, the difference these can make to learners and practical, realistic ideas of how to achieve this change along with case studies and reflective questions.
Big Education is a Multi-Academy Trust and charity working to transform the education system, ensuring young people receive a balanced education. Big Education run their own schools, as well as provide programmes to develop leaders and teachers.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-80199-794-2 (9781801997942)
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03/2026
Bloomsbury Education
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Persons
Sarah Seleznyov is co-headteacher of School 360, a primary school which opened in London in September 2021. She was formerly Director of the London South Teaching Alliance and previously worked for UCL Institute of Education. Follow Sarah @sarahseleznyov
Robert Lobatto is the Headteacher of King Alfred School, a child-centred all-through school in London. Before this, he was Executive Head of an award-winning Multi Academy Trust in West London. He is also a Local Leader of Education, a frequent contributor to conferences, and sits on a number of education advisory Boards.
Follow Big Education @bigeducation
Robert Lobatto is the Headteacher of King Alfred School, a child-centred all-through school in London. Before this, he was Executive Head of an award-winning Multi Academy Trust in West London. He is also a Local Leader of Education, a frequent contributor to conferences, and sits on a number of education advisory Boards.
Follow Big Education @bigeducation
Content
Section 1: Leadership
Section 2: Curriculum
Section 3: Pedagogy
Section 4: Assessment
Section 2: Curriculum
Section 3: Pedagogy
Section 4: Assessment
