Advice for prospective authors when it comes to writing a book for the award-winning Independent Thinking Press.

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A short story for our times by our resident Agent of All Things Wondrous, Dr Matthew McFall.

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Use these inspiring images from Associate and photographer Jane Hewitt to help children and young people learn to stop and look at the world with new eyes.

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What 8Way thinking is, where it came from and how it can be used to make even the most dismal-appearing of subject matters fascinating.

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We like the look of this new app designed to get children talking more and, as a result, thinking better.

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Exams are in chaos - but where did they come from? This brief history may help us answer an even bigger question - why on earth do we still have them? 

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Independent Thinking Associate and primary teacher Mark Creasy shares the many ways he uses Thunks and how they have been a godsend through lock down.

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We asked Jessica Creasy, daughter of our Associate Mark, what being one of the Covid generations Year 11 students has been like since exam were taken off the table.

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It's a world of fake news, deep fake technology and well, politicians from over there. So, here's is our quick and easy student guide to critical thinking.

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Associate Martin Illingworth is a senior lecturer on the Sheffield Hallam University PGCE programme. Here is his message to the NQT class of 2020.

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We asked Year One teacher and SENCo Beth Dawes for her views about relationships, friendship and helping some of our most vulnerable young learners. 

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On the second of every month we publish our Second Thoughts newsletter. We normally focus on six themes. This month, it was just three. Big ones.

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