Great Minds and How to Grow Them ─ High Performance Learning

Education is more important than ever. Yet some children – with parent and teacher blessing – write themselves off and think they are not good enough to achieve highly. The latest research shows most children can reach levels of performance at a school previously associated with only the high achieving, gifted and talented. Brains are malleable, IQ not fixed but without parental engagement in learning, many children will continue to fall short of their potential. Based on 40years of research, this book takes what is now known about how and why children succeed at school and translates this into a straightforward handbook for parents, teachers and all concerned with children’s education.

Deborah Eyre is the Founder and CEO of High Performance Learning, a global social enterprise helping good schools become great. A former Global Education Director at Nord Anglia Education, senior academic, educational writer and influencer she specialises in how the most able people think and learn.

Wendy Berliner is Joint Chief Executive of the Educational Media Centre. An award-winning education journalist, she has spent her career at the Guardian, the Independent and has edited the Times Educational Supplement. She cares passionately about the role of parents in developing the learning of their children.