Meaningful Book Scrutiny: A Guide for Senior and Middle Leaders

This short webinar will provide senior and middle leaders with practical strategies for conducting meaningful book scrutiny that goes beyond compliance. Learn how to use book reviews to drive teaching and learning improvements, support teacher development, and ensure consistency across your school.

Isabella will share her approach to book scrutiny, drawing from her experience working with schools. Isabella will also outline Veema’s philosophy, showing how book scrutiny can be a valuable, meaningful process that enhances student outcomes—rather than just a tick-box exercise. You’ll gain insights on how to turn book scrutiny into a powerful tool for school improvement.

Understand how book scrutiny can enhance teaching, learning, and student progress
Learn practical strategies for conducting effective and supportive book reviews
Explore how to provide constructive feedback that supports teacher development
Rethink book scrutiny as a tool for meaningful improvement, not just compliance

Isabella Wallace

With her critically acclaimed Pimp Your Lesson! “Talk-Less Teaching” and “Best of the Best: Practical Classroom Guides”. Isabella is a leading light in educational reform and teacher improvement. She focuses on improving the quality of teaching and learner progression and delivers sessions that are highly interactive and relevant to teaching in the real classroom.

Isabella has extensive experience as both a teacher and leader, and the accessibility of her highly sought-after training reflects this. She has worked closely with education authorities to develop literacy teaching provision, and to set up, manage and monitor staff coaching systems in schools.

Thanks to her charisma, enthusiasm and knowledge of what works best, Isabella has delivered training across four different continents and is one of the most prolific education consultants working in the UK today.