Product reviews for The Monkey-Proof Box

Jonathan Lear's The Monkey-Proof Box guides teachers on a journey towards a curriculum that enables them to weave a golden thread of rigour and relevance through the entire school. It addresses the current climate in which schools are yearning for a different path towards meaningful and rich learning experiences that actually make sense to the staff who are delivering it and to the children receiving it.

Jonathan challenges teachers to think differently about why the cogs of the day-to-day classroom turn in the way they do and then asks what they could do differently, suggesting solutions without patronage to any -˜off the shelf' packages.



As an analogy, the -˜monkey-proof box' is perfect - and is communicated in this book through authentic humour, care and passion for what should be at the core of our schools.