SSAT publications and resources

SSAT offers a wide range of publications and resources to support you and your school, ranging from school improvement to thought-provoking pamphlets tackling the biggest issues facing educators today.


SSAT Embedding Formative Assessment (EFA)

Digital resource

This pack contains all the materials you need to hold a professional development day, plus a complete set of materials for running monthly follow-up workshops. As well as techniques for implementing formative assessment, the pack looks at the issues surrounding teacher learning communities.
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SSAT On… Series

Leading SSAT experts address key issues in education today. Curriculum: SSAT’s Four Pillars of Curriculum Design, alongside Dylan Wiliam’s seven principles of a good curriculum; Future learning: key skills and qualities for student success; The school-led system: three possibilities for the vital role of the middle tier; Leadership: which business skills are needed by school leaders, and why.
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SSAT Student Passports

Available for key stage 3, 4 and 5, student passports provide a framework to record a range of life experiences beyond the academic. The skills developed from these experiences will help to enrich students’ cultural capital, preparing them for employment and engaging them in citizenship.
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Living Literacy

Developed in partnership with Oxford University Press and powered by Kerboodle, this online resource contains everything you need to lead literacy inset sessions: PowerPoint presentations, trainers’ notes and handouts, and specially-commissioned CPD films.
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SSAT members can access a wealth of publications in our exclusive member-only library. Highlights include:

  • Fighting for Deep Social Justice pamphlet series
  • Personalising learning pamphlet series
  • Redesigning school pamphlet series
  • SSAT On … Series
  • Four pillars of principled curriculum design
  • Successful primary school leadership
  • How do strong schools stay strong?
  • What does exceptional school leadership look like?
  • Governance toolkit
  • SSAT Journal

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