'Summer Turner skilfully manages a devilishly tricky task: making curriculum and assessment accessible and interesting. This book provides a great overview of these complex concepts, providing useful questions, tools and wider reading that make it a valuable CPD resource.'

Alex Quigley, teacher, author and advisor in the Teacher's Development Research Group for the Department for Education

'Assessment and curriculum is almost a lost art in some segments of the education sector. We've been de-professionalised and dislocated from the art for so long that it can seem like an impossible task to get to grips with either again. Summer offers practical and research-supported techniques for doing just that. She is a brilliant and articulate new voice on the educational writing stage, and we need more books like this.'

Tom Bennett, Behaviour Advisor to the Department for Education and founder of researchED

Summer's 'scenarios' are my 'why' for driving up standards in teacher education. Someone tweeted recently: “we are a profession, not a vocation” and need be behave and act accordingly – Summer addresses this through her exploration of what effective CPD should look like for teachers and curriculum leaders.

Hannah Wilson, Headteacher and co-founder of #WomenEd

This is an engaging, lively and well written book which takes a refreshingly original approach to curriculum and assessment design. It draws on the author's experience as an English teacher as well as Director of Teaching and Learning at the East London Science School. Unlike most books on curriculum and assessment directed to teachers, it is not just a handbook, but locates its practical suggestions in the wider theoretical debates about the purpose of schooling.

Michael Young, Professor of Education University College London, Institute of Education