Recently, the teaching publication Teach Primary (@TeachPrimary) published an article on the growth of continued professional development and how schools should be embracing, what article author James Toop (@jtoop) considers, their greatest asset - teachers. Whilst James' article provides his audience with an articulate and well-considered approach to developing continued professional development, the article started to me think about a recent development within my own practise - the development of Guided Reading. Guided Reading is an important tool in the development of children as readers but, as recently as the Spring term, I loathed it. I disliked immensely the carousel approach that, ever since initial teacher training, had been stuck to rigidly and, in my mind, provided little value in return for the hours of preparation. Now, I know that this view has the potential to send many into rapturous anger and, it must be stressed, I am not saying that I neither neglec