We are excited to announce our latest collection of professional resources! Explore our new catalogue and discover essential books for the upcoming term.
Our new titles are curated to target the critical needs in today's classrooms, offering practical strategies for differentiated instruction, literacy development, classroom management, educational leadership and more.
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AAA+ The Hesscairn Guide to Teaching for Understanding - How to Teach Big Ideas Stuart MacFarlane MacAlpine. $42.95 RRP (108pp) ISBN: 978-1-923198-39-5 Learning shouldn't end when the lesson does. AAA+ delivers a powerful, practical framework to transform teaching. Move beyond task completion to deep understanding. Help students not just receive ideas, but own them. With a model built on Awareness, Abstraction, Application and Deliberate Practice, ensure your students carry big ideas with them forever. |
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Data Rules: Elevating Teaching with Objective Reflection Jim Knight and Michael Faggella-Luby. $59.95 RRP (226pp) ISBN: 978-1-923412-48-4 Data Rules offers instructional leaders a clear, research-backed approach to leveraging data for teacher growth and student success. Jim Knight and Michael Faggella-Luby distill decades of research into ten easy rules for analysing data, driving improvement and connecting to the proven Impact Cycle coaching model. |
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The Instructional Playbook: The Missing Link for Translating Research into Practice Jim Knight, Ann Hoffman, Michelle Harris and Sharon Thomas. $59.95 RRP (232pp) ISBN: 978-1-923412-49-1 The Instructional Playbook is the essential guide for coaches ready to deliver meaningful support in schools. Explore a practical framework for building an instructional playbook that brings research to life in the classroom. Learn to align learning goals with proven strategies, develop a shared language around high-impact teaching and deepen the support every teacher deserves. Implementation is the key to success. Your coaching journey starts here. |
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Evaluating Instructional Coaching: People, Programs, and Partnership Sharon Thomas, Jim Knight, Michelle Harris and Ann Hoffman. $64.95 RRP (319pp) ISBN: 978-1-923412-50-7 How do you evaluate a role designed to elevate others? Evaluating Instructional Coaching provides the answer. With coaching positions often absent from traditional evaluation systems, this essential guide delivers a comprehensive framework for recruiting, hiring and retaining exceptional coaches. Implement meaningful evaluation processes that foster genuine partnership and professional growth. |
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What's Your Leadership Story? A School Leader's Guide to Aligning How You Lead with Who You Are Gretchen Oltman and Vicki Bautista. $49.95 RRP (186pp) ISBN: 978-1-923412-45-3 In What’s Your Leadership Story?, authors Gretchen Oltman and Vicki Bautista guide you through eight steps to craft a personal leadership philosophy rooted in your authentic style, values and experiences. Discover how sharing your story can help you set a new standard for school leadership and challenge the unrealistic expectations others may hold. Be more than your title. What is your leadership story? |
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What If I'm Wrong? and Other Key Questions for Decisive School Leadership Simon Rodberg. $42.95 RRP (128pp) ISBN: 978-1-923412-44-6 What if you could make clearer, more confident decisions every day? For principals and school leaders facing constant demands, even small mistakes can have a lasting impact. What If I’m Wrong? helps you navigate the complex decisions that shape your leadership. Through practical stories and real-world examples, Rodberg offers a cognitive science-based framework to help you move beyond instinct, bias and rushed judgments. Navigate tough dilemmas and everyday challenges with clarity and purpose. |
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Karen Filewych. $34.95 RRP (168pp) ISBN: 978-1-923412-16-3 Packed with background knowledge and ready-to-use strategies, this practical guide helps teachers bring effective literacy practices to life. Explore key topics including morphology, vocabulary development and writing to learn, and discover how to leverage oral language across the curriculum. Rooted in practicality and a deep passion for literacy, Literacy Instruction Matters empowers teachers to bring out the best in every student. |
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Compassionate Coaching: How to Help Educators Navigate Barriers to Professional Growth Kathy Perret and Kenny McKee. $42.95 RRP (148pp) ISBN: 978-1-923412-30-9 Every journey faces detours, and coaching is no different. Compassionate Coaching identifies the six most common challenges teachers face, from overload to isolation, and provides six corresponding compassionate coaching responses. Discover a process rooted in partnership, empowerment and connection that helps teachers overcome barriers rather than be defined by them. Transform not just classroom practice, but entire school cultures. |
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The Principal's Guide to Conflict Management Jen Schwanke. $42.95 RRP (173pp) ISBN: 978-1-923412-41-5 Conflict is inevitable. Growth is optional. The Principal's Guide to Managing Conflict helps school leaders navigate disagreements with students, parents and staff using a simple three-step framework: Anticipate, Analyse, Act. Learn when to intervene, when to step back and how to turn friction into opportunity. Lead with clarity and confidence through any conflict. |
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Shifting the Monkey: The Art of Protecting Good People From Liars, Criers and Other Slackers Todd Whitaker. $42.95 RRP (126pp) ISBN: 978-1-923412-28-6 Poor employees get a disproportionate amount of attention. Why? Because they complain the loudest, create the greatest disruptions and rely on others to assume the responsibilities that they shirk. Learn how to focus on your good employees first, and help them shift these monkeys back to the under-performers. Through a simple but brilliant metaphor, Shifting the Monkey helps you reinvigorate your staff and transform your organisation. |
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The General Education Teacher's Guide to Autism: Essential Answers to Key Questions Barbara Boroson. $59.95 RRP (228pp) ISBN: 978-1-923412-24-8 Find the answers to all your autism-related questions in The General Education Teacher’s Guide to Autism. From this informative, dynamic resource, you will collect practical strategies to address the common challenges facing these neurodiverse students in an inclusive environment, while also learning to celebrate the unique strengths and perspectives these students bring to the classroom. |
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Prompting Deeper Discussions: A Teacher’s Guide to Crafting Great Questions Matthew R. Kay. $45.95 RRP (158pp) ISBN: 978-1-923412-34-7 Class discussions often fall flat, not from lack of potential but from flawed prompts. Prompting Deeper Discussions offers a winning formula: a great prompt, delivered by an agile teacher, at the right time, to a group of students properly prepared to discuss it. Matthew R. Kay shares practical strategies to plan, refine and facilitate conversations that build critical thinking and lasting engagement. This book is built to strengthen in-class discussions so students gain deeper knowledge and develop essential skills to thrive. |
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The Learning Leader: How to Focus School Improvement for Better Results, 2nd Edition Douglas B. Reeves. $49.95 RRP (180pp) ISBN: 978-1-923412-40-8 In the second edition of this book, Douglas B. Reeves helps leadership teams go beyond excuses to capitalise on their strengths, reduce their weaknesses and reset their mindset and priorities to achieve unprecedented success. The Learning Leader is an invaluable resource that helps reconceptualise the leader's role in the school improvement process and motivate themselves and their colleagues to keep working to better serve their students. |
