Title: Educational Psychology for Learning and Teaching
Author: Sue Duchesne, Anne McMaugh, Erin Mackenzie
Educational Psychology for Learning and Teaching explores the development of the learner over time, the learning process, individual differences in the classroom, as well as educational psychology in contemporary classrooms. The text caters for those who are planning to work with any age range from early childhood to adolescence and... Details
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Title: Powers of Curriculum: Sociological Perspectives on Education 2nd Edition
Authors: Brad Gobby (Editor), Rebecca Walker (Editor)
Powers of Curriculum explores education in Australia today through the notion and practices of curriculum. It broadens our conception of curriculum to include the lived experiences of learners in educational settings. It explores historical and current forces within and beyond education that constitute curriculum, and how... Details
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Title: Reimagining Schools and School Systems: Success for All Students in All Settings
Author: Brian J. Caldwell
This is the first book that deals with the reimagination of schools and school systems in international settings. Reimagination should lead to transformation, defined as significant, systematic and sustained change that secures, or has the evidence-based potential to secure, success for all students in all settings through integrated and aligned... Details
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Title: How to Succeed at School: Separating Fact from Fiction
Author: Wendy Berliner, Judith Judd
This book shines a light on the best research into learning and the brain development that makes it all possible. Written by two distinguished education journalists, it provides an invaluable guide to the latest information for teachers and parents seeking to help children to make the best use of their potential and steer a true course through an often... Details
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Title: Philosophy for Children Across the Primary Curriculum: Inspirational Themed Planning
Authors: Alison Shorer, Katie Quinn
This is an easy-to-use, theme-based resource book for Philosophy for Children (P4C) practitioners in primary school settings. It covers ten popular themes which include many current affair issues and enduring curriculum themes such as artificial intelligence, biodiversity, resilience, and waste.
Each theme provides... Details
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Indigenous Education in Australia
Learning and Teaching for Deadly Futures
By: Marnee Shay (Editor), Rhonda Oliver (Editor)
This is an essential, practical resource for pre- and in-service educators on creating contexts for success for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. Based on the latest research and practice, this book provides an in-depth understanding of the colonised context within which education in Australia is located, with an... Details
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Childhood Well-being and Resilience
Influences on Educational Outcomes
Edited By Zeta Williams-Brown, Sarah Mander
This book examines the ways in which well-being affects educational outcomes. Using an ecological approach, the book defines what we mean by well-being and resilience in education and how this relates to policy and children and young people’s rights. The book considers strategies utilised by the education, health, voluntary and private... Details
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Leadership for Deeper Learning
Facilitating School Innovation and Transformation
By: Jayson W. Richardson, Justin Bathon, Scott McLeod
This exciting book explores how leaders have implemented, sustained, and pushed innovative, deeper learning opportunities in their school settings.
Across the United States and around the world, the concept of a 'school' is growing more action-oriented, performance-focused, digitally relevant, and... Details
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Title: Leadership for Mental Wellbeing in the Secondary School
Implementing Whole School Strategies
Author: Shirley Billson
shifts you can enact to make your work more rewarding, and your school a flagship of excellence.
Full of practical tools and proven strategies this book draws on a combination of research and experience to empower you to make confident changes on your own terms that are suitable for you and the unique circumstances of ... Details
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The School Leader Surviving and Thriving
144 Points of Wisdom, Practical Tips, and Relatable Stories
Author: Andrew Marotta
Become more effective, efficient, and confident in your role as a school leader. This book provides tips, strategies, and inspirational stories to help you overcome common challenges, improve school culture, make deeper connections with parents and staff, and more. Appropriate for K-12 leaders in any type of setting, this updated... Details
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Building Better Schools with Evidence-based Policy
Adaptable Policy for Teachers and School Leaders
Edited By Kelly-Ann Allen, Andrea Reupert, Lindsay Oades
Building Better Schools with Evidence-based Policy: Adaptable Policy for Teachers and School Leaders provides an extensive set of free-to-use policies for building better schools.
The policies included in this book cover a broad range of popular topics for schools that are not readily... Details
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Introduction to Design Education:
Theory, Research, and Practical Applications for Educators
Author: Steven Faerm
This practical, engaging book offers design educators a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to design education and pedagogy in higher education. Featuring instructional strategies and case studies from diverse design disciplines, including fashion design, architecture, and industrial design, from both the US and abroad, award-winning... Details
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Author: Bryan Harris
This book will help you learn practical ways to manage the stress of teaching and avoid burnout. Bestselling author and educational consultant Bryan Harris presents strategies for building resilience, including reframing, understanding the power of "no", focusing on what you can control, building positive relationships, advocating for yourself, and more. Each chapter clearly presents concise and practical applications that you can implement right... Details
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The Turning Point for the Teaching Profession
Growing Expertise and Evaluative Thinking
Authors: Field Rickards, John Hattie, Catherine Reid
A revolution is happening in education, with leaders and teachers now asked to focus on learning, to develop collaborative teams to impact on students, to use and raise professional standards, and to identify and esteem expertise in our profession. With new demands relating to technological advances, changing... Details
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Supporting Students' Motivation: Strategies for Success
Author: Johnmarshall Reeve, Richard M. Ryan, Sung Hyeon Cheon, Lennia Matos, Haya Kaplan
This is a book about teachers’ classroom motivating styles. Motivating style is the interpersonal tone and face-to-face behavior the teacher relies on when trying to motivate students to engage in classroom activities and procedures. The over-arching goal of the book is to help teachers work through the professional ... Details
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Global Directions in Inclusive Education
Conceptualizations, Practices, and Methodologies for the 21st Century
Author: Matthew J. Schuelka, Suzanne Carrington
Global Directions in Inclusive Education pushes the conceptual boundaries of ‘inclusive education’ and explores new ways to research and envision inclusion and diversity in education for all children. This pioneering book problematizes ‘inclusive education’ as a global currency, as another form... Details
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Promoting Teacher Advocacy as Critical Teacher Leadership
Author: Jill Bradley-Levine
Timely and accessible, this book critically explores the meaning and practice of teacher advocacy. Drawing from the work of teachers who advocate with and for students who are traditionally marginalized—including students of color, students with exceptionalities, students in poverty, and immigrant students—this volume investigates classroom realities like inequitable... Details
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Rigor in Your Classroom: A Toolkit for Teachers
Author: Barbara Blackburn
How can you ensure students are engaged and learning at deeper levels? This book from bestselling author Barbara R. Blackburn is a treasure chest of more than 250 practical and effective tools that can be used across grade levels and subject areas to increase rigor, leading to higher levels of learning and success.
Topics include scaffolding, differentiation, higher-level... Details
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Culture Rules
Creating Schools Where Children Want to Learn and Adults Want to Work
Author: Jo Facer
School culture is unarguably central to a school’s success or failure. While there is no single "correct" school culture, there are lessons to be learned. Culture Rules examines the factors that create an environment where students want to learn, and adults want to teach.
Culture Rules explores staff culture, student culture, team building, ... Details
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Innovative School Leadership
Transforming Practices
Author: Gill Richards, Chris Wheatley
Written by school leaders, for school leaders, this book shares the work of ten practising, innovative school leaders. It offers insight into practical school developments that have been researched, trialled and reviewed to demonstrate their success at creating positive change.
With each chapter written by experienced school leaders working in a range ... Details
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The Power of Teacher Leaders
Their Roles, Influence, and Impact
Edited by: Nathan Bond
Now in its second edition, The Power of Teacher Leaders, copublished by Routledge and Kappa Delta Pi, serves as a resource for understanding the varied ways that teacher leaders foster positive change in their schools, profession, and communities. By definition, teacher leaders are teachers who stay in the classroom, maintaining their commitment to teaching students... Details
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The Quest for Revolution in Australian Schooling Policy
Author: Glenn C. Savage
This book seeks to critically examine the impacts of 'grand designs' in public policy through a detailed historical analysis of Australian schooling reforms since the 'education revolution' agenda was introduced by the federal government in the late 2000s. Combining policy analyses and interviews with senior policy makers and ministerial advisors centrally involved in the... Details
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Disability Studies and the Inclusive Classroom
Critical Practices for Embracing Diversity in Education
Author: Susan Baglieri
Disability Studies and the Inclusive Classroom integrates knowledge and practice from the fields of disability studies and special education to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of inclusive education. Now in its third edition, this critical volume has been revised and updated to include expanded discussion of... Details
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Leading School Renewal
A Guide for Educational Ground Breakers
Authors: Steffan Silcox, Neil MacNeill
Leading School Renewal explores how school principal leadership behaviour impacts on school change endeavours, and in particular pedagogic renewal, which is a form of educational improvement that is primarily concerned with the growing of the knowledge, skills and beliefs of education in a manner that optimises students’ life options. The authors... Details
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Towards Rational Education: A Social Framework of Moral Values and Practices
Author: Demetris Katsikis
Towards Rational Education explores how education can become rational by serving character building, rational thinking and the common good. It uses evidence-based psychology, philosophy, sociology and political science to support transforming education and provides a brand-new framework for effective universal education.
This book endorses... Details
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