Facilitating Teacher Teams and Authentic PLCs
The Human Side of Leading People, Protocols, and Practices
By: Daniel R. Venables
As professional learning communities become more widespread, educators have learned that they can’t simply form grade-level or subject-area teams and call it a day. To profoundly affect teacher practice and student learning, PLCs need strong and knowledgeable leadership.
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The Learning Leader
How to Focus School Improvement for Better Results, 2nd Edition
By: Douglas Reeves
'We can’t do that in our school district.'
'I don’t have time to add that to my curriculum.'
'We’re fighting against impossible odds with these students.'
Sound familiar? School improvement can often feel like a losing battle, but it doesn’t have to be. In this fully revised and updated second edition of The learning leader,... Details
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Yong Zhao
Children are born learning machines who want to learn and can organise and manage their own learning. Unfortunately, today children have little choice over what they do in school and how and when they do it. Children prepared in this ‘other-determined’ manner will be poorly equipped to navigate an adult world requiring that they act autonomously and self-direct learning to acquire skills in rapidly changing environments.
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Award-winning director Damon Gameau embarks on a journey to explore what the future would look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them into the mainstream. Structured as a visual letter to his 4-year-old daughter, Damon blends traditional documentary footage with dramatised sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision board for his daughter and our planet.
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Written by one of the UK's leading experts in ADHD, O'Regan's Successfully Teaching and Managing Children with ADHD is an invaluable resource offering practical and effective strategies for managing the difficult and often disruptive symptoms of ADHD in the classroom setting. Alongside the accessible and user-friendly resources that have made the first edition so valued, this second edition offers:
A greater number of case studies addressing the key issues surrounding... 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 sectors... Details
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The School Leader Surviving and Thriving
144 Points of Wisdom, Practical Tips, and Relatable Stories
By: 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 edition... 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... 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
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 demographics, ... Details
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Leading School Renewal
A Guide for Educational Ground Breakers
By 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 identify... Details
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Exploring the Affective Dimensions of Educational Leadership
Psychoanalytic and Arts-based Methods
By Alysha Farrell
Copyright Year 2020
Bridging the gap between academic parlance and arts-based inquiry, this unique text presents a socio-affective exploration of educational leadership. The text challenges inherited ideological and normative assumptions and invites its reader to reimagine leadership as a dynamic, emotional, and relational... Details
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Young Children's Social Emotional Learning
The COPE-Resilience Program
By Erica Frydenberg, Janice Deans, Rachel Liang
Copyright Year 2021
Young Children's Social Emotional Learning: The COPE-Resilience Program is a manual that is designed to support early childhood educators in the delivery of the COPE Resilience (COPE-R) program, an evidence-based program designed to teach empathy, resilience and prosocial skills to... Details
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Powerful Pedagogy: Teach Better Quicker
by Ruth Powley
In Powerful Pedagogy, Ruth Powley, Love Learning Ideas blogger and experienced teacher and school leader, debunks teaching and learning myths and shows how the more we know about pedagogy, the more able we are to make informed and efficient choices about our practice, saving ourselves valuable time. Focusing on building sequences of learning rather than one-off lessons, it is an antidote to ‘quick fix’ books,... Details
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Ferocious Warmth - School Leaders Who Inspire and Transform
By: Tracey Ezard
At the best of times leadership is messy. It's about a way of being, not doing. It's nebulous, nuanced and elusive, as much to do with feeling and energy as thinking and planning. It's contextual and responsive and can never be one size fits all. When great leaders are in balance, they are both ferocious about the moral purpose and courageously making a stand, while warmly building strong... Details
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People Follow People
The Twelve Characteristics of an Influential Leader
By: Sam Cawthorn
If you want to be a leader, it needs to come from the heart.
At a moment when many of us have lost confidence in brands, companies, influencers and leaders, it’s time to ask why—as well as what sort of leaders we should aspire to be ourselves to bring that confidence back.
Step forward Sam Cawthorn, an influencer at the top of his game and the ... Details
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The Math Teacher's Toolbox: Hundreds of Practical Ideas to Support Your Students
Bobson Wong, Larisa Bukalov, Larry Ferlazzo (Series Editor), Katie Hull Sypnieski (Series Editor)
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Math teachers will find the classroom-tested lessons and strategies in this book to be accessible and easily implemented in the classroom
The Teacher’s Toolbox series is an innovative, research-based resource providing teachers with... Details
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Family Engagement in the Digital Age: Early Childhood Educators as Media Mentors
by Chip Donohue
Family Engagement in the Digital Age: Early Childhood Educators as Media Mentors explores how technology can empower and engage parents, caregivers and families, and the emerging role of media mentors who guide young children and their families in the 21st century.
This thought-provoking guide to innovative approaches to family engagement includes... Details
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Catherine Routley
Offering a wealth of photocopiable resources for use with individual children or small groups, Special Learners in School provides a step-by-step programme to help practitioners support children with a range of special educational needs, and develop the skills which are fundamental to their learning in the mainstream classroom.
Competencies including active listening and observation skills, memory, comprehension of pattern and sequencing,... Details
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The Spread the Happiness Approach: Happy Teachers, Happy Classrooms, Better Education
By Shonette Bason-Wood
Copyright Year 2021
Both practical and inspiring, this book is designed to empower educators and school leaders to make clear and simple adjustments to their practice for a lasting impact on the happiness and well- being of staff and children and ultimately on academic standards. It includes practical tips and activities to help teachers generate a... Details
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Partnership with Parents in Early Childhood Settings
Insights from Five European Countries
By: Liz Hryniewicz (Editor), Paulette Luff (Editor)
Partnership with Parents in Early Childhood Settings examines how practitioners can work effectively with parents and families and the complex nature of these relationships. Drawing on practice from schools and settings from five European countries, it provides insight into how political, social and cultural changes... Details
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How to upgrade literacy instruction for digital learners
By: Lee Watanabe-Crockett, Ian Jukes, Andrew Churches
Educating students to traditional literacy standards is no longer enough. If students are to thrive in their academic and 21st century careers, then independent and creative thinking hold the highest currency. The authors explain in detail how to add these new components of literacy:
Solution Fluency
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by Cathy Lassiter
Have you ever wondered how or where you find the inner strength and determination to stand up and lead fellow administrators, teachers, or students to meet ever-changing expectations?
Courage is a “must have” for effective leadership. Everyday Courage guides readers to develop Leadership Courage from within and become exceptional and resilient. In addition to expanding instructional leadership, practical elements and features... Details
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Say Hello
By: Carly Findlay
A forthright, honest and rousingly triumphant memoir from a woman who has to live with a highly visible different appearance due to a rare skin condition. Say hello to Carly.
'In fairy tales, the characters who look different are often cast as the villain or monsters. It's only when they shed their unconventional skin that they are seen as "good" or less frightening. There are very few stories where the character that looks... Details
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Leading Collaborative Learning: Empowering Excellence
by Lyn Sharratt and Beate Planche
Leadership, collaborative learning, and student achievement - discover what works! Today's improving school systems require educators who intentionally collaborate and co-learn in service of students to get expected results. This resource-rich book from experts Sharratt and Planche is a straightforward, strategic path to achieving sustainable communities of deep learners. ... Details
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