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INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED

PLC AND RTI AT WORKTM 2016 INSTITUTES

BUILDING HIGHLY EFFECTIVE SCHOOL CULTURES Where learning thrives

SIX ESSENTIAL SCHOOL CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS

1. Building a shared mission, vision, values, and goals

2. Creating collaborative teams focused on learning

3. Nurturing action orientation and experimentation

4. Encouraging collective inquiry5. Driving a commitment to continuous improvement6. Building a results orientation

FOUR CRITICAL QUESTIONS

1. What is it we expect our students to learn?

2. How will we know when they have learned it?

3. How will we respond when some students do not learn?

4. How will we respond when some students already know it?

THREE BIG LEARNING IDEAS

1. Creating a sustainable focus on learning in every school

2. Building a collaborative culture in which learning matters

3. Creating a relentless focus on results

The Professional Learning Communities at Work™ process is increasingly recognised as the most powerful strategy for sustained, substantive school improvement. The Solution Tree PLC Institutes provide you and your team with the knowledge and tools to implement this powerful process in your school or district.

Join us for two powerful jam packed days where you will have the opportunity to network with, and learn from Solution Tree PLC and RTI at Work™ experts, and international and Australian Associates and authors. Australian PLC at Work Model Schools who have implemented these programs and made a significant difference to school and student outcomes will share their practices.

The program includes time for questions during the breakout sessions, a panel of experts from international and Australian schools to address questions from the audience, and time for teams to reflect and seek the advice of the presenters. At the end of team time, you will focus on next action steps, with presenters on hand to guide you.

For those just beginning to explore PLCs, our Institutes are an excellent way to build your knowledge base. For those who are already involved in deep implementation, these institutes are the perfect opportunity to revisit your mission, introduce new team members to the process, and get answers to new questions.

As you delve deep into the three big ideas of a PLC—focussing on learning, building a collaborative culture, and creating a results orientation—you will gain specific, practical, and inspiring strategies for transforming your school or district into a place where all students learn at high levels.

Workshops will focus on:

Question 1: What is it we expect our students to learn? (Guaranteed Viable Curriculum)

What knowledge, skills, and dispositions will each student acquire as a result of each course, grade level, and unit of instruction?

Question 2: How will we know when they have learned it? (Formative Assessment)

Are we monitoring each student’s learning on a timely basis and are we making the right decisions about their next learning experiences?

Question 3: How will we respond when some students do not learn? (Student Intervention)

What systematic processes are in place to provide additional time and support for students who are experiencing learning difficulty?

Question 4: How will we respond when some students already know it? (Student Extension)

What systematic processes are in place to provide additional time and support for students who already know the learning work planned for the class?

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MAY 2016 RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION INSTITUTESRTI is a way of thinking about how educators can ensure each student receives the time and support needed to achieve success. This workshop was developed for school teams who are beginning to use RTI processes and for those refining their school strategies or experiencing challenges. Join RTI architects Mike Mattos and Austin Buffum, Solution Tree Associates Darin Fahrney and Laurie Robinson-Sammons, and Solution Tree PLC Model Schools who have assisted school teams to design strategies to drive significant individual student improvement in their schools.

Your school team will learn how to:

• Drive implementation using the four guiding principles.

• Create a school leadership team to steer the shift to a culture of collective responsibility.

• Utilise collaborative teacher teams to define essential learnings.

• Create a toolbox of effective interventions.

• Build a schoolwide intervention team to address complex issues such as motivation, attendance, and behaviour.

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21st Century Skills 5

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Differentiated Instruction 8

Digital Learner Centred Modern Classrooms 10

English as an Additional Language 12

Family and Community 12

Leading with Impact 12

Literacy 15

Mathematics 16

PLC at WorkTM 17

PLCs for School Improvement 20

RTI at WorkTM 25

Student Engagement 27

Teaching and Learning 28

Solution Tree book collections 32

Global PD 33

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21st Century Skills

Curriculum and Assessment

21st Century SkillsRethinking How Students Learn

Edited by James A. Bellanca and Ron Brandt

This anthology introduces the Framework for 21st Century Learning from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills as a way to re-envision learning and prepare students for a rapidly evolving global and technological world. Highly respected education leaders and innovators focus on why these skills are necessary, which are most important, and how to best help schools include them in curriculum and instruction.

AU$52.25 | 408 pages | BKF389 | ISBN: 9781935249900

Bringing Innovation to SchoolEmpowering Students to Thrive in a Changing World

By Suzie Boss

Are you preparing a new generation of innovators? Activate your students’ creativity and problem-solving potential with breakthrough learning projects. Across all grades and content areas, student-driven, collaborative projects will teach students how to generate innovative ideas and then put them into action. You’ll take learning to new heights and help students master core content.

AU$41.25 | 184 pages | BKF546 | ISBN: 9781936765263

Deeper LearningBeyond 21st Century Skills

Edited by James A. Bellanca

Education authorities from around the globe explore deeper learning, a process that promotes higher-order thinking, reasoning, and problem solving to better educate students and prepare them for college and careers. Relying on research as well as their own experience, the authors show how to use intensive curriculum, instruction, assessment, and leadership practices to meet the needs of 21st century learners.

AU$52.25 | 416 pages | BKF737 | ISBN: 9781943874279

Reinventing Learning for the Always-On GenerationStrategies and Apps That Work

By Ian Jukes, Ryan L. Schaaf and Nicky Mohan

Cultivate effective 21st century classrooms. Teachers and administrators must respond to the digital bombardment students face to ensure their success in the 21st century world. Explore the differences in students neurological processing from previous generations, investigate the nine critical attributes of digital learners, and discover practical strategies for making learning relevant, engaging, and fun through digital activities.

AU$48.40 | 184 pages | BKF644 | ISBN: 9781936763818

Who Owns the Learning?Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age

By Alan November

Learn how to harness students’ natural curiosity to develop them into self-directed learners. Discover how technology allows students to take ownership of their learning, create and share learning tools, and participate in work that is meaningful to them and others. Real-life examples illustrate how every student can become a teacher and a global publisher. The embedded QR codes link to supporting websites.

AU$34.65 | 104 pages | BKF437 | ISBN: 9781935542575

Balanced AssessmentFrom Formative to Summative

By Kay Burke

Learn how to integrate formative and summative assessments seamlessly into instruction. The research, rationale, strategies, and examples provided in this book will help teachers develop their own repertoire of formative and summative assessments to monitor, grade, and make inferences about a student’s ability to meet standards and curriculum goals. Exercises at the end of each chapter provide opportunities to reflect and plan action steps.

AU$41.25 | 176 pages | BKF272 | ISBN: 9781934009529

Common Formative AssessmentA Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work™

By Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic

Teams that engage in designing, using, and responding to common formative assessments are more knowledgeable about their own standards, more assessment literate, and able to develop more strategies for helping all students learn. In this conversational guide, the authors offer tools, templates, and protocols to incorporate common formative assessments into the practices of a PLC to monitor and enhance student learning.

AU$45.65 | 144 pages | BKF538 | ISBN: 9781936765140

Design in FiveEssential Phases to Create Engaging Assessment Practice

By Nicole Dimich Vagle

Fully engage learners in your classroom. Discover how to create high-quality assessments using a five-phase design protocol. Explore types and traits of quality assessment, and learn how to develop assessments that are innovative, effective, and engaging. Evaluate whether your current assessments meet the design criteria, and discover how to use this process collaboratively with your team.

AU$41.25 | 176 pages | BKF604 | ISBN: 9781936764952


Curriculum and Assessment

Differentiated Instruction

Embedded Formative Assessment

By Dylan Wiliam

Formative assessment plays an important role in increasing teacher quality and student learning when its viewed as a process rather than a tool. Emphasizing the instructional side of formative assessment, this book explores in depth the use of classroom questioning, learning intentions and success criteria, feedback, collaborative and cooperative learning, and self-regulated learning to engineer effective learning environments for students.

AU$49.50 | 200 pages | BKF418 | ISBN: 9781934009307

Make School Meaningful—And Fun!

By Roger C. Schank

Bring meaning and curiosity back to school. In this reader-friendly guide, the author engages educators and leaders in a powerful conversation about modern learning. Explore the 10 criteria for new curricula, encourage students to develop their skills and passions, and consider changes in teaching that can make school fun and relevant to students lives in the real world.

AU$24.75 | 80 pages | BKF686 | ISBN: 9781942496212

On Your MarkChallenging the Conventions of Grading and Reporting

By Thomas R. Guskey

Create and sustain a learning environment where students thrive and stakeholders are accurately informed of student progress. Clarify the purpose of grades, craft a vision statement aligned with this purpose, and discover research-based strategies to implement effective grading and reporting practices. Identify policies and practices that render grading inaccurate, and understand the role grades play in students future success and opportunities.

AU$34.65 | 144 pages | BKF606 | ISBN: 9781935542773

Proficiency-Based AssessmentProcess, Not Product

By Troy Gobble, Mark Onuscheck, Anthony R. Reibel and Eric Twadell

With this user-friendly resource, K–12 teachers will discover how to close the gaps between assessment, curriculum, and instruction by replacing outmoded assessment methods with proficiency-based assessments. Learn the essentials of proficiency-based assessment, investigate why this kind of assessment has a key relationship with teaching and learning, and explore evidence-based strategies for successful implementation.

AU$48.40 | 192 pages | BKF631 | ISBN: 9781936763542

Using Digital Games as Assessment and Instruction Tools

By Ryan L. Schaaf

Combine hard work and deep fun in classrooms with digital game-based learning. Students of the always-on generation gain information through different tools and learn differently than generations before them. Discover how to incorporate digital games and use them to craft engaging, academically applicable classroom activities that address content standards and revitalize learning for both teachers and students.

AU$24.75 | 80 pages | BKF666 | ISBN: 9781935542537

Using Formative Assessment in the RTI Framework

By Kay Burke and Eileen Depka

RTI and formative assessment have the potential to positively impact student achievement. Understand the basics of RTI and its connection to formative assessment, and base instructional decisions on the results of effective formative assessment practices. Learn how to adjust instruction to increase levels of student understanding and achievement with the information, tools, and techniques presented in this practical guide.

AU$41.25 | 144 pages | BKF369 | ISBN: 9781935249740

Best Practices at Tier 1Daily Differentiation for Effective Instruction, Elementary

By Gayle Gregory, Martha Kaufeldt and Mike Mattos

Improve core instruction to ensure learning for all. Created for K–12 educators, this series provides proven response to intervention strategies to differentiate instruction, engage students increase success, and avoid additional interventions. Discover how to identify essential power standards to include in Tier 1 instruction, create a brain-friendly learning environment, shift instructional processes to support collaboration, and more.

AU$48.40 | BKF650 | ISBN: 9781936763931

Best Practices at Tier 1Daily Differentiation for Effective Instruction, Secondary

By Gayle Gregory, Martha Kaufeldt and Mike Mattos

Improve core instruction to ensure learning for all. Created specifically for grades 6–12, this book provides proven response to intervention strategies to differentiate instruction, engage students, increase success, and avoid additional interventions. Discover how to identify essential power standards to include in Tier 1 instruction, create a brain-friendly learning environment, shift instructional processes to support collaboration, and more.

AU$48.40 | BKF651 | ISBN: 9781936763955


Digital Learner Centred Modern ClassroomsDifferentiated Instruction

Differentiation and the BrainHow Neuroscience Supports the Learner-Friendly Classroom

By David A. Sousa and Carol Ann Tomlinson

Examine the basic principles of differentiation in light of what current research on educational neuroscience has revealed. This research pool offers information and insights that can help educators decide whether certain curricular, instructional, and assessment choices are likely to be more effective than others. Learn how to implement differentiation so that it achieves the desired result of shared responsibility between teacher and student.

AU$48.40 | 216 pages | BKF353 | ISBN: 9781935249597

Instructional Methods for Differentiation and Deeper Learning

By James H. Stronge and Xianxuan Xu

Expertly motivate and engage all students. Taking a practical approach to differentiated instruction, the authors outline research-based strategies and illustrate how teachers, coaches, and administrators can use them to enhance their everyday practices. Explore ways to implement differentiated learning for students needing personalized remedial instruction and high-ability students, as well as tactics for executing instruction in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms.

AU$41.25 | 144 pages | BKF700 | ISBN: 9781942496533

RTI & Differentiated Reading in the K–8 Classroom

By William N. Bender and Laura Waller

Make the transition from traditional, whole-group reading instruction to the 21st century classroom by integrating three innovations that will dramatically improve elementary reading instruction: RTI, differentiated instruction, and technology. Detailed explanations, helpful case studies, and recommendations of current technologies bring these ideas to life.

AU$48.40 | 208 pages | BKF363 | ISBN: 9781935249689

Supporting Differentiated InstructionA Professional Learning Communities Approach

By Robin J. Fogarty and Brian M. Pete

Examine how PLCs provide the decision-making platform for the rigorous work of differentiated classroom instruction. A practical guide to implementing differentiation in the classroom, this book offers a road map to effective teaching that responds to diverse learning needs. Takeaway objectives at the beginning of each chapter guide discussion, and each chapter ends with action options of highly interactive strategies.

AU$48.40 | 200 pages | BKF348 | ISBN: 9781935249559

Claim Your Domain—And Own Your Online Presence

By Audrey Watters

Help protect student work—and more importantly—student identity. This powerful book puts learners at the forefront of education to ensure they control their schoolwork, content, and data. Dig deep into the digital revolution occurring in schools and classrooms, explore how to incorporate traditional instructional practices in the digital classroom, and understand the skills students need to be digitally literate.

AU$24.75 | 72 pages | BKF687 | ISBN: 9781942496236

Creating Purpose-Driven Learning Experiences

By William M. Ferriter

Motivate and inspire students to learn at high levels. By bringing meaningful work to the classroom, students will develop curiosity, become actively engaged, and have a sense of purpose for their education. Discover strategies and tips for reshaping the traditional classroom environment to give modern students opportunities to exercise choice in their curriculum, master skills, and demonstrate what they’ve learned.

AU$24.75 | 80 pages | BKF691 | ISBN: 9781942496311

Designing Teacher-Student Partnership Classrooms

By Meg Ormiston

Shift classroom structures to enhance student success. By becoming learning partners with their students, teachers can help them develop enthusiasm for learning and employ deep learning goals. Discover how to cultivate a classroom environment in which students can apply what they’ve learned, teach it to their teacher and fellow students, and understand how their knowledge will be useful beyond the classroom.

AU$24.75 | 80 pages | BKF680 | ISBN: 9781942496090

Evaluating and Assessing Tools in the Digital Swamp

By Michael Fullan and Katelyn Donnelly

Discover a powerful tool for navigating the ever-expanding digital swamp. The Digital Swamp Index will help educators wade through digital innovations in order to uncover tools that truly accelerate student achievement. Explore how to use the index to effectively implement technology and address the revolution occurring in education, which is generating a new nature of learning.

AU$24.75 | 80 pages | BKF636 | ISBN: 9781936763665


Freedom to Learn

By Will Richardson

Give students control over the learning process. The 21st century has seen vast advances in technology—which can connect students and teachers to more information, knowledge, and experts than ever before. Investigate why the traditional education system isn’t working, uncover why the meanings of education and success should be redefined, and understand the teachers role in a free learning environment.

AU$24.75 | 80 pages | BKF688 | ISBN: 9781942496250

From Master Teacher to Master Learner

By Will Richardson

As we gain access to more and more knowledge and information online, the future will belong to those who are powerful, literate, curious learners. That means emphasis in classrooms must move toward helping students develop the skills, literacies, and dispositions to be powerful, self-organized learners. Teachers who are themselves master learners in new, modern contexts are crucial to making that happen.

AU$24.75 | 80 pages | BKF679 | ISBN: 9781942496076

Implementing Project-Based Learning

By Suzie Boss

Deepen learning experiences in every classroom. Project-based learning (PBL) has the potential to fully engage students of the digital age, changing student-teacher dynamics and giving students greater influence and agency in their learning. Discover user-friendly strategies for implementing PBL to equip students with essential 21st century skills, strengthen their problem-solving abilities, and prepare them for college and careers.

AU$24.75 | 80 pages | BKF681 | ISBN: 9781942496113

Real-World Learning Framework for Secondary SchoolsDigital Tools and Practical Strategies for Successful Implementation

By Marge Maxwell, Rebecca Stobaugh and Janet Lynne Tassell

Foster authentic learning in classrooms. Students desire to find meaning in what they learn and to exert creativity in their schoolwork. Using the Create framework, educators can help students find greater fulfillment in learning, while also meeting the guidelines of curriculum standards. Explore the framework’s main components, and understand how to use the framework for classroom, school, and district pursuits.

AU$48.40 | 232 pages | BKF656 | ISBN: 9781935249443

Teaching the iGeneration Five Easy Ways to Introduce Essential Skills With Web 2.0 Tools

By William M. Ferriter and Adam Garry

Find the natural overlap between the work you already believe in and the digital tools that define todays learning. Each chapter introduces an enduring skill: information fluency, verbal persuasion, visual persuasion, collaborative dialogue, and problem solving. Then, the authors present a digital solution that can be used to enhance traditional skill-based instructional practices. A collection of handouts and supporting materials tailored to each skill and tool type ends each chapter.

AU$48.40 | 200 pages | BKF671 | ISBN: 9781936765324

The School Leader’s Guide to English Learners

By Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

English learners face not only the challenge of learning English, but also learning in English. How, then, do you set reasonable expectations for developing proficiency? School leaders will find the answers inside, including how to assess the individual needs of ELs, how to create a quality instructional program, and how to evaluate performance. Each chapter offers reliable, research-based ways to implement solutions you can count on.

AU$34.65 | 96 pages | BKF540 | ISBN: 9781936765171

Strengthening the Connection Between School & Home

By Ricardo LeBlanc-Esparza and Kym LeBlanc-Esparza

Examine the pivotal role family engagement plays in student achievement, and explore in depth the process of creating and implementing a family-engagement plan. This research-based guide includes many specific strategies, handouts, and reproducibles leaders can use to make their schools family friendly and connect with those families who may be hard to reach.

AU$34.65 | 96 pages | BKF486 | ISBN: 9781935543305

Counting What CountsReframing Education Outcomes

By Ross C. Anderson, Kendra Coates, Brian Gearin, Yue Shen, Sarah Soltz, Michael Thier and Daisy Zhang-Negrerie

Overemphasizing test scores as measures of achievement is potentially harmful to education. The contributors identify key traits such as mindset, motivation, social skills, creativity, and entrepreneurial spirit that students, teachers, and schools need to acknowledge and cultivate. Educators are asked to shift the evaluation paradigm to focus on a multiplicity of skills necessary for success in the 21st century.

AU$48.40 | BKF632 | ISBN: 9781936763580

English as an Additional Language

Digital Learner Centred Modern Classrooms

Family and Community

Leading with Impact


Leaders of LearningHow District, School, and Classroom Leaders Improve Student Achievement

By Richard DuFour and Robert J. Marzano

For many years, the authors have been fellow travellers on the journey to help educators improve their schools. Their first co-authored book focuses on district leadership, principal leadership, and team leadership and addresses how individual teachers can be most effective in leading students by learning with colleagues how to implement the most promising pedagogy in their classrooms.

AU$41.25 | 248 pages | BKF455 | ISBN: 9781935542667

LeadershipKey Competencies for Whole-System Change

By Lyle Kirtman and Michael Fullan

Develop a creative, productive school culture. Based on their decades-long work in leadership, the authors offer seven core leadership competencies for systemic change in schools, districts, and state education systems. Discover targeted strategies to move past failed initiatives and overcome initiative overload, explore how to cultivate effective work practices, and gain the know-how to create enjoyable, innovative learning environments.

AU$34.65 | 152 pages | BKF629 | ISBN: 9781936763528

Leading Modern LearningA Blueprint for Vision-Driven Schools

By Jay McTighe and Greg Curtis

Bring focus to your mission for modern learning. Whether you’re upgrading a department, school, or district, the authors offer a systemic framework, proven processes, and practical strategies your team can use to achieve your vision. Explore the building blocks for creating a curriculum that supports modern learning, an assessment system that captures evidence of 21st century skills, and instruction that aligns with modern learning principles.

AU$48.40 | 208 pages | BKF551 | ISBN: 9781936764709

Score to SoarMoving Teachers from Evaluation to Professional Growth

By John F. Eller and Sheila A. Eller

Discover how to guide and enhance the job performance of teachers in your school or district. The authors share highly practical strategies for providing teachers meaningful feedback and encouraging their improvement. You’ll discover how to evaluate teacher effectiveness, use multiple forms of data for evaluation, and communicate evaluation findings to teachers in a way that fosters their professional growth.

AU$48.40 | 232 pages | BKF625 | ISBN: 9781936763443

Stop Leading Like It’s Yesterday!Key Concepts for Shaping Todays School Culture

By Casey Reason


AU$41.25 | 200 pages | BKF614 | ISBN: 9781936763191

The Principal as Assessment LeaderA Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work™

Edited by Thomas R. Guskey

This book explores the importance of effective classroom assessment to student achievement and the role of school leaders to model and spark positive change through building teacher literacy, providing targeted professional development, acquiring appropriate technology, and more. With insights from expert practitioners, this book helps schools make the shift to best-practice assessment for district-wide improvements in student learning.

AU$48.40 | 288 pages | BKF344 | ISBN: 9781934009482

The Will to Lead, the Skill to Teach Transforming Schools at Every Level

By Anthony Muhammad and Sharroky Hollie

School improvement begins with self-examination and honest dialogue about socialization, bias, discrimination, and cultural insensitivity. The authors acknowledge both the structural and sociological issues that contribute to low-performing schools and offer multiple tools and strategies to assess and improve classroom management, increase literacy, establish academic vocabulary, and contribute to a healthier school culture.

AU$34.65 | 176 pages | BKF443 | ISBN: 9781935542544

Transforming School CultureHow to Overcome Staff Division

By Anthony Muhammad

Busy administrators will appreciate this quick read packed with immediate, accessible strategies. This book provides the framework for understanding dynamic relationships within a school culture and ensuring a positive environment that supports the changes necessary to improve learning for all students. The author explores many aspects of human behavior, social conditions, and history to reveal best practices for building healthy school cultures.

AU$34.65 | 144 pages | BKF281 | ISBN: 9781934009451

Leading with Impact


Literacy

Mathematics

Leading the New Literacies

Series editor: Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Integrate teaching practices that incorporate digital, media, and global-based learning with traditional learning to prepare students to succeed in a highly competitive world. Identify new literacy terms, find points of curriculum intersection, learn how to acquaint faculty with new technologies, and explore case studies featuring teachers and students operating in 21st century classrooms.

AU$48.40 | 184 pages | BKF441 | ISBN: 9781936764600

Mastering Digital Literacy


Teach your students to thrive both academically and in their personal lives in the 21st century. Understand the purpose and importance of digital literacy, and learn the value of digital, media, and global awareness. The authors provide practical, easy-to-implement strategies for incorporating digital literacy into the school curricula.

AU$41.25 | 152 pages | BKF235 | ISBN: 9781936764549

Mastering Global Literacy


Discover how educators can cultivate globally literate learners while becoming globally connected themselves. The authors explore ways to bring global issues into the classroom and personalize them using new digital tools. Find strategies for implementing global-awareness studies into the traditional school curriculum, as well as creating new types of 21st century learning environments.

AU$41.25 | 136 pages | BKF415 | ISBN: 9781936764587

Mastering Media Literacy


Discover the role media can play in preparing students to compete in a global society in which cultures, economies, and people are constantly connected. Learn how to merge technology and instruction successfully, giving students greater access to knowledge and making learning more meaningful. The authors provide practical tips for incorporating media literacy into the traditional curriculum.

AU$41.25 | 128 pages | BKF236 | ISBN: 9781936764563

The Right to Be LiterateSix Essential Literacy Skills

By Brian M. Pete and Robin J. Fogarty

Literacy skills are of paramount importance to students in the digital age. In this book, teachers and administrators will explore the six comprehensive skill areas essential to 21st century literacy—reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and representing. Learn practical strategies for teaching students the skills they need to think critically and communicate collaboratively in the 21st century.

AU$41.25 | 176 pages | BKF643 | ISBN: 9781936763795

Using Technology to Enhance ReadingInnovative Approaches to Literacy Instruction

Edited by Richard E. Ferdig, Timothy V. Rasinski and Kristine E. Pytash

Enhance students reading abilities with technology. Discover how technological resources can improve the effectiveness and breadth of reading instruction to build student knowledge. Read real-world accounts from literacy experts, and learn how their methods can be adapted for your classroom. Explore how to foster improvement in student learning using a variety of tools, including interactive whiteboards, tablets, and social media applications.

AU$52.25 | 272 pages | BKF608 | ISBN: 9781936764990

Using Technology to Enhance WritingInnovative Approaches to Literacy Instruction

Edited by Richard E. Ferdig, Timothy V. Rasinski and Kristine E. Pytash

Sharpen your students communication skills while integrating digital tools into writing instruction. Loaded with techniques for helping students brainstorm, plan, and organize their writing, this handbook troubleshoots issues students face when writing in a printed versus digital context and teaches them how to read in multiple mediums. You’ll find tips for sharing writing, getting interactive feedback, incorporating grammar instruction, and more.

AU$52.25 | 272 pages | BKF607 | ISBN: 9781936764976

Strategies for Mathematics Instruction and Intervention, K–5

By Chris Weber and Darlene Crane


AU$41.25 | 176 pages | BKF620 | ISBN: 9781936763313


Mathematics

PLC at WorkTM

Strategies for Mathematics Instruction and Intervention, 6–8

By Chris Weber, Darlene Crane and Tom Hierck

Build a solid mathematics program by emphasizing prioritized learning goals and integrating RTI into your curriculum. Prepare students to move forward in mathematics learning, and ensure their continued growth in critical thinking and problem solving. With this book, you’ll discover an RTI model that provides the mathematics instruction, assessment, and intervention strategies necessary to meet the complex, diverse needs of students.

AU$41.25 | 176 pages | BKF621 | ISBN: 9781936763337

Are We a Group or a Team?Moving From Coordination to Collaboration in a PLC at Work™

By Mike Mattos

Build a powerful PLC to meet the needs of every student. Based on Mike Mattos’s 1-5-10 team-evaluation activity, this unscripted video will give your team the know-how to transition from a low- to high-performing team. Explore the three foundational elements to build strong teams: forming the right teams that share learning outcomes, providing dedicated time to collaborate, and collaborating professionally.

AU$240.90 | 43-minute DVD; 32-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD) | DVF065

| ISBN: 811796010629

Cultures Built to LastSystemic PLCs at Work™

By Richard DuFour and Michael Fullan

Take your professional learning community to the next level! Discover a system-wide approach for re-envisioning your PLC while sustaining growth and continuing momentum on your journey. You’ll move beyond isolated pockets of excellence while allowing every person in your school system —from teachers and administrators to students —the opportunity to be an instrument of lasting cultural change.

AU$34.65 | 104 pages | BKF579 | ISBN: 9781936764747

Every School, Every Team, Every ClassroomDistrict Leadership for Growing Professional Learning Communities at Work™

By Robert Eaker and Janel Keating

The PLC journey begins by articulating a moral purpose: a dedication to ensuring that every student learns. Using many examples and reproducible tools, the authors explain the need to focus on creating simultaneous top-down and bottom-up leadership to align district- and school-level policies and procedures. Learn how to grow PLCs by providing direction and encouraging innovation at every level of the district.

AU$48.40 | 204 pages | BKF534 | ISBN: 9781936765096

Getting District ResultsA Case Study in Implementing PLCs at Work™

By Nicholas Jay Myers

Discover how the largest primary school district in Illinois became a flourishing professional learning community. You’ll walk through each step of the PLC journey to learn how the district approached the most vital components of a successful PLC, such as building shared knowledge, forming collaborative teams, and setting priorities. Reduce your own trial and error by using their lessons learned as a road map toward long-lasting change.

AU$34.65 | 144 pages | BKF590 | ISBN: 9781936764327

Getting StartedReculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Communities

By Robert Eaker, Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour

Get answers to the most common question posed by educators seeking to build and sustain a PLC: Where do we begin? Access a solid conceptual framework and concrete illustrations of how schools operate when they are functioning as PLCs. Two case studies examine schools that have made the transformation, showcasing district- and curriculum-level efforts to focus on student learning.

AU$41.25 | 200 pages | BKF120 | ISBN: 9781879639898

Kid by Kid, Skill by SkillTeaching in a Professional Learning Community at Work™

By Robert Eaker and Janel Keating

Written for all educators, this book explores professional learning communities from a teachers perspective. Focused chapters survey effective and collaborative team actions, instructional practices that enhance teacher efficiency, and the role teacher judgment and classroom context play in determining instructional outcomes. The authors show that shifting teachers focus from teaching to learning creates a lasting commitment to PLC success.

AU$48.40 | 224 pages | BKF694 | ISBN: 9781942496373

Leading by DesignAn Action Framework for PLC at Work™ Leaders

By Cassandra Erkins and Eric Twadell

By focusing on what students learn rather than what they are taught, schools can redefine their mission and begin the transition to a professional learning community. After interviewing and observing principals, administrators, and teachers, the authors identify seven leadership practices that effective PLC leaders share, along with the techniques that have led them to sustainable success.

AU$48.40 | 216 pages | BKF430 | ISBN: 9781935542292


PLC at WorkTM

Learning by DoingA Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work™

By Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker and Thomas W. Many

Through continuous work with educators, the authors have created a more powerful, practical resource for moving forward in the PLC process. This book is an action guide for closing the knowing-doing gap and transforming schools into PLCs. It also includes seven major additions that equip educators with essential tools for confronting challenges.

AU$55.00 | 296 pages | BKF416 | ISBN: 9781935542094

Making Teamwork MeaningfulLeading Progress-Driven Collaboration in a PLC at Work™

By William M. Ferriter, Parry Graham and Matt Wight

Focus on developing people—not just improving test scores. The authors examine how staffing decisions can strengthen professional learning communities and explore actions that can help school leaders safeguard their schools against complacency. Collect tips and strategies that every leader can adopt, and apply the professional development techniques that prove most useful.

AU$41.25 | 128 pages | BKF548 | ISBN: 9781936765294

Professional Learning Communities at Work™ and Virtual CollaborationOn the Tipping Point of Transformation

By Richard DuFour and Casey Reason

Now is the time to transform education! By combining the capacities of the PLC at Work and trade; process and powerful technology tools, teams of educators can meaningfully modify teaching and learning. Realize the potential of virtual collaboration to support the PLC process, and discover research-based strategies collaborative teams can implement to meet contemporary challenges and reach sustained levels of deeper learning.

AU$41.25 | 216 pages | BKF673 | ISBN: 9781935542933

Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap

By Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker and Gayle Karhanek

This expansion of Whatever It Takes sharpens the focus on the pyramid of interventions strategy. The authors examine case studies of schools and districts across North America to illustrate how PLC at Work™ is a sustainable and transferable process that ensures struggling students get the support they need to achieve. They address how to enrich and extend the learning of proficient students and explain how PLC intervention processes align with RTI legislation.

AU$41.25 | 256 pages | BKF409 | ISBN: 9781935249993

Starting a MovementBuilding Culture From the Inside Out in Professional Learning Communities

By Kenneth C. Williams and Tom Hierc

Infuse energy back into the practices of your PLC. Explore the authors four-stage authentic alignment model, which will take you through the Why, Eye, How, and Now of transforming your schools culture. Through this inspiring guide, you’ll discover how to bridge the gulf between principles and practice to cultivate an empowering environment that is committed to a cycle of continuous improvement.

AU$41.25 | 144 pages | BKF538 | ISBN: 9781936764662

The School Leader’s Guide to Professional Learning Communities at Work™

By Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour

Are you a K–8 principal ready to implement the PLC at Work™ process? Two experienced practitioners show you how to explore the critical components needed to lay the foundation of a PLC, including how to develop a structure that supports collaborative teams, how to focus on effective monitoring strategies, how to reflect on your communication effectiveness, and more.

AU$34.65 | 112 pages | BKF489 | ISBN: 9781935543367

Aligning School Districts as PLCs

By Mark Van Clay, Perry Soldwedel and Thomas W. Many

In order for a professional learning community to achieve its full potential, all levels district-wide must align with the three big ideas: ensuring a focus on learning, building a collaborative culture, and establishing a results orientation. This book breaks down the complex process of aligning the work of central office staff, building leadership, and teachers to increase student achievement.

AU$41.25 | 168 pages | BKF493 | ISBN: 9781935543398

Building a Culture of HopeEnriching Schools with Optimism and Opportunity

By Robert D. Barr and Emily Gibson

Research demonstrates that children of poverty need more than just academic instruction to succeed. Discover a blueprint for turning low-performing schools into Cultures of Hope! The authors draw from their own experiences working with high-poverty, high-achieving schools to illustrate how to support students with an approach that considers social as well as emotional factors in education.

AU$52.25 | 288 pages | BKF503 | ISBN: 9781936764624

PLCs for School Improvement



Creating a Coaching Culture for Professional Learning Communities

By Jane A. G. Kise and Beth Russell

Build a collaborative coaching culture that ensures all adults learn through activities that keep the team focused on student learning. This practical resource provides activities designed to meet a wide variety of needs so you can choose the ones that fit your leadership style, the learning styles of team members, and the particular needs of the school.

AU$48.40 | 232 pages | BKF350 | ISBN: 9781935249412

Data-Based Decision Making

By Edie L. Holcomb

You’re ready to start collecting and utilizing school data, but what data? How exactly will you find it and how will you use it once you have it? This informative resource takes an in-depth look at best data collection practices and guides the primary school principal on how to reach struggling learners, strengthen instruction, and achieve schoolwide improvement.

AU$34.65 | 120 pages | BKF469 | ISBN: 9781935543022

Effective Program Evaluation

By Mardale Dunsworth and Dawn Billings

Educators are increasingly coming to realize the importance of making decisions based on reliable, accurate data. This short guide provides a blueprint for evaluating academic programs, practices, or strategies within a simple, effective framework. It includes a step-by-step walk through of the program evaluation cycle and an appendix that explains vital concepts and vocabulary in accessible language.

AU$34.65 | 96 pages | BKF461 | ISBN: 9781935542902

Game Plan A Playbook for Developing Winning PLCs at Work™

By Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic

Create a uniform game plan to foster a collaborative community of learners, develop a shared focus, and meet growth goals. Examine new concepts of leadership, and learn how to effectively assemble schoolwide commitment to PLC principles. Explore coaching points and tools you can use to customize strategies for teachers and leaders, who must share collective responsibility to drive lasting change.

AU$41.25 | 144 pages | BKF635 | ISBN: 9781936763641

The Collaborative AdministratorWorking Together as a Professional Learning Community

Contributors: Austin Buffum, Cassandra Erkens, Charles Hinman, Susan B. Huff, Lillie G. Jessie, Terri L. Martin, Mike Mattos, Anthony Muhammad, Peter Noonan, Geri Parscale, Eric Twadell, Jay Westover and Kenneth C. Williams

In a culture of shared leadership, the administrator’s role is more important than ever. How do you maintain the right balance of loose and tight leadership? How do you establish profound, lasting trust? What principles strengthen principal leadership? This book answers these questions and more in compelling chapters that deliver the strategies and heartfelt inspiration essential to being the best administrator you can be.

AU$48.40 | 264 pages | BKF256 | ISBN: 9781934009376

The Collaborative Teacher Working Together as a Professional Learning Community

Contributors: Cassandra Erkens, Chris Jakicic, Lillie G. Jessie, Dennis King, Sharon V. Kramer, Susan K. Sparks, Thomas W. Many, Mary Ann Ranells, Ainsley B. Rose and Eric Twadell

The time of exclusive top-down leadership is over! Only teachers can transform education from inside the classroom, and this book defines best practices of collaborative teacher leadership. Specific techniques, supporting research, expert insight, and real classroom stories illustrate how to work together for student learning, create a guaranteed and viable curriculum, and use data to inform instruction.

AU$48.40 | 232 pages | BKF257 | ISBN: 9781934009369

Got Data? Now What?Creating and Leading Cultures of Inquiry

By Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman

Explore three defining challenges that school teams face when gathering, interpreting, and utilizing school data. Complete with survey questions for efficient data collection, suggested group work structures, strategies, and tools—along with essential definitions and descriptions of data types —this compelling guide will help you confront data obstacles to turn struggling committees into powerful communities of learners.

AU$41.25 | 144 pages | BKF530 | ISBN: 9781936765034

How to Coach Leadership in a PLC

By Marc Johnson

Expand your leadership capacity. Through this how-to guide, you’ll investigate why strong leadership is a crucial element of successful PLCs and delve deep into what leadership should involve at the district and site levels. Discover leadership strategies for creating a collaborative culture, learn how to build shared values among educators, and explore tools and techniques for monitoring progress on your PLC journey.

AU$24.75 | 80 pages | BKF667 | ISBN: 9781936764419



How to Cultivate Collaboration in a PLC

By Susan K. Sparks and Thomas W. Many

Collaborate for schoolwide success. Establishing a collaborative culture can significantly impact student achievement and professional practice. With this how-to guide, you’ll gain clarity on the work of teams in a PLC and uncover the elements of effective team development. Discover skills and behaviors that individuals and teams can improve regarding communication, facilitating data conversations, and managing consensus while working together.

AU$24.75 | 80 pages | BKF678 | ISBN: 9781942496052

How to Develop PLCs for Singletons and Small Schools

By Aaron Hansen

Ensure singleton teachers feel integrally involved in the PLC process. With this user-friendly guide, you’ll discover how small schools, full of singleton teachers who are the only ones in their schools teaching their subject areas, can build successful PLCs. Explore five methods for structuring PLC teams to better involve singletons, and read examples that highlight how real schools have made collaboration possible.

AU$24.75 | 80 pages | BKF676 | ISBN: 9781942496021

How to Launch PLCs in Your District

By W. Richard Smith

Transform your district with thriving professional learning communities. Implementing high-performing PLCs can enhance educators outlooks and dramatically improve learning for all students. With this user-friendly guide, your team will discover practical, research-based strategies for committing to district-wide PLC implementation, navigating challenges along the way, and ensuring sustainable practices are in place for far-reaching, lasting results.

AU$24.75 | 80 pages | BKF665 | ISBN: 9781936765393

How to Leverage PLCs for school improvement

By Sharon V. Kramer

Spark a culture of success. Building a professional learning community that fosters collaboration and collective responsibility can create lasting change and improve student learning schoolwide. Investigate the five challenges to school improvement, and uncover research-based strategies to confront them. Read a true account of a school that experienced reform, reversed its culture of failure, and reaped lasting results.

AU$24.75 | 72 pages | BKF676 | ISBN: 9781942496021

How to Use Digital Tools to Support Teachers in a PLC

By William M. Ferriter

Discover practical, applicable tips for infusing digital tools into your PLC. With this how-to guide, you’ll explore how technology has changed the way groups share, cooperate, and take collective action the three strategies the author identifies as being instrumental to PLC success. Each chapter includes a targeted list of digital tools your team can use daily to support your strategic goals.

AU$24.75 | 72 pages | BKF675 | ISBN: 9781942496007

More Than a SMART GoalStaying Focused on Student Learning

By Anne E. Conzemius and Terry Morganti-Fisher

Setting data-informed, high-priority SMART goals is a critical step in school improvement that is widely acknowledged. However, goals themselves don’t drive improvement; they must be aligned with the school improvement process, curriculum, instruction, assessment practices, mandates, and professional development. Understand how to properly use the SMART goal process to effect change and achieve real school improvement.

AU$41.25 | 160 pages | BKF482 | ISBN: 9781935543244

Overcoming the Achievement Gap TrapLiberating Mindsets to Effect Change

By Anthony Muhammad

Ensure learning equality in every classroom. Investigate previous and current policies designed to help close the achievement gap. Examine predominant mindsets that contradict school missions to promote equal academic opportunities, and consider the psychological impact this has on students. Explore strategies for adopting a new mindset that frees educators and students from negative academic performance expectations.

AU$34.65 | 168 pages | BKF618 | ISBN: 9781936763276

Protocols for Professional Learning ConversationsCultivating the Art and Discipline

By Catherine Glaude

Collegial conversations focused on improving student learning may be the most powerful professional development an educator will experience. Examine four collections of protocols to support professional learning conversations, and use them with your colleagues or with students in the classroom. Detailed directions ensure learning teams know what to do and when to do it, and how to get the results they want.

AU$34.65 | 96 pages | BKF516 | ISBN: 9781935543824



The Handbook for SMART School TeamsRevitalizing Best Practices for Collaboration

By Anne E. Conzemius and Jan O’Neill

Prepare your students for the future while juggling the expectations of multiple stakeholders! A fresh take on the classic first edition, this guide defines and advocates SMART goals —goals that are Strategic and specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results oriented, and Time bound. Gain a schoolwide understanding of how to cultivate a productive collaborative culture, and engage every member of your team in the process.

AU$52.25 | 352 pages | BKF573 | ISBN: 9781936764785

What Effective Schools DoRe-Envisioning the Correlates

By Lawrence W. Lezotte and Kathleen McKee Snyder

This guide helps educators implement a continuous school improvement system through application of the seven correlates of effective schools. The authors discuss each correlate, update the knowledge base, and incorporate practical ideas from practitioners in the field. A comprehensive description of practices enables educators to build and sustain a school culture that accommodates the learning expectations and needs of all students.

AU$41.25 | 176 pages | BKF336 | ISBN: 9781935249511

How RTI Works in Secondary SchoolsBuilding a Framework for Success

By Holly Windram, Kerry Bollman and Sara Johnson

Focusing on the unique response to intervention challenges faced by those working in a secondary school “including larger student and educator populations, curriculum specializations, a growing achievement gap, and more” the authors outline three imperative components of a successful RTI program and then provide action steps and examples illustrating how each component should surface within the different RTI tiers.

AU$48.40 | 240 pages | BKF459 | ISBN: 9781935542872

Its About Time Planning Interventions and Extensions in Elementary School

By Austin Buffum and Mike Mattos

Carve out effective intervention and extension time at all three tiers of the RTI pyramid. Explore more than a dozen examples of creative and flexible scheduling, and gain access to tools you can use immediately to overcome implementation challenges. This book is full of examples from real schools that have achieved these results without using additional resources or extending the school day.

AU$52.25 | 304 pages | BKF609 | ISBN: 9781936763030

RTI at WorkTM

Its About TimePlanning Interventions and Extensions in Secondary School

By Mike Mattos and Austin Buffum

Carve out effective intervention and extension time at all three tiers of the RTI pyramid. Explore more than a dozen examples of creative and flexible scheduling, and gain access to tools you can use immediately to overcome implementation challenges. This book is full of examples from real schools that have achieved these results without using additional resources or extending the school day.

AU$52.25 | 344 pages | BKF610 | ISBN: 9781936763054

RTI in Middle and High Schools

By William N. Bender

Perhaps more than any other single initiative, response to intervention is likely to restructure how middle and high school teachers teach in a very profound way. This timely and targeted resource discusses the innovations of RTI, differentiated instruction, and instructional technologies. Based on numerous real-world case studies, this book explores solutions for the complex challenges the RTI implementation process brings.

AU$48.40 | 248 pages | BKF271 | ISBN: 9781934009512

RTI in the Early GradesIntervention Strategies for Mathematics, Literacy, Behavior & Fine-Motor Challenges

By Chris Weber

Explore why intervention and support for struggling students in the early grades are essential to student success. Teachers and support personnel will discover how to implement RTI-based supports in the early grades and learn what this prevention looks like. Find practical, research-based strategies to seal the gaps in student learning in grades K-3, identify students who need intervention, and more.

AU$48.40 | 208 pages | BKF572 | ISBN: 9781936764044

Simplifying Response to InterventionFour Essential Guiding Principles

By Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos and Chris Weber

The sequel to Pyramid Response to Intervention advocates that a successful RTI model begins by asking the right questions to create a fundamentally effective learning environment for every student. RTI is not a series of implementation steps, but rather a way of thinking. Understand why bureaucratic, paperwork-heavy, compliance-oriented, test-score-driven approaches fail. Then learn how to create a focused RTI model that works.

AU$51.15 | 232 pages | BKF506 | ISBN: 9781935543657


Student EngagementRTI at WorkTM

Student Engagement Teaching and Learning

Uniting Academic and Behavior InterventionsSolving the Skill or Will Dilemma

By Austin Buffum

Ensure students acquire the academic skills, dispositions, and knowledge necessary for long-term success. The authors examine effective academic and behavior supports and offer a step-by-step process for determining, targeting, and observing academic and behavior interventions. You’ll discover how to work in collaborative teams using a research-based framework to provide united and simultaneous interventions to students at risk.

AU$41.25 | 176 pages | BKF595 | ISBN: 9781936764891

Classroom Management for Academic Success

By Lee Canter

This groundbreaking resource details the first management program designed to specifically address the first priority for todays educator: improving the achievement of all students. Go beyond simply managing student behavior to quickly and effectively establishing an environment that promotes academic success in your classroom from day one. Teacher-tested, research-based strategies create a classroom in which children learn free from the distraction of disruptive behavior.

AU$52.25 | 304 pages | BKF624 | ISBN: 9781936763429

Motivating Students 25 Strategies to Light the Fire of Engagement

By Carolyn Chapman and Nicole Dimich Vagle

Learn why students disengage and how to motivate them to achieve success with a five-step framework. Research-based strategies and fun activities show how to instill a lasting love of learning in students of any age. Classroom tips and troubleshooting advice for common motivation problems prepare readers for the real-world ups and downs of motivating students.

AU$48.40 | 240 pages | BKF371 | ISBN: 9781935249788

Pyramid of Behavior InterventionsSeven Keys to a Positive Learning Environment

By Tom Hierck, Charlie Coleman and Chris Weber

Accessible language and compelling stories illustrate how RTI is most effective when built on the Professional Learning Communities at Work™ process. Written by award-winning educators from successful PLC schools, this book demonstrates how to create three tiers of interventions—from basic to intensive—to address student learning gaps. You will understand what a successful program looks like, and the many reproducible forms and activities will help your team understand how to make RTI work in your school.

AU$41.25 | 132 pages | BKF532 | ISBN: 9781936765065

You’ve Got to Reach Them to Teach ThemHard Facts About the Soft Skills of Student Engagement

By Mary Kim Schreck

Navigate the hot topic of student engagement with a true expert. The author explores the many factors involved in bringing out the best in students, such as relationships, emotions, environment, and expectations. Become empowered to demand an authentic joy for learning in your classroom. Real-life notes from the field, detailed discussions, practical strategies, and space for reflection complete this essential guide to student engagement.

AU$48.40 | 232 pages | BKF404 | ISBN: 9781935542056

Bringing Homework Into FocusTools and Tips to Enhance Practices, Design, and Feedback

By Eileen Depka

In many classrooms, teachers assign homework out of habit. Learn to design quality, purposeful homework instead. The author urges educators to reflect on the purpose of student assignments to determine if and when homework is valuable. Prepare students and measure their comprehension by assigning purposeful work, setting clear expectations, and providing feedback as the unit of study unfolds.

AU$41.25 | 136 pages | BKF616 | ISBN: 9781936763238

Connecting the Dots Teacher Effectiveness and Deeper Professional Learning

Edited by James A. Bellanca

Confront the issues that profoundly affect teachers, administrators, and students. From cover to cover, this collection is packed with examples of effective strategies for 21st century classrooms. Discover the shift in day-to-day practice that must occur to prepare students for college and careers, and look forward to what exemplary professional practices will be crucial in deepening student learning as the 21st century progresses.

AU$52.25 | BKF659 | ISBN: 9781936764143

Inclusion Strategies & Interventions

By Toby J. Karten

Inclusion means more than just preparing students to pass standardized tests and increasing academic levels. In inclusive classrooms, students with special educational needs are treated as integral members of the general education environment. Gain strategies to offer the academic, social, emotional, and behavioral benefits that allow all students to achieve their highest potential.

AU$48.40 | 208 pages | BKF381 | ISBN: 9781935543237


Teaching and Learning

Inspiring Creativity and Innovation in K–12

By Douglas Reeves

Encourage a culture of innovation and creativity. Innovation and creativity are imperative to educational success and require the contributions of teachers, students, administrators, and policymakers. Explore the four essentials for developing a creative, mistake-tolerant culture; investigate teaching and leadership beliefs and practices that undermine creativity; and discover strategies for successfully navigating challenges that your team may face along the way.

AU$24.75 | 80 pages | BKF664 | ISBN: 9781936765300

Instructional Strategies for Effective Teaching

By James H. Stronge and Xianxuan Xu

Discover the keys to improving student learning and success. Taking a practical approach to instructional delivery, the authors outline research-based strategies and illustrate how teachers, coaches, and administrators can use them to enhance their everyday practices. Organized around 10 methods of instruction, this user-friendly guide will help you dig deep into classroom discussion, concept mapping, inquiry-based learning, and more.

AU$34.65 | BKF641 | ISBN: 9781936763757

On Excellence in Teaching

Edited by Robert J. Marzano

Learn from the worlds best education researchers, theorists, and staff developers as they present recommendations on effective instruction. The book provides a comprehensive view of instruction from a theoretical, systemic, and classroom perspective. The authors diverse expertise delivers a wide range of ideas and strategies.

AU$52.25 | 392 pages | BKF278 | ISBN: 9781934009581

Teaching for DiversityA Guide to Greater Understanding

By Ricardo L. GarcÍa

Explore the demographic shifts in schools throughout the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and examine the impact of these shifts on education. This book provides a powerful theoretical framework for thinking about and fostering acceptance of diversity and difference. Utilizing a combination of theory and concrete examples, the author constructs a vision of schools as the foundation for an inclusive, democratic society.

AU$41.25 | 216 pages | BKF400 | ISBN: 9781935542018

Teaching Students to Read Like DetectivesComprehending, Analyzing, and Discussing Text

By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey and Diane Lapp

Prompt students to become the sophisticated readers, writers, and thinkers they need to be to achieve higher learning. The authors explore the important relationship between text, learner, and learning. With an array of methods and assignments to establish critical literacy in a discussion-based and reflective classroom, you’ll encourage students to find meaning and cultivate thinking from even the most challenging expository texts.

AU$41.25 | 176 pages | BKF499 | ISBN: 9781935543527

Teaching Students to Think Like ScientistsStrategies Aligned With Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards

By Maria C. Grant, Douglas Fisher and Diane Lappc

It is essential that students learn to examine, review, and evaluate knowledge and ideas through a process of scientific investigation and argumentation. Using these instructional methods and lesson scenarios, teachers of all disciplines will gain the tools needed to offer students a richer, lasting understanding of science, its concepts, and its place in their lives and the global community.

AU$48.40 | 248 pages | BKF555 | ISBN: 9781936765386

The Five Dimensions of Engaged TeachingA Practical Guide for Educators

By Laura Weaver and Mark Wilding

Engaged teaching recognizes that educators need to offer more than lesson plans and assessments for students to thrive in the 21st century. Equip your students to be resilient individuals, able to communicate effectively and work with diverse people. The authors contend that students must develop their emotional and social skills as thoroughly as their academic skills, and that teachers must cultivate this growth.

AU$48.40 | 224 pages | BKF601 | ISBN: 9781936764488

Transformative TeachingChanging Today’s Classrooms Culturally, Academically, and Emotionally

By Kathleen Kryza, MaryAnn Brittingham and Alicia Duncan

Support and engage the many different kinds of learners in schools. This book examines the most effective strategies for leading diverse students in developing the skills they need inside and outside the classroom. By understanding and exploring students’ emotional, cultural, and academic needs, educators will be better prepared to teach all students and help them become lifelong learners.

AU$48.40 | BKF623 | ISBN: 9781936763382


Teaching and Learning

Unstoppable LearningSeven Essential Elements to Unleash Student Potential


Discover how systems thinking can enhance teaching and learning schoolwide. Examine how to use systems thinking “which involves distinguishing patterns and considering short- and long-term consequences” to better understand the big picture of education and the intricate relationships that impact classrooms. Identify strategies and tools to create clear learning targets, prepare effective lessons, and successfully assess instruction.

AU$48.40 | 208 pages | BKF662 | ISBN: 9781935542735

When Students Fail to LearnProtocols for a Schoolwide Response

By Catherine Glaude

Creating learning communities where all educators are focused on student results requires new ways of learning together. Educators must work together to build a common language and a clear understanding of the results of formative assessment and design new ways to improve teaching practices. This book looks at practical and specific ways to use protocols to prompt and support new habits of working together in collaborative teams.

AU$34.65 | 112 pages | BKF518 | ISBN: 9781935543855

Solutions for Professional Learning Communities

The Professional Learning Communities (PLC) series provides novel leadership and team building concepts in creating a collaborative atmosphere within schools and in the workplace. PLC is a powerful tool, which helps develop shared learning focuses for students and teachers alike. It fosters goal driven behaviours and lasting changes in enhanced student learning and professional collaboration beyond the walls of the classroom.

This package includes the following books:

• How to Coach Leadership in a PLC• How to Cultivate Collaboration in a PLC• How to Develop PLCs for Singletons and Small Schools• How to Launch PLCs in Your District• How to Leverage PLCs for School Improvement• How to Use Digital Tools to Support Teachers in a PLC

AU$126.50 | KTF199

Solutions for Digital Learner-Centered Classrooms

This series focuses on new and innovative ways technology is being used to create student-centred learning environments. These digital centred classrooms not only strengthen students skills across reading, collaborative dialogue, problem solving and both verbal and visual persuasion, but can also be used as assessment and instruction tools for teachers. These tools assist in accelerating student achievement in a precise and accurate manner and cultivate effective learning environments to cater to the needs of a variety of students.

This package includes the following books:

• Evaluating and Assessing Tools in the Digital Swamp• From Master Teacher to Master Learner• Implementing Project-Based Learning• Inspiring Creativity and Innovation in K–12• Using Digital Games as Assessment and Instruction Tools• Designing Teacher-Student Partnership Classrooms• Creating Purpose-Driven Learning Experiences

AU$147.40 | KTF198

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Book Peter Hayes Solution Tree Unstoppable Learning Associate for a dynamic, two-day learning opportunity and explore how systems thinking and the Unstoppable Learning model will help your school or system ensure student success in every classroom.

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UNSTOPPABLE LEARNINGUnleash the learning potential of your students2 DAY WORSKOP

Unstoppable LearningSeven Essential Elements to Unleash Student Potential


Discover how systems thinking can enhance teaching and learning schoolwide. Examine how to use systems thinking “which involves distinguishing patterns and considering short- and long-term consequences” to better understand the big picture of education and the intricate relationships that impact classrooms. Identify strategies and tools to create clear learning targets, prepare effective lessons, and successfully assess instruction.

AU$48.40 | 208 pages | BKF662

| ISBN: 9781935542735

Solution Tree – Australia | New Zealand | Asia Pacific Region

+61 2 8221 8890 www.solution-tree.com.au

Level 14, 309 Kent Street, Sydney 2000

Completing this workshop will contribute to 12 hours of registered PD.

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