Solution Tree is a US professional development company and publisher of educational material for all ages. Founded in 1998, the company provides services and products that include books, videos, conferences, workshops, consultation and online courses. Solution Tree authors and consultants provide guidance to schools and districts around the world on topics such as professional learning communities, response to intervention, educational assessment and Common Core Academic Standards.
Outside the Box Learning Resources began collaborating with Solution Tree in 2018 and is now their licensed partner for their publications in Europe. Plans are in place to host an international education summit in 2022 in conjunction with Solution Tree Press.
100-Day Leaders
€30.95Dramatically increase student achievement and transform school culture in only 100 days. Using focused, strategic planning and change management, educational leadership can make significant changes that lead to continuous school improvement.
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180 Days of Self-Care for Busy Educators
€35.95Rely on 180 Days of Self-Care for Busy Educators to help you lead a happier, healthier, more fulfilled life inside and outside of the classroom.
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200+ Proven Strategies for Teaching Reading
€35.95This easy-to-use reference guide provides primary school teachers with practical strategies to motivate all students to develop their reading abilities across grade levels and content areas.
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40 Reading Intervention Strategies for K–6 Students
€43.95This well-rounded collection of research-based reading intervention strategies will support and inform your RTI (Response to Intervention) efforts.
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50 Strategies to Boost Cognitive Engagement
€35.95Engage students’ cognitive abilities and foster essential 21st-century skills—from critical thinking and problem-solving to teamwork and creativity.
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Achieving Equity and Excellence
€40.95In Achieving Equity and Excellence, author Douglas Reeves outlines how to make dramatic improvements to student learning, behaviour and attendance in a single semester.
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Amplify Your Impact
€40.95Amplify Your Impact presents primary educators, secondary educators and school leadership with a framework for improving collaboration and teambuilding for teachers in their PLCs.
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Balanced Assessment
€35.95The 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.
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Beginning Teacher’s Field Guide, The
€35.95This field guide dives deep into the personal side of teaching, offering crucial advice, empathy and new-teacher support.
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Behavior Solutions
€43.95This user-friendly resource outlines how to utilise the PLC at Work® and RTI at Work™ processes to create a three-tiered system of supports that is collaborative, research-based and practical.
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Behavior: The Forgotten Curriculum
€40.95Transform your classroom behaviour-management strategies to teach students critical behavioural skills. Learn how to implement research-based instructional strategies for differentiation and assessment of student behaviour using the RTI (MTSS) model.
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Best Practices Series
€35.95 – €199.50The research is conclusive: Response to Intervention (RTI) is the best way to respond when students don’t learn. With the support of this essential series, you will discover how to implement a multitiered system of interventions strong enough to help every learner succeed. Choose a single book from the dropdown menu above to LOOK INSIDE.
Boys in Poverty
€35.95Offering specific interventions, the book focuses on boys physical, emotional, cognitive and social development and the unique problems of sensitive, gay, gifted, ADHD and post-adolescent males.
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Bringing Innovation to School
€35.95Are you preparing a new generation of innovators? Activate your students’ creativity and problem-solving potential with breakthrough learning projects.
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Building Bridges: Engaging Students at Risk Through the Power of Relationships
€40.95In Building Bridges, author Don Parker shows educators how to address this issue head-on. He shares an array of evidence-based strategies to build teacher-student relationships and create a welcoming learning environment that fosters student engagement, motivation, and achievement.
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Classroom Management for Academic Success
€43.95This ground-breaking resource details the first management programme designed to specifically address the first priority for today’s educator: improving the achievement of all students.
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Coaching Your Classroom
€35.95In Coaching Your Classroom, authors Garnet Hillman and Mandy Stalets share a fresh perspective on effective classroom feedback for all grade levels and content areas.
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Collaborative Common Assessments
€40.95Reignite the passion and energy assessment practices bring as tools to guide teaching and learning. Strengthen instructional agility in professional learning communities with collaborative common assessments that collect vital information and consider all levels of the organization.
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Collaborative Teams That Transform Schools
€40.95In this user-friendly guide, educators explore research-based steps and strategies they can use to increase the effectiveness of collaborative teams and enhance PLCs.
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Common Formative Assessment (2nd Edition)
€39.95– A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work®
This book will help collaborative teams meet the challenges of a new landscape of education, one in which we’re now familiar with formative assessment and we strive to improve our assessment design and allow data to inform instruction to best support student achievement.
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Connecting Through Leadership
€35.95In Connecting Through Leadership, author Jasmine K. Kullar details how to verbally and non-verbally inspire, motivate and connect with every member of a school community, from teachers to students to parents.
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Crafting Your Message
€40.95Gain more than 100 ideas and strategies designed to help you plan and deliver highly effective presentations, overcome speech anxiety and improve communication skills.
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Creating a Culture of Feedback
€21.95In this book, the authors urge educators to shift their classroom focus, prioritizing effective feedback over grades.
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Deep Change Leadership
€35.95As educators move further into the 21st century and grapple with new and unprecedented challenges, schools and districts require a model of change leadership that responds to fluctuating environmental realities. In Deep Change Leadership, author Douglas Reeves provides teachers and administrators with just that.
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Design in 5
€31.95Fully engage learners in your classroom. Discover how to create high-quality assessments using a five-phase design protocol.
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Designing & Teaching Learning Goals & Objectives
€35.95This book summarises key research behind designing and teaching learning goals and objectives and translates that research into step-by-step hands-on strategies.
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Designing Effective Assessments
€35.95Designed specifically for K–12 educators, this title presents ten key assessment design tools and clearly outlines how to incorporate each tool into daily classroom practices.
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Differentiation and the Brain
€40.95The second edition of this best-selling book will help you create truly effective, brain-friendly classrooms for all learners.
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Embedded Formative Assessment
€38.95The second edition of this best-selling book by Dylan Wiliam presents new research, insights and formative assessment strategies and techniques teachers can immediately apply in their classrooms.
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EMPOWER Your Students
€40.95Discover how to use the elements of empower—exploration, motivation, participation, openness, willingness, empathy and resilience—to make school a positive, meaningful experience in your students’ lives.
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Essential Assessment
€35.95With this research-based resource, you’ll explore six essential tenets of assessment—assessment purpose, communication of assessment results, accurate interpretation, assessment architecture, instructional agility and student investment—that will help deepen your understanding of assessment to not only meet standards but also enhance students’ academic success and self-fulfillment.
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Everyday Instructional Coaching
€26.95With this practical guide, coaches will discover seven drivers they can use to best support teachers in their daily work: (1) collaboration, (2) transparency, (3) inquiry, (4) discourse, (5) reverberation, (6) sincerity and (7) influence.
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Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders, The
€40.95This book offers a framework to focus time, energy and effort on five key disciplines. Included are reflection exercises to help readers find their own path toward effective PLC leadership.
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Five Paths of Student Engagement
€40.95An exceptional educators’ guide to promoting active engagement in the classroom and improving student learning.
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Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading
€40.95In this book, the author details the specific benefits of formative assessment and explains how to design and interpret three different types of formative assessments, how to track student progress and how to assign meaningful grades.
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From Leading to Succeeding
€35.95This book synthesises research from 21st century sources and confronts prevalent leadership myths, while offering guidance on best leadership practices.
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Get Set, Go!
€43.95A companion to the best-selling On Your Mark, this practical guide details how to successfully lead lasting grading reform. Implement best practices in grading that address the needs of every student in your school or district in six essential steps.
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Got Data? Now What?
€35.95This book is 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.
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Growing Tomorrow’s Citizens in Today’s Classrooms
€43.95Practical and research-based, this resource will help you design meaningful, relevant skill assessment and instruction that promotes student mastery of critical competencies, including collaboration, problem-solving and critical thinking skills, creative thinking skills, communication skills, digital citizenship, self-regulation and more.
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Handbook for Embedded Formative Assessment
€35.95Developed as a companion to Dylan Wiliam’s Embedded Formative Assessment, 2nd ed., this handbook guides K–12 teachers through the process of developing effective formative assessments.
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Handbook for High Reliability Schools
€35.95Using a research-based five-level hierarchy along with leading and lagging indicators, you’ll learn to assess, monitor and confirm the effectiveness of your schools.
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Handbook for Personalized Competency-Based Education, A
€40.95This handbook explores approaches, strategies, and techniques that schools and districts should consider as they begin their transition to a PCBE (personalized competency-based education) system.
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Handbook for Poor Students, Rich Teaching, The
€43.95A companion to the revised edition of Eric Jensen’s Poor Students, Rich Teaching, this book for teachers provides a plethora of tools, organizers, worksheets, and surveys designed to help you fully embrace the mindsets in the classroom that lead to richer teaching.
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Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning
€21.95This concise, reader-friendly guide outlines a clear approach for properly and skillfully using digital learning tools to promote deeper, personalised learning across subjects and grade levels.
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Highly Engaged Classroom, The
€40.95Using the suggestions in this book, every teacher can create a classroom environment where engagement is the norm, not the exception.
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Holistic Leadership, Thriving Schools
€40.95In this practical school leadership book, author Jane A. G. Kise offers a toolkit of strategies specially designed to support the daily work of school leaders.
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Instructional Agility
€40.95This practical resource empowers readers to become instructionally agile—moving seamlessly among instruction, formative assessment and feedback—to enhance student engagement, proficiency and ownership of learning.
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Lead From the Start
€40.95Whether you are a brand new principal or an experienced leader in a new job, Lead From the Start will help you succeed in your role. Use this resource to overcome the biggest leadership challenges principals face and gain first-hand knowledge from educators like you to form best management practices at your school.
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Leader’s Guide to Excellence in Every Classroom, A
€40.95This resource examines the Hierarchy of Instructional Excellence, which prioritises the order of teacher development for ultimate success.
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Leadership: Key Competencies for Whole-System Change
€30.95Discover seven core leadership competencies for systemic change in schools, districts, and state education systems
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Leading a High Reliability School
€40.95This user-friendly teaching resource focuses on a safe and collaborative culture, effective teaching in every classroom, a guaranteed and viable curriculum, standards-referenced reporting of student progress (standards-based grading) and a competency-based system.
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Leading Modern Learning – 2nd Edition
€40.95More than a simple refresh, the latest edition incorporates new insights, experiences and tools that will help you implement modern learning practices in your department, school, or district.
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Leading With Intention
€40.95In this book, the authors provide in-depth advice and actionable steps for creating a highly effective school culture in which leaders and teachers collaborate, make evidence-based decisions and most importantly, believe students are the top priority.
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Learning by Doing
€47.95Discover how to close the knowing-doing gap and transform your school or district into a high-performing professional learning community (PLC).
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Letting Data Lead
€35.95Rely on Letting Data Lead by Eileen Depka to help you build a culture of school data analysis and interpretation, data-driven instruction and assessment techniques and student achievement.
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Literacy Reframed
€40.95Literacy Reframed offers a fresh perspective on reading instruction with a robustly research-affirmed alternative to classroom skill work.
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Loving What They Learn
€40.95In Loving What They Learn, author Alexander McNeece explains how high engagement nurtures the needs—for competence, autonomy and content relevance—that students have, provides tools to measure how well those needs are being met in the classroom and reveals science-based strategies that fill the gap.
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Make It Happen
€40.95Aligned to the Professional Learning Communities (PLC) at Work® model, this resource includes instructional coaching tools, processes, protocols, templates, tips and strategies designed to support the multidimensional work of instructional coaches and PLC training.
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Messaging Matters
€30.95Written specially for leaders, this title is divided into three parts, helping readers to maximise their role as chief communicators with students, teachers and parents and community.
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Mindful School Communities
€40.95Build a thriving school community that creates healthy, resilient and successful students.
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Mindfulness Practices
€40.95In Mindfulness Practices, the authors passionately convey the scientifically proven healing that mindfulness brings to students who suffer from trauma or stress.
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Motivating and Inspiring Students
€40.95With this practical resource, you’ll discover a results-driven framework—based on a six-level hierarchy of student needs and goals—that you can use to provide engaging instruction to students.
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Motivating Students
€40.95This book contains research-based strategies and fun activities showing how to instil a lasting love of learning in students of any age.
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Now We’re Talking!
€35.95Organised into 21 chapters and designed to be read over a period of 21 school days, Now We’re Talking! presents a results-driven approach that far surpasses traditional walkthrough models of feedback.
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On Your Mark
€30.95Clarify the purpose of grades, craft a vision statement aligned with this purpose, and discover strategies to implement effective practices.
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Owning It
€40.95With Owning It, you will discover an array of easy-to-implement strategies designed to help you excel in the myriad of modern-day responsibilities of teachers and educators: classroom leader, mentor, colleague, team member and public professional.
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Poor Students, Rich Teaching
€43.95Poor Students, Rich Teaching: Seven High-Impact Mindsets for Students From Poverty equips teachers with the mindsets necessary to make a profound and lasting difference in the lives of students growing up in poverty.
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Power Struggles
€25.95Regain the focus of challenging and resistant students with this practical resource on classroom management, discipline and motivation.
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Power Tools for Adolescent Literacy
€40.95This book is a veritable encyclopedia of literacy strategies secondary teachers can apply to all content areas by integrating key strategies, research from top literacy experts and proven intervention practices.
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Problems-First Learning
€35.95Filled with problems-first lesson examples and tips for elevating students’ thinking, Problems-First Learning provides step-by-step guidance for teachers to increase students’ engagement and development of real-world skills in their classrooms.
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Professional Learning Communities at Work and Virtual Collaboration
€35.35Realise 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.
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Pyramid of Behavior Interventions
€35.95This book will help teachers and school leaders transform the research on behaviour, response to intervention and professional learning communities into practical strategies they can use to create a school culture and classroom climates in which learning is primed to occur.
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Pyramid Response to Intervention
€35.95The authors translate formal legal mandates into a clear picture of how to create a three-tiered pyramid response to intervention (PRTI) to close gaps in student learning and resolve behavioural problems.
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Quest for Learning, The
€35.95Learn how to use questing to engross students in emotionally gripping learning experiences, engage them with actionable goals and promote collaboration in online and physical spaces.
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Raising the Rigor
€35.95The skillful use of questioning techniques has the power to enhance students’ critical thinking skills, deepen their engagement and better prepare them for college and careers. This book shares questioning techniques that educators can use to respond to students’ diverse needs while maintaining rigor and relevance.
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Reclaiming Youth at Risk, Third Edition
€40.95This fully updated edition of Reclaiming Youth at Risk by Larry K. Brendtro, Martin Brokenleg and Steve Van Bockern merges Native American knowledge and Western science to create a unique alternative for reaching disconnected youth.
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School Improvement for All
€40.95With this practical guide, educators from infants to secondary will discover how to target their school’s specific needs with an immediate course of action to improve and measure student achievement.
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Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
€40.95This title introduces readers to the comprehensive SWPBIS framework and explores the key elements of its three tiers of support. Learn about the authors’ personal experiences in applying SWPBIS and explore practical examples of what the elements and tiers of this model look like in practice.
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Seven Keys to a Positive Learning Environment in Your Classroom
€35.95By fully realising the seven keys the author highlights, teachers can establish clearer expectations, enhance instruction and assessment practices and foster quality relationships with students, thereby maximizing the potential of all students.
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Simplifying Common Assessment
€35.95The authors simplify assessment development to give teacher teams the confidence to write and use team-designed common formative assessments that help ensure all students master essential skills and concepts.
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SOUL!
€43.95In SOUL!, author Timothy D. Kanold shares his own reflections and anecdotes, as well as wisdom and research from various teachers and leaders, to inspire and guide educators through their professional journeys.
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Stop Leading Like It’s Yesterday!
€35.95– Key Concepts for Shaping Today’s School Culture
In Stop Leading Like It’s Yesterday, author Casey Reason offers a leadership model that meets the needs of 21st-century students and educators. By explaining antiquated managerial techniques and their hold on education, he dispels the idea that leadership practices from the Industrial Revolution are in any way effective in 21st-century classrooms.
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Student-Centered Classroom, The
€35.95With this resource as your guide, you will learn six teaching practices to help you leave behind one-size-fits-all lessons, tests, and grades in favour of a student-centred approach that is interactive, individualised and rigorous.
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Supporting Beginning Teachers – 2nd Edition
€35.95Support and retain your best and brightest new teachers. With the guidance of the second edition of this acclaimed book, establish programs for better beginning teacher support and professional growth. Learn tips for overwhelmed teachers and how to address high teacher burnout.
Swimming in the Deep End
€35.95Cultivate the foundational leadership skills you need to enact effective organisational change for school improvement. Utilise the four explored skills to strategically plan school initiatives, have critical conversations, respond to resistance and manage yourself through change and resistance.
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Teacher’s Guide to Excellence in Every Classroom
€40.95Maximise your impact as an educator and unlock your students’ full potential with A Teacher’s Guide to Excellence in Every Classroom. Readers will discover how to promote academic success, increase engagement and foster a growth mindset among their students.
Teaching for Lifelong Learning
€40.95Develop students into curious explorers and independent thinkers. With this resource, you will explore a lifelong learning approach to education as well as key goals for educational success.
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Time for Change
€31.95 – 4 Essential Skills for Transformational School and District Leaders
In Time for Change, Anthony Muhammad and Luis F. Cruz describe effective organizational change as having two dimensions: the technical and the cultural. In order to efficiently create change in both of these dimensions, leaders should have a comprehensive and balanced set of leadership skills.
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Vocabulary in a SNAP
€43.95 – €79.50This innovative series provides more than 100 research-based mini-lessons that help teachers efficiently shape vocabulary instruction, each taking less than 20 minutes. Choose a book option below to LOOK INSIDE.
Working with Difficult & Resistant Staff
€35.95This book will help school leaders understand how to prevent and address negative staff behaviours to ensure positive school change.
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