Authors

Steve Boyle is a training associate with Hawker Brownlow Education. He works with leadership teams, whole-school communities and individual professional learning teams. Steve comes from a strong background in educational leadership at both an individual school and a systems level.

Focus areas: Professional Learning Communities, High Reliability Schools Certification.

Educating students to traditional literacy standards is no longer enough. If students are to thrive in their academic and 21st-century careers, then independent and creative thinking hold the highest currency. The authors explain in detail how to add these new components of literacy: Solution Fluency, Information Fluency, Creativity Fluency, Collaboration Fluency. Students must master a completely different set of skills to succeed in a culture of technology-driven automation, abundance, and access to global labor markets. The authors present an effective framework for integrating comprehensive literacy or fluency into the traditional curriculum.

Develop your students’ social and emotional skills with these 38 cooperative and engaging activities. Each activity is based on a Kagan structure to develop social skills, character and emotional intelligence.

Overwhelmed teachers, this book is for you. The truth is that you can be remarkable without burning out. Drawing from the latest research and her own teaching experiences, author Morgane Michael delivers research-backed strategies to replenish your wellbeing and reignite your passion for your purpose.

Help your little ones acquire the basic skills they need to read using Quiz-Quiz-Trade. This interactive structure has students quizzing each other on a range of early reading skills.

This 550-page resource is brimming with activities, lessons and resources, making it easy to implement a highly engaging literacy program. Use it as a complete balanced literacy program or pick and choose activities to infuse engagement into your current literacy program.

Does it ever feel impossible to get upper primary and high school students to stop interacting with classmates and focus on maths? So stop trying. Convert that natural impulse to interact into productive maths learning with Quiz-Quiz-Trade. Your students will be up, moving about the classroom, quizzing each other on essential maths skills and coaching and praising each other. Each set of cards focuses on a need-to-know maths concept. Students each receive a quiz card. They pair up and quiz both ways, then trade cards and find a new partner to quiz. Each time they have a new partner and a new quiz question. Great for practicing concepts, test preparation and for revisiting concepts throughout the year in a fun quizzing format. There are 15 card sets in each book. Quiz-Quiz-Trade is a student favourite! This Kagan structure turns need-to-know reading curriculum into a fun and interactive quizzing game. The repeated practice boosts retention of the content.

Quiz-Quiz-Trade is a student favourite! This Kagan structure turns need-to-know numeracy curriculum into a fun and interactive quizzing game. The repeated practice boosts retention of the content.

Does it ever feel impossible to get upper primary and high school students to stop interacting with classmates and focus on maths? So stop trying. Convert that natural impulse to interact into productive maths learning with Quiz-Quiz-Trade. Your students will be up, moving about the classroom, quizzing each other on essential maths skills and coaching and praising each other. Each set of cards focuses on a need-to-know maths concept. Students each receive a quiz card. They pair up and quiz both ways, then trade cards and find a new partner to quiz. Each time they have a new partner and a new quiz question. Great for practicing concepts, test preparation and for revisiting concepts throughout the year in a fun quizzing format. The book includes 15 card sets in each book. Quiz-Quiz-Trade is a student favourite! This Kagan structure turns need-to-know reading curriculum into a fun and interactive quizzing game. The repeated practice boosts retention of the content.

This manual takes a wide-angle view of school improvement, investigating the strategic context for effective schools and systems. The Powerful Learning School Improvement Strategy is based on an inside-out approach to improvement that centres on the needs of students and teachers and focuses on the goal of developing and supporting the curious learner. Moving outward from the centre, the model then focuses on building powerful classroom practice, organisational capacity and systemic context. These elements interrelate, work together and inform an overall improvement strategy that introduces ten principles, or Theories for Action, that guide strategy, planning and practice. The authors draw lessons from the evidence about how to shape the context of improvement so that the greatest benefits are won for our students.

Three manuals are at the core of the series, The system and powerful learning, Curiosity and powerful learning and Leadership for powerful learning. Together they explain how powerful learning is made real for our students through purposeful, specific changes in whole school culture, classroom culture, leadership and teaching practice.

The Curiosity and powerful learning manuals are designed for teachers and for school and system leaders who are embarked on a school improvement journey. The manuals describe how schools can lift student learning. The steps are drawn from practical experience, tested and refined in schools over time.