Books & Resources

Enhance your students’ learning strengths with this set of full-colour SRA3 posters. Imagine a school where the motto is ‘Here, everyone gets smart’. Not just some students. Every student. In Neurodevelopmental differentiation: Optimising brain systems to maximise learning, clinical psychologist Andrew Fuller and educator Lucy Fuller make teachers’ working lives easier and more effective by helping them to detect what might be stopping students from achieving more success. This set of eleven posters features: how to use learning strengths to build success; your learning strengths; where you can use your learning strengths; descriptions of each individual learning strength.

Layers of learning explores read-aloud strategies designed to enhance your reading and writing standards by capitalising on the way literature can impact caring communities. With over 200 picture-book suggestions, author JoEllen McCarthy introduces the Heartprint Framework, which demonstrates how you can layer literacy and life lessons throughout your day using multiple connections across learning.

When children of colour enter their classrooms each year, many often encounter low expectations, disconnection and other barriers to their success. In The innocent classroom, Alexs Pate traces the roots of these disparities to pervasive negative stereotypes, which children are made aware of before they can even walk through the school door. The cumulative weight of the stereotypes eventually takes shape as guilt, which inhibits students’ engagement, learning and relationships, and hurts their prospects for the future.

The literacy workshop is a first-of-its-kind resource that offers a practical process for creating an integrated literacy workshop using demonstration lessons that align with current curriculum standards. By weaving together the common threads of literacy learning, you can increase the time your students spend engaged in authentic reading and writing.

What role do student behaviours and emotional states play in school? What supports do students need in order to learn and pursue positive behaviours? Behavior solutions: Teaching academic and social skills through RTI at Work™ answers these questions and more to help F–12 teachers and administrators bridge the systemic behaviour gap.

Stephanie Filio’s Responding to student trauma: A toolkit for schools in times of crisis is the book every counsellor and educator needs right now. Whether you and your students are facing community or individual trauma, or both at once, this quick reference guide gives you strategies to address it.

Today’s teachers face a daunting challenge: how to ensure a positive school experience for their students, many of whom carry the burden of adverse childhood experiences, such as abuse, poverty, divorce, abandonment and numerous other serious social issues. Spurred by her personal experience and extensive exploration of brain-based learning, author Marilee Sprenger explains how brain science – what we know about how the brain works – can be applied to social-emotional learning.

Rely on Mindsets and skill sets for learning to help you cultivate confident thinkers who have a strong sense of agency over their lives. Use this guide to enhance your classroom culture with targeted, student-centred learning.

Packed with classroom-tested, highly effective strategies, The road to independent reading and writing helps teachers transform young students into independent readers and writers. This essential resource helps teachers break key literacy concepts and skills into manageable, teachable pieces. It also provides flexible differentiation tips and strategies to meet the needs of all learners.

Reading comes alive through exhilarating cooperative learning. Includes all new, step-by-step, literature-based, reading activities for each of two dozen cooperative learning structures. You and your students will love these fun, successful reading activities.

Has teaching ever felt more stressful? External pressures, environmental factors, previous experiences, fear, anger – all these and mor create stress and tension in the classroom. Emotional distress interrupts and can harm – even destroy – effective teaching, learning and emotional wellness in teachers and students. But how do these emotions develop in you and your students? The fact is many of us suffer from some form of emotional poverty. Written for educators, Emotional poverty, volume 2 helps you understand and overcome emotional poverty so you can build more effective classrooms and safer schools.

With a uniquely engaging style, Power up your classroom helps educators understand the benefits of gamification and game-based learning, and empowers them to design learning experiences that leverage gameplay to increase motivation and engagement and build classroom community.