Books

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.

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 six models of practice explored in this three-volume series are all rooted in inquiry and in the belief that a teacher’s role is not simply to 'teach', but to create powerful contexts for learning.

What drives learning? Curiosity. This manual introduces practical ways that teachers can harness the power of curiosity in the classroom, first by understanding how it works and then by identifying ways to nurture and cultivate it as a lifelong resource for growth.

Facilitator notes for Getting Ahead in a just-gettin’-by world reflects the evolution of great ideas supported by a learning experience that truly works for people who are struggling to get by in tough times.

Watch your students ‘dig into’ life and earth sciences with this collection of higher-level thinking questions. Bring science to life with this whole world of questions guaranteed to get your students thinking!

Never before has there been a more practical and powerful step-by-step approach to discipline. Win-win discipline provides proven strategies and structures to prevent disruptions for the moment-of-disruption and follow-ups.

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.

Use your students’ favourite literature books to develop their higher-level thinking skills. Includes over two hundred questions on favourites including Charlotte’s web, James and the giant peach and Looking for Alibrandi.

Build your students’ deductive thinking skills, spatial reasoning, spatial vocabulary and teamwork skills with these 72 ready-to-use logic activities. You’ll find problems, answers and reproducible line-up cards for 12 popular themes.

Planning and teaching in the standards-based classroom provides an overview of standards-based learning along with detailed instructions for everything, from planning lessons to using proficiency scales to communicating with parents.

When it comes to STEM subjects, integration across multiple subject areas, a range of settings and play-based versus traditional learning present opportunities for young learners to engage in age-appropriate online and distance learning. This book features eight creative, integrated STEM lessons, including ideas for designing a zoo, learning to garden, exploring the night sky and more.