Books

Bring excitement into your classroom by inviting students to use STEM to problem-solve and provide solutions for challenges mentioned in original stories. There may be a bit of a learning curve at first, but once students understand how engineering challenges work, they really dive into them. Your biggest problem may be getting them to wrap things up!

Whether a student’s post-secondary plan is further education or direct workforce placement, all secondary learners must develop specific competencies to succeed in the global workplace. In Ready for the workforce, Christi McBride and Brenda Duncan-Davis provide educators with empowering cooperative activities they can embed in their established curriculum to help nurture essential skills for career preparedness.

Environmental science education is essential to preparing today’s students for the future. We must create opportunities for hands-on investigations that explore complex environmental problems in order to find solutions and meet the challenges of our changing world.

With The metacognitive student, learn how a simple approach the authors call ‘structured SELf-questioning’ helps students step back and think about their thinking when solving any problem. By teaching this powerful, research-backed approach, educators develop students into thriving thinkers who are confident, healthy, adaptive and resilient.

School leaders and classroom teachers are looking for ways to integrate maker learning into their work in meaningful ways, but they simply don’t have the time, capacity or resources to review, synthesise or adapt existing models into their own school systems. The maker playbook offers a vision and the tools needed to streamline the process, including high-impact strategies you can put directly into action to foster an inclusive maker learning environment.

Increasingly, the conversation around digital citizenship has been shifting from a focus on ‘don’t’s’ to how students can positively brand themselves to stand out for future scholarships and job opportunities. However, both messages fail to address one of the most important aspects of citizenship: being in community with others. As citizens, we have a responsibility to give back to the community and to work toward social justice. In Digital citizenship in action, you’ll find practical ways to take digital citizenship lessons to the next level, creating opportunities for students to engage in multiple levels of community and develop relationships based on mutual trust and understanding with others in these spaces.

Closing the gap is an ISTE book series designed to reflect the contributions of multiple stakeholders seeking to ensure that digital equity is achieved on campuses, in classrooms and throughout education. In this series, authors Nicol R Howard, Sarah Thomas and Regina Schaffer offer historical and philosophical insights while exploring challenges and solutions unique to teacher preparation programs, pre-service and in-service teachers, and instructional coaches.

Educator and teacher self-care can be challenging, but embracing a holistic health and wellness plan can improve your physical, mental, emotional and social well-being both inside and outside of school. This reflective journal provides the ideas and guidance you need to support you on your wellness journey.

In Sketchnoting in the classroom: A practical guide to deepen student learning, author Nichole Carter shows how sketchnotes can help students retain new material, develop skills to articulate empathy and build connections to larger concepts.

In New realms for writing, author Michele Haiken demonstrates how to bring thoughtful teaching and purpose to the centre of the conversation, with tech supporting robust pedagogy.

Our classrooms are full of individuals who learn in diverse ways, and educators need creative teaching approaches to enrich learning for struggling students. The immersive classroom highlights the possibilities of immersive technology to target students’ interests, provide flexibility for a range of skill levels and empower students’ choice in their learning.

The Curiosity and powerful learning manuals are designed for teachers and for school and system leaders who are embarked on a school improvement journey.