Build resilience, lead with purpose, and thrive in any challenge.

Education leaders face mounting pressures and unprecedented challenges, with many feeling the strain of constant change and uncertainty. Habits of Resilient Leaders offers a practical framework and proven habits that extend beyond self-care and managerial skills, arming leaders with tools to foster improved well-being, empower their teams, and create a positive impact in their schools and districts.

Addressing the growing attrition rate among K–12 leaders globally, this book provides actionable strategies to cultivate resilience and ensure long-term sustainability in leadership. Key features include

• Practical strategies for fostering resilience, maintaining your well-being, and addressing challenges without impacting your health
• Guidance for developing habits for boundary-setting, cultivating vision, managing change, and leading with optimism and emotional intelligence
• Authentic examples of habits in action and reflection activities to support implementation

With a focus on personal and professional growth, this must-read guide supports education leaders to rediscover their "why," maintain stability for their teams, and foster thriving environments for students, staff, and their broader communities.

Unlock the language of educational equity to create meaningful change in schools.

As educators, professors, policymakers, and advocates work to dismantle systemic barriers and advance equity in education, they must begin with a common understanding of the words that shape their actions. The Encyclopedia of Educational Equity offers over 650 carefully curated terms, concepts, and strategies essential for productive conversations about equity. This powerful tool will provide readers with a deep understanding of fundamental concepts in equity—like "color blindness," "gender expansive," and "meritocracy"—enabling them to identify challenges and craft solutions to improve educational outcomes for all. 

Key features include: 

• Micro-Checks to reflect and interrogate personal beliefs
• Equity timeline notes embedded throughout, which provide essential historical context for many terms
• Supplemental resources including tips for bias-free language, a list of frequently misused terms, critical thinking prompts for professional learning communities (PLCs), and a guide to further reading 
• Evidence-based strategies and best practices for achieving equity in education, interwoven throughout the text 

Whether you are a novice or a veteran, this encyclopedia is user-friendly and accessible to anyone working toward equity—from educators and students to administrators, researchers, and community advocates.

Align your school budget with your vision for student achievement

Since 2006, The Principal's Guide to School Budgeting has been a best-seller, supporting thousands of principals in navigating the complex process of school budgeting. This fourth edition hones in on the message that a school budget should be a reflection of the school’s vision for student growth, an open culture, and a positive school climate. This edition offers new information on how national and state reform and political practices affect school allocations and emphasizes the need for appropriate budget visioning, planning, analysis, and needs assessment. Covering the budgeting process, effective budgeting practices, accounting and auditing procedures, and building the school budget within a collaborative decision-making context, this comprehensive guide includes:

• In-chapter vignettes and discussion questions
• Case study applications and experiential exercises
• A budget development project
• New discussion of technology's impact on budgetary practices, phishing scams, and fundraising

The Principal's Guide to School Budgeting is an essential resource for practicing and aspiring school administrators who want to master their accounting and auditing procedures. By effectively managing the school budgeting process, principals can contribute to improved student achievement and strengthen connections with the school community.

Unlock a treasure trove of learning—make room for belonging in school

Belonging is an instinctual feeling: you know when you feel it—and you really know when you don’t. Creating a sense of belonging in the classroom has a significant impact on student learning and well-being; it serves as a gatekeeper for other aspects of learning to take root. But how do we create classrooms and schools where every student knows they belong?

This easy-to-use, illustrated playbook has you covered. 11 evidence-based modules feature actions and strategies that teachers can apply to help students feel more included. Interactive features such as essential questions and reflective prompts are designed to engage educators and deepen their understanding of the importance of connection and belonging in a student's educational experience.

It’s all about the right support, at the right time, in the right amount

New teaching staff, whether novice or veteran, are a central part of a successful school year. So why is it that they are often greeted at the door of our school community with the autopilot vibe of a ticket taker at the movies? Onboarding Teachers changes the rules of engagement, offering activities and practical strategies that focus leaders and coaches on critical aspects of success for that make-or-break first year.

Built on high-impact instructional and coaching practices and ready for you to roll out in four eight-week cycles, everything you need is here:

• Timely content aligned to needs as they come up throughout the year including the physical environment, engagement, and classroom management
• Checklists and self assessments to gauge readiness
• Sample emails and communication tips for various audiences
• Coaching scenarios to apply and reflect on strategies
• Links to access additional resources on-line

Half of all new teachers leave the profession within five years. We can reduce that attrition by integrating new members in a way that deepens connection and practice. With Onboarding Teachers, the wish for new teachers to find their stride becomes a plan.

Dramatically increase your effectiveness as a presenter

Like a well-choreographed dance, an effective presentation involves leading and following, building rapport and trust, sharing passions, and living in the moment. In The Choreography of Presenting, global consultant and educator, Kendall Zoller reveals the common “dance steps” effective presenters employ to create optimum learning environments for their audiences. Following the 7 Essential Abilities of Effective Presenters Framework and emphasizing the importance of planning and flexibility, this thoroughly updated edition includes:

• A new chapter on how to use the crucial first 5 minutes of any presentation to establish credibility, build connections, and gauge group dynamics
• A new, timely chapter on designing and facilitating impactful and memorable virtual presentations
• A new chapter on the structure of presenting, from gathering intel to design with an inward look at yourself
• Planning tools to prepare presentations with the audience in mind, while also leaving room for spontaneity, improvisation, and necessary detours
• Personal reflections, case studies, practice prompts, and chapter summaries

Written in a welcoming and humorous style, this guide encapsulates the skills, knowledge, and abilities that effective presenters rely on to ignite their participants’ passion for learning.

If not now, when?

Anchored in the tenets of justice, repair, and belonging, Equity Now is a comprehensive guide for educators that emphasizes the urgent need for immediate action to dismantle systemic barriers in education. Aimed at K-12 professionals at all levels of the education system, the book urges us to move beyond individual efforts by applying an equity lens to our policies and practices.

Through honest, sustained, and critical dialogues in "brave spaces," educators can address disparities and create equity-centered school communities. Equity Now proposes a solutions-oriented approach to fostering welcoming, affirming, responsive, and rigorous learning environments. Author Tyrone C. Howard, one of the leading authorities on issues related to racial inequality in our schools, provides

• An equity framework grounded in justice, repair, and belonging
• A clear vision of equity-focused leadership
• Essential practices, strategies, and resources for classroom teachers
• Suggestion for engaging parents, families and caregivers in schools
• Recommendations for engaging data in an equity based way
• Reflection questions and additional resources at the close of each chapter

This book is a must-read for educators, administrators, and policymakers who are committed to creating conditions in which our children can reach their highest potential.

Lead an identity safe learning community where students of all backgrounds thrive

Students of all backgrounds reach their full potential when they feel a sense of belonging and inclusion. When their social identities are valued as assets rather than barriers to learning, they flourish. This guide provides evidence-based strategies that support you as a leader in creating an environment that promotes identity safe students, who experience a challenging curriculum that respects their diverse social identities. 
  
Features in the book include:

• Guiding principles for student voice, equalizing status and cultivating acceptance across race, ethnicity, gender and other differences
• Ideas and examples for anti-racist dialogue and activities for teachers and students that counter colorblind practices, stereotype threat and biases
• Vignettes, and examples of identity safe practices for students and adult learning for staff, families and the community
• Systems for student-centered assessment and data collection
• Resources for developing equitable school policies and a comprehensive identity safety plan for your school

Educators fulfill the promise of an equitable education when students of all backgrounds know that who they are and what they think matters. Start the journey to become an identity safe school and see the results for yourself!


“Belonging and Inclusion in Identity Safe Schools: A Guide for Educational Leaders is a timely and important book.  For several years, the nation's schools have been asked to focus their energies on raising student achievement.  However, too often educators have ignored the need to honor, support and affirm the identities of the students they serve.  For educators who serve children of color, particularly Black, Native American and Latinx children who are often subject to overt and covert forms of forced assimilation, this book will be an invaluable resource on how to create learning opportunities that make it possible for such children to thrive.”
~Pedro Noguera, Dean of Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California


“Bravo to authors Cohn-Vargas, Gogolewski, Creer Kahn, and Epstein for their ground-breaking book on Identify Safe Schools for Administrators and Teacher and Staff Leaders!  They provide much-needed evidence for educators to elevate and even inspire the equity, empowerment, and academic growth needed to wholly support all children to flourish in school and their lives.”  
~Debbie Zacarian, Director, Zacarian and Associates

Transform your teaching and shape education through the power of inquiry.

Grounded in real-world examples and more than 30 years of research in professional development, the fifth edition of The Reflective Educator's Guide to Practitioner Inquiry addresses how inquiry fosters curiosity, reflection, and practical action to enhance effective classroom learning. This latest edition invites educators to view inquiry as a process, a product, and a stance.

The book offers new sections on the relationship between AI and teacher inquiry and the ways in which inquiry is changing with the times. Additional features and updates include:

• A new chapter that provides a step-by-step guide to crafting an intentional, actionable research plan
• Access exercises, inductive and deductive data analysis worksheets, ethical guidelines, and examples addressing today’s issues in education
• A discussion of the connections between practitioner inquiry and supporting the academic success of every student

The Reflective Educator’s Guide to Practitioner Inquiry, fifth edition, empowers educators at every stage in their careers to investigate their practice, drive sustained professional growth, and harness inquiry’s potential to create classrooms where both students and teachers thrive.

When it comes to school initiatives, more isn’t always better.

Today’s educators are buried under old practices, new ideas, and recommended initiatives. The problem? With such an abundance of strategies, it’s hard to recognize what, if anything, is working.

Before you’re tempted to add just one more idea to the pile, take a step back—and an objective look—so that you, central office leaders, building leaders, and teachers can decide which practices to keep, which to modify, and which to eliminate altogether. This guide provides

• A research- and evidence-based framework for determining efficacy
• Practical steps for removing, reducing, or replacing ineffective practices
• Action steps, examples, and tips for beginning the work—and getting teacher buy-in
• Templates for charting your school’s individual path to de-implementation

Ineffective practices don’t just waste teacher time; they can have a catastrophic impact on student progress. Use de-implementation to shine a light on the path forward—one where teachers can focus on what works, and students can focus on learning.