In Pursuit of Positive and Proactive Behaviors – The Challenge
 
Every school wants to provide a safe, preventive, and positive learning environment, but recent shifts in societal and cultural norms have given rise to reactions that can be injurious, uncivil, and discriminatory. Creating and maintaining positive and proactive school discipline plans while preserving societal values and norms is more challenging than ever. Urges to get toughand enact zero tolerance policies may give impetus, but not tools. Schools are often left wondering how to address problematic behaviors, make real change happen, and accomplish their intended goals.
 
Seven Steps shows practitioners and pre-service educators what, why, and how to build effective school-wide discipline practices using both data and documented successes. It offers a step-by-step process that maximizes teaching and learning and prevents problem behavior while establishing and maintaining desirable behavior to enhance school success. Seven procedural steps show how to:

·         Develop, teach, and maintain schoolwide behavior expectations
·         Correct problem behaviors
·         Sustain your plan for the long haul

Get started in creating a positive and supportive environment by exposing students to the best possible practices by all teachers in all settings.

Proactively Develop Parental Involvement for Students’ Growth and Achievement

Years of research and practice show that connecting with families positively impacts student achievement. 201 Ways to Involve Parents is packed with realistic and ready-to-use ideas to help teachers and administrators actively engage parents as educational partners. This new edition includes current research on the impact of parent involvement in the school community, offers numerous new strategies, and provides expanded coverage of ways to build bridges between schools and diverse families, including:

• Innovative ways to sustain ongoing communication with families
• Ideas for welcoming parents as vital members of the school community
• Strategies for including parents in school governance
• Techniques for developing parent volunteer programs, and more

Start today to strengthen your classroom and school by working collaboratively with caregivers!

Your blueprint for nurturing globally connected students
 
The World Class Learners series provides the most complete information available on designing twenty-first century schools poised to leapfrog into the future! These practice-oriented books expand on Dr. Yong Zhao’s acclaimed World Class Learners, which presents a new framework for cultivating creative and entrepreneurial students. Now, with this third book in the follow-up three-volume set, Zhao reveals how to help students learn and prepare for a globalized world. 

The third book in the series outlines how to:

• Transform students into strong, responsible global citizens
• Leverage experts, networks, and partner school relationships 
• Implement a “glocalized” Global Campus or classroom

Implement Zhao’s new paradigm shift one phase at a time, starting with any book. Better yet, read all three volumes for a complete blueprint to entrepreneur-minded schooling. 

Your blueprint for product-oriented learning 

The World Class Learners series provides the most complete information available on designing twenty-first century schools poised to leapfrog into the future! These practice-oriented books expand on Dr. Yong Zhao’s acclaimed World Class Learners, which presents a new framework for cultivating creative and entrepreneurial students. Now, with this second book in the follow-up three-volume set, Zhao digs much deeper, revealing how exactly to put that framework into effect. 

The second book in the series outlines how to

• Understand entrepreneurship and project-oriented learning
• Implement “making-as-learning” POL curriculum 
• Help students create quality entrepreneurial products
• Understand ownership, copyrights, and patents
   

Implement Zhao’s new paradigm shift one phase at a time, starting with any book, depending upon your priorities. Better yet, read all three volumes for a complete blueprint to entrepreneur-minded schooling. 

Secure the resources needed to support educator professional growth!

Learning Forward is a leader in understanding and advancing professional learning that leads to student success. This series explores Learning Forward’s seven Standards for Professional Learning, which outline the characteristics of effective professional learning that, collectively, advance teaching and learning. 

In this volume, you will learn creative strategies for prioritizing, monitoring, and coordinating the resources required for educator learning and student success. This book includes: 

• An original essay by Karen Hawley Miles and Anna Sommers on how school systems can reconfigure people, time, technology, and money to improve and sustain educator growth
• Implementation strategies, practical tools, and specific examples for maximizing resources—especially time—for teacher learning
• A case study of how Dearborn Public Schools, Michigan, shifted existing resources to drive professional learning despite tough economic times

Learn how wise management of professional learning resources can help achieve stronger outcomes for your educators and students!

Shifting from remediation to preparation so all students can thrive in mathematics

Traditional math interventions often focus on remediation, addressing gaps only after students have fallen behind. Proactive Mathematics Interventions, Grades 2–5: Priming for Success Through Engaging Tasks and Purposeful Design presents a game-changing approach that shifts the focus from "fixing kids" to fixing systems. Designed with a strengths-based perspective, this resource equips educators to prime students for success by preparing them with the foundational skills and confidence needed for grade-level success and beyond.

Grounded in the latest research, the book tackles critical challenges such as systemic inequities, math anxiety, and gaps in student readiness. By integrating formative assessment, asset-based strategies, and practical intervention tasks, this comprehensive guide supports teachers, math coaches, interventionists, and school leaders to create proactive systems that meet every learner where they’re at.

Packed with 40+ adaptable tasks, more than 100 printable instructional resources, and actionable strategies, this guide

• Provides a strength-based intervention model to help uncover and build on students’ existing strengths to cultivate their mathematical confidence
• Gives step-by-step guidance on creating a proactive intervention system—from collaborative planning to formative assessment
• Includes engaging and adaptable low-floor, high-ceiling tasks to support grade-level instruction on critical mathematical topics.
• Offers voices from the field with real-life success stories from educators implementing proactive strategies in their classrooms, their intervention sessions, and their tutoring sessions.

Start transforming your approach to intervention today to make a lasting impact on your student's mathematical successes and identities. This is a must-have tool for educators committed to addressing inequities and redefining intervention, this book ensures every student can be a confident, capable doer of mathematics.

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.

Math is not rote-memorizable. Math is not random-guessable. Math is figure-out-able.

Author Pam Harris argues that teaching real math—math that is free of distortions—will reach more students more effectively and result in deeper understanding and longer retention. This book is about teaching undistorted math using the kinds of mental reasoning that mathematicians do.

Memorization tricks and algorithms meant to make math “easier” are full of traps that sacrifice long-term student growth for short-lived gains. Students and teachers alike have been led to believe that they’ve learned more and more math, but in reality their brains never get any stronger. Using these tricks may make facts easier to memorize in isolation, but that very disconnect distorts the reality of math.

In her landmark book Developing Mathematical Reasoning: Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms, Pam emphasizes the importance of teaching students increasingly sophisticated mathematical reasoning and understanding underlying concepts rather than relying on a set rule for solving problems. Now, in this first companion volume, Developing Mathematical Reasoning: The Strategies, Models, and Lessons to Teach the Big Ideas in Grades K-2, she demonstrates how counting and additive strategies serve as the foundation for creating efficient, accurate, and flexible thinkers.

Everyone is capable of understanding and doing real math. This book:

• Gives step-by-step guidance on how to teach the strategies, models, and big ideas that foster confidence and long-term success, preparing students for increasingly complex mathematical challenges
• Offers the “what to do” to teach counting, addition, and subtraction in ways that promote reasoning over rote memorization
• Provides practical tools such as problem strings, models, classroom routines, and discussion questions designed to implement reasoning-based practices
• Includes supporting resources for creating a classroom culture where students see math as figure-out-able and gain confidence as mathematical thinkers

By addressing common misconceptions about math and providing practical strategies for teaching real math, this book shows that everyone can use the mathematical relationships they already know to reason about new relationships. In other words, everyone can math-even the very youngest students!

Today, educators face an imperative: prepare learners for an unpredictable future. Sparking Innovation in Children Through STEM Exploration: A K-8 Teacher's Guide to Inspiring Future Problem Solvers is here to help meet that challenge by offering the tools to transform classrooms into ecosystems of creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. This groundbreaking book goes beyond traditional STEM education and offers a comprehensive framework that helps educators cultivate the next generation of innovative thinkers and problem-solvers.

Authors Richard Cox, Jr. and Brandy Howard introduce the Innov8 Framework, a dynamic and flexible roadmap designed to foster curiosity, spark imagination, and build critical thinking within classrooms and beyond. Rooted in justice, empathy, and inquiry-based learning, this approach ensures every learner is empowered to contribute their unique perspective to real-world challenges.

With hands-on strategies to ensure access for everyone, this book

• Offers practical, step-by-step guidance through The Innov8 Framework, which introduces the eight phases of innovation—from sparking curiosity to sustaining impact
• Provides adaptable tools and resources such as editable lesson plans, interest surveys, reflection prompts for both educators and learners, and learner feedback tools designed to seamlessly integrate with existing standards
• Includes engaging real-world case studies of thriving innovation ecosystems and personal profiles of educators driving innovation, showcasing actionable steps to  replicate their success

Sparking Innovation in Children Through STEM Exploration provides educators with the tools to ignite curiosity, foster collaboration, and empower young learners to become confident, creative problem-solvers. Prepare your classrooms to shape the future. Your learners will thrive, and so will you.

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.