Book of the Month for August 2024

Teaching Sprints: How Overloaded Educators Can Keep Getting Better

 

by - Simon Breakspear, Bronwyn Ryrie Jones

Teachers and school leaders have ambitious goals, but improvement work in busy schools is hard. Eminently practical and field tested around the globe, the evidence-informed process outlined in this book will provide you with a framework for robust, sustainable and powerful professional learning.

Book of the Month

July 2026

July Book of the Month

Never Underestimate Your Teachers: Instructional Leadership for Excellence in Every Classroom

by - Robyn R. Jackson

In this book for school leaders, Jackson presents a new model for understanding teaching as a combination of skill and will and explains the best ways to support individual teachers' ongoing professional development.

Previous Reads

May 2023

Just Teaching: Feedback, Engagement, and Well-Being for Each Student

by - Jonathan Eckert

By addressing feedback, engagement, and well-being in ways that are sustainable and founded in justice, Just Teaching supports comprehensive growth while elevating the essential work of educators.

April 2023

De-implementation: Creating the Space to Focus on What Works

by - Peter M. DeWitt

Follow this evidence-based framework to determine the efficacy of current practices, take practical steps to replace ineffective ones, and chart your school’s path to de-implementation.

March 2023

10 Mindframes for Leaders: The Visible Learning Approach to School Success

by - John Hattie and Raymond L. Smith

Mindframes—your internal set of beliefs about your role as school leader—determine the high-impact leadership practices you choose to implement. In other words, how you think about the impact of the actions you take has more effect on student achievement than your leadership practices themselves.