Teach, Lead or Leave
$39.95
After twelve years as a principal, Jenny Cole walked out mid-meeting and never returned. That spectacular moment of burnout taught her everything she needed to know about the impossible choices facing educators today. Teach, Lead or Leave is the honest, practical guide for every big-hearted teacher and leader who's ever whispered, 'How much longer can I keep doing this?' This isn't a book about convincing you to stay or go – it's about helping you make a conscious, informed decision that aligns with who you are and what you need to live a deeply satisfying life.
Through personal stories, research-backed frameworks, and real experiences from educators across Australia, Jenny offers six distinct pathways forward. Whether you choose to stay and reshape your role, step into leadership, pause to rest and reset, pivot sideways within education, ease out with grace, or leave entirely, this book provides the clarity and courage to move from restlessness to intentional action. Complete with reflective prompts, practical tools, and frameworks for understanding your values, strengths, and purpose, Teach, Lead or Leave is the coaching conversation every educator deserves when facing one of the most important career decisions they'll ever make.
Digital Literacy Handbook
$29.95
Navigate the digital world with confidence using this practical, student-centred guide that transforms online safety and digital literacy from abstract concepts into real, actionable skills. From spotting misinformation and understanding algorithms to managing your digital footprint and using AI responsibly, this comprehensive handbook walks you through everything you need to think critically, stay safe and make smarter choices in the online spaces you already inhabit every day.
Each chapter builds essential skills – from protecting your privacy and data to practising ethical digital citizenship and harnessing technology for creative, productive learning. With relatable real-life examples, engaging reflection activities and guidance across social media, cybersecurity and emerging technologies, this book equips students with the tools to not only navigate today's digital landscape with confidence but also shape a positive, purposeful online identity that works for them – not for the algorithm.
Empowering Schools
$39.95
Australian education is caught in a storm. NAPLAN dominates the headlines, 'best practice' has become a byword for compliance, and the data tells a sobering story – falling attendance, disengaged students, and nearly four in ten teachers planning to leave the profession. Yet the system's response has been more of the same: narrower accountability, thinner pedagogy, louder metrics. Empowering Schools asks a different question: what if the problem isn't that we need better practices, but a better way of being in education altogether?
Drawing on thinkers including Biesta, Freire, Ahmed and Spinoza, Dr Benjamin C. Zonca makes the case for empowerment as a relational, collective and continuous process – one that cannot be reduced to a checklist but can be cultivated and sustained. Through a clear Framework for Empowerment and eight interconnected Empowerment Practices spanning time, assessment, curriculum design, collaboration, critical literacy and policy, this book invites teachers and leaders to slow down, challenge their assumptions, and build schools where students, teachers and communities can genuinely thrive. Empowerment cannot be given – but the conditions for it can be created.
From Feedback to Advice
$44.95
Most feedback books teach teachers how to give better feedback. This book teaches students how to seek better advice.
You invest hours crafting thoughtful feedback. Students glance at the grade and move on. They skim comments, fix surface details, or don’t engage at all — not because your feedback lacks quality, but because they haven’t learned how to identify what they need or seek the right help.
This isn’t a feedback problem. It’s a capability problem.
From Feedback to Advice shows how to develop students who actively direct their own improvement. Through six progressive stages, you’ll move students from passive recipients of comments to confident seekers of targeted advice. Students who can:
Shift from “Is this good?” to “Here’s what I’ve tried and here’s where I need help.”
Identify learning gaps and present evidence of their attempts.
Request precise advice and act on it.
This isn’t a book about writing better comments. It’s about building advice-seeking expertise, the capability that makes your guidance matter.
When students learn to seek the advice they need, they multiply the impact of your teaching, transforming feedback from a one-way exchange into a genuine partnership for growth.
Wolf Logic. Play-Based Leadership
$39.95
Before wolves hunt, they play. Before they perform, they connect. Before they move, they synchronise.
The strongest packs understand something many leaders forget: trust comes before tactics, connection comes before command, and people perform at their best when they feel safe, valued, and part of something bigger than themselves. In a world where leadership is increasingly defined by pressure, complexity, and constant change, Wolf Logic offers a different path.
Drawing on decades of experience across education, elite sport, and high-performance environments, Dale Sidebottom, Paul Campbell, and Nick Haywood reveal how the principles that hold great packs together can help leaders build thriving teams, stronger cultures, and lasting results.
Through powerful stories, practical tools, cutting-edge research, and the Trust Lab Framework, you’ll discover how to:
Build trust before demanding performance
Create cultures of belonging and psychological safety
Unlock courage, creativity, and resilience in others
Strengthen connection without lowering standards
Lead teams that don’t just work together they move as one.
This isn’t a book about becoming a softer leader. It’s about becoming a better one. Because the leaders who create the greatest impact aren’t those who control people. They’re the ones who create the conditions for people to thrive.
The world doesn't need more serious leaders. It needs more human ones.
Teaching Business
$44.95
Teaching Business: A Practical Guide for Secondary School Teachers is an indispensable resource for educators at every stage of their career. Written by experienced Business Studies teacher, HSC Senior Marker and MBA graduate Ben Andersen, this book cuts through the noise of competing educational theories to deliver clear, classroom-tested strategies that genuinely work. Structured around three core actions – content delivery, application strategies and business communication – it offers practical tools to streamline complex content, reduce cognitive overload and develop the kind of flexible business thinking that prepares students not just for exams, but for life beyond school.
More than a teaching manual, Teaching Business makes a compelling case for why business education matters. Andersen argues that all life is business, and that teachers of this subject occupy a uniquely powerful position to cultivate personal empowerment, ethical leadership and entrepreneurial thinking in the next generation. Whether you are a first-year teacher handed a syllabus and a dusty textbook, or a seasoned educator looking to sharpen your craft, this book offers the practical mentorship, honest reflection and actionable guidance to help you – and your students – thrive.
The Livewired Child
$39.95
Every child is born with the most extraordinary organ on earth – a brain that is constantly growing, adapting, and rewiring itself in response to the world around it. In The Livewired Child, renowned educator and neuroscience researcher Dr Michael C. Nagel takes parents and educators on a fascinating journey through the developing brain, from conception to the early school years. Drawing on the latest neuroscientific research, Dr Nagel reveals how the experiences we provide children in their earliest years don't just shape who they are – they quite literally wire the architecture of their brains.
Written in an accessible and engaging style, The Livewired Child bridges the gap between cutting-edge brain science and the everyday realities of raising and educating children. Covering everything from learning and language to emotional intelligence and cognitive development, Dr Nagel offers practical insights to help parents, teachers, and caregivers make the decisions that matter most – because understanding how a child's brain grows is the first step to nurturing it well.
The Livewired Teen
$39.95
Every teenager is navigating one of the most extraordinary periods of brain development in their lifetime – a brain that is constantly growing, adapting, and rewiring itself in response to the world around it. In The Livewired Teen renowned educator and neuroscience researcher Dr Michael C. Nagel takes parents and educators on a fascinating journey through the adolescent brain, from the onset of puberty through to early adulthood. Drawing on the latest neuroscientific research, Dr Nagel reveals how the experiences we provide teenagers in these pivotal years don't just shape who they are – they quite literally wire the architecture of their brains.
Written in an accessible and engaging style, The Livewired Teen bridges the gap between cutting-edge brain science and the everyday realities of raising and educating adolescents. Covering everything from learning and identity to emotional regulation and cognitive development, Dr Nagel offers practical insights to help parents, teachers, and caregivers make the decisions that matter most – because understanding how a teenager's brain evolves is the first step to supporting it well.
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Building Schools for Boys
$44.95
What does it take to build a school that forms good men? Building Schools for Boys offers a compelling and practical framework for educators committed to this question. Drawing on decades of global research and real-world school leadership, Professor Phil Cummins and David Atkinson argue that character is not an add-on to a boys' education – it is the whole work. Grounded in the conviction that boys thrive when they belong, fulfil their potential and learn to do good in the world, this book challenges schools to move beyond narrow academic measures and build cultures of intentional character formation.
Spanning six key dimensions of school life – contribution, hope, intention, expectation, value and experience – the book weaves together research, practical frameworks and rich case studies from outstanding schools across Australia, the United Kingdom, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. Whether you lead a boys' school, teach in one or are rethinking what education for young men can and should be, Building Schools for Boys offers both the rationale and the roadmap for schools where boys become the good men the world needs.
Stretch
$39.95
Middle leaders are the engine room of school improvement – yet they are too often underprepared, overstretched and under-supported. Stretch: Navigating Pressure and Impact in Middle Leadership is a practical guide for middle leaders navigating the demanding space between classroom and boardroom, between doing and leading. Drawing on decades of real-world leadership experience, Steven Trotter offers honest, research-informed insights into the pressures that define middle leadership, and the strategies that make those pressures manageable, meaningful and ultimately transformative.
Structured across three parts, Stretch moves from the lived realities of middle leadership – cognitive load, time pressure, emotional intelligence and role ambiguity – through to six concrete levers for elevating leadership practice, and finally to a set of reflections for leaders building toward the future. This is not a book of tidy answers or one-size-fits-all solutions. It is a guide for leaders willing to pause, reflect and grow – because when the stretch is understood and embraced, it becomes the very engine of lasting impact.
Behaviour Is Not the Whole Story
$39.95
When challenging behaviour appears in a classroom, early years setting or care environment, it draws immediate attention. But what is visible on the surface is rarely the whole story.
Behaviour Is Not the Whole Story is a practical, grounded guide for educators, leaders and teams who want to move beyond reactive responses and build behaviour support that is informed, consistent and sustainable. Drawing on extensive field-based experience across early years, school and OSHC settings, Kelly Oldfield offers a wider lens on behaviour — one that looks beyond the visible act to the regulation, communication, environment, adult responses and systems that shape it.
Structured across four parts and packed with practical tools including reflection prompts, practice scenarios and ready-to-use frameworks, this book helps educators and leaders ask better questions, build stronger systems and create settings where young people can genuinely thrive. This is not a book of quick fixes or one-size-fits-all strategies. It is a thoughtful, realistic guide for people who understand that stronger outcomes for young people come from strengthening the adults, environments and systems around them.
The Virtuous Leader
$39.95
What kind of leader are you when no one is watching?
The Virtuous Leader makes a compelling case that effective leadership is, first and foremost, a moral activity – and that competence, without character, is never enough. Drawing on decades of experience leading some of Australia's most respected independent schools, Dr Timothy Wright and Clive Logan argue that the leaders who earn lasting trust and create genuinely thriving organisations are those who do not merely hold good values but who live them, consistently and habitually, until virtue becomes reflex.
Grounded in the rich tradition of Aristotle and Aquinas and brought to life through honest reflection and real-world experience, The Virtuous Leader explores the virtues that matter most for leaders navigating the complexity of schools and organisations today: practical wisdom, love, courage, truthfulness, justice, humility and hope. This is not a book of quick fixes or leadership slogans. It is a thoughtful, searching guide for leaders willing to examine their own motivations, confront their blind spots and commit to the slow, worthwhile work of becoming the kind of leader others are proud to follow.
Lean Monitoring
$34.95
Leading school improvement means navigating long stretches of uncertainty between launching a strategy and seeing results. Too often, school leaders find themselves in what Dr Simon Breakspear calls the messy middle: too far in to stop, but too far from the end to know if they are on track. Lean Monitoring: How to Know if What You're Doing is Actually Working is a practical guide to closing that gap, helping school leaders build simple, sustainable habits for tracking progress during improvement work rather than waiting for end-of-year data that arrives too late to act on.
The first book in the Agile School Improvement Series, Lean Monitoring introduces one of three core practices at the heart of Simon's approach to leading change in schools: staying oriented during the journey rather than hoping things are heading in the right direction. Drawing on a decade of work alongside more than 5,000 school leaders across multiple countries, Simon offers clear frameworks and ready-to-use tools including the Impact Canvas, Data Capture Card and Insight Protocol, giving leaders the confidence to make better decisions mid-course and keep improvement moving forward.
Practical AI Strategies 2
$39.95
Building on the foundation of the bestselling Practical AI Strategies, Leon Furze returns with an essential guide for educators navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of generative AI. This timely sequel moves beyond basic implementation to address the critical questions educators are now facing – from rethinking assessment to confronting issues of bias, environmental impact and the human cost of AI development.
Leon introduces the Practical AI Process, a structured approach that prioritises pedagogical design over prompt engineering, and presents the innovative AI Assessment Scale. With expanded coverage of multimodal AI technologies including advanced image generation, AI video and voice synthesis, the book prepares educators for emerging capabilities like AI agents and the transformation of the internet itself.
Grounded in real classroom applications yet unflinching in its critical analysis, Practical AI Strategies 2 equips educators with both the practical skills and ethical frameworks needed to engage thoughtfully with generative AI – neither dismissing its potential nor accepting it uncritically.
Stop Think Do Social Skills Training
$99.95
Stop Think Do is a social skills programme for use in schools with children who have emotional, social or behavioural difficulties that affect their ability to make friends.
The Stop Think Do Social Skills Training: Primary Years is suitable for primary school ages students, from 8-12 years of age.
Stop Think Do Social Skills Training: Primary Years covers:
Why train social skills and emotional intelligence in children?
How to apply the program in classrooms with special needs children, for peer mediators, as a whole school, and with parental involvement
Social skills lessons for children aged 8-10
Social skills lessons for children aged 10-12
An overview of the traffic light training posters
Pre and post program assessments.
Stop Think Do Social Skills Training
$99.95
Stop Think Do is a social skills programme for use in schools with children who have emotional, social or behavioural difficulties that affect their ability to make friends.
The Stop Think Do Social Skills Training: Early Years is suitable for lower primary school ages students, from 4-8 years of age.
Stop Think Do Social Skills Training: Early Years covers:
Why train social skills and emotional intelligence in children?
How to apply the program in classrooms with special needs children, for peer mediators, as a whole school, and with parental involvement
Social skills lessons for children aged 4-6
Social skills lessons for children aged 6-8
An overview of the traffic light training posters
Pre and post program assessments.
Cued Articulation
$46.95
Cued Articulation helps children to see a sound and hear a letter by the use of easy and logical hand cues. It is used by speech pathologists, speech and language therapists and teachers who find the approach helpful in showing phoneme-grapheme relationships and use it in the classroom to teach children the sounds of speech.
The book combines the previously separate Cued Articulation and Cued Vowels in one. It is a full-colour comprehensive description of Jane Passy's methods for teaching speech and language-challenged children and adults how to make the sounds required for articulate speech.
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