The Leadership Edge
$39.95
Leadership in schools goes far beyond titles, as Executive Assistants (EAs) prove every day.
Working behind the scenes, EAs straddle multiple departments and functions while creating an environment in which staff and students can thrive. Few people fully understand the challenges, complexities, and rewards of their work.
In The Leadership Edge, Kristine Niven draws on her extensive experience as an EA − and founder of EAs in Education − to offer insight into a role that is often marked by ambiguity in schools and the wider EA community. This book provides practical tips, strategies, and approaches to help EAs develop their personal and professional practice, while offering a fresh perspective on leadership that goes beyond hierarchies and salary brackets.
Drawing together hard-won lessons from Niven’s personal journey and insights from leaders, thinkers, philosophers, and artists, this book provides EAs with a clear roadmap for developing their own leadership edge.
Connecting with Your Students
$34.95
Connecting with Your Students is a simple, practical resource for all educators who want to build meaningful relationships with their students while developing essential life skills that drive academic success.
This engaging and effective book contains 40 chapters organised across four school terms, each focusing on a different life skill. Teachers can follow the chapters chronologically throughout the year or select specific skills that align with their students’ needs. Each chapter features inspiring quotes, student-friendly definitions, ten practical classroom activities requiring minimal preparation, and real-life stories illustrating each skill in action. The activities foster positive classroom relationships while equipping students with the tools they need to overcome challenges and flourish.
Learning these skills will help your students not only navigate the demands of school life but also thrive throughout their lives.
Preparing developing brains for life. Andrew Fuller
Andy shows teachers exactly how to build genuine relationships. Professor Pasi Sahlberg
The secret sauce for teachers: relationships before curriculum. Andrew Dalgleish
Instructional Leadership
$49.95
Effective instructional leadership doesn't just happen – it's created by design. Research shows it has a greater impact on student outcomes than any other form of school leadership, yet developing this capability remains one of education's most pressing challenges.
Instructional Leadership: 15 High-Impact Practices to Develop Instructional Leaders provides a comprehensive framework for building the leadership capability that matters most. Drawing on extensive research and decades of practical experience, Glenn Forbes presents five critical components and fifteen evidence-based practices proven to improve student outcomes. Whether you're a new leader seeking foundational knowledge, an experienced principal developing your team, or a system leader supporting schools, this book equips you with the tools to move beyond administrative management and become an active driver of instructional improvement.
The Relational School
$39.95
Schools say they value relationships – but do their systems actually support them?
The Relational School is for educators and leaders who sense the gap between what their school aspires to be and what it feels like to work and learn there every day. Drawing on decades of experience as a teacher, counsellor and school leader, Sue Chandler explores why well-intentioned relational initiatives struggle to stick – and what it takes to build a culture where connection, accountability and trust aren't just ideals, but everyday practice.
Through compelling stories, practical frameworks and honest reflections, this book introduces the Relational Practice Bridge – a systems-level approach to embedding relational culture across leadership, policy and daily interactions. Complete with the Relational Practice Assessment Audit Tool, this is not another quick-fix behaviour management model. It's an invitation to reimagine how schools relate, lead and respond – with clarity, courage and a willingness to align what we say we value with how we actually work.
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.
Leading for Tomorrow, Today
$39.95
You've worked hard to get where you are – but what got you here won't get you there. This book is for educational leaders who sense they're stuck in the weeds, overwhelmed by daily tasks, firefighting, and keeping their heads down while others seem to move ahead. Drawing on decades of experience as a teacher, school leader, and leadership coach, Janine Stratford reveals the game-changer that separates leaders who survive from those who thrive: strategic thinking. This isn't corporate jargon or abstract theory – it's a practical blueprint for leading with purpose, direction, and clarity that transforms both your team's success and your career future.
Through the Leadership Blueprint framework – Brand, Recognise, Align, Nurture, and Demonstrate – this book shows you how to step back from the busyness, build the culture your team needs to succeed, and position yourself for the impact and recognition you deserve. Packed with real stories from schools across Australia and New Zealand, actionable strategies, and honest insights about what actually works, this is the book that helps you work smarter, lead differently, and create change that lasts. Whether you're an aspiring leader or an experienced one ready for your next step, this is your roadmap from overwhelm to strategic leadership – and from hard work to lasting legacy.
Beyond Survival Mode
$39.95
We've become skilled at applying trauma-informed practices to our work with children and young people – offering regulation strategies, unconditional positive regard and trauma-informed care. But what about the adults doing this work? Teachers, youth workers, social workers, carers and support staff are walking through water daily, yet we've long pretended we can do so without getting wet. This book challenges that assumption. Drawing on trauma theory and research, wellbeing science and two decades of frontline experience, Megan Corcoran makes the case that trauma-informed practice cannot be something we apply to others – it must be something we embody ourselves.
Beyond Survival Mode offers a compassionate and practical roadmap for professionals working in trauma-affected environments. Through the NEST framework – Notice, Embed, Strengthen, Thrive – Corcoran guides readers beyond baseline coping towards genuine flourishing, even amid challenging work. Weaving together personal story, research, and actionable strategies, this book illuminates how trauma exposure, unsafe team culture and systemic pressures compromise practitioner wellbeing and what we can do about it. This is not another call for individual self-care; it's an invitation to reimagine what becomes possible when organisations create the conditions for adults to feel safe, valued, and supported to do meaningful work together.
The Flourishing Factor
$39.95
Teaching is one of the most rewarding professions on earth – and one of the most demanding. So why do we so rarely extend to ourselves the care and kindness we pour into others every day?
In this warm, evidence-based guide, positive psychology coach and educator Chris Egan makes a compelling case for self-compassion as the missing ingredient in educator wellbeing. Drawing on 20+ years of robust research, 35 years in education, and the real stories of teachers and school leaders who have transformed their inner lives, this book offers a practical roadmap for moving from burnout and self-criticism towards genuine flourishing.
With reflective prompts, innovative practices, and honest stories from the classroom and beyond, this book meets educators exactly where they are – and gently, powerfully, invites them somewhere better.
Because the same compassion you give your students? You deserve it too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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