Developing Executive Functioning in the Primary Years
$44.95
‘As you read, you will not only fi nd practical strategies to use tomorrow, but also the courage to centre what matters most — empowering learners for lifelong success.’ Dr Shyam Barr
In a world of rapid change, students need more than content – they need the skills to think, adapt and thrive. Traditionally, education has focused on what to learn, but the real power lies in teaching students how to learn. Dr Rosalyn Muir presents a compelling case in Developing Executive Functioning in the Primary Years: SOWATT can we do to empower learners? for intentionally teaching students how to “drive their learning”, by developing the executive functions and self-regulation skills that enable lifelong learning.
Building on the success of her earlier work, Developing Executive Functioning in the Early Years: SOWATT can I do?, Dr Muir uses the practical SOWATT framework – Self-regulation, Organisation, Working memory, Attention, Thinking flexibly and Thinking about thinking – to guide teachers in making educational aspirations a reality. Practical, evidence-based and inspiring, this book equips teachers with the tools to develop capable, self-directed learners – ready for today and prepared for tomorrow.
Culture of Excellence
$39.95
Culture of Excellence is a blueprint for schools ready to move beyond scattered initiatives, reactive leadership, and the exhausting cycle of “one more thing.” It’s a call to leaders who believe that culture isn’t created by accident — it’s created by alignment, clarity, and deeply intentional practice.
Drawing from decades of global work with schools, this book reveals a simple truth:when purpose is clear and people feel empowered, improvement becomes inevitable.
Inside, you’ll discover a research-grounded, practice-tested framework that helps schools:
Build clarity of purpose and a unifying vision for learning
Strengthen professional trust, agency, and shared ownership
Lift engagement, wellbeing, and achievement through coherent systems
Create rhythms and routines that sustain momentum long after the excitement fades
Lead confidently through complexity, change, and modern pressures
Through compelling case studies, real-world examples, and the Six Aspects of Excellence, you’ll see how schools around the world are building environments where staff flourish, students thrive, and community confidence grows — not through heroic effort, but through intentional design.
This is not a book about managing schools.It is a book about building schools that elevate people.Cultures that endure.Systems that empower.Leadership that lasts.
Culture of Excellence gives every leader — principal, system executive, teacher-leader, or leadership team — a clear pathway for shaping the future of learning with purpose, coherence, and confidence.
If you’re ready to move your school from aspiration to alignment, and from effort to impact, this book will show you the way.
Notebook Notions
$39.95
Many teachers don’t see themselves as writers – a disconnect often rooted in their own restrictive school experiences where writing meant following rigid assignments with little room for creative freedom. Yet writing alongside students transforms teaching, allowing educators to demonstrate the authentic struggles and joys of the writing process while building their own confidence with words. In Notebook Notions, experienced educator and writer Alan j Wright shares the lessons learned across a rewarding career, revealing how the simple act of keeping a writer’s notebook can revolutionise both your teaching practice and your relationship with writing itself.
Drawing from years of experience as a teacher who writes – and a writer who teaches – Alan offers practical wisdom on launching and sustaining a writer’s notebook practice. From collecting raw ideas and embracing inspiration to moving notebook entries into finished projects, this book provides a clear pathway for educators ready to model genuine writer agency in their classrooms. With warmth and candour, Alan reminds us that becoming a writer requires the same courage as learning to ride a bicycle: you must simply climb on and start pedalling.
Your notebook journey begins with daring to fill that first blank page.
On Character
$34.95
What does it mean to live a life of good character? And how do we form such character in ourselves and those we teach?
Character is how we live our lives as individuals and in community. It's how we strive to belong, fulfil our potential and do what is good and right in the world. It's how we wrestle with ourselves and the world to make a mark and measure up. Through the metaphor of the stonemason's chisel – making marks that are both distinctive and enduring – Dr Phil Cummins reveals character as the wrestling between who we are and who we might become. Drawing on decades of experience working with schools worldwide, he shows how we are formed through this wrestling, always the wrestling, in a life that might come, in time, to be both worthwhile and well-lived.
A person of good character can be seen and recognised as one who pursues what is best, who seeks to know, love and do what is true and beautiful in the world. Yet for all our good intentions, we cannot ever quite be the best versions of ourselves, no matter how much we would like this to be the case. We need relationships of character apprenticeship that show us we are not good enough yet – and then help us to grow. Written with clarity, wisdom and a distinctively Australian perspective on equity and excellence, this essential guide challenges educators, leaders and anyone committed to human flourishing to embrace the formation of character for lives of purpose, integrity and service to others.
The Perfect Parent Trap
$39.95
You're not failing. You're just caught in a trap designed for struggle.
Modern parenting is drowning us. We have more information than ever, yet parents are more anxious, burnt out and disconnected than they've been in generations. We're told to manage behaviour, enforce rules and stay in control – but no one taught us how to stay emotionally present when our child is melting down, or how to manage our own inner world when their behaviour triggers something deep and old inside us.
After twenty-five years working with families, therapist Lisa Taylor knows the truth: the real problem isn't your child's behaviour. It's the myth that perfect parenting produces perfect children.
The Perfect Parent Trap offers something revolutionary – the understanding that we can't raise healthy children if we're disconnected from ourselves. Through five transformative qualities (Courage, Connection, Curiosity, Compassion and Love), Lisa guides you to parent from wisdom instead of wounds, from love instead of fear.
This isn't another list of techniques to try. It's an invitation to break free and discover what becomes possible when you stop trying to change your children and start examining your own patterns. When you learn to respond rather than react. When you choose presence over perfection.
Your children don't need you to be perfect. They need you to be real.
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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