Social Savvy
$34.95
How do you react when your child has a tantrum in the supermarket? When your children argue, do you intervene? Do you resist the urge to fight their battles for them?
Social Savvy is about:
helping your child to make friends and fit in socially;
improving your own relationship with your child; and
dealing effectively with your child’s misbehaviour.
This is a ‘how to’ book for all adults caring for children, who want a more positive family and social life.
By following Lindy Petersen’s guidelines, you will learn how to better manage situations and avoid reacting impulsively to your child’s behaviour. Learn what to say to your child and teach your child positive social skills to adopt with others.
Start Where You Are
$29.95
You are not behind. You are just figuring it out. And so is pretty much everyone else, even if they do not look like it.
Start Where You Are is not a book full of perfect advice from people who have life sorted. It is an honest, practical companion for the moments that actually happen. When you are waiting to feel ready before you start. When you are comparing your life to everyone else's highlight reel. When something goes wrong and you are not sure what to do next. When you have no idea what path you are supposed to be on.
Written by Ash Manuel, founder of Growing With Gratitude and former teacher whose own teenage years included three attempts at Year 12 and a football dream that did not work out, this book is built around real stories, short ideas and small actions you can actually try. Twelve chapters you can dip into whenever you need them, each one a reminder that the messy middle of life is where most of the learning happens. Because small actions repeated over time quietly change everything.
Your path will not look like everyone else's. It does not have to. You are not behind. You are building.
Now You Know, Now What?
$39.95
The most powerful lessons a student will ever learn happen can happen inside, and outside of the classroom. Now You Know, Now What?: A Guide to School Service Learning and Immersion Programs is a warm, practical and deeply experienced guide to service learning and immersion programs — what they are, why they matter, and how to do them with the authenticity and integrity that creates lasting change. Drawing on more than two decades of work locally and globally, Lynne Moten argues that the shift from charity to justice to advocacy is one of the most transformative things a school can offer its students, and that when programs are done well, they change not just individuals but entire school cultures.
From designing and running overseas immersions to embedding service learning across the curriculum, this book covers every dimension of the work with honesty, humility and hard-won practical wisdom. Lynne writes not as an academic but as a practitioner who has taken more than 200 students overseas and built deep, mutual relationships with partner communities across Australia and India. For school leaders, teachers and anyone who believes that a meaningful education must connect students to the world beyond their privilege, this is the guide they have been waiting for.
Driving School Improvement bundle
$99.95
$104.90
Grab Pamela Macklin and Vic Zbar's two books in this special bundle. Driving School Improvement (first published in 2020, published by Amba Press in 2025). Driving School Improvement Workbook (publishing in October 2026)
Driving School Improvement Workbook
$39.95
School improvement is not a theory problem. It is a doing problem. Most school leaders know what good improvement looks like – the challenge is knowing what to actually do on Monday, and then after that.
The Driving School Improvement Workbook is the practical companion to Pamela Macklin and Vic Zbar's widely used Driving School Improvement series, designed to help school leaders apply a proven improvement approach to the specific circumstances of their own school. From evaluating your leadership and building a cohesive team, to diagnosing where your school is at and carrying staff with you through change, every chapter offers structured tools, pro formas and activities you can use immediately.
Grounded in more than three decades of school improvement work across Australia and internationally, this workbook moves beyond argument and into action. It is organised around the key stages of whole-school improvement – leadership, diagnosis, building staff capacity, evidence-informed practice, change management and measuring impact – and is designed to be dipped into as needed rather than read from cover to cover. Whether you are a principal leading whole-school change or a member of a leadership team looking to sharpen your practice, this is the resource that answers the question every school leader eventually asks: so what do I actually do next?
The Playful Astronauts
from $24.95
The Playful Astronauts is a captivating and educational children's book that takes young readers on an unforgettable journey through space.
With each planet The Playful Astronauts visit, children learn different life skills and values they can apply daily. Through exciting adventures and unique challenges, the playful astronauts learn to be confident, show empathy and kindness, be resilient, show gratitude, adaptability and vulnerability, and have the power to handle conflict.
By the end of the journey, children will have learned all the skills they need to become confident and resilient individuals, well-prepared to face future challenges.
The Playful Astronauts is a fun story and a valuable educational resource for parents and educators who want to inspire young readers to become compassionate, confident, and resilient individuals.
That Boy
$24.95
Luca lives with Autism and is struggling to fit in with his peers on the first day of school. That is until Billy takes him under his wing and changes everything. A conversation starter in the classroom and at home.
The Shadow that Follows
from $24.95
Meet a brave boy who carries a worrying shadow, a silent symbol of the challenges he faces that follow him everywhere.
As you turn the pages, you'll witness the power of friendship, family and community. These supports help him to take a stand against the shadow. Protecting his right to feel safe and free.
With courage as his guide, he embarks on a remarkable adventure of self-discovery while learning to face his fears head-on.
From survivor Conor Pall, comes this empathetic story of inner strength the boy never knew he had. And as the shadow fades, a newfound sense of safety and freedom lights up his world.
The Human Advantage
$39.95
Generative AI has arrived in schools faster than any technology in history. Teachers are asking urgent questions about assessment, creativity, academic integrity and what it even means to learn when an AI tool can produce a polished essay in seconds. The Human Advantage: Teaching, Learning and Leading in Gen AI World cuts through the noise to offer something more useful than either alarm or enthusiasm. Drawing on more than 35 years of experience across classrooms, school leadership and education consultancy, Dr Tim Kitchen argues that AI has not created the challenges schools are grappling with – it has exposed them. And that means this moment is also an opportunity.
At the heart of the book is a simple but powerful idea. In a world of intelligent machines, the most important capabilities are the ones that remain uniquely human. Curiosity, creativity, discernment, empathy, critical thinking and ethical judgement cannot be automated. Structured around practical strategies, classroom activities and frameworks for rethinking curriculum and assessment, The Human Advantage gives teachers and school leaders the confidence to embrace AI wisely, use it ethically and keep people at the centre of education. Because great teaching, now more than ever, is a deeply human endeavour.
Matt Pitman's Connection Bundle
$109.95
$122.85
Grab Matt Pitman's three books in this bundle. The whole set!
The Connection Curriculum (published June 2024)The Connection Conundrum (published August 2025)The Connection Commitment (published October 2026)
The Connection Commitment
$39.95
This book is both a permission slip and a challenge. Permission to refuse the disconnection that has become normalised in schools, and a challenge to actually do something about it.
Drawing on four classic works — The Outsiders, The Metamorphosis, The Odyssey and The Tempest — Matt Pitman explores how schools can reconnect with their students, their staff, their families and their wider communities. The third book in his acclaimed connection series argues that the crisis facing schools today is not simply a workload or wellbeing problem. It is a disconnection problem, and it requires a different kind of response. Teachers are leaving in record numbers, student attendance has fallen well below pre-pandemic levels, and the gap between people and the institutions meant to serve them keeps widening.
The Connection Commitment is not about adding another program or initiative to an already exhausted system. It is about rethinking the conditions under which learning, professionalism and human connection become possible, and committing to building them deliberately. For anyone who works in a school, whatever their role, this book is an invitation to help write a better story.
The Wellbeing Ecosystem
$39.95
Too many teachers are giving everything they have, and running out. Too many schools treat wellbeing as an add-on rather than the foundation everything else depends on. The Wellbeing Ecosystem: How Thriving Teachers and Students Transform Schools Together makes the case that this needs to change, and offers a clear, practical framework for making it happen. Drawing on more than two decades of working alongside schools across Australia, Tony Cox argues that when we take care of the people who teach, we take care of the people who learn, and that thriving in schools should be structural, not accidental.
At the heart of the book is the FIFTHER framework, built on seven core values: Family, Integrity, Fun, Tenacity, Health, Education and Respect. These values power five gears of growth and a six-domain Wellbeing Wheel that together form a living, interconnected system for whole-school flourishing. Grounded in honest stories from the field and ending each chapter with practical reflection and action tools, this is a book for teachers who still want to make a difference, leaders who want to create conditions for others to thrive, and schools ready to become more human again.
Leon Furze's Practical Strategies 4-book bundle
$139.95
$162.80
Get all 4 titles in Leon Furze's Practical Strategies series.
Practical Reading Strategies by Leon Furze (published March 2022)Practical Writing Strategies by Leon Furze and Benjamin White (published March 2023).Practical AI Strategies by Leon Furze (published January 2024)Practical AI Strategies 2 by Dr Leon Furze (published September 2026)
Making the Most of Your Learning Environment
$49.95
The spaces where we teach are more than containers for learning. They are active and influential forces shaping how students engage, think and grow. Yet most teachers have never been supported to evaluate whether their spaces are actually working, or shown how to make them work better. Making the Most of Your Learning Environment: A Guide for Teacher-Led Evaluation of Spaces and Practices changes that. Drawing on nearly two decades of research by the Learning Environments Applied Research Network (LEaRN) across Australian and international schools, Wesley Imms and Julia Morris offer a practical, step-by-step guide to help teachers and school leaders assess their spaces with confidence and purpose.
Structured around a clear evaluation template, the book walks educators through every stage of the process, from identifying a focus and writing a question through to collecting and analysing data and sharing findings with others. This is not a book that tells teachers what a good learning environment looks like. It is a guide to helping them work that out for themselves, in their own context, using research-informed approaches proven to work in real schools. For any educator who believes that space is part of their pedagogic toolkit, this book is the missing resource.
Dare to Think!
$44.95
In an age of artificial intelligence, standardised testing and information overload, the ability to truly think has never been more important or more neglected. Dare to Think! is a passionate, practical inquiry into what thinking actually is, why it matters and how educators can deliberately create the conditions for it in their classrooms. Drawing on nearly three decades in the classroom and a rich tradition of philosophical inquiry from Aristotle to Wittgenstein, Andrew Rogers argues that too many students have been trained to remember and reproduce rather than question, wonder and reason, and that this is a problem educators have both the power and the responsibility to address.
Structured as a genuine inquiry rather than a prescriptive manual, the book uses philosophy as both its method and its message. Andrew defines what thinking actually is, exposes the imposters that masquerade as it and makes the case for dialogue, curiosity and reasoning as the foundations of transformative education. He writes as a co-inquirer alongside the reader, sharing what has worked and inviting educators to reflect on their own practice. For any teacher who has glimpsed that rare moment when students are genuinely alive with ideas, this book offers a clear path to making it happen every day.
Stop Think Do Social Skills Training 12–15
$49.95
STOP THINK DO is an Australian social skills program for use in schools with children who have emotional–social–behavioural difficulties that affect their ability to make friends. It is also designed as a classroom curriculum for children to prevent such difficulties arising. It develops a positive social culture in classrooms, particularly because teachers are modelling the same skills they teach students. The academic progress of children is also facilitated by a co-operative classroom.
STOP THINK DO develops emotional and social intelligence in children as they learn how to understand and control their feelings at STOP, how to think about their options and likely consequences at THINK, how to behave appropriately at DO, and how to be motivated to use these skills in all social situations in their lives.
This revised and extended edition modernises this best-selling program, incorporating current research trends, visual resources, simplified lesson formats and practical suggestions for applying the program in regular classrooms, in small groups, for special needs students, for peer mediators, or as a whole school. Parental involvement is also encouraged.
Stop Think Do Social Skills Training: Primary years of schooling ages 12–15 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 12-15
An overview of the traffic light training posters
Pre and post program assessments.
Cued Articulation Poster Pack
$44.95
The Cued Articulation system helps people see a sound and hear a letter, using simple, logical hand cues for every phoneme. Devised by Jane Passy to support children with severe speech and language difficulties, it has become a trusted teaching tool over three decades, used widely by speech pathologists, speech and language therapists, reading recovery and remedial teachers, ESL teachers and teachers of the hearing impaired.
This set of four A2 posters brings the full system, consonants and vowels, together in colour coded, easy to read charts. Designed for the classroom or clinic, they let you display every cue at once, giving students and clients a constant visual reference for the sounds of speech.
A2 size (594 x 420mm). Set of 4 posters for $44.95.
Steven Trotter bundle
$74.95
$79.90
Grab Steven Trotter's two books in this bundle.
The Art of Skimming Stones (published July 2024)Stretch (published August 2026)
Hey. How Are You, Actually?
$34.95
Some days you really are fine.
And some days you say you're fine because it's easier than explaining what's actually going on.
This book is for those other days.
You already know how to be a good friend. When someone you care about is having a hard time, you know how to listen, how to be kind, how not to make things worse. Hey. How Are You, Actually? is about turning that same kindness toward yourself – because you deserve it just as much as they do.
Inside are twenty small things you can do, most of them only a few minutes long, for the moments that really happen. When your brain won't switch off at night. When you're waiting outside the exam room feeling sick. When a friendship fades and nobody says why. When everyone else seems fine and you're not so sure you are.
Nothing you have to believe in. Nothing you have to be good at. Just small, real things that help.
One gentle question runs through all of it: what would you say to yourself if you talked to yourself the way you talk to your best friend?
Whatever you're carrying right now, you don't have to carry it alone. You can just start here.
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For the grown-up holding this book
Written straight to teenagers, grounded in real research, and small enough to use on an ordinary day. No pressure. You might find a few of the practices are exactly what you needed too.
Glenn Forbes bundle
$100.00
$114.90
Grab Glen Forbes' two books in this bundle.
Collective Impact: Overcoming the Twelve Enemies of Teacher Efficacy (published July 2026. First published by Solution Tree US in 2025)
Instructional Leadership: 15 High-Impact Practices to Develop Instructional Leaders (published March 2026)
Collective Impact
$64.95
In Collective Impact, authors Jenni Donohoo and Glenn Forbes identify barriers that impede collective teacher efficacy and detail effective strategies school leaders can use to overcome these obstacles. With reflective prompts and tools for implementation, this book will help school leaders in developing the capability to lead successful and sustainable improvement and realize more positive outcomes for students.
K–12 teachers and leaders can use this book to:
Reframe deficit thinking to recognise opportunities and to embrace challenges
Foster the belief that everyone in an educational setting has the individual and collective capability to impact positive outcomes
Create a collaborative culture that promotes innovation and teamwork
Build strong, supportive teams in which everyone can grow and contribute professionally
Establish mutual goals and visions to guide committed teams toward collective efficacy and collective impact
Ken Rigby bundle
$74.95
$79.90
Grab Dr Ken Rigby's two books in this bundle.
Interventions in Cases of Bullying in Schools (published 2023)The Method of Shared Concern (first published 2011, republished July 2026)
The Method of Shared Concern
$49.95
In Ken Rigby's latest book on bullying in schools, the renowned international expert provides an in-depth, research-based examination of the Method of Shared Concern. Originally conceived by Swedish psychologist Anatol Pikas, and adapted in line with ground-breaking government-sponsored studies in Australia, The Method of Shared Concern describes the multi-stage process in which suspected bullies and their victims are individually interviewed, and eventually brought together in an effort to reach an agreed resolution.
Intended primarily for use by teachers and school counsellors, The Method of Shared Concern demonstrates through practical example and real-world case studies how the method can be applied in any school environment as a thoroughly effective approach to school bullying and harassment. Guided by a trained practitioner, the students themselves are actively engaged and, rather than being labelled or blamed, they are empowered with a heightened sense of responsibility to improve the situation for all concerned.
'This is an invaluable resource for those who want to take a non-punitive approach to dealing with school bullying. It makes a really good case for using the Method and the examples indicate very clearly how to go about it.'Dr Claire Monks, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology and Counselling, University of Greenwich, London.
Helen Timperley bundle
$194.95
$124.90
Get Helen Timperley's two Leading Professional ... books in this bundle.
Includes:Leading Professional Conversations Leading Professional Learning
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