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The Livewired Series bundle $74.95 $79.90

Pre-order this new series now. Get these two new books at this special bundle. The Livewired Child (publishing August 2026). The Livewired Teen (publishing August 2026).

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Boy Girl bundle $74.95 $79.90

Get the two books in this series in this special bundle. It's a Girl Thing (published September 2021). Oh Boy! (published September 2021).

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Connecting with Your ... bundle $89.95 $102.85

Get the three books in this series in this special bundle. Connecting with Your Kids (published February 2019). Connecting with Your Teens (published October 2023). Connecting with Your Students (publishing March 2026).

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.

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.

Shared Responsibility $39.95

Shared Responsibility is a proven, positive approach to beating bullying in Australian schools. At its core is the Shared Responsibility Meeting—a powerful and effective interviewing process that puts an immediate stop to bullying. The process appeals to empathy by putting a real person with real feelings in the place of the object victim.Shared Responsibility looks after the needs of victims, enabling students to cope and survive in a competitive school environment, teaching them how to be and feel safe. The whole school community is invited to share the responsibility for creating and maintaining an educational environment that is happy and safe for all students.The Shared Responsibility process has been trialled at a number of schools with highly positive results. It is simple, straight forward and can be managed by anyone who has basic people skills.

Beyond Survival Mode $39.95

We've become skilled at applying trauma-informed practices to our work with young people. But what about the adults doing this work? Teachers, youth workers, social workers, carers and support staff are wading through water daily, pretending 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. This book illuminates how trauma exposure, unsafe team culture and systemic pressures compromise practitioner wellbeing, and what we can do about it. It’s 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.

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 will transform both your team’s success and your future career. Through the Leadership Blueprint Model – 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, 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.

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.

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

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Creative Activities in Mathematics bundle $125.95 $149.85

Problem-based learning is a powerful alternative to drill-and-practice or skills-based learning, especially within mathematics. The Creative Activities in Mathematics series provides a wealth of investigations and open-ended active learning activities, designed to engage students with mathematics and develop their problem-solving, collaboration and mathematical skills. The three titles in the series provide a variety of class activities suitable for students from lower primary to middle secondary, along with teaching notes and staged lesson plans. Each activity is a whole-class investigation with open-ended answers that takes a particular scenario and develops over multiple levels. This enables it to be used both at different year levels and with students of differing ability in the same class. All activities are firmly grounded in the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics.

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.

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.

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 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.

Humming Along $39.95

‘For the sake of humanity’. It's a simple answer to why someone becomes a Humanities teacher, yet it captures the profound responsibility of educators who shape students' empathy, integrity and capacity to make informed decisions about our world's future. Katrina Davey understands this calling intimately – and she also knows the tough situations that can undermine it: out-of-field teachers thrust into unfamiliar subjects, the constant battle for adequate class time and maintaining student engagement during the era of artificial intelligence. Humming Along is Katrina’s response to the challenges facing Humanities education. Drawing from her successful track record of building thriving faculties, she offers practical strategies that can make teams hum – from helping anxious graduates master multiple disciplines to convincing leadership of Humanities' vital role in developing the ‘heart’ that makes students truly human. With concrete tools for curriculum design, authentic assessment and faculty collaboration, this book provides a roadmap for creating engaging Humanities courses where both teachers and students discover the genuine wonder of exploring our world together.

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 not how to stay emotionally present during meltdowns or manage the old wounds that get pressed when our children's behaviour hooks something deep 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 invisible heartprints from your own childhood – the emotional imprints that still shape how you respond when stress runs high and nothing goes to plan. The Perfect Parent Trap offers something different. Not another technique to master, but an invitation to break free from inherited patterns of control, perfectionism, and fear. When you learn to respond to the child in front of you instead of reacting from the child within you, everything shifts. This isn't about doing more. It's about being more present - with yourself first, then with the people you love most. Your children don't need you to be perfect. They need you to be real.

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.

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Kathy Walker bundle $159.95 $186.85

Do you love Kathy Walker and Shona Bass as much as we do? Get their 3 best-selling books in this bundle.

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Leading Improvement series bundle $219.95 $259.80

Get all 4 titles in the Leading Improvement series.

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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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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.

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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.

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.