Improving Thinking in the Classroom
$39.95
Improving thinking in the classroom does not have to be difficult. This book, Improving Thinking in the Classroom, provides teachers with useful and practical strategies that will enable them to provide all their children with the most engaging, exciting and challenging learning environment.
Teachers can achieve this most noble goal by:
building depth and rigour using Bloom’s taxonomy
engaging students with multiple intelligences
transferring the knowledge to the real world.
Engagement, depth and rigour are essential characteristics of a curriculum that will motivate and interest students. This means challenging, meaningful and relevant activities that make the classroom an active centre of learning.
Bullying in schools and what to do about it
$59.95
Bullying is now widely recognised as a serious problem that affects many children in schools. It can take many forms, including direct verbal and physical harassment and indirect forms such as deliberate exclusion and the targeting of individuals using cyber technology.
Continual and severe bullying can cause both short term and long term damage, making it difficult for victims to form intimate relationships with others and for habitual bullies to avoid following a delinquent lifestyle and becoming perpetrators of domestic violence.
Even though this type of abuse affects many of our school children, Ken Rigby believes there are grounds for optimism. This passionate and motivating book shows that there are ways of reducing the likelihood of bullying occurring in a school and effective ways of tackling cases when they do occur.
Drawing on research evidence, Bullying in schools and what to do about it helps us to understand the nature of bullying and why it so often takes place in schools. Importantly, it examines and evaluates what schools can do to promote more positive peer relationships within the school community and take effective and sustainable action to deal with problems that may arise. This edition includes a new preface from the author reflecting on developments in the field.
Teachers, parents, school leaders, policy makers and health professionals will find it invaluable and empowering.
Tapping for Schools
$39.95
The social and emotional needs of students have never been greater, and teachers are expected to meet them with limited time, limited training and an already full plate. Tapping for Schools offers something genuinely useful – a simple, evidence-based technique for helping students manage stress, regulate emotions and build resilience that takes minutes to learn and can be embedded into any classroom routine.
Written by Margaret Lambert PhD and grounded in original research conducted across several primary schools, this book combines a clear explanation of what tapping is and why it works with everything teachers need. Part 1 covers the background and evidence base for EFT. Part 2 shares direct findings and quotes from teachers and students about their experiences using tapping in real classrooms. Part 3 provides a full suite of ready-to-use scripts, cards and worksheets for Time Out Tapping, Target Tapping and Goal Setting. For teachers and school staff wanting a support strategy that is genuinely easy to learn, easy to use and easy to embed into everyday classroom life, this is the resource they have been waiting for.
Lindy Petersen bundle
$149.95
$174.80
Get all 4 titles by Lindy Petersen in this bundle.
Stop Think Do Social Skills Training 4–8Stop Think Do Social Skills Training 8–12 Stop Think Do Social Skills Training 12–15Social Savvy
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.
Please note. These are scanned editions and the best we can do as the original files were lost. Apologies in advance.
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)
The Playful Astronauts
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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
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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.
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)
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.
Excuse Me!
$34.95
This engaging collection features five thought-provoking plays designed specifically for classroom performance. Written by acclaimed Australian author Hazel Edwards, the plays tackle contemporary themes including technology, life choices, media influence, bureaucracy and time management, while being perfectly crafted to fit within a standard forty-minute lesson.
More than just entertainment, these plays serve as powerful teaching tools, combining literacy development with active learning and social skills. Whether exploring technological change in ‘The Not-So-Great Excuse Machine’, grappling with life's big decisions in ‘Everyperson’, satirising modern media in ‘The Fairly Fake TV Show’, unravelling mysteries in ‘The Mt Paperwork Whodunnit’, or diving into reader's theatre with ‘The Minutes of Time’, these plays promise engaging experiences that spark meaningful classroom discussions.
Stop Think Do Social Skills Training 12–15
$39.95
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: Middle 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.
Please note. These are scanned editions and the best we can do as the original files were lost. Apologies in advance.
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)
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)
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)
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
Dale Sidebottom and Paul Campbell bundle
$74.95
$79.90
Get the two books co-authored by Dale Sidebottom and Paul Campbell in this special bundle.
Ralph Pirozzo bundle
$179.95
$194.75
Discover the comprehensive teaching framework developed by educational innovator Ralph Pirozzo. With 25 years of research and experience working with over 20,000 educators, this five-book collection covers everything from thinking tools and differentiation to feedback programs and higher-order thinking.
Creative Activities in Mathematics bundle
$134.95
$149.85
Get the entire Creative Activities in Mathematics series in one bundle. Three books of problem-based investigations and open-ended activities to engage your students across primary and secondary years, develop collaboration skills and build genuine mathematical thinking grounded in the Australian Curriculum.
Shelley Davidow 9-book reading bundle
$99.95
$110.55
Grab all 9 reading books by Shelley Davidow in this special bundle.
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