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Cassandra Erkens & Tom Schimmer—Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Assessment and Grading

David Price—The Power of Us: How We Connect, Act, and Innovate Together

Barbara Oakley & Beth Rogowsky—Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn

Tom Guskey—Implementing Mastery Learning 3rd Edition

Eric Carbaugh and Laura McCullough—Building Educator Capacity Through Microcredentials

Jorge Valenzuela—Raising Equity Through SEL: A Framework for Implementing Trauma-Informed, Culturally Responsive Teaching and Restorative Practices

A. Keith Young—The Instructional Coaching Handbook: 200+ Troubleshooting Strategies for Success

AJ Crabill—Great On Their Behalf: Why School Boards Fail, How Yours Can Become Effective

Hedreich Nichols—Finding Your Blind Spots: Eight Guiding Principles for Overcoming Implicit Bias in Teaching

Rhonda Roos—The Deliberate and Courageous Principal: Ten Leadership Actions and Skills to Create High-Achieving Schools

Michael Gaskell—Radical Principals: A Blueprint for Long-Term Equity and Stability at School

Mike Lahiff—ZeroEyes AI Gun Detection

Rebecca Rolland—The Art of Talking with Children: The Simple Keys to Nurturing Kindness, Creativity, and Confidence in Kids

Jane Kise & Ann Holm—Educator Bandwidth: How to Reclaim Your Energy, Passion, and Time

Joy Kelly—Handle with Care: Managing Difficult Situations in Schools with Dignity and Respect

Ken O’Connor—Repair Kit for Grading: 15 Fixes for Broken Grades

Ron Beghetto & Laura McBain—My Favorite Failure: How Setbacks Can Lead To Learning and Growth

Chester E. Finn, Jr.—Assessing the Nation’s Report Card: Challenges and Choices for NAEP

Jim Henderson—3Q Check-Ins: How To Pay Attention To The People You Can’t Afford To Lose

Gary Orfield & Nicholas Hillman—Civil Rights and Federal Higher Education

Michelle Young, Ann O’Doherty, & Kathleen Cunningham—Redesigning Educational Leadership Preparation for Equity

Dawn Harris—Plan Like A PIRATE: Designing Extraordinary Learning Journeys for Every Student

Dr. Quintin Shepherd—The Secret to Transformational Leadership

Shira Leibowitz—Havens of Hope: Ideas for Redesigning Education from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Josh Packard—Mental Health & Gen Z: What Educators Need To Know

Christopher Jones—SEEing To Lead: Creating a World-Class Culture Through a Teacher-Centric Approach

Erik Francis—Deconstructing Depth of Knowledge: A Method and Model for Deeper Teaching and Learning

Tom Hierck & Chris Weber—MTSS Roadmap

Peter Docker—Leading from the Jumpseat: How to Create Extraordinary Opportunities by Handing Over Control

Decoteau Irby—Stuck Improving: Racial Equity & School Leadership

Larry Dake—Crisis Management: Effective School Leadership to Avoid Early Burnout

Ken Williams—Ruthless Equity: Disrupt the Status Quo and Ensure Learning for ALL Students

Sean Glaze—Staying Coachable: A Story with 4 Questions to Help You Thrive in Change, Keep Climbing, and Enjoy Relentless Improvement

Allen Mendler—Motivating Students Who Don’t Care: Proven Strategies to Engage All Learners – 2nd Edition

Diana Parafiniuk—Mental Health Support Services for Educators

Laura Stack—The Dangerous Truth About Today’s Marijuana: Johnny Stack’s Life and Death Story

Tom Hierck—Trauma-Sensitive Instruction: Creating a Safe and Predictable Classroom Environment

Frank Buck—Get Organized Digitally! The Educator’s Guide to Time Management

Joseph Jones & TJ Vari—Retention for a Change: Motivate, Inspire, and Energize Your School Culture

Daphne Wallbrige—The First-Year Principal: 52 Practical Lessons to Help New Principals Thrive as Conscious Leaders

Jason Baehr & Jacquie Bryant—Deep in Thought: A Practical Guide to Teaching for Intellectual Virtues

Monica Brady-Myerov—Listen Wise: Teach Students to be Better Listeners

Eric Garcia—We‘re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation

Allison Rodman—Personalized Professional Learning: A Job-Embedded Pathway for Elevating Teacher Voice

Morgan Polikoff—Beyond Standards: The Fragmentation of Education Governance & the Promise of Curricular Reform

Daniel Bauer—Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader

Patrick Leddin—The Five-Week Leadership Challenge: 35 Action Steps to Become the Leader You Were Meant to Be

Michael Gaskell—Leading Schools Through Trauma: A Data-Driven Approach to Helping Children Heal

Daniel Willingham—Why Don’t Students Like School? 2nd Edition

Ulcca Joshi Hansen—The Future of Smart: How Our Education System Needs to Change to Help All Young People Thrive

Diana Parafiniuk—E-Therapy

Jane Kise—Doable Differentiation: Twelve Strategies to Meet the Needs of All Learners

Randy Weiner & James Bailey—The Daily SEL Leader

Andrew Marotta—The School Leader: Surviving & Thriving

Patrice Bain—A Parent’s Guide to Powerful Teaching

Steve Zonnevylle & David Armstrong—The Forty-Hour Principal

Robyn Jackson—Stop Leading, Start Building!: Turn Your School into a Success Story with the People and Resources You Already Have

Teaching With the Instructional Cha-Chas: Four Steps to Make Learning Stick—LeAnn Nickelsen & Melissa Dickson

Danny Brassell—Leadership Begins with Motivation

Jed Dearybury—The Playful Classroom: The Power of Play for All Ages

Annie Murphy Paul—The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

Courtney Ostaff—The Teaching Online Handbook

Jared Cooney Horvath & David Bott—10 Things Schools Get Wrong and How We Can Get Them Right

Ted Bunch & Anna Marie Johnson Teague—The Book of Dares: 100 Ways for Boys to be Kind, Bold, and Brave

Barbara Blackburn—Rigor in the Remote Learning Classroom: Instructional Tips and Strategies

Jennifer Abrams—Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) at Work

Michael Bungay Stainer—The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever

Jessica Lahey—The Addiction Inoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence

Houston Kraft—Deep Kindness: A Revolutionary Guide for the Way We Think, Talk, and Act in Kindness

Read Write Code: A Friendly Introduction to the World of Coding, and Why It’s the New Literacy

Robert Slavin: Proven Tutoring

John Corrigan—Why We Teach: Preparing Young People For A Future That’s Here

Douglas Fisher—The Distance Learning Playbook for School Leaders: Leading for Engagement and Impact in Any Setting

Alexs Pate—The Innocent Classroom: Dismantling Racial Bias to Support Students of Color

Simon Rodberg—What If I’m Wrong? and Other Key Questions for Decisive School Leadership

Justin Thomas—The Principal’s Toolbox: Real Talk on Tackling School Leadership

Ebony Omotola McGee—Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation

Bryan Goodwin—Balanced Leadership for Powerful Learning: Tools for Achieving Success in Your School

Molly Hudgens—Saving Sycamore: The School Shooting That Never Happened

Curtis Zimmerman—Life at Performance Level

Marcie Beigel—Love Your Classroom Again: Realistic Behavior Strategies for Educators

Karen Gross—Trauma Doesn’t Stop at the School Door: Strategies and Solutions for Educators, PreK-College

Delores Lindsey—Culturally Proficient Coaching: Supporting Educators to Create Equitable Schools

Raymond Smith—10 Mindframes for Leaders: The VISIBLE LEARNING Approach to School Success

Chad Dumas—Let’s Put the C in PLC: A Practical Guide for School Leaders

William A. Sommers and Diane Zimmerman—9 Professional Conversations to Change Schools: A Dashboard of Options

William D. Parker—Pause. Breathe. Flourish. Living Your Best Life as an Educator.

Craig Randall—Trust-Based Observations: Maximizing Teaching & Learning Growth

William A. Sommers—Responding to Resistance: Thirty Strategies to Manage Conflict in Your School

Robert Barr & Emily Gibson—Building the Resilient School: Overcoming the Effects of Poverty With a Culture of Hope

Douglas Fisher—The Distance Learning Playbook

Michael Roberts—Shifting from Me to We: How to Jumpstart Collaboration in a PLC at Work®

Meredith Honig & Lydia Rainey—Supervising Principals for Instructional Leadership: A Teaching and Learning Approach

Jethro Jones—SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves

Jamie Thom—A Quiet Education: Challenging the Extrovert Ideal in our Schools

Emma Turner—Be More Toddler: A Leadership Education From Our Little Learners

Wendy Oliver—Not Your Mama’s Classroom: What You Need to Know As A Parent About Your Child’s Digital Education

Dana Goodier—Working With Students with Chronic Attendance And Truancy Issues

Kirsten Richert, Jeffrey Ikler and Margaret Zacchei—Shifting How School Leaders Can Create a Culture of Change

Peter Dewitt—Instructional Leadership: Creating Practice Out of Theory

Amy Baeder—Creating Purpose and Consistency for Students with Project-Based Learning

Andy Hargreaves—Moving: A Memoir of Education and Social Mobility

Amber Dembowski—Monday Mindset

Anne Gregory and Katherine R. Evans—The Starts and Stumbles of Restorative Justice in Education: Where Do We Go from Here?

Barbara Blackburn—Money for Good Grades and Other Myths about Motivating Kids: Strategies for Parents & Teachers

Thomas Guskey—Get Set, Go: Creating Successful Grading and Reporting Systems

Dan Heath—Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen

Tricia Taylor—Connect the Dots: The Collective Power of Relationships, Memory and Mindset in the Classroom

Kulvarn Atwal—The Thinking School: Developing a Dynamic Learning Community

Fred Ende and Meghan Everette—Forces of Influence: How Educators Can Leverage Relationships to Improve Practice

Tom Hoerr—Taking Social Emotional Learning Schoolwide: The Formative Five Success Skills for Students and Staff

Eric Kalenze—What The Academy Taught Us: Improving Schools from the Bottom Up in a Top-Down Transformation Era.

Rich Czyz—The Secret Sauce: Essential Ingredients for Exceptional Teaching

Tracey Benson—Unconscious Bias in Schools: A Developmental Approach to Exploring Race and Racism

Scott Seider and Daren Graves—Schooling for Critical Consciousness: Engaging Black and Latinx Youth in Analyzing, Navigating, and Challenging Racial Injustice

Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey—All Learning is Social & Emotional

Douglas Reeves—100-Day Leaders: Turning Short-Term Wins Into Long-Term Success in Schools

Adam Drummond—The Instructional Change Agent: 48 Ways to Be the Leader Your School Needs

Juliana Finegan—Teacher Onboarding

Douglas Reeves—Achieving Equity and Excellence: Achieving Equity and Excellence: Immediate Results From the Lessons of High-Poverty, High-Success Schools

Kim Marshall—The Best of The Marshall Memo, Book One: Ideas and Action Steps to Energize Leadership, Teaching, and Learning

Keara Mascareñaz—The New Team Habits: A Guide to the New School Rules

Lynmara Colón—Empower Our Girls: Opening the Door for Girls to Achieve More

Andrea Ferrero—Pockets Change

Richard Gerver—Education: A Manifesto for Change

Stephanie Dean: Opportunity Culture—Extending the Reach of Excellent Teachers

Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey—PLC+: Better Decisions and Greater Impact By Design

Kevin Stoller—Creating Better Learning Environments

Katie White—Unlocked: Assessment as the Key to Everyday Creativity in the Classroom

Eileen Depka—Letting Data Lead: How to Design, Analyze, and Respond to Classroom Assessment

Jane Kise—Step In, Step Up: Empowering Women for the School Leadership Journey

Natalie Wexler—The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System—And How To Fix It

Paul Tough—The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us

Carla Tantillo Philibert—Everyday Self-Care for Educators: Tools and Strategies for Well-Being

Scott Young—Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career.

Barbara Blackburn—Rigor and Differentiation in the Classroom: Tools and Strategies

Esther Wojcicki—How To Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results

Brad Gustafson—Reclaiming Our Calling: Hold on to the Heart, Mind, and Hope of Education

Anthony Muhammad—Time for Change: Four Essential Skills for Transformational School and District Leaders

Angela Watson—40-Hour Teacher Workweek Club

Tom Schimmer, Cassandra Erkens & Nicole Dimich Vagle—Growing Tomorrow’s Citizens in Today’s Classrooms

Jarod Bormann—Professionally Driven: Empower Every Educator To Redefine PD

Catlin Tucker—Power Up Blended Learning: A Professional Learning Infrastructure to Support Sustainable Change

Jane Kise—Holistic Leadership, Thriving Schools: Twelve Lenses to Balance Priorities and Serve the Whole Student

Brad Weinstein—Hacking School Discipline: 9 Ways to Create a Culture of Empathy and Responsibility Using Restorative Justice

Gary Jones—Evidence-based School Leadership and Management: A Practical Guide

Baruti Kafele—Is My School a Better School Because I Lead It?

Rebecca Stobaugh—Fifty Strategies to Boost Cognitive Engagement: Creating a Thinking Culture in the Classroom

Jared Horvath—Stop Talking, Start Influencing: 12 Insights From Brain Science to Make Your Message Stick

Sophie Riegel—Don’t Tell Me To Relax: One Teen’s Journey to Survive Anxiety (and How You Can Too)

Alex Kajitani—Owning It: Proven Strategies to Ace and Embrace Teaching

Jennifer Abrams—Swimming in the Deep End: Four Foundational Skills for Leading Successful School Initiatives

Brad and Tonya Balch—Building Great School Counselor–Administrator Teams

Ellen Feig Gray—Hacking School Culture: Designing Compassionate Classrooms

Mike Fisher—Hacking Instructional Design: 33 Extraordinary Ways to Create a Contemporary Curriculum

Jimmy Casas, Jeffrey Zoul & Todd Whitaker—10 Perspectives on Innovation in Education

Shawn Rubin & Cathy Sanford—Pathways to Personalization: A Framework for School Change

Peter Dewitt—Coach It Further: Using the Art of Coaching to Improve School Leadership

Michael McDowell—The Lead Learner: Improving Clarity, Coherence, and Capacity for All

Aaron White—Script

Larry Hausner—The Principal Coaching Model: How To Plan, Design, and Implement a Successful Program

Barbara Blackburn & Bradley Witzel—Rigor in the RTI & MTSS Classroom

Monica Burns—Tasks Before Apps: Designing Rigorous Learning in a Tech-Rich Classroom

Luthern Williams—New Roads School

Tamara Fyke—Building People: Social-Emotional Learning for Kids, Families, Schools, and Communities

Anneke Markholt and Joanna Michelson—Leading for Professional Learning: What Successful Principals Do To Support Teaching Practice

Robert Avossa—FETC

Cinque Henderson—Sit Down and Shut Up: How Discipline Can Set Students Free

Kimberly Mitchell—Experience Inquiry: 5 Powerful Strategies, 50 Practical Experiences

Amy Jenkins & Kira Keane—Strategic Communication for Families & Stakeholders

Cristal Glangchai—Venture Girls: Raising Girls To Be Tomorrow’s Leaders

Amy Dujon—The Gritty Truth of School Transformation: Eight Phases of Growth to Instructional Rigor

Robyn Jackson—Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching

Jessica Cabeen, Jessica Johnson, and Sarah Johnson—Balance Like a Pirate: Going beyond Work-Life Balance to Ignite Passion and Thrive as an Educator (A Lead Like a PIRATE Guide)

Mark Perna—Answering Why: Unleashing Passion, Purpose, and Performance in Younger Generations

Barbara Oakley—Learning How to Learn: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying; A Guide for Kids and Teens

Amy McGrath—ASU Prep Digital

Barbara Blackburn—Rigor & Assessment in the Classroom

Jim Henderson—3Q Check-In System

Guillaume Gendre—School By Design

Robyn Jackson—Never Underestimate Your Teachers: Instructional Leadership for Excellence in Every Classroom

Ilana Horn—Motivated: Designing Math Classrooms Where Students Want to Join In

Julie Wilson—The Human Side of Changing Education: How to Lead Change With Clarity, Conviction, and Courage

Elena Aguilar—Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators

Marlena Hebern—The EduProtocol Field Guide: 16 Student-Centered Lesson Frames for Infinite Learning Possibilities

Jack Jose and Krista Taylor—Angels and Superheroes Compassionate Educators in an Era of School Accountability

Sonny Magana—Disruptive Classroom Technologies: A Framework for Innovation in Education

Richard Gerver—Creating Tomorrow’s Schools Today: Education – Our Children – Their Futures

Alex Kajitani—Multiplication Nation

Jane Pollock—The i5 Approach: Lesson Planning That Teaches Thinking and Fosters Innovation

Denver Fowler—The 21st Century School Leader: Leading Schools in Today’s World

Barbara Blackburn—The Principalship from A to Z

Rick Jetter—Let Them Speak: How Student Voice Can Transform Your School

Nathan Lang—Everyday Instructional Coaching: Seven Daily Drivers to Support Teacher Effectiveness

Jonathan Eckert—Leading Together: Teachers and Administrators Improving Student Outcomes

Mitch Weathers—Tier I Supports for Executive Functioning

Barbara Blackburn—Advocacy from A to Z

Daniel P. Kelley—NASSP

Brad Balch—Building Great School Board–Superintendent Teams A Systematic Approach to Balancing Roles and Responsibilities

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Nadine Burke Harris—The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity

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Peter Kraft—Evolution Labs

Cassandra Erkens—Instructional Agility: Responding to Assessment with Real-Time Decisions

John Hattie—Ten Mindframes for Visible Learning: Teaching for Success

David Hehman—Creation Crate

Dr. Amy Klinger & Amanda Klinger, Esq—The Educator’s School Safety Network

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Patty Alper—TEACH TO WORK: How a Mentor, a Mentee, and a Project Can Close the Skills Gap in America

Matt Renwick—Digital Portfolios in the Classroom: Showcasing and Assessing Student Work

Dr. Kimberly Tyson—Blended Vocabulary for K-12 Classrooms: Harnessing the Power of Digital Tools and Direct Instruction

Chris & Courtney Daikos—Trauma-Informed Tier I Supports

Ken Spero—Ed Leadership SIMs: Training Simulations for School Leaders

PJ Caposey—Making Evaluation Meaningful: Transforming the Conversation to Transform Schools

Matt Miller—Ditch That Homework: Practical Strategies to Help Make Homework Obsolete

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Mark Wu—Answerables.com

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Naphtali Hoff—Becoming the New Boss: The New Leader’s Guide to Sustained Success

Richard Kincaid—EcoRise

Dr. Tonya Goree—Impact Now: How Principals Can Use Video-Enhanced Coaching to Grow Teachers and Raise Student Achievement

Michael Toth—Who Moved My Standards? Joyful Teaching in an Age of Change

Steve Reifman—10 Steps to Empowering Classroom Management: Build A Productive, Cooperative Culture Without Using Rewards

William Parker—Messaging Matters: How School Leaders Can Inspire Teachers, Motivate Students, and Reach Communities

Joy Kirr—Shift This!: How to Implement Gradual Changes for MASSIVE Impact in Your Classroom

Chris Walsh: Abl—Unlocking Time As A Resource To Personalize Education

Jessica Johnson, Shira Leibowitz, Kathy Perret—The Coach Approach to School Leadership: Leading Teachers to Higher Levels of Effectiveness

Justin Baeder—Becoming a Learning Organization: Leading for Sustained Improvement

Rick Stiggins—Defensible Teacher Evaluation: Student Growth Through Classroom Assessment

Justin Baeder—Restructuring the Teaching Profession

Jon Saphier—High Expectations Teaching: How We Persuade Students to Believe and Act on “Smart Is Something You Can Get”

Rick Stiggins—The Perfect Assessment System

Daniel Bauer—Mastermind Groups

Rick Jetter & Rebecca Coda—Escaping the School Leader’s Dunk Tank: How to Prevail when Others Want You to Drown

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Baruti Kafele—The Teacher 50: Critical Questions for Inspiring Classroom Excellence

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Douglas Reeves—Elements of Grading: A Guide to Effective Practice

Ivan Hannel: A Pedagogy of Questioning

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David Horton—Leading School Teams: Building Trust to Promote Student Learning

Dr. Richard Cash—Self-Regulation in the Classroom: Helping Students Learn How to Learn

Erik Francis—Now THAT’S a Good Question! How to Promote Cognitive Rigor Through Classroom Questioning

Terry Wilhelm—Shared Leadership: The Essential Ingredient for Effective PLCs

Regie Routman—Read, Write, Lead: Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success

Dr. Brad Gustafson—Renegade Leadership: Creating Innovative Schools for Digital Age Students

Dr. Peter DeWitt—Collaborative Leadership: Six Influences That Matter Most

Tom Schimmer—Grading From the Inside Out: Bringing Accuracy to Student Assessment Through a Standards-Based Mindset

Bill Sterrett—Igniting Teacher Leadership: How do I empower my teachers to lead and learn?

Sean Glaze—The 10 Commandments of Winning Teammates

Otis Kriegel—Starting School Right

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Larry Machi—Analyzing and Synthesizing Research—Making Leadership Theory Apply to the Real World

Russell Quaglia—Principal Voice: Listen, Learn, Lead

Allyson Burnett—Virtual Coaching

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Dan Tricarico—The Zen Teacher

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James Alan Sturtevant—You’ve Gotta Connect

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