Educational Strategies and Policy Books

Our Education System Is Failing Because It Is Doing Exactly What It Was Designed to Do! Our best efforts at modernizing education have failed to improve the lives of students or change society for the better. This is no accident:...

The Hopeful Mindsets for Veterans Facilitator Guide provides in-depth lessons, making it easy for anyone to lead the 8-module group Hopeful Mindsets for Veterans course seamlessly.This program is built on scientific evidence demonstrating the role hope...

The Hopeful Mindsets for Veterans Workbook is designed specifically for veteran participants of the 8-module Hopeful Mindsets for Veterans program. This workbook equips veterans with the tools they need to create, maintain, and grow hope.This program is...

Ignite you child's learning journey and prepare them for reading with Toddler Lesson Plans: Learning ABC's.Written by a mother of three and former schoolteacher, Autumn McKay, this book is a must-have for parents, grandparents, teachers and...

How can we centre disabled people and their family members as knowledge-bearers, enriching classrooms with their perspectives and knowledge in non-traditional ways?Through testimonies and critical ethnography, and bell hooks' centering of love as...

《為主圖謀大事：散居中的神學教育》是一本以美國正道福音神學院為案例，見證神在普世華人神學教育中的工作。故事從一個神的僕人劉富理牧師開始，延伸到普世華人的神學教育。内容涉及神在美國興起的臺語福音運動、植堂、建立神學院，以及從台灣背景擴展到在散居處境中的華人神學教育，來看神的靈如何從一人到一個運動、再到建立教會和神學院來培育教會的牧者。此書不僅講述一個與主流神學院不同的敘事、不僅論及在散居處境中的多元文化，并且嘗試與主流神學院對話，展望一個更美好的神學教育。普世疫情更讓我們察覺神學教育的必要性和永恆性。願意此...

"Moving is one of life's greatest challenges. The largest study in educational research history demonstrates that moving harms learning. But moving not only challenges students. The experience of lost identity extends across the lifespan, also affecting...

This book examines citizenship education from the perspective of interculturality in order to extend its meaning and significance within and beyond the nation state, and in education in the nation state. There are chapters which deal with theory and...

Creative Counseling: Empowering Health through Makerspace Innovation provides counselors and mental health professionals with a framework for incorporating makerspace ideology into therapeutic practices. The book presents a hands-on approach, advocating...

Discusses digital analytics as a new trend using new technologies to measure, collect, analyze, and report on data about learners and their contexts to understand and optimize learning and learning environments.

Feedback that works—for leadership that makes a difference. Leaders know that feedback is essential to teacher development. Crafting the right feedback, however, can be daunting. This how-to book introduces a dynamic yet practical...

Harness the power of teacher collaboration and engagement to see real results for students! Welcome to Transform Academy, a boundary-breaking professional-learning process that challenges schools to move beyond accountability standards and toward...

The busy administrator’s guide to creating strong teams, changing culture, and improving performanceResearch shows that “teacher collective efficacy” can increase student learning more than any other strategy. In fact, using powerhouse...

Discover the secrets of successful teacher leadership!Whether you’re a teacher who’s ready to take on new roles or an administrator looking to develop strong leaders, this content-driven handbook is here to help you make distributed school...

It takes more than good intentions to make meaningful changeThe “spirit slashing” of injustice: that is how McDermott describes the psychic toll that marginalized students face every day. So how can you make a difference? McDermott gives you...

Differentiate your coaching practice to meet the needs of every teacher! Jane Kise takes you on a journey into differentiated coaching with a strength-based framework for understanding, appreciating, and working with people who may think differently...

Principals are today’s newest superheroes, and every superhero needs a mentor. Daresh and Alexander offer encouragement in a practical hands-on guide to help principals navigate the challenges of leadership. Discover how to: Drive student...

Empower your teachers as partners in professional learning—and see student achievement soar! Are you ready for a professional learning program that makes a lasting difference in the quality of teaching within your organization? This...

Help students thrive with this systematic approach to culturally responsive instruction!This breakthrough book shows educators how to create culturally relevant RTI models that meaningfully engage African American students. You’ll learn to...

Educational partnerships for postsecondary readiness – your resource guide is here!This step-by-step action plan from college and career readiness experts, McGaughy and Venezia provides key research findings, real-world examples and reflections,...

The classic personal guide for principals, updated to address today’s challengesOf all the elements needed for a successful school, a competent, responsive and visionary principal may be the most important. And for over a decade, principals of all...

Your shortcut to success for inspired school leadership!Tap your greatest leadership potential and quickly get on track to meeting today’s complicated challenges with this follow up to the best-selling Learning

The groundbreaking guide to cultural proficiency in schools, updated to meet today’s challenges  This fully updated second edition of The Culturally Proficient School—likely the most influent

Local Citizenship in the Global Arena proposes a reconsideration of both citizenship and citizenship education, moving away equally from prevailing 'global citizenship' and 'fundamental British values' approaches towards a curriculum for education that...

This book explores contemporary issues surrounding discipline in educational settings, drawing together diverse sociological and philosophical critiques of behaviour management to encourage debate on their contribution and continuing influence on policy...

This book examines how critical thinking is regulated in Singapore through the process of what the seminal education theorist Bail Bernstein labelled as "pedagogic recontextualisation". It studies the ways in which Singapore recontextualises its critical...

This edited volume critically examines non-formal education in Japan, an aspect that has received little attention to date.

This book envisions the formulation of critical perspectives on education reform using the Philippine experience, recognizing the need to address relevant issues and challenges particularly in an increasingly globalized 21st century setting.

This work examines the development of racial and cultural identities in a sample of white pre-service teachers. It provides insights into how teacher education programs might challenge white teachers to interrogate their whiteness in order to develop...

The book explores how ethnic minority culture is integrated into school practices inside and outside classrooms in Southwest China.

This book illustrates how humour can be a powerful tool for environmental education. Hailing from eight different countries, the authors' inquiries are grounded in a range of sites of learning and focus on different comedic forms, offering a variety of...

This edited collection celebrates the legacy of Suellen Shay and draws on the social realist tradition in the sociology of education to discuss how curricula are or should be structured, in order to make key forms of knowledge accessible to students. It...

Based on a five-year research project, this book explores the development and practice of the puhui (普惠) early care and education (ECE) program in China, a national public-benefit policy initiated in 2010.

The first of two volumes, this book offers rich insights into the nature of lifelong education, its development over the forty years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education (and more), and what challenges the field will be called upon to...

The agencies for Curriculum development take different forms in different countries, but the underlying issues are remarkably similar across the globe. It is the basic framework common to all planned curriculum change which The Politics of Curriculum...

Positive Special Education spotlights the power of positive special education, combining insights from researchers and teachers in special education from several countries.

When teachers and leaders implement an identity-conscious practice, they can provide a more responsive and responsible learning environment. Unfortunately, avoiding the impact of identity can create problematic and oppressive conditions in schools.

This Handbook is the first comprehensive volume to focus entirely on the notion of interculturality, reflecting on what the addition of the adjective 'critical' means for research and teaching in interdisciplinary studies.

Education Futures for School Leadership is a comprehensive resource to support school leaders as they encounter the growing complexity and uncertainties that characterize life in schools today.

Bandwidth Recovery explores how students' cognitive resources are diminished by persistent economic insecurity, childhood trauma, and marginalization, while offering strategies and interventions to help learners regain the bandwidth they need to succeed...

The Principal's Special Education Calendar is a pragmatic, "do-now" guide that addresses a building leader's special education responsibilities over the course of the school year. Based on quarterly marking periods, this book includes real-life...