Douglas Stone

Bruce Patton

Sheila Heen

Roger Fisher

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Alabama

How to Discuss What Matters Most

The 10th-anniversary edition of the New York Times business bestseller-now updated with "Answers to Ten Questions People Ask" We attempt or avoid difficult conversations every day-whether dealing with an underperforming employee, disagreeing with a spouse, or negotiating with a client. From the Harvard Negotiation Project, the organization that brought you Getting to Yes, Difficult Conversations provides a step-by-step approach to having those tough conversations with less stress and more success. you'll learn how to: · Decipher the underlying structure of every difficult conversation · Start a conversation without defensiveness · Listen for the meaning of what is not said · Stay balanced in the face of attacks and accusations · Move from emotion to productive problem solving

Difficult Conversations

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Ronald D. Davis

Eldon M. Braun

Joan M. Smith

Why Some of the Smartest People Can't Read and How They Can Learn

In this exciting book, Davis shares the startling discovery he made which helped him overcome his own dyslexia; reveals how dyslexia may be linked to uncommonly high levels of intelligence, creativity, and imagination; and outlines a clear and simple plan that anyone can use to help themselves or others conquer this all-too-common disability.

The Gift of Dyslexia

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John Spencer

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Computer Science

Using Design Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Students

Something happens in students when they define themselves as makers and inventors and creators. They discover powerful skills-problem-solving, critical thinking, and imagination-that will help them shape the world's future ... our future. If that's true, why isn't creativity a priority in more schools today? Educators John Spencer and A.J. Juliani know firsthand the challenges teachers face every day: School can be busy. Materials can be scarce. The creative process can seem confusing. Curriculum requirements can feel limiting. Those challenges too often bully creativity, pushing it to the side as an "enrichment activity" that gets put off or squeezed into the tiniest time block. We can do better. We must do better if we're going to prepare students for their future. LAUNCH: Using Design Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student provides a process that can be incorporated into every class at every grade level ... even if you don't consider yourself a "creative teacher." And if you dare to innovate and view creativity as an essential skill, you will empower your students to change the world-starting right now. Look, Listen, and Learn Ask Lots of Questions Understand the Problem or Process Navigate Ideas Create Highlight What's Working and Failing Are you ready to LAUNCH?

Launch

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Michael Fullan

The Skinny on Becoming Change Savvy

Cycling from practice to theory and back again, this concise book provides the skinny on motion leadership, or how to “move” individuals, institutions, and whole systems forward.

Motion Leadership

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Todd Nesloney

Pushing Boundaries and Challenging Conventional Thinking

What if learning was exciting? What if students felt important and empowered every time they walked into the building? What if parents looked forward to calls from their children's teachers and principals, instead of cringing when the school's number popped up on their phones? To Todd Nesloney and Adam Welcome, those aren't far-fetched what ifs; they can (and should) be a reality for every teacher, school, parent, and student. In Kids Deserve It , Todd and Adam encourage you to think big and make learning fun and meaningful for students. While you're at it, you just might rediscover why you became an educator in the first place. Learn why you should be calling parents to praise your students (and employees). Discover ways to promote family interaction and improve relationships for kids at school and at home. Be inspired to take risks, shake up the status quo, and be a champion for your students. #KidsDeserveIt

Kids Deserve It

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Todd Whitaker

Fourteen Things That Matter Most

Presents a series of guidelines to help teachers become more effective in the classroom.

What Great Teachers Do Differently, 1st Edition

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Beverly Daniel Tatum

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

And Other Conversations about Race

The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious. This fully revised edition is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of race in America. "An unusually sensitive work about the racial barriers that still divide us in so many areas of life."-Jonathan Kozol

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

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Amber Teaman

Melinda Miller

Fostering a Culture of Gratitude

Make Your Campus a Place Where People Want to Work Positive recognition and appreciation can transform your school from a place where people have to work into one where they want to work and enjoy bringing their best every day. And that transformation starts with the leader! Your staff pours time and energy into learners every single day. As a busy PIRATE leader, you know that even the best crews need the direction of a great captain. But what does that look like? And how can you provide meaningful recognition and encouragement when your schedule is full and your budget is limited? In Lead with Appreciation, a Lead Like a PIRATE Guide, Amber Teamann and Melinda Miller offer practical and doable strategies to revolutionize your campus culture! "Teamann and Miller help leaders at all levels recognize that culture isn't something you think about just once; it has to happen regularly. It's an ongoing process!" --Shawn Achor, New York Times best-selling author of Big Potential and The Happiness Advantage "If you want to learn the keys to motivating and empowering your staff or developing relationships through service on a deeper level, you need to get this book immediately. I will be the first one in line!" --Salome Thomas-EL, award-winning principal, speaker and coauthor of Passionate Leadership "Lead with Appreciation is a gift to school leaders looking for ways to support and encourage their staff throughout the year." --Jessica Cabeen, principal, speaker, author of Hacking Early Learning, coauthor of Balance Like A Pirate "Lead with Appreciation puts action behind servant leadership theory. . . . I strongly encourage you to add this to your leadership library!" --Sanée Bell, EdD, principal, speaker, author of Be Excellent on Purpose

Lead with Appreciation

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Kenneth R. Ginsburg

Martha M. Jablow

Giving Kids Roots and Wings

This edition includes new information about how strength-based relationships are critical to healthy development, especially for children who have endured toxic stress, adverse childhood events or experiences (ACEs), or trauma. Dr. Ginsburg outlines his seven crucial "Cs"--competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control--and teaches moms and dads how to incorporate these concepts into their parenting. Building Resilience in Children and Teens also presents detailed coping strategies to help children and teenagers deal with the stresses of academic pressure, high achievement standards, media messages, peer pressure, or family tension.

Building Resilience in Children and Teens

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Kat Howard

A Pragmatic Approach to Teacher Workload

Outlines a series of tools that teachers can use to take ownership of their workload, and achieve wellbeing through purposeful job fulfilment.

Stop Talking about Wellbeing

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Wendy Suzuki

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion

"Drawing on her own intimate struggles and based on cutting-edge research, Dr. Suzuki has developed an inspiring guidebook for managing unwarranted anxiety and turning it into a powerful asset. In the tradition of Quiet and Thinking, Fast and Slow, Good Anxiety has the power to permanently change how we understand anxiety and, more importantly, how we can use it to improve our lives for the better"--

Good Anxiety

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Michael G. Thompson

M Ed

English

The Teacher's Guide to Successful Family-School Relationships

Understanding Independent School Parents is a practical guide for teachers provides advice for forging successful relationships with independent school parents. Written by a seasoned school psychologist and an experienced classroom teacher, this book aims to help teachers and administrators understand today's families and maintain healthy relationships with them. Readers will learn how to create school environments that support both teachers and parents, make the most of parent conferences, and manage those disruptive and difficult "five percenter" parents who can make a teacher's life miserable.

Understanding Independent School Parents

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Maria Montessori

Before anything else, this book is a description of the child, seen with the exactness of a scientist and the empathy of a warm heart. From this understanding grew the way of teaching based on collaborating with the needs and powers of a child and the removing of obstacles to this growth that has come to be known as the Montessori Method.

The Secret of Childhood

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Eighteen Things That Matter Most

Inspire yourself and others with the second edition of this best-selling book. With heartfelt advice, practical wisdom, and examples from the field, Todd Whitaker explains the qualities and practices that distinguish great principals. New features include:

 * Developing an accurate sense of self
 * Understanding the dynamics of change
 * Dealing with negative or ineffective staff members

One of the nation's leading experts on staff motivation, teacher leadership, and principal effectiveness, Todd Whitaker has written over 20 powerful books for educators of every level. Discover what you can do differently.


What Great Principals Do Differently

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Justin Baeder

21 Days to High-Performance Instructional Leadership (Making Time for Classroom Observation and Teacher Evaluation)

"Most leaders and teachers don't fully realize the potential that daily classroom visits have to prompt significant improvements in teaching and learning. In Now We're Talking!: 21 Days to High-Performance Instructional Leadership, Justin Baeder presents a high-performance instructional leadership approach that far surpasses traditional walkthrough models of feedback. He asserts the classroom is the best environment for professional learning, and he gives readers strategies to help them develop the instructional leadership habit of visiting classrooms daily, based on his global online experiment called the 21-Day Instructional Leadership Challenge, which has attracted more than ten thousand participants in more than fifty countries. When instructional leaders observe three classrooms a day for five to ten minutes each, and then have a brief evidence-based conversation with the teacher thereafter, they can learn more about their teachers' thinking and practices. With this firsthand shared information, they can make informed operational and instructional decisions that foster rich relationships with teachers, improve professional practices, reduce stress, and increase student learning"

Now We're Talking

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Andy Sammons

Why Compassion Should Be at the Heart of Our Schools

In a world that judges teachers by appearances and scores, this book is about finding a healthier and more meaningful way to relate to ourselves, our students and our profession.

The Compassionate Teacher

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Dominique Smith

Douglas Fisher

Nancy Frey

Perfect condition. Great for working with middle and high school kids 

Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management

Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishments. But studies show that when educators empower students to address and correct misbehavior among themselves, positive results are longer lasting and more wide reaching. In Better Than Carrots or Sticks, longtime educators and best-selling authors Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey provide a practical blueprint for creating a cooperative and respectful classroom climate in which students and teachers work through behavioral issues together. After a comprehensive overview of the roots of the restorative practices movement in schools, the authors explain how to:
 * Establish procedures and expectations for student behavior that encourage the development of positive interpersonal skills.
 * Develop a nonconfrontational rapport with even the most challenging students.
 * Implement conflict resolution strategies that prioritize relationship building and mutual understanding over finger-pointing and retribution.



Rewards and punishments may help to maintain order in the short term, but they're at best superficially effective and at worst counterproductive. This book will prepare teachers at all levels to ensure that their classrooms are welcoming, enriching, and constructive environments built on collective respect and focused on student achievement.

Better Than Carrots or Sticks

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Patti Drapeau

Philosophy

Practical Ways to Promote Innovative Thinking and Problem Solving

Teaching isn't merely transmitting knowledge to students; it's also about teaching students to approach learning in engaging and unexpected ways. In Sparking Student Creativity: Practical Ways to Promote Innovative Thinking and Problem Solving, author and researcher Patti Drapeau explores and explains research related to creativity and its relevance in today's standards-based, critical thinking-focused classroom. The book vividly and comprehensively shows:
 * How creative lessons can meet and extend the expectations of curriculum standards such as the Common Core State Standards.
 * How to incorporate creativity and assessment into daily classroom practices.
 * How to develop a ""Creativity Road Map"" to guide instruction.
 * How to design lessons that prompt and support creative thinking.



In addition, the book includes 40 ""grab and go"" ideas that infuse lesson plans with a spirit of exploration. No matter what grade levels or content areas you teach, Sparking Student Creativity will help you to produce creative lesson components that directly address critical content, target specific standards, and require thoughtful products from students as they grow into independent learners and become successful students and adults.

Sparking Student Creativity

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Dave Burgess

Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life As an Educator

In this book you'll learn how to: tap into your passion as a teacher - even when you're less than excited about the subject; develop creative presentations that capture your students' interest; establish rapport and a sense of camaraderie in your classroom; transform your class into a life-changing experience for your students. --from back cover.

Teach Like a PIRATE

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Craig Randall

Maximizing Teaching and Learning Growth

Trust-Based Observations teaches observers to build trusting relationships with teachers as they engage in frequent observations and reflective conversations with them. Using the manageable observation form and data driven goal setting, the result is teachers embrace risk-taking and take growth steps necessary for significant teaching improvement.

Trust-Based Observations

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Robert J. Marzano

Tony Frontier

David Livingston

Supporting the Art and Science of Teaching

This book shows school and district-level administrators how to set the priorities and support the practices that will help all teachers become expert teachers. The focus is on developing a collegial atmosphere in which teachers can freely share effective practices with each other, observe one another's classrooms, and receive focused feedback on their teaching strategies.

Effective Supervision

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Richard Guare

Peg Dawson

Colin Guare

The &quot;Executive Skills&quot; Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential

Uses key principles from the business world to help teens get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses.

Smart but Scattered Teens

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John Almarode

Kara Vandas

Five Essential Practices That Empower Students and Teachers

An essential resource for student and teacher clarity With the ever-changing landscape of education, teachers and leaders often find themselves searching for clarity in a sea of standards, curriculum resources, and competing priorities. Clarity for Learning offers a simple and doable approach to developing clarity and sharing it with students through five essential components: crafting learning intentions and success criteria co-constructing learning intentions and success criteria with learners creating opportunities for students to respond effective feedback on and for learning students and teachers sharing learning and progress The book is full of examples from teachers and leaders who have shared their journey, struggles, and successes for readers to use to propel their own work forward.

Clarity for Learning

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Fenwick W. English

Betty Steffy

John R. Hoyle

This resource is the most important book in years focusing on the preparation and development of school leaders. Comprehensive in scope and extremely readable, Skills for Successful 21st Century School Leaders provides a complete overview of the knowledge base and skills for successful school leaders. The publication is based on the standards recently developed by the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLe, the National Policy Board for Educational Administration (NPBEA), the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), and state education agencies.

Skills for Successful 21st Century School Leaders

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Angela Pieroni

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John Spencer

Launch

Michael Fullan

Motion Leadership

Todd Nesloney

Kids Deserve It

Todd Whitaker

What Great Teachers Do Differently, 1st Edition

Beverly Daniel Tatum

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Amber Teaman; Melinda Miller

Lead with Appreciation

Kenneth R. Ginsburg; Martha M. Jablow

Building Resilience in Children and Teens

Kat Howard

Stop Talking about Wellbeing

Wendy Suzuki

Good Anxiety

Michael G. Thompson; M Ed

Understanding Independent School Parents

Maria Montessori

The Secret of Childhood

Todd Whitaker

What Great Principals Do Differently

Justin Baeder

Now We're Talking

Andy Sammons

The Compassionate Teacher

Dominique Smith; Douglas Fisher; Nancy Frey

Better Than Carrots or Sticks

Patti Drapeau

Sparking Student Creativity

Dave Burgess

Teach Like a PIRATE

Craig Randall

Trust-Based Observations

Robert J. Marzano; Tony Frontier; David Livingston

Effective Supervision

Richard Guare; Peg Dawson; Colin Guare

Smart but Scattered Teens

John Almarode; Kara Vandas

Clarity for Learning

Fenwick W. English; Betty Steffy; John R. Hoyle

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