I Feel Happy is the perfect book to help build resilience in children. This simple-to-read book helps parents, educators and guardians begin important life discussions. Recognising, understanding and acknowledging feelings is an important life skill. Young children build emotional development through examples and stories characters show children what feelings and emotions are. Understanding the…
How do school leaders build a collaborative, cohesive culture to ensure high quality learning for all students? This book provides a practical, succinct guide for educators on “how” the core elements of the accreditation process can unite a school in its transformative, continuous improvement journey. The authors explain “what is accreditation” and elaborate on using the core elements f…
We’d all love schools to be havens of joyful learning, not bastions of box-checking and clock-punching. Take charge of the learning environment in your school by rekindling the power of curiosity in yourself and your colleagues! Where to start?
Curiosity Works guides school leadership teams through a six-phase journey toward powerful improvement and innovation, and includes 17 practical to…
Far too often, our students attain only a superficial level of knowledge that fails to prepare them for deeper challenges in school and beyond. In Teaching for Deeper Learning, renowned educators and best-selling authors Jay McTighe and Harvey F. Silver propose a solution: teaching students to make meaning for themselves.
Contending that the ability to "earn" understanding will equip student…
This step-by-step guide to implementing mastery learning in a K-12 classroom is the missing piece in the rapidly-emerging world of competency-based education
Transformed learning spaces begin with transformed thought
For two decades, educators have been told to incorporate skills for the global economy, adapt to diverse learning styles, and employ technology. This requires changing our thinking spaces and our physical spaces. How can or should they change to keep pace with and reflect 21st Century teaching models?
Correlated to national academic standards, offers activities to supplement differentiated lessons in mathematics, science, social studies, language arts, physical education, art, and music. These ready-to-use tasks can be immediately incorporated into lesson plans, and each activity features objectives, materials lists, helpful tips on conducting the activity, and reproducibles