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Brian M. Pete comes from a family of educators—college professors, school superintendents, teachers, and teachers of teachers. He has a rich background in professional development and has worked with adult learners.

Dr. Alexander McNeece is an award-winning former principal, teacher, author, and consultant. He helps educators boost student engagement, develop healthy school cultures, and integrate AI tools for enhanced learning.

Are you burning out due to conflict with students? Do you lose sleep worrying about the students who are on a path toward dropping out? This book will help you learn how to understand, connect with, and engage students in deeper ways, changing the trajectories of their lives and yours. Discover strategies to change limiting beliefs in yourself so that you can help your students do the same.

K–12 teachers using this book gain research-based strategies for classroom management, student engagement, and creation of an inclusive classroom. Learn how to promote cognitive development, utilize positive reinforcement, and build strong relationships through respectful communication and empathy.

Designed to be extremely practical for K–12 administrators, teachers, and students, the book equips educators with the knowledge and skills needed to implement responsive circles effectively. It explores how student behavior serves as communication, how traditional discipline fails to address underlying issues, and the next steps educators can take.

Engage your students in monitoring, understanding, and improving their behavior using the Tools Not Rules® (TNR) approach. By limiting isolation, shame, and judgment from the choices students make, this approach allows students to honestly assess and effectively regulate their behaviors. With helpful strategies and thoughtful language, teachers using TNR can create a welcoming and encouraging environment for students to learn, improve, and excel.

K–12 classroom educators can use author Daniel L. Vollrath’s productive behavior strategies to cultivate essential student behaviors like observation, self-control, responsible decision making, persistence, attentive listening, cooperation, and organization. Discover actionable tips for teachers to create a positive and productive classroom environment.

Structured around the author’s IMPACT framework, this book provides grades 6–12 teachers, SEL coordinators, instructional coaches, and administrators with strategies to build meaningful, impactful relationships. Each chapter delves into a letter of the IMPACT acronym: intentional, meaningful, practical, authentic, consistent, and teamwork.

Presenting information through clearly defined sections—definition, purpose, and examples—author Kjell Fenn provides new and inexperienced teachers with dynamic engagement strategies and a structured approach that builds self-confidence and allows them to work toward creating an orderly and captivating classroom.

Using validated strategies and practical actions, K–12 educators can use this book to ensure that all students possess the four positive mindsets foundational to student achievement: (1) “I belong in this academic community,” (2) “I can succeed at this,” (3) “This work has value for me,” and (4) “My ability and competence grow with effort.”