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You’re more than an assistant; you’re a classroom hero. This essential guide helps paraprofessionals navigate their role with confidence and purpose. Written by a principal who started as a paraprofessional, it provides practical strategies for managing student behavior, collaborating with teachers, and finding joy in your vital work.

You’ve accepted the challenge of becoming every teacher’s hero: a substitute teacher. Now what? This quick-read guide offers plenty of preparation and training for whatever comes your way. Gain insights from guest teachers, as well as dos and don’ts that will save you stress and boost your confidence.

Learn directly from a master educator as he shares the story of his career, along with in-depth guidance for implementing the PLC at Work® process and fostering continuous school improvement. Read real-life scenarios that demonstrate the qualities of an effective leader and merits of student-centered learning.

Support and retain your best and brightest new teachers. With the guidance of the second edition of this acclaimed book, establish programs for better beginning teacher support and professional growth. Learn tips for overwhelmed teachers and how to address high teacher burnout.

A practical guide to implementing differentiation in the classroom, this book offers a road map to effective teaching that responds to diverse learning needs.

Discover a clear two-step roadmap for uniting PBIS strategies with culturally and linguistically responsive teaching and learning in your classroom, school, or district.

Learn how to design, implement, and assess engaging sustainable project-based learning (SPBL) units while ensuring students gain surface-, deep-, and transfer-level knowledge. Author Brad Sever offers a five-step process that partners academic growth with social-emotional skill development.

Cultivate the foundational leadership skills you need to enact effective organizational change for school improvement. Utilize the four explored skills to strategically plan school initiatives, have critical conversations, respond to resistance, and manage yourself through change and resistance.

National Board Certified Teacher and award-winning, best-selling author Susan B. Katz provides educators with a practical guide for teaching language to multilingual learners. Discover strategies and exercises for speaking, writing, reading, and listening skills, with a focus on understanding student progress and offering continued support.

Create an individualized self-care plan based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. This book provides doable wellness and self-assessment activities and reflection questions for teachers and educators.