Books

Creating a thriving school culture requires vision, practical action, and a shared commitment. This book helps educators move from understanding culture to improving it through thoughtful leadership and collaboration. Use these field-tested tools to break down isolation and build strong school teams.

Transform your educational environment with this practical, hands-on guide to creating a school climate that helps students and staff feel safe, supported, valued, and fulfilled. This book moves educators to action, using proven strategies and tools to notice the rhythm of their school and ensure a positive climate.

Understanding conflict among adults is just as important as addressing it with students. This book helps educators and school systems manage conflict in ways that protect school culture and working relationships. Grounded in self-determination theory, it supports schools in planning for conflict across the year rather than reacting under pressure.

Find your true north with the Coach’s Compass model, a practical framework for strengthening instructional coaching. This guide helps coaches navigate MTSS-C across teams and individuals, using actionable tools that nurture trust, align practice, and support growth within a PLC at Work® context.

Discover how to build capacity for instructional leadership by empowering teacher leadership. This resource shows school leaders how to close authority, information, opportunity, and culture gaps to improve decision making, collaboration, and student learning.

Designed for secondary educators, this book bridges literacy research and classroom practice. Featuring expert voices on MTSS, coaching, leadership, and evidence-based reading and writing instruction, it equips schools to build systems that improve literacy development, reading comprehension, and more.

Lead school improvement with greater impact and without burnout through a proven, systems-oriented approach. Author Darin A. Thompson shows how intentional leadership, a thriving school culture, and empowered staff create the conditions for meaningful, high-quality instruction and lasting change.

With reproducibles, guiding reflections on strategic management, and tools to assess status and progress toward improvement, author Perry Soldwedel offers readers an effective, achievable means of uniting and building leadership teams. This enables them to plan, initiate, and reinforce changes that will revolutionize their day-to-day practices.

Armed with Blake Clark’s reflective exercises for identifying, honing, and applying one’s unique leadership skills, readers of this book will redefine their leadership practices, tools, and goals to foster new concepts of leadership and bolster professional community among fellow teachers and administrators.

The promise of collective leadership is within reach. This book provides a clear, practical process to activate teachers, students, and families as vital leaders. Build a vibrant culture of belonging, increase teacher retention, and achieve sustained school outcomes.