Solution Tree

Empowering educators with strategies to create emotionally safe schools, this book explores powerful tools for fostering belonging, managing behaviors, and supporting student well-being.

Educators gain practical, research-based educational tools to explicitly grow and teach executive function. Designed for secondary students, this book helps teachers support students, increase independence, and create calmer and more effective classrooms—where students manage time, advocate for themselves, and thrive independently.

Dive deep into the what and how of structured SELf-questioning—a powerful metacognitive strategy you can use to support students academically, socially, and emotionally.

Create safe classrooms where students are empowered to build resilience, cope with traumatic experiences, and achieve at high levels. Learn how to cultivate a trauma-informed classroom environment and utilize classroom management strategies to encourage positive learning experiences for trauma-impacted students.

Acquire actionable steps you can take throughout the school year to alleviate student test anxiety and create brain-friendly classrooms full of focus and learning. Understand what causes testing anxiety and discover how to implement social-emotional learning strategies in the classroom to help prepare students mentally, emotionally, and physically for high-stakes assessments.

Acquire evergreen instructional coaching strategies alongside fresh new solutions for guiding new and veteran teachers, addressing teacher self-care, promoting teacher well-being, and more. Learn how to provide a solid foundation of physical, emotional, instructional, and institutional support for educators.

Nicholas Steven Parscale was diagnosed with cancer in 2016 at the age of 10. In his inspiring memoir, Nicholas shares what he has learned through his journey, openly recounting his own highs and lows, pain and excitement, and relapses and new treatments. His hope is that by reading this book and studying his suggestions and experiences, children with cancer and their families can be just a bit more prepared for the road ahead.

Educator and teacher self-care can be challenging, but embracing a holistic health and wellness plan can improve your physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being both inside and outside of school. This reflective journal provides the ideas and guidance you need to support you on your wellness journey.

Self-regulation fuels students to become socially and emotionally engaged, lifelong learners. With this timely resource you’ll gain 75 instructional activities to teach self-regulation in any secondary classroom. Ample teacher-tested tools and templates are also included to help you create authentic learning experiences and deliver effective feedback.

Author Hedreich Nichols infuses this book with a direct yet conversational style to help you identify biases that adversely affect your practice and learn how to move beyond those biases to ensure a more equitable, inclusive campus culture.