Books

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.

Multilingual learners need reading instruction across all content areas. This book provides core content teachers with evidence-based strategies, bridging the research on reading with second language learning. Implement a whole-school approach to building vocabulary, reading comprehension, and academic discourse.

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.

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.

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.

Middle school is a pivotal stage for students and educators. Chris Bennett shares strategies grounded in real experiences. He supports principals in the daily realities of leading a middle school and creating a school culture that strengthens their PLC, collaboration, tiered instruction, student engagement, and consistent growth.

Authors Shawn Creswell and Katy Sue Traicoff use the Team Trail Map to guide educators as they establish true, authentic connection and belonging. Their reflective exercises help teams in defining a shared vision and building effective teams that drive lasting school success.

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.

The AI Balancing Act provides a complete road map for districts to implement AI safely and effectively. With policies, practices, and AI Impact Team guidance, schools can integrate AI purposefully, enhance student learning, and address ethical and practical challenges at every level.