Books

Split into two sections for building and refining, this guide provides a comprehensive high school peer tutoring curriculum. Equip students to communicate, advocate, and support through seven peer training modules and tools that bridge general and special education, tailored to your students’ unique needs.

Classrooms thrive when students feel heard and involved. That’s where author Miriam Plotinsky’s ready-to-use strategies come in, helping teachers strengthen student participation through everyday instruction. With a focus on communication and inclusion, this book strengthens the collective learning environment.

Equipped with 25 essential practices, educators can use this guide to reinvigorate their ELA classrooms. These strategies cultivate engagement and independent learning, helping students strengthen literary analysis of texts, pursue inquiries, and cultivate their voice as readers and writers.

Through questioning fostered by curiosity and active teacher support, students learn to construct mathematical arguments and justify their claims. This book also equips readers with tools and strategies to cultivate students’ mathematical curiosity, positive learning attitudes, and skill development.

What Are You Bringing to the Potluck? offers readers a deeper understanding of how significant a sense of belonging is in schools—and challenges them to set a strong example of how to build respect, and nurture community. By doing so, insightful connections are forged in thoughtful consideration of identities, beliefs, and needs.

Empower students to make meaningful change by cultivating student agency. This resource explores strategies for education reform that help students realize their potential, set goals, and prepare for the future.

Featuring research-backed exercises, routines, resources, and instructional tips, this book provides a five-unit leadership framework for academic curriculum. Students and educators build motivation, perseverance, communication, and collaboration skills through reflection, goal setting, experimentation, feedback, and advocacy.

The Green Literacy Handbook blends environmental awareness with critical literacy, empowering educators to create lessons with thematic unit plans focusing on biodiversity, climate change, and systems thinking. Through hands-on implementation, students build better environmental responsibility and school community engagement.

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.

Activities and athletics are vital to academic success. This book explores their history, their impact on school culture, and practical steps for improvement through the Rally model—raising standards, aligning stakeholders, building learning communities, promoting student leadership, and celebrating achievements.