Books & Videos

Packed with resources to help build stronger school teams, this book empowers school leaders and educators to exert greater impact. Focusing on the human side of professional learning communities, the authors offer a framework for cultivating courage, accountability, and a sense of belonging, which are essential for all adult learners to achieve sustained growth.

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.

This unique story-centered guide uses the narrative of a principal and custodian to reveal 10 transformational leadership principles. Learn to lead with relational intelligence, build deep trust, and connect with every member of your school community, from the classroom to the bus.

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.

This book provides the practical tools for data analysis and a crucial data mindset shift. Educational leaders can discover how to find causal data within student data, ensuring the humanity of every student drives instructional strategies. Learn how to use every data-driven decision to drive better instruction and lasting student learning.

Make assessment meaningful, doable, and intentional. This practical companion handbook to the Design in Five, Second Edition, gives teachers simple assessment protocols, editable templates, and artificial intelligence support to drive the Design in Five process. Revolutionize assessment from standards to grading reform and student reflection.

Build instructional confidence with this essential reflective guide for navigating challenges and supporting new teachers. It pairs classroom management and expanded instructional strategies with teacher wellness practices—including tips for neurodivergent educators and wisdom from veterans—to ensure first-year success.

Teaching tough students can be hard, but it’s worth it. When traditional behavior plans fall short, this powerful guide offers a fresh, relationship-driven approach to helping students with emotional and behavioral challenges. Discover practical ways to de-escalate crises, rebuild trust, and reignite your passion for teaching—while creating classrooms where every student can thrive.

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.

Learn to leverage the full potential of your principal-coach partnership. Armed with practical tools and clear action steps, you can lead your educational teams in guaranteeing an effective, transformative education for the students you serve.