Solution Tree

Discover the Situational Leadership Model, a framework to help motivate teachers to take the leap into leadership. This book is a practical guide full of sample meeting planners, planning pages, and other useful resources to streamline the selection process.

Empower your fourth- to sixth-grade learners to think with inquiry-based learning. Using guided rubrics and tools, teachers can realistically assess, evaluate, and integrate inquiry into their curriculum. Learn the specific needs and learning stages of students as they explore, synthesize, consolidate, and reflect on their learning.

Engage your students in monitoring, understanding, and improving their behavior using the Tools Not Rules® (TNR) approach. By limiting isolation, shame, and judgment from the choices students make, this approach allows students to honestly assess and effectively regulate their behaviors. With helpful strategies and thoughtful language, teachers using TNR can create a welcoming and encouraging environment for students to learn, improve, and excel.

Afterword by: Tina H. Boogren

Built on a foundation of routines and strategies for choosing joy, this book guides educators on a yearlong journey to cultivate lasting joy in their lives. Through insightful narratives and mindful practices, the book explores the power of connection with self and others. Using seasonal reflections, educators learn to experience joy by embracing challenges, finding contentment, and prioritizing rest, resilience, and rejuvenation.

This book promotes small-group reading as a key tool for K–5 teachers, offering frameworks, videos, and text strategies. Teachers can differentiate instruction with evidence-based routines, creating a dynamic learning environment that nurtures readers and aligns whole-class instruction with small-group lessons.

Redefining what it means to create a caring school environment, this guide goes beyond theory to provide actionable steps for school improvement. With a focus on student motivation, teacher collaboration, and family engagement, it empowers educational leaders to build caring classrooms.

Support students with disabilities using this three-tiered instructional framework. Covering research-based strategies, assessment, data collection, specially designed instruction, high-leverage practices, and co-teaching, this book details each tier, from foundational instruction to targeted intervention and remediation.

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.

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.