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Follow the adventures of Ned and Fred as young readers continue their phonics journey. Book 2 reinforces all five vowel sounds (a, e, i, o, u) through relatable characters and nature-inspired scenarios, gradually building reading fluency. Each story features consistent sentence structures and thematic vocabulary that help children consolidate their understanding of short vowel patterns. The gentle humour and engaging sight words make this book an ideal step forward for readers ready to move beyond absolute beginners. With words like swam, back, big, pig, dog, tub, and mud, children grow increasingly confident in recognising and sounding out short vowel words across all five vowels.

Neuroadvantage $39.95

Discover the hidden strengths in your neurodivergent child with this revolutionary guide that transforms traditional deficit-focused approaches into a strength-based roadmap for success. Moving beyond limiting diagnostic labels, this practical handbook reveals how to identify your child's unique learning strengths and leverage them to build confidence, resilience, and lifelong capabilities. With evidence-based strategies drawn from thousands of real-world cases, you'll learn how to convert challenges in attention, sensory processing, reading, writing, and emotional regulation into powerful advantages that school systems often miss. Written for parents and educators of neurodivergent children, this compassionate resource offers actionable tools to help your child thrive both academically and socially. Whether navigating school meetings, building executive functions, or fostering emotional regulation, you'll gain a treasure trove of practical techniques while discovering how neurodiversity has always been humanity's evolutionary advantage. Perfect for families seeking positive approaches to ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and other neurodevelopmental variations, this book empowers you to embrace your child's differences as the remarkable gifts they truly are.

Neurodevelopmental Differentiation $49.95

As classroom teachers know firsthand, it is critical for K–12 students to be able to extend their learning. But expecting all students to attain the same performance via generalized instruction is unrealistic. Educators must honor and leverage students’ unique learning strengths to support students and expand their possibilities for success. In Neurodevelopmental Differentiation: Optimizing Brain Systems to Maximize Learning, authors Andrew Fuller and Lucy Fuller explain that by understanding the brain’s eight information-processing systems—(1) spatial reasoning, (2) perceptual and motor skills, (3) concentration and memory, (4) planning and sequencing, (5) thinking and logic, (6) people smarts, (7) language and word smarts, and (8) number smarts—educators can help students apply their processing strengths to areas that challenge them using individualized learning plans. With this approach, learners’ growth is limitless. Readers will: Study the eight brain information-processing systems and understand how developing strengths in these areas increases academic success Discover how to identify students’ learning strengths and blockages Learn how to develop individualized learning plans to fit the needs of all students Review templates for recording and tracking student progress Contemplate reflective questions on the eight brain areas to determine next steps in their classrooms

Notebook Notions $39.95

Many teachers don’t see themselves as writers – a disconnect often rooted in their own restrictive school experiences where writing meant following rigid assignments with little room for creative freedom. Yet writing alongside students transforms teaching, allowing educators to demonstrate the authentic struggles and joys of the writing process while building their own confidence with words. In Notebook Notions, experienced educator and writer Alan j Wright shares the lessons learned across a rewarding career, revealing how the simple act of keeping a writer’s notebook can revolutionise both your teaching practice and your relationship with writing itself. Drawing from years of experience as a teacher who writes – and a writer who teaches – Alan offers practical wisdom on launching and sustaining a writer’s notebook practice. From collecting raw ideas and embracing inspiration to moving notebook entries into finished projects, this book provides a clear pathway for educators ready to model genuine writer agency in their classrooms. With warmth and candour, Alan reminds us that becoming a writer requires the same courage as learning to ride a bicycle: you must simply climb on and start pedalling. Your notebook journey begins with daring to fill that first blank page.

Now You Are a Principal $42.95

"Educational leadership is an intricate labyrinth, woven with the threads of vision, empathy, resilience, and innovation. It is about creating an environment where every student finds their rhythm and every teacher feels valued and empowered." In Now You Are a Principal, Dr Paul Teys draws on over four decades of educational experience to offer a compelling guide for school leaders. Blending personal anecdotes with practical advice, Teys explores the multifaceted role of a principal, emphasising the creation of a well-being-centred culture, effective school governance, and the delicate balance between innovation and tradition. This insightful book goes beyond mere management techniques, advocating for visionary and empathetic leadership. Dr Teys shares his experiences navigating financial challenges, crises, and an ever-changing educational landscape, highlighting the importance of transparent communication and ethical decision-making. Whether you're a new principal or a seasoned leader, Now You Are a Principal will serve as an invaluable resource as you seek to make a lasting impact in education.

Now You Know, Now What? $39.95

The most powerful lessons a student will ever learn happen can happen inside, and outside of the classroom. Now You Know, Now What?: A Guide to School Service Learning and Immersion Programs is a warm, practical and deeply experienced guide to service learning and immersion programs — what they are, why they matter, and how to do them with the authenticity and integrity that creates lasting change. Drawing on more than two decades of work locally and globally, Lynne Moten argues that the shift from charity to justice to advocacy is one of the most transformative things a school can offer its students, and that when programs are done well, they change not just individuals but entire school cultures. From designing and running overseas immersions to embedding service learning across the curriculum, this book covers every dimension of the work with honesty, humility and hard-won practical wisdom. Lynne writes not as an academic but as a practitioner who has taken more than 200 students overseas and built deep, mutual relationships with partner communities across Australia and India. For school leaders, teachers and anyone who believes that a meaningful education must connect students to the world beyond their privilege, this is the guide they have been waiting for.

Oh Boy! $39.95

What’s really going on inside the head of a boy?What can neuroscience teach us about educating and raising boys? This engaging book takes a close look at the male brain – how it develops, and how it is different – and the crucial role it plays in how a boy thinks, learns and engages with the world. Moving past the ‘boys will be boys’ dictum, neuroscientist Dr Michael C. Nagel gives us a guided tour of a boys’ brain, and explains how differences in structure and neurochemistry impact their behaviour, learning, emotions and bodies. Exploring aggression, learning difficulties, behaviour, emotional problems, toxic masculinity and the challenges of technology, Nagel offers solutions and ideas for parents and teachers. Drawing on the latest research, Nagel applies neuroscientific insight to the common problems boys face, and argues that by understanding why boys do what they do, we can better work with them to increase their wellbeing and educational outcomes.

On Character $34.95

What does it mean to live a life of good character? And how do we form such character in ourselves and those we teach? Character is how we live our lives as individuals and in community. It's how we strive to belong, fulfil our potential and do what is good and right in the world. It's how we wrestle with ourselves and the world to make a mark and measure up. Through the metaphor of the stonemason's chisel – making marks that are both distinctive and enduring – Dr Phil Cummins reveals character as the wrestling between who we are and who we might become. Drawing on decades of experience working with schools worldwide, he shows how we are formed through this wrestling, always the wrestling, in a life that might come, in time, to be both worthwhile and well-lived. A person of good character can be seen and recognised as one who pursues what is best, who seeks to know, love and do what is true and beautiful in the world. Yet for all our good intentions, we cannot ever quite be the best versions of ourselves, no matter how much we would like this to be the case. We need relationships of character apprenticeship that show us we are not good enough yet – and then help us to grow. Written with clarity, wisdom and a distinctively Australian perspective on equity and excellence, this essential guide challenges educators, leaders and anyone committed to human flourishing to embrace the formation of character for lives of purpose, integrity and service to others.

On the Same Wavelength $42.95

Discover how students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) think and learn differently in this groundbreaking guide for educators. Drawing from extensive research and firsthand accounts, On the Same Wavelength: Neurodiversity, Memory, Learning, and the Autism Spectrum introduces the innovative Thinking, Memory, and Learning Framework (TML), empowering teachers to become cross-cultural interpreters between neurotypical and neurodivergent minds. Through a unique blend of neuroscience, psychology and lived experience, this book challenges traditional teaching approaches and offers practical insights for creating hospitable learning environments that honour cognitive diversity. Whether you're a classroom teacher, school leader or education professional, you'll gain valuable tools for understanding and supporting students with ASD, while learning how to build bridges between different ways of thinking and learning. This essential resource transforms complex research into actionable strategies for inclusive education.

Optometrist $13.95

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be an optometrist? In this book from the Real People, Real Careers series, we follow Joe on his journey from recent migrant to qualified optometrist. On the way, you’ll read all about what Joe does each day, see pictures of the clinic where he examines patients, and learn some interesting facts about his job as well as key terms that will help you to better understand the world of work.

Outdoor Education at School $39.95

Outdoor Education at School contains sets of practical activities and problem-solving lessons for primary school students. Designed to be done completely within the school grounds and with minimal amount of equipment, these lessons and activities will appeal to the teacher who has little experience in outdoor education and will act as a valuable resource to the experts in the field. The contents are based not only on learning in the outdoors but on learning about and for the outdoors. Specific topics covered include: Environmental studies Initiative games Navigation Bushcraft Mapping Students will enjoy the variety of topics covered while learning skills in personal development, self-esteem, resourcefulness, independence, leadership and cooperation. The lessons are not organised in year levels but in developmental progression from simple and introductory to complex.

Passion, Guts and Leadership $39.95

Deborah Patterson shares her trials and tribulations gleaned over decades of being in schools, the education system and leadership roles. This book provides teachers, educators and principals with a collection of tips, tools and strategies to help them become the best they can be and the leader that they want to be. Knitting together stories and providing a whole lot of sound advice, Deborah provides a real insight into principalship and how to be a successful unconventional educational leader.

People Interacting $42.95

People Interacting is an extensive resource of interactive games that can be used to help students develop a breadth of social skills. The 150 activities have been designed for a range of abilities, ages and levels of maturity. Each activity is clearly set out with a focus, time, materials, the procedure and points for discussion. The selection of activities cover warm ups, self development and responsibility, communication and relationships, and problem solving and decision making. Each procedure, variation and discussion topic has been tried and tested and chosen specifically because of the value it provides to students. Combining the activities with conversational prompts to encourage reflection and discussion, People Interacting aims to encourage and aid the development of the student as a total person by exploring mind, body, emotions, values, and attitudes. The activities enable students to make sense of what they experience in terms of their own needs – their ability to solve problems, to develop a positive self-concept and to develop their social and interpersonal skills more broadly.

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Play Matters $62.95

In this highly successful resource, Kathy Walker demonstrates the key principles of the Walker Learning Approach that she has developed over 15 years of observation, participation and presentation in schools and child care centres across Australia. Play Matters provides practical guidance and innovative strategies for teachers working with young children from preschool to Grade 2, through a unique balance of explicit instruction in literacy and numeracy skills and personalised, explorative learning. The book promotes the active engagement of all young children, with an enhanced focus on children from diverse backgrounds as well as children with specific needs. Play Matters is packed with pedagogical features to support implementation in any educational setting. It contains a full colour section of photographs. Organisational ideas and resources are provided, along with a comprehensive bibliography for further reference and advice. Download the Appendices documents for planning, assessment and reporting activities in Word or PDF.

Poetry Unlocked $29.95

Demystify the world of poetry with this accessible, student-centred guide that transforms the often-intimidating subject into an engaging exploration. From understanding the fundamental elements that make a poem to mastering poetic devices and forms, this comprehensive handbook walks you through everything you need to confidently analyse and appreciate poetry across cultures and time periods. Each chapter builds essential skills – from exploring themes and word choice to writing analytical responses and creating your own original works. With diverse examples from Australian and global poets, practical exercises, and guidance for building a personal poetry portfolio, this book equips students with the tools to not only succeed in classroom poetry analysis but also discover the joy and creative power of poetic expression in the digital age.

Positive School Culture & Effective Leadership $34.95

There is a growing body of research concerning the important role of the school principal in cultivating a positive school culture. School culture influences all happenings in a school and therefore impacts on a school community and on an individual's behaviour, expectations and interactions with others. It follows that cultivating and sustaining a positive school culture should be one of the highest priorities for all school principals. To improve schools and student learning, you must first focus on the culture of the school. Based on Australian author Michael Stewart's groudbreaking PhD thesis, this book explores the journey of a school principal in creating a positive school culture and presents research findings from a case study that explored the cultivation of a positive school culture from the viewpoint of the principal and the various stakeholders within the school. The results from this research indicate that the principal plays a pivotal and crucial role in the cultivation of a positive school culture. However, the results also demonstrated that the principal cannot do this alone, as many other members of the school community contribute to a school's culture. The principal's success in cultivating a school culture was found to depend upon his ability to unite the school community to work together to achieve the school's goals and vision. Results from the research indicated that the principal needed to use a range of strategies to cultivate and maintain a positive school culture. The aim for this book is to assist schools in creating positive school cultures. It is designed to provide some assistance for people who wish to make a difference in their own workplace.

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Powerful Poetry $34.95

The power of poetry is at your fingertips with Adrienne Gear’s Powerful Poetry. In this ground-breaking book, Adrienne explains how the ‘experience’ of a poem is both visual and auditory, emotional and cognitive. This comprehensive approach to reading and writing poetry offers the background and activities teachers need to bring poetry to life for their students. Powerful Poetry celebrates the beauty, power and pleasure of poetry in the classroom. This highly readable book outlines the many benefits of integrating poetry into your literacy program, including building reading, writing and speaking skills, nurturing creativity and celebrating language. This inspiring book is organised around discovering, experiencing, learning and creating poetry. The practical lessons show you how to integrate poetry into your year-long literacy program and how a single poem can ignite an endless number of literacy lessons. The lessons feature effective strategies for introducing poetic structure, language, tools and devices. Grounded in classroom practice and sound pedagogy, lessons throughout the book feature lists of anchor books and anchor poems, student samples, reproducible templates and graphic organisers. This valuable resource explores how effective poetry can be in building language skills and reflects the many ways that poetry can empower thinking. Ideal for new and experienced teachers who are looking to bring the power of poetry into their classroom.

Powerful Read Alouds $34.95

A practical guide to using purposeful read alouds to engage young learners, build literacy and language, and spark joy and curiosity in primary classrooms. Powerful Read Alouds shows teachers how intentional read alouds can deepen and enrich a year-long primary literacy program. Rather than adding more to an already full day, it focuses on using books to enhance and strengthen what teachers already do. Through carefully chosen texts, practical routines and classroom examples, teachers will learn how purposeful read alouds support all aspects of an early primary classroom, from social-emotional learning and play to reading, writing, oral language and knowledge building. Teachers will find the tools they need for inspiring our youngest learners: practical, classroom-ready read-aloud routines teachers can use immediately read alouds to bring skill instruction into your literacy practice strategies for using real books to build joy, curiosity and engagement in primary classrooms practical ways to integrate read alouds into all aspects of the primary classroom with minimal prep and maximum impact curated book lists to support literacy, play, reading, writing and knowledge building in primary classrooms examples of student responses that illustrate engagement and learning from the read-aloud experience At a time when many literacy classrooms are placing increased emphasis on explicit skills instruction, this timely book reminds us how read alouds give context for that work. Children also need rich language, meaningful stories, shared conversations and engaging nonfiction experiences that nurture curiosity and a love of learning. The read aloud is not simply an activity tucked into the school day. It is one of the most powerful tools we have for building engaged readers, inspired writers and thoughtful learners. Powerful Read Alouds is just what teachers need to use real books and engaging classroom routines to enrich language and literacy learning, while nurturing curiosity, connection and joy in reading.

Powerful Thinking $34.95

Powerful Thinking will help teachers shift their beliefs around reading comprehension, literacy instruction and content-area learning. The thinking strategies in this remarkable book support explicit instruction and show teachers how to inspire students to connect, question, visualise, infer and transform their thinking across all areas of their learning. Using the key concepts and strategies introduced in her ground-breaking book, Reading Power, Adrienne Gear shows teachers practical ways to create a ‘culture of thinking’ in the classroom. Adrienne illustrates simple ways to make thinking visible and argues for the importance of developing a common language for exploring oral literacy and nudging classroom conversations. The book investigates key concepts and lays the groundwork for stretching and linking thinking not only in literacy, but also in science, social studies, maths, art, music and PE. The ready-to-use strategies in Powerful Thinking revolve around explicit, targeted lessons. Based on extensive classroom experience, the lessons and accompanying lists of recommended anchor books show how easy it is to turn text into tools for creating a content-rich learning environment. These activities demonstrate how students can think while they learn, as they build knowledge, make connections and construct meaning. This remarkable book inspires teachers to motivate and engage learners, extend their content knowledge and help them develop into powerful readers and thinkers.

Powerful Understanding $34.95

In these challenging times, teaching children to think critically and reflectively and be compassionate, responsible and caring citizens is a tall order. Powerful Understanding explores effective ways to build social-emotional skills and help students make connections, question what they read and transform their thinking as they develop into stronger readers and learners. Transforming students’ concept of self and understanding of others and the world around them is the main focus of this remarkable book. It offers insightful lessons that integrate strategic and critical thinking to deepen student understanding. It also introduces a model for exploring, interacting with and reflecting on everything you teach, from social responsibility to immigration and life cycles. This powerful approach encourages students to: become more thoughtful and reflective learners develop the thinking skills to move them from a retelling stance to a rethinking one shift the emphasis from learning content to finding meaning explore a more positive self-identity and greater global awareness Children’s literature plays a pivotal role and anchors these lessons around the best children’s books. Hands-on activities and student samples illustrate this unique and comprehensive approach to inquiry-based learning. Social skills that encourage mindfulness, kindness and self-regulation are integrated into what needs to be taught, rather than taught as isolated lessons. Ideal for new and experienced teachers, this remarkable book features the tools teachers need to help students think more deeply, learn more widely and develop a more powerful understanding of what it means to be a responsible and compassionate person.

Powerful Writing Structures $39.95

This timely book uses thinking structures to deepen student writing. Powerful Writing Structures revolves around ‘brain pockets’ to help students become familiar with the qualities of different writing forms. They learn to access memory pockets for personal narrative writing, fact pockets for writing nonfiction and imagination pockets for story writing. The thinking strategies in this practical resource focus on using structural aspects of writing forms to inspire and inform students learning to write. Detailed lesson plans revolve around anchor books and include sample student work from real classrooms, book lists and assessment rubrics. Based on extensive classroom testing, this comprehensive approach to developing a balanced year-long writing program includes tips for implementing weekly writing practice and for using different forms of writing in the content areas. This valuable resource shows teachers how to set up an effective writing program that focuses on process rather than product. The book includes: lessons to introduce different forms of writing, including six types of nonfiction, personal narrative and story mini lessons on writing structure, language and writer’s craft, so that students can carry skills forward into writing practice book lists of the best children’s books to anchor, support and extend lessons student examples that illustrate how strategies work in real classrooms From writing goals to writing joy, Powerful Writing Structures helps teachers guide students through the skills, the structures, the language and the beauty of effective writing.

Practical AI Strategies $39.95

Amid the discourse surrounding the controversial role of generative AI in education, Practical AI Strategies goes beyond the hype to explore the opportunities and challenges of the technology in K-tertiary education. The book looks past individual applications to explore the broader landscape of generative AI, offering educators invaluable insights into its workings and ethical considerations. Divided into six parts, Practical AI Strategies guides readers through the construction and ethics of generative AI technologies, navigates policy landscapes and provides practical strategies for using these technologies in education. Detailed sections on text and image generation provide a solid foundation for using generative AI, and prepare educators for multimodal technologies on the near horizon including video, audio and 3D generation. Leon Furze prompts educators to engage critically with generative AI and consider the near future of this rapidly developing technology. He encourages readers to navigate this terrain with an open mind and a discerning eye, and stresses the need for educators to have the fundamental skills to work with generative AI.

Practical AI Strategies 2 $39.95

In the two years since the publication of Practical AI Strategies, generative AI has changed beyond recognition. Chatbots still dominate everyday use, but the industry has moved on to agents and complex systems with AI at the centre. Our questions have changed, too. It is no longer about which tool to use or how to write a better prompt. It is about hallucinations and bias, environmental cost and deepfakes, the human labour hidden behind AI systems, and how to redesign assessment so that students are actually learning. This book is the critical guide educators need for this next phase. Dr Leon Furze returns with his trademark blend of practical advice and unflinching honesty, drawing on his PhD research and years of work alongside classroom teachers. He covers how generative AI actually works, how to choose and evaluate platforms wisely, how to rethink curriculum and assessment, and how to build genuine critical AI literacy in students and staff. Practical AI Strategies 2 is essential reading for educators looking to move beyond chatbots and prepare both themselves and their students for the near future of AI.

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