A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Our World Dr Daniel Goleman & Dalai Lama | August, 2016

It is not enough merely to espouse a noble vision, the Dalai Lama tells us - we need to move toward it. The Dalai Lama’s vision beckons us all. Every one of us can be a force for good’.

The Dalai Lama has for decades travelled the world, meeting people from all backgrounds and sharing with them his wisdom and compassion. In his encounters with everyone, from heads to state to inhabitants of shanty towns, he has come across similar problems: values that help the wealthy to advance beyond the poor, an environmental disregard that could lead to global catastrophe and governments in paralysis, bereft of any positive, progressive policies.

The Dalai Lama offers here his unique vision for a global economic system, one that applies principals of fairness and which values fulfilment, focusing on what is truly urgent and why. It is a manifesto that has the potential to reshape humanity as we know it and bring hope to millions.

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A Chance to Make History - What Works and What Doesn’t in Providing an Excellent Education for All Wendy Kopp | February, 2012

Since 1990, Teach For America has been building a movement to end educational inequity in America. Now its founder, Wendy Kopp, shares the lessons learned from the experiences of more than 25,000 teachers and alumni who have taught and led schools in low-income communities during those years. A Chance to Make History cuts through the noise of today’s debates to describe precisely what it will take to provide transformational education—education that changes the academic and life trajectories predicted by children’s socioeconomic backgrounds.

Kopp introduces leaders at the classroom, school, and system levels who, driven by passionate belief in their students’ potential, have set out to accomplish what most think impossible. Their inspiring stories show how we can provide children facing all the challenges of poverty with an excellent education, and that doing so involves the same ingredients that account for success in any endeavour: visionary leadership that sets ambitious goals and puts forth the energy and discipline to reach them. Kopp’s experiences and insights also shine light on why we have not made more progress against educational inequity—how and why the intense but misguided quest for easy answers actually distracts from the hard work of expanding on the growing pockets of success in low-income communities—and on what we need to do now to increase the pace of change. America’s failure to educate millions of children to fulfil their potential is a crisis that strikes at our fundamental ideals and health as a nation.

A Chance to Make History offers tangible evidence that we can change direction and provide all children the opportunity to attain an excellent education.

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A Mother’s StoryRosie Batty | October, 2015

A profoundly moving and inspiring memoir from Australia’s domestic violence crusader, Rosie Batty. Rosie Batty knows pain no woman should have to suffer. Her son was killed by his father in a violent incident in February 2014, a horrendous event that shocked not only the nation, but the world. Greg Anderson murdered his 11-year-old son Luke and was then shot by police at the Tyabb cricket oval. Rosie had suffered years of family violence, and had had intervention and custody orders in place in an effort to protect herself and her son. She believes the killing was Greg’s final act of control over her. Since the events of last February, Rosie has become an outspoken crusader against domestic violence, winning hearts and mind all over Australia with her compassion, courage, grace and forgiveness.

In the wake of the tragedy, Rosie’s advocacy work has forced an unprecedented national focus on family violence, with the Victorian Labor government establishing Australia’s first royal commission into family violence, and committing a further $30 million over four years to protect women and children at high risk of family violence. The then Victorian Police Commissioner Ken Lay called it ‘the Rosie Batty factor’.

In January 2015, Rosie was named Australian of the Year, 2015. Inspiring, heartfelt and profoundly moving, this is Rosie’s story. A percentage of royalties from sales of this book are going to the Luke Batty Foundation.

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Coaching Leadership: Building Educational Leadership Capacity Through PartnershipJan Robertson | March, 2016

Coaching Leadership is about building leadership capacity in individuals, and in institutions, through enhancing professional relationships. It is based on the importance of maximising potential, and harnessing the ongoing commitment and energy needed to meet personal and professional goals.

This book is for anyone interested in developing leadership—their own and others. It is for school leaders wanting to reflect on their own leadership, those working in professional development, and teachers thinking about how they can more effectively facilitate learning. It aims to get educators working with each other as coaches and mentors, creating deep learning relationships within professional practice.

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Developing Teacher Leaders, 2nd Ed.Frank Crowther, Margaret Ferguson & Leonne Hann | October, 2009

This work helps readers rediscover the importance of teacher leadership in revitalising schools! Teacher leadership is a transformative process that can drive school and community reform. This revised edition of the groundbreaking bestseller builds on current research to help teachers and administrators work together to foster, develop and support teacher leadership. Principals and staff developers will learn how collaborating with teacher leaders can result in significantly improved school outcomes.

With the ‘Teachers as Leaders Framework’, teachers can become leaders who facilitate communities of learning, strive for pedagogical excellence, confront barriers and nurture a culture of success.

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Distributed Leadership Matters: Perspectives, Practicalities, and PotentialAlma Harris | December, 2015

Distributed leadership – engaging the many rather than the few in school improvement – has long been a promising theory. But it must be implemented effectively before educators and students can reap the rewards, including improved learner outcomes and stronger organisational performance.

Distributed Leadership Matters offers pragmatic approaches for realising these benefits. First, Alma Harris shows why harnessing educators’ collective expertise is an improvement strategy worth adopting. Then she details the collaborative processes that make it happen. Insights include:

• How to translate the research on distributed leadership into tangible results for your school;• Methods for building the social capital necessary for sustainable institutional change;• How to distribute leadership widely and wisely through professional collaboration.; and• The old-fashioned “top-down” leadership style no longer works for today’s schools.

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Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQDaniel Goleman | September, 1996

Drawing on groundbreaking brain and behavioural research, Goleman shows the factors at work when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well. These factors add up to a different way of succeeding in life - one he terms ‘emotional intelligence’. Emotional intelligence includes self-awareness and impulse control, persistence zeal and self-motivation, empathy and social deftness. These are the qualities that mark people who excel: whose intimate relationships flourish, who are stars in the workplace. These are also the hallmarks of character and self-discipline, of altruism and compassion.

As Goleman demonstrates, the personal costs of deficits in emotional intelligence can range from problems in marriage and parenting to poor physical health in adults, and to eating disorders and depression inchildren. (New research shows that chronic anger and anxiety create as great a health risk as chain-smoking.) But the news is hopeful. Emotional intelligence is not fixed at birth. Goleman’s argument gives new insights into the brain architecture underlying emotion and rationality. He shows precisely how emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened in all of us. And because the emotional lessons a child learns actually sculpt the brain’s circuitry, Goleman provides detailed guidance as to how parents and schools can benefit from this. The message of this eye-opening book is one we must take to heart.

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Focus: The Hidden Driver of ExcellenceDaniel Goleman | November, 2014

For more than two decades, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman has been scouting the leading edge of the human sciences for what’s new, surprising, and important. In Focus, he delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed and under-rated mental asset that matters enormously for how we navigate life.

Goleman boils down attention research into a three parts: inner, other, and outer focus. Goleman shows why high-achievers need all three kinds of focus, as demonstrated by rich case studies from fields as diverse as competitive sports, education, the arts, and business. Those who excel rely on what Goleman calls Smart Practices such as mindfulness meditation, focused preparation and recovery, positive emotions and connections, and mental ‘prosthetics’ that help them improve habits, add new skills, and sustain excellence. Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus reveals what distinguishes experts from amateurs and stars from average performers.

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From School Improvement to Sustained Capacity: The Parallel Leadership PathwayFrank Crowther | April, 2011

This book contains everything you need, to build a successful and sustainable plan that is rooted in enduring principles. Bestselling author Frank Crowther makes a compelling case for capacity building and parallel leadership as the keys to ensuring sustainable improvement.

Based on a recent research study that examined how school leaders collaborated to enhance quality in their workplaces, this book: includes practical examples and proven tools; outlines six research-based dynamics for accomplishing lasting results; provides real-life examples of successful parallel leadership among administrators, teachers and students; demonstrates effective capacity building in a variety of settings with case studies and simulations.

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From the Laboratory to the Classroom - Translating Science of Learning for TeachersJared Horvath, Jason Lodge & John Hattie | August, 2016

From the Laboratory to the Classroom aims to consolidate information from many different research disciplines and correlate learning principles with known classroom practices in order to establish explanatory foundations for successful strategies that can be implemented into the classroom. It combines theoretical research with the diverse and dynamic classroom environment to deliver original, effective and specific teaching and learning strategies and address questions concerning what possible mechanisms are at play as people learn.

This fascinating text gathers an international team of expert scientists, teachers, and administrators to present a coherent framework for the vital translation of laboratory research for educational practice. Applying the Science of Learning framework to a number of different educational domains, it will be an essential guide for any student or researcher in education, educational psychology, neuropsychology, educational technology and the emergent field of neuroeducation.

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Getting Teacher Evaluation Right: What Really Matters for Effectiveness and ImprovementLinda Darling-Hammond | January, 2014

In Getting Teacher Evaluation Right, Linda Darling-Hammond makes a compelling case for a research-based approach to teacher evaluation that supports collaborative models of teacher planning and learning. She outlines the most current research informing evaluation of teaching practice that incorporates evidence of what teachers do and what their students learn. In addition, she examines the harmful consequences of using any single student test as a basis for evaluating individual teachers. Finally, Darling-Hammond offers a vision of teacher evaluation as part of a teaching and learning system that supports continuous improvement, both for individual teachers and for the profession as a whole. This groundbreaking book:

• Presents a comprehensive teacher evaluation system based on research and best practices;• Describes a variety of models that base evaluations on an assessment of classroom practice

in light of professional standards, an array of student work, and active participation in the professional community;

• Explains how teacher peers become part of the evaluation and support system; and• Demonstrates how to create a fair and substantiated process for removal of teachers who can’t

improve.

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Good to Great to InnovateLyn Sharratt & Gale Harild | March, 2015

How can schools best prepare students for the highly competitive job market and global economy? This compelling book presents a transformative approach to university and career readiness within the public education system, based on data and best practices contributed by outstanding schools on five continents.

Written for education leaders at all levels, this resource shows how to:• Design an innovative Pathways approach to career readiness that empowers students as

informed decision makers;• Integrate career training into curriculum through a network of local community partners;• Design a continuum of learning that empowers your students to become independent decision-

makers;• Consistently support student voice and choice through all year levels;• Develop an approach to career readiness that recognises the value of tertiary education, the

workplace and the new “gold collar” jobs, including technology and the skilled trades; and• Develop an approach to life-skills preparation, F–12+, that is inclusive of all.

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Inspirational Leadership: Timeless Lessons for Leaders from Shakespeare’s Henry VRichard Olivier | October, 2013

Henry V is Shakespeare’s greatest leader inspired and inspiring, visionary yet pragmatic, powerful yet responsible. As a study of an inspirational leader he remains unparalleled. As a new king, Henry unites a group of disparate people around a common goal, learns to face his own self-doubts, and inspires his followers to a near-miraculous victory against all odds. It’s an allegory for the trials and tribulations that beset the modern business leader.

In this fascinating book, acclaimed stage director and creative consultant Richard Olivier draws on his intimate knowledge of the play, and its absorbing central character, to unmask the secrets of inspirational leadership and reveal the timeless lessons it holds for managers and leaders today. With unique practical understanding gained from working with real-life managers and leaders on this seminal text, Olivier successfully combines ancient wisdom with modern experience. Following the journey of the play, he tracks the development of Henry as a leader, offering timeless insights into the psychology, skills and techniques of effective, inspirational leadership.

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Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by DesignCarol Tomlinson & Jay McTighe | February, 2006

This differentiation book will provide your school with a comprehensive and in-depth approach to ensure all students are learning to their maximum capacity. Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design explains how to connect these two approaches and use their combined power to meet content standards and prepare for tests. While providing students with multiple learning pathways, use the backward design approach to develop curriculum units and lessons that can be differentiated in response to students’ different needs and levels. Combine drill and practice with differentiated performance tasks to inspire understanding of content and create a fair, criterion-referenced assessment approach that supports standards and differentiation.

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Leading Collaborative Learning: Empowering ExcellenceBeate Planche & Lyn Sharratt | March, 2016

Today’s improving school systems require educators who intentionally collaborate and co-learn in service of students to get expected results. This resource-rich book from experts Sharratt and Planche is a straightforward, strategic path to achieving sustainable communities of deep learners. Research-proven inquiry techniques, vignettes, case studies and practical action-oriented protocols help you build strong learning relationships for high-impact student achievement.

System leaders, principals and teachers learn to:• Integrate diverse views and perspectives;• Build trust and hear every voice;• Apply a replicable inquiry framework to leverage key resources and processes;• Build students’ cognitive, interpersonal and intrapersonal skills;• Use “Assessment-in-Action” to improve, monitor and sustain student and staff progress;• Build a collaborative culture through learning together.

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Leading for Differentiation: Growing Teachers Who Grow KidsCarol Tomlinson & Michael Murphy | February, 2016

Leading for Differentiation lays out the reflective thinking and action-oriented steps necessary to launch a system of continuous professional learning, culture building and program assessment that will allow differentiation to flourish in every classroom. Incorporating their own experience insights, authentic examples and practical tools, world-renowned differentiated instruction expert Carol Ann Tomlinson and change leadership authority Michael Murphy explore:

• Why a move to school-wide differentiation makes so much sense for today’s students and today’s standards- and accountability-focused climate;

• How to transform a vision for school-wide differentiation into manageable, year-by-year plans to achieve it;

• How to incorporate the principles of differentiation, motivation and adult learning into respectful, responsive and truly effective professional development throughout all stages of the change initiative;

• How to foster and recognise growth in teachers’ differentiation practices, and how to chart the impact differentiation is having on student learning;

• How to recognise, understand and respond to resistance – in both its predictable forms and surprising ones; and

• What school-wide differentiation looks like when it’s fully established and how to tend to it for long-term success.

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Leading Futures: Global Perspectives on Educational LeadershipAlma Harris & Michelle Jones | February, 2016

This book offers multiple perspectives on educational leadership from the viewpoint of scholars, policymakers and practitioners. It considers leadership in context and highlights the importance of cultural influences in shaping and forming leadership practices.

It is primarily concerned with ‘leading futures’ and the challenges faced by leading schools and school systems in an era of fast-paced technological change. It looks at leadership practices across four different levels (system, professional, leader and learner) and explores the connections therein. The book argues that these four levels are often viewed and described independently but in reality they are inherently interconnected and integrally related.

In short, this book takes a multilevel, multicultural and multicontextual look at contemporary educational–leadership practice. Through this comparative lens, it presents new ideas, knowledge and insights that would be relevant and ultimately useful to educational leaders around the globe.

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One Day, All Children - The Unlikely Triumph Of Teach For America And What I Learned Along The Way Wendy Kopp | April, 2003

From her dorm room at Princeton University, twenty-one-year-old college senior Wendy Kopp decided to launch a movement to improve public education in America. In One Day, All Children, she shares the remarkable story of Teach For America, a non-profit organization that sends outstanding college graduates to teach for two years in the most under-resourced urban and rural public schools in America. The astonishing success of the program has proven it possible for children in low-income areas to attain the same level of academic achievement as children in more privileged areas and more privileged schools.

One Day, All Children… is not just a personal memoir. It’s a blueprint for the new civil rights movement--a movement that demands educational access and opportunity for all American children.$35.00*

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Politics, Society, Self: Occasional WritingsGeoff Gallop | June, 2012

Since retiring as Premier of Western Australia in 2006, Geoff Gallop has returned to his pre-political career as an academic. In the role of public intellectual, Gallop has focused on matters of the self within: society, contemporary politics, pragmatics, fundamentalism, fairness, and the meaning and importance of well-being for public policy and the person. From the international to the national, and down to the individual, Gallop brings a measured voice to the many debates that are universal, relevant, and personal. Gathered from public speeches and newspaper columns, this book of Gallop’s essays is gently provocative and intellectually admirable, yet retains a personal voice.

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Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every SchoolMichael Fullan & Andy Hargreaves | April, 2012

Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School is an incisive critique of the failing reform movements in many countries and a powerful manifesto for the only strategy that can and does work. Hargreaves and Fullan set out exactly and undeniably why the only way to move forward is to honour and improve the profession of teaching.

In this book, the authors equip teachers and those who work with them with insights, ideas and actions that will dramatically improve their effectiveness, which in turn will improve societies and generations to come. Using the strategy of professional capital, educators will be able to harness the commitments and capabilities of many to transform the education system in countries around the world.

This is a must-have book for all educators out there who want to strengthen and improve the integrity of our education system for students and societies at large.

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Schoolwide PedagogyFrank Crowther, Dorothy Andrews & Joan Conway | July, 2013

The idea of schoolwide pedagogy (SWP) is a relatively new phenomenon, and here, thanks to researchers at the Leadership Research Institute at the University of Southern Queensland, is a brand-new title to help you understand this exciting teacher-friendly concept better.

Introducing the background of SWP through personal recollections, you’ll learn about the specific criterion and principles that characterise SWP, as well as discover how it has been used in research within primary and secondary schools of the Sydney Catholic Education Office. Along with the two well-documented case studies from two different schools, showing exactly how the concept and ideas of SWP can be applied in a real-life setting, you’ll also learn about the more specific ideas behind the schoolwide pedagogy concept.

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Social Intelligence : The New Science of Human RelationshipsDaniel Goleman | July, 2007

Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the” New York Times” bestseller list for over a year and selling more than five million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science, revealing that we are wired to connect and the surprisingly deep impact of our relationships on every aspect of our lives. Far more than we are consciously aware, our daily encounters with parents, spouses, bosses, and even strangers shape our brains and affect cells throughout our bodies down to the level of our genes for good or ill.

In Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman explores an emerging new science with startling implications for our interpersonal world. Its most fundamental discovery: we are designed for sociability, constantly engaged in a neural ballet that connects us brain to brain with those around us. Our reactions to others, and theirs to us, have a far-reaching biological impact, sending out cascades of hormones that regulate everything from our hearts to our immune systems, making good relationships act like vitamins and bad relationships like poisons. We can catch other people’s emotions the way we catch a cold, and the consequences of isolation or relentless social stress can be life-shortening. And Goleman delivers his most heartening news with powerful conviction: we humans have a built-in bias toward empathy, cooperation, and altruism provided we develop the social intelligence to nurture these capacities in ourselves and others.

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Talk About Teaching!: Leading Professional ConversationsCharlotte Danielson | February, 2010

Ongoing informal dialogue between school leaders and educators is the foundation for improved classroom instruction, increased learner achievement and more formal discussions about education. This breakthrough work helps school leaders understand the value of reflective professional conversations in promoting a positive environment of inquiry, support and professional development. Organised around the big ideas of successful teaching, this guidebook:

• Explains the function of informal professional conversations in ongoing teacher learning; • Explores the interaction of power and leadership in schools; • Outlines the conversation skills that school leaders need to engage in successful conversations • Includes mental maps, sample topics and conversation activities.

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The Autonomy PremiumBrian Caldwell | September, 2016

The book describes and illustrates how schools can build the capacity to achieve higher levels of student achievement by using the autonomy that has been granted to them in recent years – thus gaining the autonomy premium – and how school systems can support them. The book addresses eight key questions:

• Why are there mixed results in research on the links between school autonomy and student achievement?

• What is it that schools actually do with a higher level of school autonomy when they take action that leads to gains in student achievement?

• Why is it that some critics or sceptics about school autonomy advocate approaches to school improvement that assume or require schools to have a relatively high degree of autonomy?

• How important is a higher level of school autonomy when all of the forces that may help achieve gains in student achievement are taken into account?

• Is a higher level of school autonomy likely to foster innovation of a kind that will yield benefits to the student and the nation, especially in the development of new approaches to learning in the 21st century?

• How important is school leadership and how may principals and other school leaders be prepared for and supported in their roles?

• What is the role of the school system in encouraging and supporting a higher level of school autonomy?

• Where is the profession heading for principals and other school leaders if trends to higher levels of school autonomy are sustained and new approaches to learning are developed?

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The Differentiated Classroom: Responding To The Needs Of All Learners, 2nd Ed.Carol Tomlinson | July, 2014

Today’s classroom is more diverse, more inclusive and more plugged into technology than ever before. And it’s led by teachers under enormous pressure to help decidedly unstandardised students meet an expanding set of rigorous, standardised learning targets. In this updated second edition of her best-selling classic work, Carol Ann Tomlinson offers these teachers a powerful and practical way to meet a challenge that is both very modern and completely timeless: how to divide their time, resources and efforts to effectively instruct so many students of various backgrounds, readiness and skills levels, and interests.

This book’s insightful guidance on what to differentiate, how to differentiate and why lays the groundwork for bringing differentiated instruction into your own classroom or refining the work you already do to help each of your wonderfully unique learners move toward greater knowledge, more advanced skills and expanded understanding. Today more than ever, The Differentiated Classroom is a must-have staple for every teacher’s shelf and every school’s professional development collection.

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The Self-Transforming SchoolBrian Caldwell & Jim Spinks | August, 2013

This is the first mega-analysis in education policy and practice. It combines an overview of insightful meta-analyses of factors contributing to the success of schools and an analysis of powerful mega-trends that are shaping developments in education in general and schools in particular.

The book spans 50 years starting with Caldwell and Spinks’ ground-breaking book The Self-Managing School (1988) that described approaches that were considered at the time to be either undesirable or impossible to achieve yet are now accepted as preferred practice. Twenty-five years later in their fifth book they draw on their work in more than 40 countries to offer a prognosis and plan for the next 25 years.

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The Triple Focus: A New Approach to EducationDaniel Goleman & Peter Senge | July, 2014

The authors provide educators with a solid rationale for incorporating focus-related skill sets in the classroom to help students navigate a fast-paced world of increasing distraction, and better understand the interconnections between people, ideas, and the planet. The book also offers examples of model educational programs that include these competencies in their curriculum, and shares best practices for introducing these concepts in schools.

Daniel Goleman makes the case for teaching children two types of focus: self-awareness and empathy. He also shares research on how students who better understand themselves and others experience improved academic performance, personal development, and relationships.

Senge describes the third type of focus – understanding our relationship with the larger world. He explores the way systems interact and create webs of interdependence, whether it’s in a family, an organization, or on a global scale. Senge also explains how the systems view is taught in schools today, and what it is revealing about the innate systems intelligence of children.

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Transformative Collaboration: Five Commitments for Leading a Professional Learning CommunityTonia Flanagan, Gavin Grift, Kylie Lipscombe, Colin Sloper, Janelle Wills, Alma Harris & Michelle Jones | February, 2016

You would be hard-pressed to find a team, school or system in education today that is not working to become more effective. From Robert Marzano and Michael Fullan to Dylan Wiliam, Michelle Jones and Alma Harris, there is consensus among the world’s leading educational researchers that a collaborative approach to practice is the best way for schools to achieve results and improve student learning.

The authors of this book have cumulatively supported over 1000 schools in Australia and New Zealand to cultivate the collaborative culture required to meet the academic and social needs of every student. Transformative Collaboration: Five Commitments for Leading a Professional Learning Community is the outcome of this experience, in combination with research from the field and educators’ own views on how schools can make collaboration a priority. It is a book that takes you beneath the surface of the school as professional learning community (PLC) to explore the critical commitments that leaders must make in order to truly transform school culture and get the results that students deserve.

Transformative Collaboration: Five Commitments for Leading a Professional Learning Community provides insights, tips and techniques to help you transform your school through collaboration with the goal of becoming a high-performing PLC. Each chapter revolves around one of the five commitments for leading a PLC that the authors have identified through experience and research as essential to the transformation process.

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Visible Learning - A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to AchievementJohn Hattie | November, 2008

This unique and ground-breaking book is the result of 15 years research and synthesises over 800 meta-analyses on the influences on achievement in school-aged students. It builds a story about the power of teachers, feedback, and a model of learning and understanding. The research involves many millions of students and represents the largest ever evidence based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning. Areas covered include the influence of the student, home, school, curricula, teacher, and teaching strategies. A model of teaching and learning is developed based on the notion of visible teaching and visible learning.

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Visible Learning and the Science of How We LearnJohn Hattie & Gregory Yates | September, 2013

Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn explains the major principles and strategies of learning, outlining why it can be so hard sometimes, and yet easy on other occasions. Aimed at teachers and students, it is written in an accessible and engaging style and can be read cover to cover, or used on a chapter-by-chapter basis for essay writing or staff development.

The book is structured in three parts – ‘learning within classrooms’, ‘learning foundations’, which explains the cognitive building blocks of knowledge acquisition and ‘know thyself’ which explores, confidence and self-knowledge. It also features extensive interactive appendices containing study guide questions to encourage critical thinking, annotated bibliographic entries with recommendations for further reading, links to relevant websites and YouTube clips.

This fascinating book is aimed at any student, teacher or parent requiring an up-to-date commentary on how research into human learning processes can inform our teaching and what goes on in our schools. It takes a broad sweep through findings stemming mainly from social and cognitive psychology and presents them in a useable format for students and teachers at all levels, from preschool to tertiary training institutes.

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Visible Learning for Teachers - Maximizing Impact on LearningJohn Hattie | December, 2011

Visible Learning for Teachers takes the next step and brings those ground breaking concepts to a completely new audience. Written for students, pre-service and in-service teachers, it explains how to apply the principles of Visible Learning to any classroom anywhere in the world. The author offers concise and user-friendly summaries of the most successful interventions and offers practical step-by-step guidance to the successful implementation of visible learning and visible teaching in the classroom.

Visible Learning for Teachers is a must read for any student or teacher who wants an evidence based answer to the question; ‘how do we maximise achievement in our schools?’

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Visible Learning for Literacy, Grades K-12: Implementing the Practices That Work Best to Accelerate Student LearningDouglas Fisher, Nancy Frey & John Hattie | April, 2016

What if someone slipped you a piece of paper listing the literacy practices that ensure students demonstrate more than a year’s worth of learning for a year spent in school? Would you keep the paper or throw it away?

We think you’d keep it. And that’s precisely why acclaimed educators Douglas Fisher, Nancy Fry, and John Hattie wrote Visible Learning for Literacy. They know teachers will want to apply Hattie’s head-turning synthesis of more than 15 years of research involving millions of students, which he used to identify the instructional routines that have the biggest impact on student learning.

These practices are “visible” for teachers and students to see, because their purpose has been made clear, they are implemented at the right moment in a student’s learning, and their effect is tangible. Yes, the “aha” moments made visible by design.

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Visible Learning into Action - International Case Studies of ImpactJohn Hattie, Deb Masters & Kate Birch | September, 2015

Visible Learning into Action takes the next step in the evolving Visible Learning story. It translates one of the biggest and most critically acclaimed education research projects ever undertaken into case studies of actual success stories, implementing John Hattie’s ideas in the classrooms of schools all around the world.

The evidenced case studies presented in this book describe the Visible Learning journeys of fifteen schools from Australia, USA, Hong Kong, UK, Sweden, New Zealand and Norway and are representative of the VL international community of schools in their quest to ensure all of their students exceed their potential for academic success. Each school’s story will inform and inspire, bringing to life the discussions, actions and reflections from leaders, teachers, students and families.

Visible Learning into Action is aimed at any student, teacher or parent requiring an up-to-date commentary on how research into human learning processes can inform our teaching and what goes on in our schools.

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What Makes a Leader: Why Emotional Intelligence MattersDaniel Goleman | February, 2014

What Makes a Leader: Why Emotional Intelligence Matters presents Daniel Goleman’s ground-breaking, highly sought-after articles from the Harvard Business Review and other business journals in one volume.

“This collection reflects the evolution of my thinking about emotional intelligence, tracking the latest neuroscientific research on the dynamics of relationships, and the latest data on the impact emotional intelligence has on an organization’s bottom-line,” said Daniel Goleman. “The articles have become essential reading for leaders, coaches, and educators committed to fostering stellar management, increasing performance, and driving innovation.”

The 2016 ACEL Book Catalogue features titles from leading Australian and international authors, researchers, thinkers, educators, parents, school administrators and other professionals in education and allied fields. This catalogue features the latest research and subject-specific books, with new titles constantly added to ensure that the most current information is always on-hand for our members and customers.

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