Achieving Believing and Caring: Doing Whatever It Takes to Create Successful Schools. Christopher Spence, $24.95

Based on a deep belief in the potential of every child, this timely book encourages every educator to help students make better choices. It offers the "ABCs" of school partnerships that lead not just to more successful student learning, but stronger families and healthier communities. Achieving Believing and Caring explores ways that schools can give students the tools they need to surpass limitations, not just in school, but in the world beyond. Compelling examples of schools, programs, and teachers that make a difference in the lives of children complement this remarkable book.

Action Research: Teachers as Researchers in the Classroom. Craig Mertler, $50.95

Action Research introduces practicing teachers to the process of conducting classroom-based research. The book’s practicality stems from its attention to research methods and procedures that teachers can use with their everyday teaching practices and classroom activities.

The Art of Classroom Inquiry: a Handbook for Teacher-Researchers. Ruth Shagoury Hubbard & Brenda Miller Power, $41.00

Thoroughly updated to reflect current thinking and technologies, this revised edition of The Art of Classroom Inquiry continues to show teachers how they can carefully and systematically ask and answer their own questions about learning. In crisp, jargon-free prose, Ruth Shagoury Hubbard and Brenda Miller Power present the nuts and bolts of classroom research strategies—interviewing and note-taking techniques, methods for categorizing data, online support, and hands-on activities for testing research methods and honing skills, plus much more.

The Best Schools: How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice. Thomas Armstrong, $27.95

While most of the dialogue in education today is about accountability, standardized testing, and adequate yearly progress, the truth is that student success is deeply connected to the physical, emotional, and cognitive needs that they have at different ages. The best schools already know this and follow practices that are academically engaging and developmentally appropriate. Now here's a book that looks at these schools and highlights the similarities of their programs. Discover how these schools help their students reach their true potential by using an approach to education that includes:

• An emphasis on play for early childhood learning
• Theme- and project-based learning for elementary school students
• Active learning that recognizes the social, emotional, and cognitive needs of adolescents in middle schools
• Mentoring, apprenticeships, and cooperative education for high school students

Explore learning settings, pedagogical tools, and instructional approaches that any school can adopt to inspire students of all ages to discover their passion for learning.

The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can't Be Businesses. Larry Cuban, $20.50

In this provocative new book, Larry Cuban takes aim at the alluring cliché that schools should be more businesslike, and shows that in its long history in business-minded America, no one has shown that a business model can be successfully applied to education. Not only are schools by their nature not businesslike, Cuban argues, but the attempt to run them along business lines leads to dangerous over-standardization—of tests, and of goals for our children. Cuban suggests that the best business-inspired improvement for American education would be more consistent and sustained on-the-job worker training, tailored for the job to be done, and business leaders' encouragement—and adoption—of an ethic of civic engagement and public service.

Change Leader: Learning to Do What Matters Most.  Michael Fullan, $33.95

In his previous best-selling books, Michael Fullan examined the concepts and processes of change. Now he turns his focus to the core practices of leadership that are so vital for leading in today's complex world. Fullan argues that powerful leaders have built bedrocks of credibility, have learned how to identify the few things that matter most, and know how to leverage their skills in ways that benefit their entire organization.

• Provides a much-needed leadership guide for today's turbulent climate
• Written by an internationally acclaimed authority on organizational change
• Includes illustrative examples from business, education, nonprofit, and government sectors
• Shows leaders how to eschew policies and strategies that focus on shallow and short-term goals and develop leadership skills for long-term success

Child and Adolescent Development for Educators. Michael Pressley & Christine B. McCormic, $75.50

Filling a tremendous need, this is the first graduate-level child development text written specifically for future educators. Child and Adolescent Development for Educators provides a solid understanding of major theories of development, focusing on how each has informed research and practice in educational contexts. Topics include:

• The impact of biology and early experiences on the developing mind
• The development of academic competence and motivation
• How learning is influenced by individual differences
• Socio-cultural factors, peers, and the family environment
• What educators need to know about child mental health
• And more …

Every chapter features a quick-reference outline, definitions of key terms, and boxes addressing special topics of interest to educators.

The Classrooms All Young Children Need: Lessons in Teaching from Vivian Paley. Patricia Cooper, $34.95

Teacher and author Vivian Paley is highly regarded for her original insights into such seemingly everyday issues as play, story, gender, and how young children think. She is also recognized for exposing racism and exclusion in the early childhood classroom. In The Classrooms All Young Children Need, Patricia Cooper takes a synoptic view of Paley’s many books and articles, charting the evolution of Paley’s thinking while revealing the seminal characteristics of her teaching philosophy. This careful analysis leads Cooper to identify a pedagogical model organized around two complementary principles: a curriculum that promotes play and imagination, and the idea of classrooms as fair places where young children of every color, ability, and disposition are welcome. With timely attention paid to debates about the reduction in time for play in the early childhood classroom, the role of race in education, and No Child Left Behind, The Classrooms All Young Children Need will be embraced by anyone tasked with teaching our youngest pupils.

Classrooms that Spark! Recharge and Revive Your Teaching, 2nd Edition. Emma McDonald & Dyan Hershman, $35.95

Authors Emma McDonald and Dyan Hershman offer a wealth of strategies, ideas, reproducible forms and classroom tools that will help you nurture the spark of learning in your classroom.

Co-Teaching That Works: Structures and Strategies for Maximizing Student Learning. Anne Beninghof, $35.95

This book provides practical ideas for defining teacher roles, planning lessons, providing effective instruction, and maximizing the value of each team member. Teachers and instructional leaders at all levels and in a wide variety of content areas will find examples that emphasize creative yet time-efficient instructional strategies that lend themselves beautifully to the co-taught classroom.

This user-friendly, comprehensive book is filled with concrete ideas teachers can implement immediately in the classroom to boost student learning and engagement.

The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection & Renewal, 10th Anniversary Edition. Parker Palmer, $20.99 (includes companion DVD)

The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal, 10th Anniversary Edition, has been thoroughly updated and expanded to help readers reflect on their teaching and renew their sense of vocation.

The Elementary Teacher’s Book of Lists, Grades K-5. Gary Robert Muscghla, Judy Muschla & Erin Muschla, $35.95

An essential reference for all elementary teachers, this comprehensive resource contains useful lists on all the subjects elementary teachers need - from core content to tips on classroom management to advice for students on study skills. The lists highlight vital areas of interest including reading, writing, mathematics, and science, social studies, developing social skills, developing effective study skills, and working with an inclusive classroom.

The End of Molasses Classes: Getting Our Kids Unstuck. Ron Clark, $27.00

101 extraordinary solutions for parents and teachers from the bestselling author of THE ESSENTIAL 55.

The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, $21.00

Through vivid portraits and parables, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot captures the dynamics of this complex, intense relationship from the perspective of both parents and teachers. She identifies new principles and practices for improving family-school relationships in a voice that combines the passion of a mother, the skepticism of a social scientist, and the keen understanding of one of an experienced educator.

For parents and teachers who seek productive dialogues and collaborative alliances in support of the learning and growth of their children, this book will offer valuable insights, incisive lessons, and deft guidance on how to communicate more effectively. In The Essential Conversation, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot brings scholarship, warmth, and wisdom to an immensely important cultural subject — the way we raise our children.

Everything I Need to Know About Teaching They Forgot to Tell Me! Stacey Jarvis & Bob Algozzine, $28.95

The worries, concerns and questions of first-year educators can be overwhelming and eventually lead to teachers leaving the profession. This candid look at the pressures and surprises of the first year of teaching provides the new teacher with guidance and advice that is full of encouragement, humor, and practical ideas, all based on real first-year experiences. This guidebook emphasizes the aspects of teaching that college professors don’t teach. Authors Stacey Jarvis and Bob Algozzine take a realistic approach to the unforeseen pitfalls that new teachers face, focusing on the major concerns of novice teachers:

• Controlling workload, managing time, and overcoming fatigue
• Forming strong relationships with students, parents, and colleagues
• Maintaining autonomy and control of teaching styles and methods

Fires in the Middle School Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers. Kathleen Cushman & Laura Rogers, $27.50

Fires in the Middle School Bathroom offers a window into the world of early adolescence. Diverse student voices offer teachers insight into the constantly changing inner life of students in the middle grades.

The First-Year Teacher’s Checklist: a Quick Reference for Classroom Success, Grades K-12. Julia Thompson, $23.95

An easy-to-use reference, with hundreds of time (and classroom) tested answers, ideas, techniques and teaching tools that will help you on your way to a successful and productive first year.

The End of Ignorance: Multiplying Our Human Potential. John Mighton, $19.95

The End of Ignorance conceives of a world in which no child is left behind–a world based on the assumption that each child has the potential to be successful in every subject. John Mighton argues that by recognizing the barriers that we have experienced in our own educational development, by identifying the moment that we became disenchanted with a certain subject and forever closed ourselves off to it, we will be able to eliminate these same barriers from standing in the way of our children.

A passionate examination of our present education system, The End of Ignorance shows how we all can work together to reinvent the way that we are taught.

A Funny Thing about Teaching: Connecting with Kids through Laughter...and Other Pointers for New Teachers. Jack Rightmyer, $14.95

Jack Rightmyer tells the story of his journey as a new teacher and how he came to see the importance of humor in his classroom. The book teaches through personal narrative, engaging readers in a real-life story about what the author has learned in his 27-year teaching career, working in both urban and suburban schools and teaching at every level from 6th grade through college.

The Herb Kohl Reader: Awakening the Heart of Teaching.  Herbert Kohl, $24.95

Now, for the first time, readers can find collected in one place key essays and excerpts spanning the whole of Kohl’s career, including practical as well as theoretical writings. The best writing from a lifetime in the trenches, from the renowned and much-beloved National Book Award-winning educator, The Herb Kohl Reader is destined to become a major new resource for old fans and a new generation of teachers and parents.

How to Handle Difficult Parents: a Teacher’s Survival Guide.  Suzanne Capek Tingley, $14.95

Practical advice for teachers, presented with a sense of humor. The stress of dealing with difficult parents remains one of the top reasons teachers cite for leaving the profession. How to Handle Difficult Parents helps teachers learn how to cope more effectively, with sound advice for working a wide range of parenting “styles”.

Kick-Start Your Class: Academic Icebreakers to Engage Students. LouAnne Johnson, $29.95

LouAnne Johnson's newest book is a collection of fun and simple educational icebreaker activities that get students excited and engaged from the very first minute of class. These activities are great to use with students at all levels, and many of the activities include variations and modifications for different groups. Research has shown that the use of icebreakers increases student motivation by creating an emotional connection between the student and school. In as little as five minutes, a creative icebreaker can engage students' brains, encourage critical thinking, and much more. No matter what your students' age group this book will give you the tools you need to create a classroom environment that promotes learning.

Leading with Passion and Purpose: Creating Schools the Help Teachers Teach and Students Learn. Christopher Spence, $24.95

This highly readable book is based on the premise that all students can learn, regardless of their social background and circumstances. It offers education leaders the information they need so they can find their voice and contribute in their unique way to a successful learning environment. This thorough explanation of the principles of education leadership and the characteristics of effective schools is full of personal insights and revealing anecdotes. It shows education leaders how to face a myriad of challenges — from the demands of accountability and generating community support to closing the achievement gap and promoting equity. The book offers a path to educational reform that can make a huge difference in the lives of all students.

Learning to Lead: Effective Leadership Skills for Teachers of Young Children, 2nd Edition. Debra Ren-Etta Sullivan, $30.95

Recognize, shape, and use your leadership skills to become a stronger, more effective teacher. Learning to Lead provides an in-depth look at how leadership skills impact all areas of early childhood care and education with an accessible combination of leadership theory and practice. Topics and issues covered include human development, diversity, anti-bias; work with families and social change.

Making It Till Friday: Your Guide to Effective Classroom Management, 5th Edition. James Long & Robert Williams, $44.95

By recognizing and addressing the difficulties of classroom management for both new and experienced teachers, Making It Till Friday is designed to help teachers enjoy teaching and students enjoy learning. Each chapter introduces established techniques as well as new trends in classroom management that teachers can apply every day.

Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness: a Guide for Anyone Who Teaches Anything. Deborah Schoeberlein, $21.50

Mindfulness has gone mainstream, and author Deborah Schoeberlein pioneers its practical application in education. Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness emphasizes how the teacher's personal familiarity with mindfulness plants the seed for an education infused with attention, awareness, kindness, empathy, compassion, and gratitude. This book is perfect for teachers of all kinds: schoolteachers, adult educators, coaches, and parents – in short, anyone who teaches anything.

100 Essential Forms for New Teachers, Grades K-5. Linda Ward Beech, $26.99

A must-have collection of checklists, planning sheets, assessments and more that puts all the forms you’ll need at your fingertips. Includes a CD-ROM with customizable forms, lesson-plan templates, graphic organizers, rubrics and more!

1000 Best New Teacher Survival Secrets. Kandace Martin & Kathleen Brenny, $15.95

Two experienced educators show you how to:

• organize your classroom
• survive your first week
• document student progress and assessment
• deal with teacher-parent conferences
• manage stress and stay healthy
• create a safe school environment
• and enjoy your career as a teacher across all grade levels

The Organized Teacher, 2nd Edition: a Hands-On Guide to Setting Up and Running a Terrific Classroom. Steve Springer, Kimberly Persiani-Becker, Brandy Alexander, $27.95

Everything you need to know to run an organized and flourishing classroom, even if it is your first year teaching! Now this classic bestseller has been revised with fresh ideas and comes with a CD-ROM bursting with printable checklists and templates. Inside you'll find:

• Reproducible pages ready for use, including charts, diagrams, guidelines, sample record pages, lesson plan sheets, and more
• Ideas for your classroom, including art projects and playground games
• More than 150 forms and checklists available on CD-ROM
• New and improved ideas to make your classroom work efficiently

The Pressures of Teaching: How Teachers Cope with Classroom Stress. Maureen Picard Robins, Editor, $16.95

In this insightful, fascinating collection of stories from the trenches of teaching, teachers confront the many challenges of choosing this path. The pressures of teaching may be great, but the rewards can be even greater.

Quick Tips: Making the First Six Weeks a Success, Grades K-5. Kelly Bergman, $22.99

A mentor teacher’s practical tips, strategies and ready-to-use forms to help you set up and manage an efficient, productive classroom. Includes a CD with more than 30 timesaving forms and graphic organizers.

The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday’s Ideas. Frederick Hess, $30.95

In this genial and challenging overview of endless debates over school reform, Rick Hess shows that even bitter opponents in debates about how to improve schools agree on much more than they realize — and that much of it must change radically.

Most educators and advocates take many things for granted. The one-teacher–one-classroom model. The professional full-time teacher. Students grouped in age-defined grades. The nine-month calendar. Top-down local district control. All were innovative and exciting — in the nineteenth century. As Hess shows, the system hasn’t changed since most Americans lived on farms and in villages, since school taught you to read, write, and do arithmetic, and since only the elite went to high school, let alone college.

Arguing that a fundamentally nineteenth century system can’t be right for a twenty-first century world, Hess suggests that uniformity gets in the way of quality, and urges us to create a much wider variety of schools, to meet a greater range of needs for different kinds of talents, needed by a vastly more complex and demanding society.

Self-Regulation for Kids K-12: Strategies for Calming Minds and Behavior.  Patricia Tollison, Katherine Synatschk & Gaea Logan, $48.95

Organized as both a text about self-regulation and a step-by-step, practical guide to developing a program for helping children and adolescents, this text is a valuable resource for counselors, teachers, and behavior specialists.

A Sense of Belonging: Sustaining and Retaining New Teachers. Jennifer Allen, $26.95

This inspiring book provides research-based, practical ideas on how to support new teachers while honoring the innovation, idealism, and optimistic enthusiasm that they bring to the classroom. It shares strategies on everything from supporting new teachers early in the year, to offering ongoing help with curriculum planning and facilitating professional development opportunities. The book demonstrates that when schools embrace, encourage, and celebrate the work of new teachers, they establish a supportive community that fosters excellence and improves retention.

Substitute Teacher's Survival Guide: 10 Keys to Success. Joseph Casbarro, $12.95 (Laminated Reference Guide)

There are a number of skills that a substitute teacher needs to develop in order to make their experience successful. This reference guide provides practical and targeted strategies that will increase their effectiveness and success in the classroom.

Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire: the Methods and Madness Inside Room 56. Rafe Esquith, $16.50

In a Los Angeles neighborhood plagued by guns, gangs, and drugs, there is an exceptional classroom known as Room 56. The fifth graders inside are first-generation immigrants who live in poverty and speak English as a second language. They also play Vivaldi, perform Shakespeare, score in the top 1 percent on standardized tests, and go on to attend Ivy League universities. Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire is a brilliant and inspiring road map for parents, teachers, and anyone who cares about the future success of our children.

TeamWork: Setting the Standard for Collaborative Teaching, Grades 5–9. Monique Wild, Amanda Mayeaux & Kathryn Edmonds, $21.95

This insider's guide to teaming reveals the conversations, the conflicts, and the collegial sharing that enables teachers to collaborate so that every member of the team can meet the highest standards of professional practice. For new teachers and seasoned veterans alike, TeamWork provides a powerful foundation for achievement by offering the straight scoop on these and other key topics:

• how to shape a shared purpose for learning by mining the talents of students and colleagues
• how to build strong partnerships with parents, principals, and other key people who influence the lives of young adolescents
• how to deepen curriculum integration by "cutting the fluff"

10 Things New Teachers Need to Succeed. Robin Fogarty, $29.95

In this second edition of 10 Things Teachers Need to Succeed, international educator Robin Fogarty distills a wealth of teaching and consulting experience into ten high-impact strategies to help novice and experienced instructors succeed and thrive. This guidebook's unique format also makes it an ideal professional development tool to help teams of new and experienced teachers grow together by discussing and applying one chapter each month.

The Total Teacher Book & Planner, Grades K-12. Lorraine Milark, $33.95 (includes CD-ROM)

The all-in-one system that gets you organized, empowered and inspired to teach your best.

The Tough Kid® New Teacher Book: Practical Classroom Management Strategies. Daniel Morgan, William Jenson & Ginger Rhode, $22.95 Grades K-12

THE TOUGH KID® NEW TEACHER BOOK is an essential resource for anyone new to teaching. It is a practical, easy-to-use guide to managing even the most challenging classroom. The book focuses on strategies you can learn quickly and implement immediately:

• Set a positive tone for the entire school year.
• Create a positive learning environment with classroom rules and routines.
• Use Precision Requests to increase student compliance.
• Establish and enforce positive and negative consequences for student behavior.
• Deal effectively with kids who misbehave again and again.
• Put an end to particularly bothersome behaviors such as swearing, talk-outs, disrespectful interactions, and noncompliance.
• Reduce your own stress and frustration.

Spend your time teaching, not disciplining. THE TOUGH KID® NEW TEACHER BOOK will help you make your first year a happy and successful start to a fulfilling career.

Tuned In and Fired Up: How Teaching Can Inspire Real Learning in the Classroom. Sam Intrator, $20.95

In this compelling book, author Sam Intrator provides detailed portraits of powerful learning episodes in a high school classroom and suggests numerous practical ideas to help teachers cultivate their own magical learning moments.

Turnaround Leadership. Michael Fullan, $28.99

Turnaround Leadership expands the definition of organizational turnaround and shows how leaders can turn even the worst situation into an opportunity to shake-up and rejuvenate their schools. Indeed he goes beyond turnaround schools to show how entire systems can be transformed. Fullan examines the dynamics of what makes societies — and education systems — healthy or sick. He identifies the positive things turnaround schools do to get off the critical list, and explores what it takes to motivate large numbers of people to go beyond short-term solutions in order to achieve fundamental, sustainable reform.

Using Skilled Dialogue to Transform Challenging Interactions: Honoring Identity, Voice, and Connection. Isaura Barrera & Lucinda Kramer, $34.95

Responding to the challenges posed by diverse behavior in early childhood settings depends on a deep understanding of the experiences, values, perceptions, and beliefs that shape it. This book shows how to interpret behavior in the context of culture—and use that knowledge to improve even the most challenging interactions.

This positive and practical guide works because it transforms the behavior of everyone: young children with special needs, early childhood professionals, and families. A must for every professional who works with young children and families, this book will help readers change the way they think about behavior—and resolve challenges in ways that honor diverse cultures and perspectives.