Browse Books in Professional Development

Good Choice!
Supporting independent reading and response K-6

Building Info Smarts
How to work with all kinds of information and make it your own

Writing Across the Curriculum
All Teachers Teach Writing

Indigenous Storywork
Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit

Story Vines and Readers Theatre
Getting Started

Basic Tools for Beginning Writers
How to teach all the skills beginning writers need — from alphabet recognition and spelling to strategies for self-editing and building coherent context

First Nations Teachers
Identity and Community, Struggle and Change

Walking the Talk
Putting Theory into Practice

The Literacy Principal
Leading, supporting and assessing reading and writing initiatives

Reclaiming Reluctant Writers
How to encourage students to face their fears and master the essential traits of good writers

3-Minute Motivators
More than 100 ways to reach, teach, and achieve more than you ever imagined

Les Compétences professionnelles en enseignement et leur évaluation

Yes, but … if they like it, they'll learn it!
How to plan, organize, and assess learning experiences with meaning, purpose, and joy

Tutoring Adolescent Readers

Evaluating Students
How teachers justify and defend their marks to parents, students, and principals

Family Literacy Experiences
Creating reading and writing opportunities that support classroom learning

Reading Power
Teaching students to think while they read

Powerful Presentations
Seven steps to successful speaking

The Reading Edge
Using phonics strategically to teach reading

The Novel Experience
Steps for choosing and using fiction in the classroom

Literacy, Libraries, and Learning
Using books and online resources to promote reading, writing, and research

The Principal Difference
Key issues in school leadership and how to deal with them

55 Teaching Dilemmas
Ten powerful solutions to almost any classroom challenge

Bullied Teacher: Bullied Student
How to recognize the bullying culture in your school and what to do about it