Collection: Professional Development
At Hawker Brownlow Publishing, we are committed to supporting educators with high-quality, evidence-based professional development resources that make a real impact in schools. Our collection includes original titles developed by Australian educators, as well as internationally respected works designed to meet the evolving needs of teachers and leaders.
Through our partnership with Solution Tree—a global leader in educational transformation—we also offer a selection of their most influential titles, trusted by educators worldwide to build strong professional learning communities, lift student achievement and create meaningful change in teaching and learning.
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Tips and Traps for School Leaders
Regular price $49.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $49.95Tips and Traps for School Leaders is a practical, experience-based guide to the real challenges school leaders face every day; not theoretical ideas, but what actually works in schools. Authors Trevor Doyle and Ross McSwan have led schools... -
MTSS for Reading Improvement
Regular price $56.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $56.95Transform your school’s reading outcomes through systematic implementation of the science of reading within a multi-tiered system of supports framework. This comprehensive guide provides over 50 practical tools that help leaders engineer robust support systems across all tiers.... -
Rehumanizing Assessment: Gathering Evidence of Student Learning Through Storytelling
Regular price $71.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $71.95Discover the transformative power of storytelling in assessment and student learning. Drawing on culturally responsive practices, this approach fosters innovation, self-reflection and student engagement. Through narrative-based strategies, educators can elevate formative and summative assessments, promoting authentic, competency-based learning;... -
The Teacher as Assessment Leader, Second Edition
Regular price $61.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $61.95In The Teacher as Assessment Leader, Second Edition, editor Thomas R. Guskey and expert contributors offer research-backed strategies for re-envisioning assessment to enhance student learning and teacher instruction. The authors provide actionable steps, practical examples and strategies for... -
Test-Specific Thinking: Teaching Students to Think the Way Tests Make Them
Regular price $49.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $49.95In Test-Specific Thinking, the authors provide recommended practices, methods and means for educators to implement structural schemas into teaching, helping students better prepare for tests and formulate stronger responses to certain question frames. Armed with a better understanding... -
Motivating and Inspiring Students: Strategies to Awaken the Learner
Regular price $53.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $53.95Bringing motivation and inspiration to the classroom is not easy. With this practical resource, you’ll discover a results-driven framework—based on a six-level hierarchy of student needs and goals—that you can use to provide engaging instruction to students. The... -
The Teacher Team Leader Handbook: Simple Habits to Transform Collaboration in a PLC at Work
Regular price $61.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $61.95Education expert and award-winning researcher Chad Dumas provides teacher team leaders with clarity on their role and approach, accompanied by actions that help teams get started, gain momentum, overcome obstacles, and refine skills that maximise their effectiveness in... -
Supporting Beginning Teachers, Second Edition
Regular price $36.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $36.95Support and retain your best and brightest new teachers. The second edition of this acclaimed book retains much of what made the original a classic, but now offers the latest research along with new insights, strategies, and best... -
Leading Educator Wellness: Six Critical Actions to Support All Staff
Regular price $50.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $50.95When leaders don’t prioritise their wellness, supporting teachers and students becomes challenging. This resource emphasises wellness as a core part of a leader’s identity, addressing low morale and exploring personal connections. It outlines six critical actions for self-care,... -
180 Days of Self-Care for Busy Educators
Regular price $49.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $49.95Rely on 180 Days of Self-Care for Busy Educators to help you lead a happier, healthier, more fulfilled life inside and outside of the classroom. With author Tina H. Boogren’s guidance, you will work your way through thirty-six... -
Educator Wellness: A Guide for Sustaining Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Social Well-Being
Regular price $33.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $33.95Educator and teacher wellness is a personal journey. And like all journeys, there are starts, stops, and bumps in the road. The question becomes "How do we bring our best selves to our students and colleagues each day?"... -
180 Days of Physical Wellness for Busy Educators
Regular price $51.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $51.95Using accountability tools, reflections, and 36 weeks’ worth of invitations, Tina H. Boogren gives K–12 teachers and administrators the structure and ideas they need to improve their well-being. Boogren dives deep into the physical wellness aspect of self-care,... -
Coaching for Educator Wellness: A Guide to Supporting New and Experienced Teachers
Regular price $45.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $45.95Fully and confidently step into your role as an instructional coach with the support of Coaching for Educator Wellness. This instructional leadership guide offers evergreen strategies alongside fresh new solutions that will help you differentiate coaching practices for new... -
Transforming School Culture: How to Overcome Staff Division, Second Edition
Regular price $54.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $54.95Transforming School Culture provides a school improvement plan for leaders to overcome staff division, improve relationships and build positive school cultures. Dr Anthony Muhammad contends that in order to transform school culture, we must understand why teachers continue... -
Culture Champions: Teachers Supporting a Healthy Classroom Culture
Regular price $46.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $46.95In this book, leading educator Dr Anthony Muhammad compiles prominent voices in the field, sharing their tried-and-true strategies for building a healthy school culture, beginning with teachers and their collaborative partnerships with one another, parents and the community... -
Culture Keepers: Leaders Creating a Healthy School Culture
Regular price $62.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $62.95In Culture Keepers, renowned educator and author Dr Anthony Muhammad compiles essays from leading names in education on how to build and sustain a strong school culture. Contributors provide guidance on how to transform school culture post-pandemic, how... -
The Will to Lead, the Skill to Teach: Transforming Schools at Every Level
Regular price $47.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $47.95School improvement begins with self-examination and honest dialogue about socialization, bias, discrimination, and cultural insensitivity. The authors acknowledge both the structural and sociological issues that contribute to low-performing schools and offer multiple tools and strategies to assess and... -
Time for Change: Four Essential Skills for Transformational School and District Leaders
Regular price $45.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $45.95Transformational leaders have four distinctive skills: strong communication, the ability to build trust, the ability to increase the skills of those they lead, and a results orientation. Time for Change offers powerful guidance for those seeking to develop and strengthen... -
Overcoming the Achievement Gap Trap: Liberating Mindsets to Effect Change
Regular price $49.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $49.95Ensure learning equality in every classroom. Investigate previous and current policies designed to help close the achievement gap. Examine predominant mindsets that contradict school missions to promote equal academic opportunities, and consider the psychological impact this has on... -
The Way Forward: PLC at Work® and the Bright Future of Education
Regular price $54.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $54.95Teachers today have a window of opportunity to shape education in a way that will impact the profession for generations. In this compelling and comprehensive book, educator and best-selling author Anthony Muhammad explores the educational hurdles of the... -
Take Time for You: Self-Care Action Plans for Educators
Regular price $45.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $45.95The key to thriving, as both a human and an educator, rests in mindfulness, reflection, and daily self-care activities. With Take Time for You, you will discover a clear path to well-being by working through Maslow's hierarchy of... -
Redesigning Small-Group Reading Instruction: Structured Literacy Practices for Differentiation, Acceleration, and Intervention
Regular price $76.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $76.95Discover the value of small-group reading instruction that accommodates students’ individual literacy needs. Author Julie A. Taylor provides lesson plan templates to incorporate small groups into any learning structure. Teachers will design laser-targeted skills and strategy lessons to... -
The Green Literacy Handbook: Inspire Environmental Stewardship Through Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing, Grades K–5
Regular price $65.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $65.95Introducing Green Literacy, a way of teaching that cultivates critical thinking, reading, and writing about environmentalism through children’s books and digital media. Students analyse multiple perspectives, engage in hands-on activities, and come to a deeper understanding of environmental... -
Revolving Literacy: How to Connect Relevance and Future-Ready Skills to Secondary English Instruction
Regular price $69.95Regular priceUnit price / perSale price $69.95Drawing on author Lorraine M. Radice’s literacy teaching and leadership experience, this book provides practical resources to design future-ready reading, writing, and research curriculum and instruction, including unit planners, lesson plans, reflection prompts, discussion questions and organising strategies....