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 / perTips 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... -
The Teacher Team Leader Handbook: Simple Habits to Transform Collaboration in a PLC at Work
Regular price $61.95Regular priceUnit price / perEducation 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 / perSupport 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 / perWhen 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 / perRely 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 / perEducator 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?"... -
Coaching for Educator Wellness: A Guide to Supporting New and Experienced Teachers
Regular price $45.95Regular priceUnit price / perFully 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 / perTransforming 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... -
Time for Change: Four Essential Skills for Transformational School and District Leaders
Regular price $45.95Regular priceUnit price / perTransformational 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... -
The Way Forward: PLC at Work® and the Bright Future of Education
Regular price $54.95Regular priceUnit price / perTeachers 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 / perThe 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... -
The Green Literacy Handbook: Inspire Environmental Stewardship Through Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing, Grades K–5
Regular price $65.95Regular priceUnit price / perIntroducing 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 / perDrawing 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.... -
Who Says I Can’t? A Four-Year Plan to Erase the Reading Gap and Achieve Proficiency by Fourth Grade
Regular price $67.95Regular priceUnit price / perDrawing 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.... -
Small Groups for Big Readers: Ten Questions Answered About Core Reading Instruction in the K–5 Classroom
Regular price $68.95Regular priceUnit price / perIn Small Groups for Big Readers, the authors advocate for small-group reading instruction as an effective way for teachers to help all students grow as skilled, developing readers. Through small-group instruction, K–5 teachers can differentiate instruction by using... -
Overcoming the Achievement Gap Trap: Liberating Mindsets to Effect Change
Regular price $49.95Regular priceUnit price / perEnsure 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 Will to Lead, the Skill to Teach: Transforming Schools at Every Level
Regular price $47.95Regular priceUnit price / perSchool 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... -
Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work, Fourth Edition
Regular price $82.95Regular priceUnit price / perEven after 25 years, the PLC at Work® process continues to guide schools worldwide. This fourth edition, written by Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, Thomas W. Many, Mike Mattos, and Anthony Muhammad, offers new insights into school... -
Pathways to Proficiency: Implementing Evidence-Based Grading, Second Edition
Regular price $64.95Regular priceUnit price / perTransform your school’s grading practices with this updated second edition on evidence-based grading. The book provides a five-phase process for moving beyond standards-based and competency-based grading models. Administrators and teachers will gain understanding of the core principles of... -
Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom: How Do We Really Know They’re Learning?
Regular price $52.95Regular priceUnit price / perStudents learn in diverse ways, and their grades may not always accurately reflect their true understanding. Marcia L. Tate explores the what, why and how of assessment to help educators know whether their students are truly learning. Dive... -
It’s Possible! A Leadership Plan for Implementing Quality Reading Instruction and Ensuring Literacy for All
Regular price $76.95Regular priceUnit price / perDrawing on the science of reading – and research on high-performing schools and effective leadership – authors Pati Montgomery and Angela Hanlin provide school and district leaders with the tools to systematically implement and create the necessary systems... -
Vocabulary Games for the Classroom
Regular price $69.95Regular priceUnit price / perMake direct vocabulary instruction fun and successful with this simple, straightforward and easy-to-use book. Hundreds of critical vocabulary terms, handpicked by Dr. Marzano, cover four content areas and all year levels. Each game identifies the appropriate year level... -
Untangling Data-Based Decision Making: A Problem-Solving Model to Enhance MTSS
Regular price $67.95Regular priceUnit price / perA practical tool to help you make sense of student data for effective use in MTSS! This book offers knowledge, strategies and tools that will help you use data effectively. Applicable to any content area, the four simple... -
Who Owns the Learning? Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age
Regular price $27.95Regular priceUnit price / perLearn how to harness students' natural curiosity to develop them into self-directed learners. Discover how technology allows students to take ownership of their learning, create and share learning tools, and participate in work that is meaningful to them...