Leading Impact Teams offers a dynamic framework for instilling a culture where collective efforts drive remarkable outcomes. Readers will explore the pivotal role that efficacy—a belief in one's ability to produce desired results—plays in propelling teams toward continuous improvement by advancing learner agency system-wide.

Amplify Learner Voice pushes back against traditional assessment and grading practices that continue to be an inequitable endeavor for our nation’s learners; traditional classroom practices continue to sort and label students by characterizing them by "what they need to work on" or ‘lack.'

In this book, eight authors and The Core Collaborative’s partner schools reimagine formative assessment through an asset-based, cultural lens to make a greater impact on learning and our shared humanity.

Written by practitioners who have experienced the triumphs and struggles first-hand, the book offers a framework for moving from building knowledge to making meaning and then applying understanding of practices and systems that support agency.  As a result, readers are able to determine a starting point and use the book as a guide to their own unique journey through the highlighted enabling conditions and evergreen practices that are essential to success. It is the hope of the authors that it propels all readers to take flight.

The Project Habit provides small doable shifts for busy teachers looking to enhance and innovate their practices. It aims to ensure students develop substantial growth in establishing agency in their own learning, developing rigorous academic content knowledge, and contributing that knowledge and skills to solve real-world problems. The book offers easy-to-implement practices in inquiry-based learning that any teacher can pick and be assured that whether they are done one at a time or all together, they are backed by sound research in teaching and learning.

Schools and districts continue to struggle with equity initiatives that actually work. Far too often, they take action that reinforces a vicious cycle of failure. In Belonging through a Culture of Dignity, Cobb and Krownapple contend that this failure is largely because educators fail to grasp and use the keys to equity success: dignity, belonging, and inclusion. Cobb and Krownapple unpack these concepts and offer them within a practical framework for creating schools that work for every student. This book is for districts, schools, and educators who want to get it right when it comes to educational equity!

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Authors: Floyd Cobb and John Krownapple

Publisher: Mimi & Todd Press

​This book is an invitation for school leaders and district teams to align their arrows, simplify their vision, and ultimately empower their teachers to be true experts of learning. Although learning is the intended goal of our educational system, all too often, initiative fatigue clouds the focus and creates inequitable learning experiences for our students.

In Arrows: A Systems-Based Approach to School Leadership, Henry and Rosebrock unpack their district's experience of creating and maintaining a culture dedicated to student and teacher learning. It's an educational good-to-great story resulting in higher achievement, together.

Authors: Carrie Rosebrock and Sarah Henry

​The Rigorous PBL by Design Foundations workbook is about designing and implementing rigorous problem- and project-based learning using the three C’s: Clarity, Challenge, and Culture. Activities and resources are grounded in the results of countless numbers of research studies and teacher practices that have resulted in a substantial impact on student learning around the world.

Author: Michael McDowell, Ed.D.​

The Rigorous PBL by Design Deep Dive workbook continues readers’ development in designing and implementing rigorous problem- and project-based learning. Having designed a series of project ideas that incorporated the three C’s, the Deep Dive workbook focuses on implementing the three C’s with students throughout the course of a project.

Author: Michael McDowell, Ed.D.

By designing projects that move students from surface to deep and transfer learning through PBL, they will become confident and competent learners. Discover how to make three shifts essential to improving PBL’s overall effect: Clarity, Challenge, and Culture.

Author: Michael McDowell, Ed.D.

Publisher: Corwin

In this book, Marisol Rerucha draws on Indigenous traditions, research-based frameworks, and the support of fellow educators and scholars in order to offer teachers and administrators vital tools for facing crises with compassion. In addition to Rerucha’s revolutionary vision of education that is holistic, human centered, and brought to life through actionable and accessible techniques, Beyond the Surface of Restorative Practices features contributions from Pedro Terrazas, on restorative practices in the classroom; Dr. Enjolie Lourdes Lafaurie, on active listening for educators; and Dr. Carolyn Gery on understanding how trauma impacts relationships. Both empowering and urgently necessary, Beyond the Surface of Restorative Practices can help you to build an organization-wide culture of healing and well-being from the ground up.

Formative assessment produces greater increases in student learning and is cheaper than other efforts to boost achievement. Peer Power gives teachers a practical 6-step framework for empowering students to take ownership of their learning through the self and peer assessment process.

• expands feedback to learners

• amplifies quality classroom discussion

• expands student goal setting

• infuses dispositional learning

• strengthens metacognitive thinking

• integrates SEL practices into classroom culture

Authors: Paul Bloomberg, Barb Pitchford, and Kara Vandas

Publisher: Mimi & Todd Press

The Leading Impact Teams Coaching Handbook is a great compliment to the Leading Impact Teams: Building a Culture of Efficacy Publication by Dr. Paul Bloomberg and Barb Pitchford.  This coaching handbook is a great resource for teams invested in expanding student ownership and agency. 

• Expand deeper learning outcomes

• Coach model teams to success

• Design Impact Team inquiry

• Strengthen peer facilitation

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Authors:  Dr. Paul Bloomberg and Barb Pitchford

Publisher: Mimi & Todd Press

With the ever-changing landscape of education, teachers and leaders often find themselves searching for clarity in a sea of standards, curriculum resources, and competing priorities. Clarity for Learning offers a simple and doable approach to developing clarity and sharing it with students. Are both teachers and students clear about what must be learned, why students are learning it, and how they can be successful? Are students able to determine their next steps in learning through quality feedback and assessment? Have teachers had the time and support to collaborate around clarity to ensure an aligned approach within your school system?

This book offers five powerful practices that include:

• Gaining clarity

• Sharing clarity

• Feedback with clarity

• Assessing with clarity

• Collaborating with clarity

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In addition, the book is chock-full of examples from teachers and leaders across North America who have shared their journey, struggles, and successes to provide examples, exemplars, and models for readers to use to propel their own work forward. This is a don’t-miss resource!

Authors: Kara Vandas and John Almarode

Publisher: Corwin