Eliminate old-school punishments and create a community of responsible, productive learners

Are you or your teachers frustrated with carrots and sticks, detention rooms, and suspension--antiquated school discipline practices that simply do not work with the students entering our classrooms today? Our kids have complex needs, and we must empower and embrace them with restorative practices that not only change behaviors but transform students into productive citizens, accountable for their own actions.

Replace traditional school discipline with a proven  system, founded on restorative justice 

In a book that should become your new blueprint for school discipline, teachers, presenters, and school leaders Nathan Maynard and Brad Weinstein demonstrate how to eliminate punishment and build a culture of responsible students and independent learners. In Hack Learning Series Book 22, you learn to:

• Reduce repeated negative behaviors
• Build student self-regulation and empathy
• Enhance communication and collaboration
• Identify the true cause of negative behaviors
• Use restorative circles to reflect on behaviors and discuss impactful change

"Maynard and Weinstein provide practical tips and strategies in the context of real-world examples, guided by the imperatives of changing the behavior and preserving the relationship. An important read for teachers and administrators." -Danny Steele, award-winning principal and co-author of Essential Truths for Principals and Essential Truths for Teachers

Before you suspend another student ...

read Hacking School Discipline, and build a school environment that promotes responsible learners, who never need to be punished. Then watch learning soar, teachers smile, and your entire community rejoice.

"The authors do a beautiful job of helping leaders focus inward, instead of outward. This book by Joe and Tony, grounded in the importance of empowered relationships with the entire school community, provides some amazing ideas on how to develop learner-centred schools (learners meaning students and educators) in ways that could be implemented immediately. This is an essential read for leaders who are, or want to lead, learner-centred schools." -George Couros ~ Bestselling Author of The Innovator's Mindset

"Hacking Leadership is an outstanding book about schools and school leadership written by two school leaders eminently qualified to write such a book. I found myself eagerly turning the pages of this book, highlighting many nuggets of wisdom along the way. I recommend this book enthusiastically to anyone wishing to improve their leadership skills and the school they serve!" -Jeff Zoul ~ Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction, and National Keynote Speaker

The best leaders lead from the middle

When school leaders join teachers, students, and parents in a collaborative effort to improve teaching and learning, achievement soars and schools turn into vibrant communities, filled with enthusiastic members. 

Teaching and learning feel too much like work

With constant emphasis on higher test scores and teacher accountability, it's easy for schools to become places filled with stress and despair, making teachers dread going to work and students disdain lessons and activities.

It's time to bring fun back to school 

In Hacking Leadership, award-winning school administrators Joe Sanfelippo and Tony Sinanis demonstrate how to increase learning by leaving the office and engaging directly with all teachers and learners. They identify 10 problems with school leadership and provide dynamic, right-now solutions. During this exciting journey toward change, you learn how to:

• Transform yourself from leader to Lead Learner
• Amplify individual staff needs while maintaining a collaborative vision
• Employ unique strategies to break down the walls between home and school
• Empower students and staff to own their space
• Create a culture where “Yes” and “Trust” are the default
• Eliminate initiative overload while encouraging teachers to lead, as well
• Broadcast student voice
• Bring passion into your school
• Embrace technology and social channels in ways rarely considered in education
• Eradicate your deficit mindset

What makes Hacking Leadership different?

Sanfelippo and Sinanis present leadership strategies in ways few people have ever seen. These experienced, thoughtful, decisive leaders, share amazing, real anecdotes that make you feel like you're listening to trusted friends sitting in your living room. Then, they provide progressive, courageous, and practical solutions that you and all stakeholders will love, using the popular Hack Learning formula:

• The Problem (a single leadership issue that needs a Hacker's mentality)
• The Hack (a surprisingly easy solution that you've likely never considered)
• What You Can Do Tomorrow (no waiting necessary; you can lead from the middle immediately)
• Blueprint for Full Implementation (a step-by-step action plan for capacity building)
• The Hack in Action (yes, people have actually done this)

Are you ready to Hack Leadership

Grab your copy today.

It's time to say Yes to PBL

Project Based Learning can be messy, complicated, and downright scary. When done right, though, PBL and Inquiry are challenging, inspiring and fun for students. Best of all, when project-based learning is done right, it actually makes the teacher's job easier.

Now, you can demystify project-based learning

As questions and mysteries around PBL and inquiry continue to swirl, experienced classroom teachers and school administrators Ross Cooper and Erin Murphy have written a book that will empower those intimidated by PBL to cry, “I can do this!” while at the same time providing added value for those who are already familiar with the process. Hacking Project Based Learning demystifies what PBL is all about with 10 hacks that construct a simple path that educators and students can easily follow to achieve success.

Hacking Project Based Learning provides a simple blueprint for PBL that helps you:

• Establish a culture of inquiry and creativity in your classroom
• Teach the kind of collaboration skills that harness dissonance
• Turn High Impact Takeaways (HITs) into a project based plan
• Create Umbrella questions that drive the project
• Build a Progress Assessment Tool (PAT) that helps students inform and assess their learning
• Use formative assessment throughout the entire PBL experience
• Seamlessly integrate direct instruction to enhances the process, rather than interfere with it
• Practice the patience that inspires a productive struggle, which leads to better understanding
• Teach and embrace reflection during and at the end of the project
• Publish work the right way, so all stakeholders can see it

Experts rave about Hacking Project Based Learning

"HACKING PROJECT BASED LEARNING is a classroom essential. Its ten simple “hacks” will guide you through the process of setting up a learning environment in which students will thrive from start to finish."

     -Daniel H. Pink, New York Times Bestselling author of DRIVE

"Ross Cooper and Erin Murphy have researched PBL from every angle and offer practical steps to make the PBL experience highly beneficial to students because they are practitioners who use it. This book is a very important “How-to” for every teacher and leader who is interested in PBL.

     -Peter DeWitt, author/consultant, Finding Common Ground blog (Education Week)

"The challenge for educators with project and inquiry based learning is finding the time and having the knowledge to implement effectively. Cooper and Murphy provide a much-needed resource that addresses both of these pain points in a concise, clear manner.

     -Eric Sheninger, Senior Fellow, International Center for Leadership in Education 

Are you ready for an amazing productive struggle in your classroom?

Start Hacking Project Based Learning today.

How to Go Gradeless -- Assessment That Makes Learning Visible

Throw out your grade book tomorrow!

Learn what formative assessment really looks like.

Read It and You Can Take These Actions Immediately:

• Shift everyone's mindset away from grades

• Track student progress without a grade book

• Communicate learning to all stakeholders in real time

• Maximize time while providing meaningful feedback

• Teach students to reflect and "self-grade"

• Deliver feedback in a digital world

• Create e-portfolios and cloud-based learning archives

• Inspire Students to share their work openly

This is not your average assessment book

• The Problem (an assessment issue that plagues education)

• The Hack (a ridiculously easy solution that you've likely never considered)

• What You Can Do Tomorrow (no waiting necessary)

• Blueprint for Full Implementation (a step-by-step action plan for capacity building)

• The Hack in Action (yes, someone has actually done this)

Teachers around the world are going gradeless, and you can too

Are you ready to engage learners like never before?

Boring lessons and assignments will disappear forever when you learn to build student avatars, banish blandness, ride the podcast tide, and become a total engagement guru.

Many students are bored and disengaged

Teachers are handcuffed by outdated textbooks, standardized curriculum, and disinterested students. What if you could solve these problems immediately and excite even your most reluctant learners daily?

Read it Today and Engage tomorrow!

33-year veteran teacher, author, presenter, and engagement guru James Alan Sturtevant makes it easy, with incredible teacher tips and tools for both the veteran and student teacher--50 engagement tools that you can begin using right now, with no special training or boring professional development.

Easily rebrand your class and connect with all students

Are you the teacher students "hate"? Do kids groan when they walk into your classroom? Engaging learners is all about connecting and making education fun. With Sturtevant's education tips and creative teaching tools, students will rebrand you and your class as their favorites. Best of all, they'll engage with every lesson you teach, every single day!

50 Tips and Tools

Unlike other education books that weigh you down with archaic research and impossible-to-implement strategies, Hacking Engagement, the 7th book in the popular Hack Learning Series, provides 50 unique, exciting, and actionable tips and tools that you can apply right now. And there's something here for every teacher--no matter what grade or subject you teach. Try one of these amazing engagement strategies tomorrow:

1. Engage the Enraged
2. Create Celebrity Couple Nicknames
3. Hash out a Hashtag
4. Empower Students to Help You Uncover Your Biases
5. Avoid the Great War on Yoga Pants
6. Let Your Freak Flag Fly
7. Become a Proponent of the Exponent
8. Trade Blah, Blah, Blah for Zen
9. Transform Your Class into a Focus Group

Commit to Engagement

Try at least one tip or tool now and witness an amazing transformation in your classroom and school.

Are you ready to engage?

Scroll up and grab your copy of Hacking Engagement now.

Classroom management is never a problem for the teachers they make movies about! 

Want a class like theirs, no matter what grade or subject you teach or how many students you have? 

Learn the 10 ideas you can use today to create the classroom any great movie teacher would love

Utah English Teacher of the Year and sought-after speaker Mike Roberts brings you 10 quick and easy classroom management hacks that will make your classroom the place to be for all your students. He shows you how to create an amazing learning environment that actually makes discipline, rules and consequences obsolete, no matter if you're a new teacher or a 30-year veteran teacher.

Teachers they make movies about are innovative, engaging, and beloved

Hacking Classroom Management is about putting the F word--FUN--into your teaching, and Mike Roberts shows you how to do this, while meeting your standards and teaching your curriculum. 

Hacking Classroom Management shows you how to

• Build lasting relationships with your students
• Maximize teaching time
• Reduce behavior issues
• Enhance student ownership
• Improve parental involvement

Experts love the Movie Teacher philosophy

"No matter what grade you teach, there’s something of great value inside. Two Big Thumbs UP!" -Alan Sitomer, CA Teacher of the Year and Author of Short Writes

"Immensely fun and illuminating to read!" -Jeffery D. Wilhelm, Distinguished Professor of English Education at Boise State University

"Hollywood might not make a movie about you, even if you read and apply every suggestion in this book, but you and your students are much more likely to feel like classroom stars because of it." -Chris Crowe, English Professor at BYU, Past President of ALAN, author of Death Coming Up the Hill, Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case; Mississippi Trial, 1955; and many other YA books

Wave Goodbye to classroom management issues
Grab Hacking Classroom Management today, become a movie teacher tomorrow, and forget about classroom management FOREVER!

Too many of our kids struggle with reading and writing

Now, you can help us end illiteracy and unlock the love of reading and writing in all learners, with the power of graphic novels and comics.

Teaching with comics increases engagement, and the ultimate value is in helping your students look with care, see possibilities, consider alternatives, ask nuanced questions, show their thinking, and bravely tell stories they would not have told in any other medium.

Best of all, even your most reluctant readers and writers will engage enthusiastically with your lessons and content.

Hacking Graphic Novels offers new ideas and practical tools for teachers of all subjects, grades, and experience levels with sequential art and new twists on writing instruction. Shveta Miller, a teacher leader and global advocate for teaching with comics, shows teachers how to:

• Guide students to look at visuals slowly with curiosity, open-mindedness, and intention
• Develop independent learners who explore the possibilities and real-world applications
• Encourage students to think, process, and express their understanding of complex systems and ideas
• Help students escape the comfort zone and productively struggle in the growth zone
• Use close reading and close looking for writers to inspire comprehension through storytelling
• Inspire colleagues, administrators, families, and students with the power of visual texts

There's no reason to leave education, because teacher burnout just got hacked!

Teachers often face challenges that throw off their entire plans and leave them feeling isolated and powerless. These challenges can range from new technologies, classroom discipline, sudden change to hybrid or distance learning, and unforeseen personal crises—issues that smolder until a teacher is fully burned out with no spark in sight.

Could this describe you now or in the future?

In Hacking Teacher Burnout, veteran classroom teacher, podcaster, and Google trainer Amber Harper shares an eight-step process that guides teachers out of burnout and into a lasting, empowered feeling of being a burned-in teacher—fulfilled, happy, efficient, and effective in the classroom and in life.

Harper helps teachers and leaders overcome incredible challenges and frustrations, and shows you how to:

✓ Discover your burnout type (everyone has a type?)

✓ Take actions that are best for you, depending on your burnout type

✓ Move through burnout rather than fight against it

✓ Make time for things that bring you growth and joy

✓ Thrive—not just survive—personally and professionally

✓ Prepare for hardship before it hits and conquer it when it does

Teachers are leaving the profession at shockingly high rates, because they are angry, sad, and just burned-out. You don't have to join this burnout club. Instead, read Hacking Teacher Burnout today, and get Burned-in.

HACKING SCHOOL CULTURE:  Bullying prevention and character building programs are deepening our awareness of how today’s kids struggle and how we might help, but many agree: They aren’t enough to create school cultures where students and staff flourish. This inspired Angela Stockman and Ellen Feig Gray to begin seeking out systems and educators who were getting things right.

Read it today—fix it tomorrow

Their experiences taught them that the real game changers are using a human-centered approach. Inspired by other design thinkers, many teachers are creating learning environments where seeking a greater understanding of themselves and others is the highest standard. They’re also realizing that compassion is best cultivated in the classroom, not the boardroom or the auditorium. It’s here that we learn how to pull one another close. It’s here that we begin to negotiate the distances between us, too.

Ready to begin but uncertain how? Here’s what you’ll find inside:

• Protocols that inspire strengths-focused teaching and learning

• Tools for starting hard conversations, coaching critical questioning, and sustaining respectful communication

• Experiential learning models that improve school culture

• Approaches that encourage activism while enabling people to resolve conflicts peacefully

• Design thinking strategies that empower human-centered decision-making

Compassionate classrooms are built one learner at a time. Be that learner. It’s time.

“Look out, Socrates! Here comes Connie Hamilton, the newest innovator of questionology! — Marcia Gutiérrez, High School Educator

A fresh perspective on the art of questioning

Questions are the driving force of learning in classrooms. Hacking Questions digs into framing, delivering, and maximizing questions in the classroom to keep students engaged in learning.

Known in education circles as the "Questioning Guru," Connie Hamilton shows teachers of all subjects and grades how to:

• Hear the music: listen for correct answers
• Scaffold to trigger student thinking without doing it for them
• Kick the IDK bucket to avoid “I don’t know” as the final answer
• Punctuate your learning time to end with reflection questions
• Spin the throttle to fuel students to ask the questions
• Fill your back pocket with engagement questions
• Make yourself invisible by establishing student-centered protocols
• Be a Pinball Wizard and turn students into facilitators

Praise for Connie Hamilton and Hacking Questions

"Connie Hamilton is known by teachers and leaders as the Questioning Guru. She offers minor tweaks and major perspective shifts. You will be a better questioner tomorrow." -Dr. Dorothy VanderJagt, Professional Learning Coordinator

"Connie Hamilton is a world-class presenter with expertise in the art of questioning. She provides a fresh perspective and practical tips on integrating research-based strategies." -Melisa Mulder, Intervention Teacher

"Connie is an incredible driver of change in our focus on classroom questioning as a best practice instructional strategy." -Troy VanderLaan, Middle School Administrator

Answers to your questions about questions

Hacking Questions provides practical solutions to the universal questioning problems that teachers face daily. Find your answers now.

50 Student Engagement Hacks just weren't enough
33-year veteran classroom teacher, James Alan Sturtevant, wowed teachers with the original Hacking Engagement, which contained 50 Tips and Tools to Engage Teachers and Learners Daily. Those educators and students got better, but they craved more. So, veteran classroom teacher and wildly popular student engager Sturtevant is Hacking Engagement Again!

Fifty Teacher Tips that make students love your class
The first step to real academic achievement is inspiring a love of learning, and the best way to accomplish this is to get students to love your class and your teaching. But rolling out worksheets and multiple-choice quizzes is a recipe for failure, so how do you engage students without these traditional tools?

The answer is surprisingly simple: Dig into Hacking Engagement Again and grab 50 tools and strategies, good for any class on any day, and watch your students light up.

Hacks that make students love your class:

1. Feng Shui Your Students
2. Fascinate with the First Five
3. Give Students Virtually No Instructions
4. Apply the You Y’all We Template
5. Dangle a Dilemma
6. Inspire 100% Participation in Your Next Class Discussion
7. Shove Your Next Class Discussion On to the Twittersphere
8. Pull Up a Philosophical Chair
9. Morph Student Identities
10. Detonate the Boring Guest Speaker Template
11. Teleport Your Students Back to the 1970s
12. Transform Tedious Test Review
13. Tease Out a Taskmaster with Google Calendar
14. Encourage Students to Sneak Out of Your Room
15. Find the Elusive Spark
16. Issue the 1,000 Pushup Challenge
17. Reboot with Kahoot
18. Navigate the Rolling Seas of Controversial Topics
19. Rebel Against the Bell ... and 31 more teacher tips and strategies that will engage your students like never before and make them love you and your class

Experts rave about Hacking Engagement Again

"Hacking Engagement Again provides readers with a ton of ideas, strategies, and resources that move students from on-task to engaged. Looking to tap into student's use of smartphones in a classroom activity? This book is for you. Do you want to leverage the power of Twitter and Socratic Seminar to move conversations from good to great? This book is for you. James Alan Sturtevant provides a well thought out game plan for highly engaging learning experiences in both the physical and virtual worlds."

-Brad Currie, 2017 NASSP National Assistant Principal of the Year

"Jim Sturtevant is one of my all-time favorite educators. He is humble, honest, excited about learning, and really, really funny. This book is packed with ideas that can be implemented right away: Some creatively weave technology into instruction, others are just plain creative, and all of them are smart. Plus, the QR codes take the reader to so many more fantastic resources. With this book in hand, every teacher will find ways to freshen up their teaching and make it fun again!"

-Jennifer Gonzalez, Bestselling author, speaker, and CEO at CultOfPedagogy.com

"Jim Sturtevant has engaged us again with 50 more ways to engage learners. Each catchy hack comes equipped with easy to implement instructions for improving student engagement in all classes. Do yourself a favor and pick up this book. Your kids deserve it!"

-Starr Sackstein, Teacher, bestselling author, keynote speaker

Are you ready for every student to love your class?
Start Hacking Engagement Again, now!

Writing Workshop Is More Than Just Writing

Agility matters. This is what Angela Stockman learned when she left the classroom over a decade ago to begin supporting young writers and their teachers in schools. What she learned transformed her practice and led to the publication of her primer on this topic: Make Writing: 5 Teaching Strategies that Turn Writer’s Workshop Into a Maker Space. Now, Angela is back with more stories from the road and plenty of new thinking to share.

Print Creates Barriers for Talented Writers

As K-12 programs push for proficiency, the world continues to demand something different. Something more. "Writing is bigger than print today," Angela says. "When we diminish it, we diminish writers, too."

Redesign with Making in Mind

In Make Writing, Angela Stockman upended the traditional writing workshop by combining it with the popular ideas that drive the maker space.

Now, she is expanding her concepts and strategies and breaking new ground in Hacking the Writing Workshop. In this easy-to-read-and-implement guide for all teachers of reading, writing, and making, Angela provides:

• Curriculum frameworks that bring students to the drawing board
• Firestarters that ignite even the most print-resistant kids
• Agility building strategies that integrate making and writing and invite loose parts play
• Assessment protocols and tools
• Supplemental resources for each Hack, accessed through QR codes

Ready to redesign your writer's workshop? 

Grab Hacking the Writing Workshop now and show your students that writing is bigger than print.

What happens when students actually choose to learn outside the classroom?

They become independent, lifelong learners, who never need to be told: "do your work."

It's easy when you say Goodbye to traditional homework

The research is done, the results are in, the debate is over. Kids hate homework, most parents hate homework, and many teachers only assign homework because administrators say it's school policy. Now, traditional homework is being hacked. Learning outside the classroom is being reimagined, and student engagement is better than ever.

A new vision of out-of-school learning

World-renowned author/educator Starr Sackstein has changed how teachers around the world look at traditional grades. Now she's teaming with veteran educator, curriculum director, and national presenter Connie Hamilton to bring you 10 powerful strategies for teachers and parents that promise to inspire independent learning at home, without punishments or low grades.

In Hacking Homework, Sackstein and Hamilton show you how to:

• Work around the policies and Break Up With Daily Homework 
• Teach Organization and Responsibility in Class so it translates to home
• Ramp up accountability and time management skillsEstablish positive relationships to motivate learning
• Establish positive relationships to motivate learning
• Customize Assignments to Meet Student NeedsBe flexible with timelines
• Be flexible with timelines
• Encourage Students to Play, so they'll want to work
• Support innovation and creativity
• Spark Curiosity Before the Lesson
• Make connections that generate interest in learning outside the classroom
• Use the Digital Playground and harness social media for learning
• Amplify Student Voice and Incorporate choice in how kids learn at home
• Team Up With Families and model instructional strategies for parents
• Display Growth and empower students to track their improvement and display their progress

Expert educators love Hacking Homework

"Starr Sackstein and Connie Hamilton have assembled a book full of great answers to the question, 'How can we make homework engaging and meaningful?'"

-Doug Fisher & Nancy Frey, authors/presenters

"I hope this book finds its way into the professional library of every classroom teacher and that it is also read carefully by administrators, policymakers and parents."

-Ken O'Connor, author/presenter

Are you ready to say Goodbye to traditional homework?

Start Hacking Homework today.

Whether you want to make subtle changes to your instructional design or turn it on its head—Hacking Instructional Design provides a toolbox of options. Discover just-in-time tools to design, upgrade, or adapt your teaching strategies, lesson plans, and unit plans. Curriculum design experts Michael and Elizabeth Fisher show you how to:

• Prioritize and break apart standards
• Set targets and demonstrations of learning
• Create valuable experiences for contemporary learners
• Organize instructional elements into action plans
• Improve assessment in all of your grades and classrooms
• Maintain a thriving curriculum culture ecosystem

These strategies offer you the power and permission to be the designer, not the recipient, of a contemporary curriculum. Students and teachers will benefit for years to come when you apply these engaging tools starting tomorrow.

What if every single student loved to read? 

Isn't it likely that curiosity, creativity, and achievement would skyrocket?

It's time to build a culture of readers at your school

In Hacking Literacy, classroom teacher, author, and reading consultant Gerard Dawson reveals 5 simple ways any educator or parent can turn even the most reluctant reader into a thriving, enthusiastic lover of books. Dawson cuts through outdated pedagogy and standardization, turning reading theory to practice, sharing powerful reading strategies, and providing what Hack Learning Series readers have come to expect--actionable, do-it-tomorrow strategies that can be built into long-term solutions. 

Ignite lifelong readers today

The struggle to get students to read has ended. With a little commitment from teachers, parents, and school leaders, all of your students will read every single day! It all happens when you implement Gerard Dawson's powerful system, clearly outlined in this book:

• Focus on the Reader
• Adapt Reading Culture to Fit Curriculum
• Develop a Classroom Library
• Implement Assessments that Build Community
• Spotlight Reading in Your School.

What separates Hacking Literacy from other reading books?

Dawson provides step-by-step implementation strategies for putting books in kids' hands without breaking the bank and for sparking a genuine love of reading in even the most reluctant readers. This experienced, thoughtful, pragmatic classroom teacher shares amazing, real anecdotes that make you feel like you are a guest at a school filled with avid readers. Along the way, Dawson shares practical solutions that you and all stakeholders will love, using the popular Hack Learning formula:

• The Problem (a single leadership issue that needs a Hacker's mentality)
• The Hack (a surprisingly easy solution that you've likely never considered)
• What You Can Do Tomorrow (no waiting necessary; you can lead from the middle immediately)
• Blueprint for Full Implementation (a step-by-step action plan for capacity building)
• The Hack in Action (yes, people have actually done this)

Are you ready for your own culture of readers? 

Scroll up and grab your copy of Hacking Literacy now.

What happens when creative writing meets the maker space?

Easy! Writing and making collide, revealing the genius inside of even the most reluctant writers.

Combining Making and Writing

˃˃˃ Learn How to Enrich Writing Skills by Coaching Maker Moves:

• Shake them out of their seats

• Play through the process

• Tinker with text

• Draft bit by bit

• Make words moveable and mixable

• Connect to real audiences

• Hack the writing process and repurpose your tools

˃˃˃ Inspire Creative Writing by Remaking Your Space and Rethinking Your Place

• Redesign your classroom environment incrementally and economically

• Embrace empty spaces and interactive boards and charts

• Make writing a physical, collaborative endeavor

• Design with gaming in mind

• Coach creative theft

• Host an exhibition

• Unearth your own best teaching methods

• Reimagine writers workshop

˃˃˃ The secret sauce

• The Problem (a single writing issue that needs a Hacker's mentality)

• The Hack (a ridiculously easy solution that you've likely never considered)

• What You Can Do Tomorrow (no waiting necessary; you can make writing immediately)

• Blueprint for Full Implementation (a step-by-step action plan for capacity building)

• The Hack in Action (yes, people have actually done this)

Are you ready to Make Writing?

Scroll up and grab a copy today.

"Innovative, Brilliant, and Meaningful" - George Couros

Why in the age of the most powerful education technology ever known do studies often suggest that technology integration in school is not improving student achievement?

Technology is less about the tools and more about the strategy
In Hacking Digital Learning Strategies, international EdTech presenter and NAPW Woman of the Year Shelly Sanchez Terrell demonstrates the power of EdTech Missions--lessons and projects that inspire learners to use web tools and social media to innovate, research, collaborate, problem-solve, campaign, crowd fund, crowdsource, and publish.

EdTech Missions empower teachers and learners 
One of the first truly connected educators, Shelly Sanchez Terrell, gracefully aligns tech tools and social media with strategies and concepts.

Not only does Terrell demonstrate EdTech missions that solve everyday education problems, she provides clear, detailed steps, examples, and templates for overcoming obstacles that may arise in any tech-driven classroom.

BONUS: 38-page Mission Toolkit Helps You Blast Off Immediately
The 10 Missions in Hacking DLS are more than enough to transform how teachers integrate technology, but there's also much more here. Included in the book is a 38-page Mission Toolkit, complete with reproducible mission cards, badges, polls, and other handouts that you can copy and distribute to students immediately. 

Your Mission Plan
Read Hacking DLS. Choose any of these EdTech Missions, grab a resource from the Mission Toolkit, share the mission and the resources with students, and watch learning soar to new heights:

1. Design a Game Walkthrough--Create a tutorial and teach others how to play

2. Go on a Selfie Adventure--Define yourself through images

3. Create a Fictional Social Media Profile--Manage your digital footprint more purposefully

4. Remix Learning Into a Digital Textbook--Produce and publish an engaging online book

5. Debate Issues, Don’t Diss People--Argue differences of opinion respectfully

6. Seek and Preserve the Truth--Share digital news responsibly and learn to identify fake news

7. Assemble a Global Class Meetup-Join the world community and discuss a pressing issue

8. Enlighten the World as a Citizen Scientist--Conduct real-world field research

9. Appreciate Others with a Digital Badge--Recognize values, not just grades

10. Crowdfund Innovation to Find Solutions--Engage social media to fundraise for a cause

Your Global Leader in EdTech Integration
Shelly Sanchez Terrell is a Microsoft Education Hero and Bammy Award winner and has presented best practices in EdTech in over 20 countries. If you want to innovate with technology like never before, Terrell's EdTech Missions are your go-to resource. 

Launch EdTech Missions Today
Scroll up and grab Hacking Digital Learning Strategies and the EdTech Missions Toolkit now.

What if we raise the bar on early learning?

School readiness, closing achievement gaps, partnering with families, and innovative learning are just a few of the reasons the early learning years are the most critical years in a child’s life. In what ways have schools lost the critical components of early learning -- preschool through third grade -- and how can we intentionally bring those ideas and instructional strategies back?

In Hacking Early Learning, Kindergarten school leader, early childhood education specialist, and Minnesota State Principal of the Year Jessica Cabeen provides strategies for teachers, principals, and district administrators for best practices in preschool through third grade, including connecting these strategies to all grade levels.

It's What You Can Do Tomorrow

Using the popular Hack Learning Series problem-solving formula, Cabeen brings educators a simple guide for making the early years more meaningful, engaging, and full of intentional learning experiences. Cabeen shows all stakeholders how to:

• Create learning environments that are conducive to play, technology integration, and movement
• Provide a clear understanding for ALL staff members of what we want students to learn
• Give parents detailed, timely information about what their children are learning and how they can support teachers and learners at home
• Bridge the gap between early learning and K-12
• Create innovative professional growth for pre-K-3 educators
• Grant access to research-based practices and give teachers time to reflect on their teaching with others, in order to learn the best strategies for ALL children -- Pre-K-3 and beyond -- to succeed

Experts gush over Jessica Cabeen and Hacking Early Learning

"Hacking Early Learning gets to both the heart and mind of our youngest learners. The practical strategies allow the reader to set up an environment that works for everyone in the learning community. If you work with kids, or adults who work with kids, Hacking Early Learning is an essential component to your leadership toolbox.”

-Joe Sanfelippo, Superintendent, Fall Creek Schools, Co-author of Hacking Leadership

“Jessica Cabeen is not afraid to say she’s learned from her mistakes and misconceptions. But it is those mistakes and misconceptions that qualify her to write this book, with its wonderfully user-friendly format. For each problem specified, there is a hack and actionable advice presented as “What You Can Do Tomorrow” and “A Blueprint for Full Implementation.” Jessica’s leadership is informed by both head and heart and, because of that, her wisdom will be of value to those who wish to teach and lead in the early childhood field.”

-Rae Pica, Early Childhood Education Keynote Speaker and author of What If Everybody Understood Child Development?

"Jessica’s amazing successes as a school leader give credibility and weight to her shared knowledge so that the readers feel empowered and confident in turn-keying these strategies into a plan of action to be successful at their schools. You’re going to love reading this book and want to share it with others!”

-Andy Jacks, Award-winning principal and Co-founder of #DadsAsPrincipals

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You don't need another 5 year plan

These 10 Hacks will transform your school and classroom right now!

In Hacking Education, Mark Barnes and Jennifer Gonzalez employ decades of teaching experience and hundreds of discussions with education thought leaders, to show you how to find and hone the quick fixes that every school and classroom need. Using a Hacker’s mentality, they provide one Aha moment after another with 10 Quick Fixes for Every School--solutions to everyday problems and teaching methods that any teacher or administrator can implement immediately.

With these Hacks, you can eliminate

• school meetings
• classroom management woes
• technology issues
• new teacher problems
• reluctant readers
• lost planning time

˃˃˃ Learn to solve problems with:

• Pineapple Charts

• The 360 Spreadsheet

• Glass Classrooms

• Track Records

• Marigold Committees

• The TQZ

• More Impactful Hacks

˃˃˃ This is not your average education book

Hacking Education won't weigh you down with outdated research or complicated strategies. Barnes and Gonzalez provide brilliant ideas woven into a user-friendly success guide that you'll want to keep nearby throughout the school year. Each chapter is neatly wrapped in this simple formula:

• The Problem

• The Hack (a ridiculously easy solution that you've likely never considered)

• What You Can Do Tomorrow (no waiting necessary)

• Blueprint for Full Implementation (a step-by-step action plan for capacity building)

• The Hack in Action (yes, someone has actually done this)

˃˃˃ Look what other thought leaders say about Hacking Education

"Barnes and Gonzalez don’t just solve problems; they turn teachers into hackers--a transformation that is right on time.”

-- Don Wettrick, author of Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level

“Jennifer and Mark are two educators that know how to transform some of the most frustrating teacher problems into easy-to-implement solutions. Hacking Education proves that anyone--from a first year-teacher to a 30-year veteran--can be a more effective teacher and be a positive agent of change in their school's culture.”

-- Brian Sztabnik, host Talks with Teachers podcast, contributing author at Edutopia

“Barnes and Gonzalez provide a refreshingly modern take on a system that has become old and sclerotic, our schools. Their writing is succinct, it resonates and smacks you with the deliverables. Schools and teachers that want to go from good to great must read Hacking Education.”

-- Daniel McCabe, Assistant Principal Accompsett Middle School Smithtown, NY

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Now you can easily modernize your school library

Whether students are using books, audiobooks, ebooks, or Chromebooks, school libraries and school librarians are more relevant than ever. They are places for research, refuge, and reflection--where students create, collaborate, communicate, and develop skills in critical thinking and compassion.

Learn 10 ways to create the library learning environment that every child deserves.

In Hacking School Libraries, 2015 School Librarian of the Year, Kristina A. Holzweiss, and 2017 Sensational Student
Voice Award finalist, Stony Evans, bring you 10 practical hacks that will help you create a welcoming and exciting school library program. They show you how to rethink your library to become the hub of the school community, whether you are a veteran librarian or just beginning your career.

Hacking School Libraries isn't just for librarians. It's for any educator who wants to learn how to

• transform your learning space

• provide hands-on learning opportunities

• empower your students

• bring curriculum to life

• differentiate instruction

• effectively raise funds

• advocate for modern school libraries

• establish global connections

• celebrate reading

What the experts say:

"When I learned that Kristina and Stony were writing a book to fit into one of my favorite series, I was so excited and couldn’t think of a better duo to do so! School librarians will find Hacking School Libraries such an amazing read and resource in so many ways. The hacks found in this book are terrific for any grade level and will help guide librarians to make a difference in their library, school, and community!"
-Shannon McClintock Miller, Teacher Librarian and Iowa Future Ready Librarian Spokesperson

"Authors Kristina Holzweiss and Stony Evans are two of the most respected thought leaders and practitioners in the school library field. Their book, Hacking School Libraries, is an essential resource for any modern-day library media specialist. It is filled with actionable tips and strategies that anyone can easily implement tomorrow."
-Laura Fleming, Library Media Specialist, bestselling author of Worlds of Making and The Kickstart Guide to Making Great Makerspaces

Grab Hacking School Libraries today, and incorporate library media centers into your learning community tomorrow.