Ideas that Help Educators Grow

Gavin’s books are widely read across schools, systems, and countries. They offer practical strategies, clear frameworks, and deep thinking that support educators in strengthening culture, collaboration, leadership, and identity.

Five Ways of Being: What Learning Leaders Think, Do, and Say Every Day

Leadership is traditionally viewed as a competency-based skill. It is seen as something that people do rather than something they embody. This book challenges that narrative: leadership is about being – it is about who we are, who we need to become and who we can become to enable the learning and growth of others.

Everyone in a school community who is responsible for someone else’s learning is a Learning Leader, and the success of any school community is intrinsically bound to effective leadership at all levels.

Collaborative Teams That Work: The Definitive Guide to Cycles of Learning in a PLC

  • Learn how to apply up to 12 evidence-based key actions to elevate your collaborative team’s results
  • Discover what the critical tasks are for collaborative teams as they work through a cycle of learning
  • Apply road tested solutions to the many challenges collaborative teams face
  • Explore the 14 crucial foundations leaders implement to ensure collaborative efforts truly impact student learning.

Transformative Collaboration: 5 Commitments for Leading a Professional Learning Community

Transformative Collaboration: Five Commitments for Leading a Professional Learning Community is the outcome of this experience, in combination with research from the field and educators’ own views on how schools can make collaboration a priority. It is a book that takes you beneath the surface of the school as professional learning community (PLC) to explore the critical commitments that leaders must make in order to truly transform school culture and get the results that students deserve. Transformative Collaboration: Five Commitments for Leading a Professional Learning Community provides insights, tips and techniques to help you transform your school through collaboration with the goal of becoming a high-performing PLC.

Emerge: The 5 most common challenges faced by middle leaders and how to overcome them

In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, it’s imperative to confront the ingrained approaches that leaders adopt when dealing with complex challenges like never before. Working as both a teacher and leader is incredibly rewarding and fulfilling but can also be difficult to navigate. Middle leaders can create a positive work culture, foster a strong collaborative team spirit and nurture affirming collegial relationships, but they are also the first point of contact when challenges arise. Emerge addresses these challenges by assisting readers to let go of mental barriers associated with leadership and to gain self-knowledge about their ingrained dispositions, intrinsic motivations and habitual ways of responding. This knowledge enables readers to lead themselves, their colleagues and schools successfully.

Teachers as Architects of Learning, 2nd Edition: Twelve Constructs to Design and Configure Successful Learning

  • Discover 12 constructs to maximise your impact on student learning
  • Learn research referenced strategies to create learning experiences that engage the learner
  • Gain insights into the beliefs that impact your teaching practice to strengthen your personal blueprint for teaching
  • Apply powerful questioning, student feedback, explicit instruction, engagement and supportive classroom culture building strategies to your practice
  • Co-authored by Gavin Grift and Clare Major with Dr Janelle Wills