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Bloomington, Ind., May 03, 2018 -- Solution Tree, a premier educational publisher and professional development provider, announces that two of its best-selling titles—HEART! and The New Art and Science of Teaching—have won 2018 Independent Publisher (“IPPY”) Book Awards.
Conducted annually, the IPPY Awards honor the year’s best independently published titles from around the world. The medal-winning books will be celebrated on May 29, 2018 at the Copacabana Times Square in New York City.
Solution Tree’s 2018 IPPY Award Winners
GOLD Award in the Education Category for Workbook/Resources
HEART!:Fully Forming Your Professional Life as a Teacher and Leader
By Timothy D. Kanold
This resource explores the concept of a heartprint—the distinctive impression an educator’s heart leaves on students and colleagues during his or her professional career. Educators can use this resource to reflect on their professional journeys and discover how to foster productive, heart-centered classrooms and schools.
SILVER Award in the Education Category for Workbook/Resources
The New Art and Science of Teaching
By Robert J. Marzano
This title is a greatly expanded volume of the original The Art and Science of Teaching, offering a framework for substantive change based on Dr. Marzano’s 50 years of education research. Throughout the book, Marzano details the elements of three overarching categories of teaching, which define what must happen to optimize student learning. The New Art and Science of Teaching is a joint publication of ASCD and Solution Tree.
HEART! and The New Art and Science of Teaching are available to order at SolutionTree.com.
About The Independent Publisher Book Awards
The Independent Publisher Book Awards were conceived in 1996 as a broad-based, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the independent publishing industry. The awards are intended to bring increased recognition to the thousands of exemplary independent, university and self-published titles produced each year, and reward those who exhibit the courage, innovation and creativity to bring about change in the world of publishing.
About Solution Tree
Since 1998, Solution Tree has worked to transform education worldwide by empowering educators to raise student achievement. With more than 30,000 educators attending professional learning events and more than 4,260 professional development days in schools each year, Solution Tree helps teachers and administrators confront essential challenges. Solution Tree has a catalog of more than 515 titles, hundreds of videos and online courses and is the creator of Global PD, an online tool that facilitates the work of professional learning communities.
Solution Tree Erica Dooley-Dorocke [email protected] 800.733.6786 ext. 247
