Books
Living with a “Serendipity Mindset” means knowing that everything we go through offers us beautiful gifts–IF we look for them. Each of Allyson’s books is filled with inspiration and strategies to help us discover the gifts along life’s journey.
Fearless Instruction: High-Impact Strategies Inspired by 90/90/90 Schools
Grounded in research and full of practical strategies, this book is for educators ready to lead with clarity, collaborate with purpose, and teach with courage. It offers a comprehensive toolkit for building fearless schools, detailing critical components from instructional leadership and creating fearless learning environments to developing collaborative teams and empowering student voice. The chapters deliver a roadmap for sustainable change, covering topics like transforming feedback and deeply engaging every learner.
Less Talk, More Action: A Guide to Transforming Schools Through Action Research
Reflecting on your classroom’s challenges, this book invites educators to a new learning journey centered on Action Research, a simple yet powerful process designed to turn reflection into results. Action Research is a systematic method where you identify a specific challenge, implement an action to address it, and immediately reflect on the outcomes, ensuring all students benefit without the need for a control group. By comparing results before and after a new practice, educators gain the power to directly improve teaching and learning.
Leading the Whole Teacher
Are you looking to create a school or district environment where teachers can thrive, and in turn help their students thrive? You are in the right place! I join you in this goal because our teachers deserve more than self-care advice. They deserve to be emotionally safe, to feel valued, to have positive relationships, to be invited to the decision-making table, to be challenged to learn and grow, and to have healthy workloads
What Makes a Great Principal
Many leadership books tell you the what but don’t dive into the how. What Makes a Great Principal stands out from other leadership books for three reasons–clarity about what is most important, stories and strategies directly from teachers and students, and a combination of perspectives that creates a robust picture of effective school leadership. Our book defines the five pillars of great principals, which helps school leaders prioritize their daily work and set long-term goals.
Lead with Collaboration:
A Complete Guide for Transforming Staff Meetings
In the age of time-strapped teachers, shifting standards, and distance learning, how can educational leaders ensure that every staff meeting absolutely could not have been an email? Jessica Gomez and Allyson Apsey set the agenda for planning—and leading—meetings that are purposeful, impactful, and inspiring.
The Path to Serendipity
The Path to Serendipity by education leader Allyson Apsey is a funny, genuine, and clever look at the fortunes we can gain from even our worst experiences. Through her personal, relatable stories, you will learn strategies for living a meaningful life regardless of the craziness happening around you.
Through the Lens of Serendipity
How do you handle a student, coworker, or family member whose rude, withdrawn, or challenging behavior leaves you feeling hurt, frustrated, or even angry? Before you blow up or walk away, education leader Allyson Apsey suggests gaining a little perspective into the motivation behind that behavior.
The Serendipity Journal
A new town, a new school, no friends . . . and now Kip has to deal with a bully. It’s going to take more than luck to make it through sixth grade; it’s going to take some serendipity.
When Kip’s dad loses his job, her family packs up and moves to Jackson. She misses her friends, her old school, and having her own room! Then, just when she thinks things can’t get any worse, a boy at school decides to try to make her life miserable.
Kip’s Serendipity Journal is the one place where she can share how she really feels. And it’s where she discovers that sometimes serendipity is even better than luck.
My Serendipity Journal
Your Serendipity Journal is the perfect place to capture the best (and the worst and the silliest and the most embarrassing) moments and find the serendipity in them.
Designed to be used as a stand-alone journal or to accompany The Serendipity Journal , a middle-grade novel by Allyson Apsey. My Serendipity Journal offers space for middle and intermediate grade writers to think, dream, write, and draw.
The Princes of Serendip
When three spoiled princes set out to see what life is like outside the castle, they end up finding new friends and unexpected treasures. In The Princes of Serendip, Allyson Apsey offers a twist on an age-old tale and reveals the true meaning of the word serendipity.
Join the three princes as they learn that hard work, love, and living life to its fullest just may be the path to discovering the greatest joys life has to offer.
