Publications
Book Titles from RISE
Research-informed, practice-based books designed to support teachers, leaders, and school systems in doing their best work.
Corwin Press · 2025
The Mentor's Guidebook
Unleashing Your Potential to Inspire and Retain New Teachers
Mentors are critical to the success of new and aspiring teachers. This guidebook outlines five dimensions of the Mentorship Mindset Model to help mentors grow their knowledge, understanding, and skills — and build a culture where new teachers thrive and stay.
Corwin Press · 2025
Navigating the First Years
A Toolkit for Classroom Success
Within your classroom walls, seeds of curiosity, creativity, and resilience are sown. This practical toolkit gives new teachers immediately impactful strategies to deploy in their classrooms from day one — helping them inspire learners and build confidence in the earliest, most critical years.
Corwin Press · 2023
Leader Ready
Four Pathways to Prepare Aspiring School Leaders
Leader Ready presents a framework that walks aspiring school leaders along the path to strong and independent principalship — using professional knowledge, modeling, coaching, guided experiences, and mastery experiences.
Bestseller
Corwin Press · 2020
Great Teaching by Design
From Intention to Implementation in the Visible Learning Classroom
Organized around the DIIE framework, this book takes you step-by-step from intention to implementation to accelerate the impact your teaching has on student learning — featuring a fresh look at the Visible Learning research and the most powerful strategies for teaching.
Bestseller
Corwin Press · 2020
The Assessment Playbook
Measuring Student Learning in Any Setting
A rich collection of examples, strategies, and assessments that can be leveraged with rigor and fidelity regardless of learning environment — empowering teachers with the decision-making tools needed to gauge the impact of instructional strategies in any setting.
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Mentoring, Inspiring, and Retaining New Teachers
Presented by The RISE Collaborative Team
Empowering mentorship can make a world of difference — not only for teacher retention, but instructional quality and positive student outcomes.
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A Toolkit for Navigating the First Years
Presented by The RISE Collaborative Team
Practical and immediately impactful tactics for new teachers to deploy in their classroom — outlining key aspects of the first years to support educators as they inspire their learners.
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A Framework for Preparing Aspiring School Leaders
Presented by The RISE Collaborative Team
Vince Bustamante and Tim Cusack explore a research-based framework for better preparing aspiring school leaders for principalship, based on Leader Ready.
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Great Teaching by Design
Presented by The RISE Collaborative Team
Great Teaching by Design encourages teachers to be deliberate in their decision making about what works best in the classroom — featuring a deep dive into the Visible Learning research and the DIIE framework.
Appearances & Interviews
Podcasts & Videos
The RISE Collaborative Team as featured guests and presenters across podcasts, YouTube channels, and educational media.
Video Presentations
April 2023
Preparing Aspiring School Leaders
The RISE Collaborative Team explores a framework for better preparing aspiring school leaders for principalship, based on Leader Ready.
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December 2022
Learn California
Vince Bustamante, Peter Birdsall, and Krista Thomsen discuss implementation of professional learning initiatives in Lancaster SD.
Watch on YouTube
May 2022
How to Help Leaders Stick Around
The RISE Collaborative Team joins a panel hosted by Dr. Peter DeWitt to explore how to best support leaders in schools, based on Leader Ready.
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February 2022
Measuring Student Learning in Any Setting
Vince explores how to leverage process-focused assessments in the classroom, based on The Assessment Playbook.
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February 2022
From Earning to Learning: Great Teaching by Design
Vince joins educator Dave Frangiosa to discuss Great Teaching by Design and what it means to teach with true intentionality.
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September 2021
3Ps in a Pod
Vince joins the Arizona K12 Education Center to discuss Great Teaching by Design and what it means to teach with true intentionality.
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