Books by Tony Frontier
Books that support effective teaching and school leadership
Tony’s books provide research-based, practical solutions on effective teaching and learning for teachers and school leaders. Click on the book covers below for more details.
AI with Intention: Principles and Action Steps for Teachers and School Leaders
**Coming, May of 2025** Introduction by Jay McTighe
Advanced Praise – “AI has many downsides, so we need to know what ‘wise use’ means. Here is where Frontier’s book is gold. Whether you’re an AI enthusiast or skeptic, “AI with Intention” challenges assumptions, offers fresh perspectives, and inspires meaningful dialogue about the future of education. AI is not good OR bad; it is here to stay and this is the best book I have read to introduce all to optimize the power of AI.”
John Hattie – Laureate Professor, Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute
Teaching with Clarity: How to Prioritize and Do Less So Students Understand More
“The value of Teaching with Clarity lies not only in its analysis of systematic problems but also in the specific solutions it offers for prioritizing the curriculum, clarifying success criteria, and establishing systems to eliminate clutter. If you read one book to guide your thinking about constructing the ‘new normal,’ let this be the one.”
Jay McTighe – author of Understanding by Design, Essential Questions, Teaching for Deeper Learning, and other ASCD books
Making Teachers Better not Bitter: Balancing Evaluation, Supervision, and Reflection for Professional Growth
“An exciting proposal for how the new science of expertise can inform the design of learning systems supporting the improvement of performance of professionals, especially teachers. Frontier and Mielke show how the status quo…can be transformed into designed learning environments, where teachers receive actionable, specific objective feedback and guidance for developing themselves into their own coaches to continue their life-long professional development.”
K. Anders Ericsson – Conradi Eminent Scholar of Psychology, Florida State University
Creating Passionate Learners: Engaging Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s World
“Creating Passionate Learners places students right where they should be – in the midst of it all, in the driver’s seat of their own engagement, learning and motivation. By honoring students as partners in the learning process and listening to student voice, Brown, Frontier, and Viegut challenge readers to work with students to increase engagement and ultimately erase the participation gap.”
Russ Quaglia – Director and Founder, Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations
Five Levers to Improve Learning: How to Prioritize for Powerful Results in Your School
“The five levers articulated by Frontier and Rickabaugh are elegant in their simplicity. They provide administrators and teacher leaders with a comprehensive framework for understanding and analyzing the effectiveness of their efforts and practical strategies for making an immediate impact in areas of need.”
Robert J. Marzano – CEO of Marzano Research Laboratory
Effective Supervision: Supporting the Art and Science of Teaching
In Effective Supervision, Robert Marzano, Tony Frontier, and David Livingston show school and district-level administrators how to set the priorities and support the practices that will help all teachers become expert teachers. Their five-part framework is based on what research tells us about how expertise develops. When these five conditions are attended to in a systematic way, teachers improve.
Learn more about keynotes and workshops to support professional learning for effective teaching and school leadership with Tony. See Tony’s author page on Amazon.