Lending library
The newest service offered by the BCTF Library is the book lending service. BCTF members can browse the catalogue and borrow up to three books at a time. The books will be mailed to you to enjoy for one month. Return postage is included. Check out the lending library catalogue by clicking the “Book Loans” tab at bctf.ca/library.
Popular titles in the lending library
Classroom Assessment Essentials
This comprehensive book covers the foundational concepts and practical skills necessary for teachers to be successful with classroom assessment.
Classroom Management from the Ground Up
This guide combines sound research with practical wisdom so educators can have a classroom management resource written by teachers for teachers. Gain effective strategies for designing and improving your classroom management from the ground up.
Every Connection Matters: How to Build, Maintain, and Restore Relationships inside the Classroom and Out
This book guides teachers through the ins and outs of building, maintaining, and restoring the six types of relationships they need to navigate in a school.
Habits of Resilient Educators: Strategies for Thriving During Times of Anxiety, Doubt, and Constant Change
What are the habits we know that enable teachers to be effective no matter the environment? And how do we build and sustain professional and personal practices that help us rise to every challenge? This book answers these questions, providing teachers with the knowledge and tools necessary to develop habits that will create joyful, successful learning environments.
Kids’ Books and Maker Activities: 150 Perfect Pairings
This book connects to the new American Association of School Librarians standards and provides simple directions for using a variety of books to create maker activities that deepen the reading experience.
Literacy Moves Outdoors: Learning Approaches for Any Environment
Discover practical strategies and experiences for supporting literacy development outside of the traditional classroom environment, as well as varied entry points, logistics for implementation, literacy connections, resources, and relevant book lists.
Math Games with Bad Drawings: 74 1/2 Simple, Challenging, Go-Anywhere Games and Why They Matter
From beloved math popularizer Ben Orlin comes a masterfully compiled collection of dozens of playable mathematical games.
Ridiculously Amazing Schools: Creating a Culture Where Everyone Thrives
Imagine a school with a culture so positive that everyone thrives—students and educators alike. Authors Smith and Waller explore the five key elements of what they call courageous schools: schools that understand it takes a “whole” teacher to teach the “whole” child.
Supporting the Wounded Educator: A Trauma-Sensitive Approach to Self-Care
The tensions between an educator’s calling and the reality of the profession can create a growing sense of compassion fatigue, burnout, and job dissatisfaction. Packed with doable strategies and suggestions for personal and professional self-care, this book will help you discover a personal journey toward holistic health and job satisfaction.
Teach Happier This School Year: 40 Weeks of Inspiration and Reflection
Forty weekly readings and reflections guide teachers in making small shifts to help them feel happier and more content both inside and outside the classroom.
The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom
Inspired by June Jordan’s 1995 Poetry for the People, here is a blueprint for a 21st-century workshop model that protects and platforms writers of colour.
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Author Jonathan Haidt describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more play-based childhood.
The First-Year Teacher’s Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Meeting the Challenges of Each School Day
Learn valuable strategies, activities, and tools you need to succeed in the classroom. Now updated with the latest tools, techniques, and topics, including an essential introduction to teaching and learning in an AI-enabled world.
The School Garden Curriculum: An Integrated K–8 Guide for Discovering Science, Ecology, and Whole-Systems Thinking
This book provides an integrated K–8 framework and over 200 weekly lessons that weave science, permaculture, and environmental education into place-based, immersive learning.
eBook Library
The BCTF eBook library is free to access for members. You can borrow and read eBooks by logging into your BCTF account.
New eBooks are regularly added to the library collection, which includes books for teachers’ professional development and classroom use. Visit bctf.ca/library to log in and start browsing.
Classroom resources
TeachBC is your go-to site for free downloadable lesson plans, posters, and classroom resources. Teachers can upload lesson plans and resources to share with their colleagues or download resources submitted by their colleagues from across the province, as well as partner organizations in education.
You can also receive a free provincial specialist association membership for one school year when you submit your first lesson plan or teaching resource to TeachBC. Learn more at bctf.ca/classroom-resources.
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