Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

Features 50 hikes for all skill levels, from leisurely wildflower hikes to high alpine treks, Hiking the Columbia River Gorge is the ultimate guide to this "final passage to the Pacific."

Each destination is described and mapped in detail, with information on put-in points and take-outs, water and current conditions, and flora and fauna. Sidebars and at-a-glance data highlight local history, seasonal attractions and cultural events, restaurants, paddlesports organizations, and more.

Includes over 250 fishing locations from Waterton Lake to the Flathead River.

Everyone knows fairies love spring flowers and summer sun, but what happens when autumn comes and the days get shorter and colder? Combined with whimsical illustrations these rhyming questions will help children discover just where fairies go when it snows and offer a subtle lesson about the importance of helping one another.

This book offers an internal strategic planning process facilitating movement toward district wide student-centered learning. The "Best Practice" subjects discussed during the planning process, and covered herein, are selected to focus attention on their district and where on the continuum of the practice does their district currently stand.

The Politics of Jesus is a powerful new biography of Jesus told from the margins. Renowned ethicist Miguel De La Torre argues that we all create Jesus in our own image, reflecting and reinforcing the values of communities-sometimes for better, and often for worse.

Written by the director of the University Copyright Office at Purdue University who holds both law and library science degrees, this is complete, authoritative guide is a must-purchase for every institution of higher education seeking to comply with the copyright law and thus avoid potential liability exposure.

This book centers on the fact that needed improvements in our schools will not occur unless education is able to attract and retain great teachers in the school's classrooms.

This book examines tutoring as a viable strategy to increase academic success in education. In addition, it provides readers with information on establishing tutoring programs within educational institutions or ventures outside formal education, such as after-school study programs.

This book includes an analysis of the most significant Supreme Court cases that have been decided in the ten years since the first edition of the book appeared. The authors consider the important implications of these recent rulings for the future of school desegregation in America's schools.

The second volume of companion books on comparative student discipline identifies the best practices in dealing with student misconduct, on six continents, in a legally sound manner.

This book is composed of many short essays which can be read separately; however, read together these commentaries form a compelling exploration of how and why teachers should obey laws, regulations, policies, and contractual obligations, yet should do much more.

The first book of its kind, this volume consists of a collection of essays designed to enhance a common understanding of the rights of students when they are subjected to discipline.

This book delves into a review of the theories of learning, providing insight into current research regarding how students learn as well as a review of traditional, teacher-centered learning and teaching theories.

These same conditions have impacted district and school leadership. This pragmatic book offers a road map to identify, design, and strengthen skills for district and school leadership. It is very readable, eminently sensible, and provides sound philosophical advice to support and sustain growth in leadership teams in any school or district.

This book draws on extensive research by the author and others on the actions needed to turn around low-performing schools. First, however, the book examines the personal qualities needed to undertake the turnaround process.

Education Game Changers describes policy paradoxes challenging the sustainability of educational provision as we know it and the imperatives they present for educational leadership, business, and governance.

The Urban Challenge in Education was written to share the lessons learned by seventeen highly successful charter schools in Los Angeles, CA. It provides readers with a list of characteristics that are common among these outstanding charter schools and can be used as a guide for all schools as they attempt to meet the needs of their students.

Embracing Social Media: A Practical Guide to Manage Risk and Leverage Opportunity is a practical guide for anyone wishing to facilitate the embrace of social media in a school system. Included are steps for creating policy, procedures, and guidelines, as well as specific strategies to help open the minds of reluctant colleagues and leaders.

Although administrators have many responsibilities, none is more critical to their school, students, and personal success than hiring, supervising, and evaluating teachers. Excellent teachers make the difference in how well students achieve and this book offers the formula for hiring the best teachers available.

More Mirrors in the Classroom: Using Urban Children's Literature to Increase Literacy is the first book in the Kids Like Us series. It includes research summaries, guidelines for text selection, and a step-by-step guide to increasing the cultural relevance of literacy instruction with urban children's literature.

In this book, J.D. Crouch II and Patrick J. Garrity document and synthesize Harold W. Rood's core teachings. This book celebrates Rood as an extraordinary teacher and captures for future generations his relentless way of challenging conventional wisdom and instilling in his students the ability to think independently of fashionable orthodoxy.

While Cuba's 1940 constitution was among the most progressive in the western hemisphere, few knew its details until political leader Chibas, whose suicide in 1951 precipitated the Cuban Revolution, read it on his radio program. This work explores Chibas's life in order to explain the nature of Cuban politics from the mid-twentieth century to today.

Highlighting the most important events, ideas, and individuals that have shaped modern Europe, this text provides a readable, concise history of the continent from the Enlightenment and the French Revolution to the present. Any reader who wants a broad sweep of European history will find this book an engaging narrative.

Repositioning Reference reimagines reference services in libraries and information organizations and the role of reference librarians, taking into account rapid developments in technology and information-specific services in non-library sectors.

This book is based on a series of simple psychological concepts that helps to empower parents to play a much more active role in engaging their children in critical thinking.

In an era of high stakes accountability, testing, and standardization in education, Dr. Robert Dillon brings students back to the center of learning, and demonstrates how providing them with choice, voice, and audience can allow for deeper learning. This book is ideal for teachers looking to inject fresh energy and ideas into their classrooms.