Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

Managing Middle School Madness is a compilation of tips, advice, and information to help parents prepare for the behavioral, social, and academic adjustments that students may encounter. Included are worksheets for parents and children and resources that can be used throughout the middle school years.

This book will help school administrators understand and more effectively deal with the ethical compromises that arise as a result of the complex organizational and interpersonal demands of their leadership roles.

This book focuses on matching the needs of a school organization with the right leader and relates the leadership theories of servant leadership, emotional intelligence, and change to issues highlighted in the case studies provided.

Suggesting that due to multiple unfavorable circumstances, public schools have been unable to educate America's most disadvantaged student population - Latinos, this book contends that it is imperative to reinvent schools in order to provide a viable education for these students.

More than ever before, urban school districts are changing leaders at an alarming rate which makes it difficult for city schools to find stability. Turnover at the Top examines both the reasons for this turnover and its ramifications.

The book provides readers with an overview of the teaching challenges for this population of students, presents research on their unique challenges as learners, and provides teachers with evidence-based practices to enhance the success of this adult learner population.

Intended for parents and teachers who are looking for ways to battle the continual exposure to school violence that may leave kids desensitized to mean behavior, this book is designed to foster feelings that allow children to put themselves in someone else's shoes and help them recognize the difference between right and wrong in social situations.

This book is designed to be a reference to help teachers make their career more enjoyable and rewarding. Teachers can pick it up at anytime and find something new to add to their "bag of tricks."

Provides advice on surviving the common and problematic situations occurring within the school system. This how-to-guide offers suggestions on how to deal with issues from the administrator's office to the teacher's lounge and from upset parents to jealous colleagues. It is useful for new and veteran teachers.

This book suggests practical approaches for connecting with young people at the level of the heart through the utilization of myths, stories, movies, and songs.

Here is an easy reference guide for teacher to utilize in order to provide students with more than 180 writing activities that can be assigned in U.S. History classes.

Success in College provides important information and advice that students need in order to learn more and receive higher grades.

The Hard Truth is a book written for principals and school administrators who want to implement effective change. The topics of the book candidly discuss the problems, people, and issues that get in the way of true school reform; and what building level principals can personally do attain the best possible outcomes.

This user-friendly book provides poems and stories accompanied by dramatic activities to help elementary school teachers create and maintain a peaceful classroom environment.

The focus of this book is to explore the extent to which our thinking, learning, and leading is influenced and shaped by the future.

This book offers a reader-friendly resource for graduate students who are seeking strategies and opportunities to be effectively mentored.

This book offers explicit descriptions on how to deliver specific poetry lessons that will develop academic skills such as reading, writing, and critical thinking. Divided into three sections, it teaches all aspects of poetry_composing, memorizing, reciting, interpreting, listening, reading, and publishing.

Author Jing Lin contends that there is a great need for educators to reconceptualize education in the 21st century. Here, she discusses the danger of global wars, environmental breakdown, moral vacuum and nihilism in society, and the problems in current debates on school reform.

Attempts to develop real tools for leaders to use in building successful knowledge businesses.

This book focuses on improving instructional strategies to design and implement learning opportunities for children to promote long term learning.

Here is a book to serve educators from all types of schools in either pre-service or professional development that is designed as a text for master's and licensure (post-master's) level. It covers all the relevant issues in school law.

This 4-CD set will guide parents who despite their best intentions, unknowingly, undermine their children's capacity for school success. The message of the CDs is thoughtful in its approach; practical, direct, and clear in its action plans. It is a unique guide that will appeal to today's busy parents with its 'heart-to-heart' conversational tone.

New edition forthcoming in time for fall 2017!The Myth of Individualism offers a concise introduction to sociology and sociological thinking. Drawing upon personal stories, historical events, and sociological research, Callero shows how powerful social forces shape individual lives in subtle but compelling ways.

The fastest growing segment of the workforce is women age sixty-five and older. Women Still at Work draws on national survey data and in-depth interviews to show the many reasons why women are working well past the traditional retirement age. The book is filled with profiles of real working women, with a focus on women in the professional workforce.