Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

This book is a realistic guide that can help the high school teacher and community. It includes ways to maintain one's health, how to balance one's personal and school life, and how to interact in a better, successful manner.

With everything from answers to frequent new-teacher questions and warnings of common new teacher pitfalls to specific strategies and veteran tricks useful for clawing back precious hours of the day, Matthew Johnson gives clear tips and clear reasons for them in a straightforward, jargonless voice and a mixture of practicality and philosophy.

This book provides onsite observations, research-based premises, and quantitative recommendations for a step-by-step realignment of the focus of public education-education of each student for contributory productivity in the international marketplace of the twenty-first century

This book guides teachers from all content areas and grade levels to create outstanding Service Learning projects with students like no other book does.

This book is designed to provide beginning administrators with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed during their first year, shortening the initial learning curve and helping them make smooth transitions from teaching to their first administrative positions.

This book provides a set of tactics_called keys_that will guide readers' reflection on the issue of instructional management. These seven keys offer principals suggestions for overcoming the daily barrage of secondary responsibilities that redirect valuable time and energy away from academics.

This new edition of the widely read Total Leaders book significantly deepens the theoretical grounding and applicability of the original Total Leader Model, and expands its connection to other significant dimensions of leadership, professionalism, personal empowerment, learning, life, and change.

Sabatini, Albro and O'Reilly believe that in light of federal legislation towards common core standards and assessments, as well as significant national investments in reading and literacy education, it is a critical and opportune time to bring together the research and measurement community to address fundamental issues of measuring reading comprehension, in theory and in practice.

This book includes a straightforward yet comprehensive approach to bullying prevention and intervention outlining the role of the educator, the parent, the community, and the student. Each chapter concludes with action steps and questions to generate discussion providing all that is needed for a successful prevention program.

Written by a master classical guitarist with fifteen years of classroom guitar teaching experience, the book provides outlines for daily, weekly, and semester planning, covering_from planning, assessment, and music reading to chords and music theory, jazz harmony and improvisation, remedial techniques, and more.

This book takes on the issues of our failures from the dangers associated with a lack of classroom discipline to the failings of the people to recognize and defend their schools from an overstepping federal government. This book clarifies the answers to our education system's woes and our republic's flickering success. For more information about the author, please visit www.amissingingredient.com

This book identifies, through current research, what children and teenagers need to know about managing funds. It shows educators how to design instructional activities that enable students to learn about money management in fascinating and meaningful ways.

The Six Virtues of the Educated Person discusses two ways of trying to improve American education--how we do it now, and how we ought to do it. This book offers an alternative schooling model--one that builds on the positive aspects of our current model and provides hope for public school improvement. For more information, please visit www.sixvirtues.com

This book provides an overview of child abuse, specifically focusing on sexual abuse and move to a discussion on sexual abuse in the schools, including a look at legislation designed to protect students and the impact of this legislation in public schools.

This 'no holds barred' book about big ideas makes the case that billions of dollars and millions of man hours have been spent chasing the wrong solutions. Pandiscio makes a direct assault on what he believes to be the primary causes of the failed public school system in America.

By addressing the practice of school leaders as a first concern, this book focuses on the skills required for smart, effective problem solving.

Retaining new teachers has never been easy and when the teachers are 'fast track' in urban settings, turnover and retention are real problems. This book examines how schools can work to recruit, support, and somehow hold on to new teachers, many of whom have only limited formal preparation and experience in the classroom.

This book builds on the expanding knowledge of what works in classrooms and suggests approaches that can open up individual and group possibilities for science and mathematics instruction, suggesting ways that formative assessment practices can inform differentiated teaching, learning, and assessment.

Increasingly, the availability of entrepreneurship education is becoming a factor in college choice as fine arts students demand training that helps them create an arts-based career after graduation. Disciplining the Arts explores the policy, programming, and curricular issues in the emerging field of arts entrepreneurship.

This book explains research that supports a trimester schedule and then helps readers understand the change efforts and challenges associated with the redesign of the school day.

This book focuses on thirty-three rules or principles that educators often fail to pay heed to in their professional activity. These are rules that are vaguely articulated or even left unsaid when preparing contemporary teachers.

While program building is an essential, time-consuming part of every music teacher's job, students are rarely prepared for it. Ryan covers issues important to student teachers, new teachers, teachers changing schools, and teachers looking to rejuvenate their existing programs.

This book lays out very practical approaches to making our ever-increasingly large schools work more effectively. By closely analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of large schools, the author can provide effective tools and strategies for dealing with them.

New teachers have a high attrition rate, often due to concerns about classroom discipline, interactions with parents, meeting the diverse needs of students, and pressures of high academic standards. Teaching Is a Privilege offers beginning teachers twelve essential understandings necessary to meet these challenges and thrive in the classroom.

This book is designed for college and secondary educators who are looking for support as they begin their teaching careers. While preparing new instructors for the demands of teaching, the authors outline some of the main theories on learning styles, contemporary trends in education, and a variety of teaching methodologies.

This book provides an invaluable resource for school teachers, administrators, board members, policy makers, and citizens who would like to understand what's behind performance pay, what might work and what will not, and how to build a school improvement effort that includes teacher compensation as one of its strategies.