Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

This book draws upon resilience research and best practices to answer the question: 'How can leaders move ahead in the face of adversity?' and aims to help leaders thrive in the face of adversity.

This book makes a unique contribution through its hands-on approach to the thorny issue of cross-racial and cross-cultural differences in mentoring relationships. The book shows how such differences can be handled successfully and can even enrich a mentoring relationship.

School change can be rough around the edges and extremely difficult and contentious in the beginning, especially if it is not initiated in the correct manner. Whether the transition to change is very rough or very smooth, if you can survive the initial implementation and the actual process that follows, the end can be a hugely successful and beautiful thing.

This book describes how teachers can build upon the eagerness and skills that students apply to recreational, social, and friendly writing, bringing enjoyment back into writing for students.

"Published in partnership with MENC: The National Association for Music Education."

Revisit favorite arrangements, discover new ones, and inspire your jazz ensemble with sound and adventurous music to play. This new book recommends and analyzes 67 quality jazz arrangements recommended by eighteen of the foremost jazz experts in the field today.

This book provides ways for teachers to link subjects and areas of learning for various teaching situations and takes readers from simple correlation through using published thematic units now available and on to developing their own interdisciplinary themes or in team efforts with other colleagues.

This book proposes a radical truth_that online education, when taught using the methodology perfected by successful veterans of distance learning, surpasses traditional face-to-face teaching and learning.

This book describes the leadership practice of professional baseball coaches as a way to illustrate situational leadership theory, offering the reader examples of leadership behavior in the four leadership frames suggested by Bolman and Deal's situational leadership theory.

Turning Average Instruction into Great Instruction details a clear and concise approach to school improvement, focusing school leaders on the critical factor that has the greatest impact on student achievement: classroom instruction. Decades of research demonstrate that what happens between teachers and students in our nation's classrooms has the greatest impact on how well those students learn.

Twice Exceptional Kids provides strategies for all educators and parents interested in providing the appropriate education for these special children and helping them achieve to their fullest potential.

The Art of War application to education is about solving (fighting) problems (the enemy) to improve student and school success. The Art of War describes the significance of a leader and his knowledge and prudent application of the strategies.

This book introduces CLICK (Comprehensive Learning and Interventions for Correcting Kids), a school discipline, that is based on actual teaching practices and sound theory and research. It will help educators focus on a new way of thinking about discipline and how to resolve it in the classroom.

Featuring detailed steps for developing and implementing a literacy program for primary students (grades K-3), this title includes chapters on looping, or continuous progress, at higher levels (grades 4-5). It shows how looping at these levels proves to be an effective practice in increasing student achievement in all subject areas.

Seeks to dispel the notion that behavior is the only issue to consider when putting together a good, solid classroom management plan. This book answers questions such as: How does one turn ineffective classroom management around? And, how do educational leaders help their staff to improve classroom behavior?

Based on the authors' experiences with the School Turnaround Specialist Program as well as a review of research on successful school improvement projects, Teachers' Guide to School Turnarounds contains a wealth of tips and warnings for those engaged in, or anticipating being engaged in, the process of turning around a low-performing school.

Written for professors of school administration, Preparing School Leaders provides an overview of the three key dimensions of leadership preparation in school administration: the history of how we arrived at where we are, a critical analysis of current state of affairs, and an agenda for improvement.

This book sheds light on the philosophical, pedagogical, and cultural causes of reading failure and reveals the scientific findings that point to promising solutions.

This book gives readers insight into the problems, solutions, and decision-making processes of education and educational administration.

This book provides needed information for those involved in creating or administering an independent school by laying out the issues that must be addressed, but may not be considered.

Presents the way in which faculty members can design web-based and web-assisted instructional delivery approaches to provide students with the opportunity to learn anytime and anyplace. This book stresses the paradigm shift in using technology as an alternative instructional delivery tool.

Here is a comprehensive perspective on the scope of student aggression. This book provides a framework to conceptualize the etiology of violence from a systemic nature and an outline to limit the potential of violence.

Here is a book about a program of structured independent activities that engage students while the teacher works closely with a small group. The program is essentially a system of centers of managing children's individual practice of skills.

Here is an easy to understand guide to elementary education. This book is the first of its kind to take the language of education and define all the words, phrases, and processes involved in a child's school. This book will teach parents how to better support their child in the classroom and at home to ensure his or her educational success.

Here, the author helps readers understand the relationship between the perception of our senses and the thinking that makes it possible for teachers and children to learn within a pedagogical relationship.

This book introduces the ASSIST-ME Model, an instructional design model for web-based instruction and gives a step-by-step procedure that explains how online instruction may be designed.

Here, Robert Brower counters the misdirection of the present reform movement in education. This book details the errors of the present movement and gives a prescription for how to do it right.