Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

This book will describe two of the four major systems needed to effectively lead a school and move the needle on student achievement.

This book uses a communicative perspective to help the higher education leader conceptualize, gear up, implement and follow through with their change plan.

The purpose of this book is to both support schools in their creation of trauma sensitive school systems and classrooms and provide practical strategies for educators to implement in the classroom.

Board governance is examined from perspectives of historical, theoretical, and functional modalities. Present governance challenges associated with board culture, historical practices, policy, politics, talent acquisition, and contracts are reviewed. In-person board/CEO interviews suggest a need for change. A new approach to governing is proposed.

This book critically examines the way men construct and explain relationships between violence, manhood, and inequality in society.

Chinese composers have a growing presence on international stages, and Mandarin-language vocal repertoire is becoming richer and more prevalent. Singing in Mandarin is the definitive guide for singing in Mandarin. The first part focuses on the sounds of the Chinese language while the second focuses on the classical vocal repertoire in Mandarin.

Instruction coordinators & directors in academic libraries may have a variety of titles and wear an entire wardrobe's worth of hats, but we face many of the same challenges in developing, promoting, and evaluating our instruction programs.

With and beyond the political philosophy of Jacques Ranciere, this book rethinks critical agency and its emancipatory effects today through an examination of the body.

Educators struggle with how to develop agency, ownership, curiosity, and persistence in learners. This book offers practical ideas and examples of how to do this.

This book is a non-partisan history of America's elections.

Honoring Identities provides both theory and practice for creating culturally responsive learning communities.

Biology Stories: 50 Stories for Teaching and Learning Biology is a great resource for all biology teachers, putting stories in teachers' hands that can be used in class immediately. Tying these memorable stories to the content being taught will keep students engaged and ensure they never forget the concepts.

This book leads principals through an examination of themselves and their motivation. It takes an unflinching look at the nature of today's principalship at all levels.

This book provides a coherent framework, concrete examples, and a collection of practical ideas for encouraging and sustaining meaningful classroom conversations.

Books as Partners is designed to assist teachers in integrating high quality diverse literature to support instruction across the curriculum.

Stepping Forward Together can help leaders create their vision and put these changes into perspective and help them take a leadership stance in a challenging world. This book provides a resource that empowers them with planning tools and exercises to engage the community and step forward.

Educators today must manage the constant disruptions that exist in a demanding, instant gratification world. This text provides solutions for dealing with time-consuming, exhausting challenges. Equipped with the tools to respond to these in an efficient manner, educators can get back to work helping students learn and grow into successful adults.

"Ten truths" offers a window into the challenges and possibilities of being a school superintendent. It is a practical account of the realities inherent in the role. Readers will understand the nature of the problems faced as well as practical solutions to obstacles common to the position.

The book includes a suggested scope and sequence for teaching map skills in the elementary grades and a glossary of geographic terms.

This book will describe two of the four major systems needed to effectively lead a school and move the needle on student achievement.

Grove asks not that we copy East Asian teaching approaches, but that we use them as a mirror to gain insights into typically American approaches and their underlying values, which are handicapping our children's learning.

This book concerns basic issues of moral rights, responsibilities, and ideals relative to children with disabilities, their parents, educators, and lawmakers. Such issues underlie intense disputes that have been ongoing for decades since the first federal legislation regarding children with disabilities was enacted.

Gender bias is well established in children by age 6, so creating a classroom environment where all children can learn without bias requires an understanding of the components of gender bias and the related challenges. This book supports educators by giving them the language to talk about gender equity, and the tools to assess culture curriculum.

This important new book by a major voice in the Social Imaginaries movement offers the most systematic attempt to establish conceptual and historical links between the idea of modernity as a new civilization and the notion of multiple modernities. Arnason demonstrates a theory of globalization that is still compatible with the emphasis on unity and diversity of modernity as a civilization.

The official Congressional Directory is the official source for making the right connections to members of Congress, their key staff, and important contacts throughout the federal government.

Sage guidance and backwoods wisdom make this a valuable source for training bird dogs

Many wonder how anyone could ever allow Adolf Hitler-a mediocre army corporal and failed landscape painter-to rise to such power as to become the architect of the most calamitous events of the twentieth century. It is a story of ambition, betrayal, brutality, and vengeance that spanned a number of years.