Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

This book is a teaching manual that helps teachers not only explain the concepts of consumer economics and media literacy to middle schoolers but supplies lessons for students to get hands-on experience recognizing, deconstructing, evaluating, and choosing for themselves whether to accept the tangible product or intangible message offered.

This book is an interdisciplinary guide to connect art lessons with core curriculum. Social studies, language arts, math, and/or science are supported in every unit. It is an ideal source for elementary and middle school teachers to enrich their curriculum. It is an invaluable tool for art teachers.

This book is about teacher evaluation in public schools and how we can improve it.

This guide cultivates a school culture where the principal is positioned as the literacy leader. It will support principals to define, and create a literacy culture, as well as provide insight to support principals in their quest to becoming primary individual responsible for bringing joy to teaching and learning as part of building school culture.

This book will challenge you to think deeply about what you can do integrate oracy into your practice. Rich with ideas, advice and strategies, Transform Teaching and Learning through Talk: The Oracy Imperative will quickly become your go-to-guide to get talking in class!

Listening is Learning invites young teachers to seek the knowledge and advice of former teachers, retired educators, respected veterans, and fellow newcomers. It encourages them to step away from their isolated classrooms and search for best ideas, methods, materials, insights--and moments of success, epiphanies, struggles, methodologies.

The cases are designed to present an overview of the law from special education, where there is frequent litigation.

Rather than simply recite problems, Unlearning Failure seeks to explore credible solutions to the urban education reform.

The aim of this book is to help you and your students identify the kinds of risks that are worth taking, better anticipate and navigate potential hazards associated with those risks and maximize the potential benefits.

This is a framework for measuring student intelligence.

Mindsets are shifting where the work areas of the students vary. The class furniture will vary from size and shape of tables, to couches, to a variety of chairs. Students must have the freedom to make choices to take ownership of their learning. This means that mistakes will happen. The classroom should be a comfortable learning environment.

This book examines six psychological and spiritual giants that will help inspire teacher renewal.

Transnational Organized Crime and Gangs: Intervention, Prevention, and Suppression of Cybersecurity provides several first-person examples of the mind set and mentality present in today's transnational organized crime groups combined with a holistic approach towards prevention and intervention in the cybersecurity space.

Rooted and Rising is an edited volume intended for readers who are concerned about the climate crisis and who thirst for the wisdom and spiritual resources of fellow pilgrims grappling with despair.

How to Lead When You Don't Know Where You are Going is a book of hope for weary leaders in danger of defining ministry in terms of failure or loss. This book does not attempt to describe where the church is headed; rather, it helps leaders stand firm in a disoriented state, learning from their mistakes and leading despite the confusion.

Preaching in the Purple Zone is a resource for helping the church understand the challenges facing parish pastors, while encouraging and equipping preachers to address the vital justice issues of our time.

This book is an introduction to the concepts, policies, infrastructure and tasks needed to collect, preserve and make archival collections available to researchers. The book provides the practical information necessary to manage archival collections for those who do not have a formal education in archival work.

Library Marketing Basics is an accessible, step-by-step, easy to understand, and "hands on" resource for any librarian who is interested in learning basic marketing tips to raise the profile of their library. It is designed for beginners who are new to library marketing.

This book focuses on the questions that parents recently have posed about textbooks.

Practical, field-tested advice on how academic leaders can apply the principles of mindful leadership.

This book identifies and discusses compelling issues that must be addressed as we undertake multicultural education in the 21st century educational setting.

Written for teachers-and everyone interested in teaching and learning-Learning Deepens helps classrooms flourish by fostering students' intrinsic motivation. By interleaving psychology and neuroscience research with dozens of practical classroom examples, Learning Deepens makes these two theories both clear and immediately useful.

This book presents the pedagogical basis for using role plays to teach social and emotional skills, and provides over 45 model lessons that can be delivered in middle and high school classrooms. A rich resource for principals and classroom teachers, it addresses the how, why and what of teaching social and emotional skills in our diverse society.

This book examines when it is morally appropriate for medical intervention to hasten the dying process. The authors' overriding goal is to humanize the dying process by expanding patient centered autonomous control.

This book provides original insights and optional strategies for teaching bright struggling students. Addressing the multiple interferences to learning, the novel techniques ensure rapid skills mastery. Created to support Dyslexic learners, all students will benefit from the creative methods introduced.

This book contains essential information on understanding the autistic mind, promising evidence-based practices, critical components to developing programming for the autistic student, and the importance of transitional services and supports for this population.

The book takes the reader through the stages of the writing process in the first part, explaining what students are doing and thinking in each stage. In the second part, the authors explain how to manage students, materials, mini lessons, grading and other aspects that help writing workshop classrooms run smoothly.

This book will introduce fourteen of the most important soft skills in the field of education. It will explain how each skill is used in teaching as well as ideas for how to model and explain them in college classrooms, field experiences, and student teaching.

This book is a simple, logical and practical implementation guide for boards that have adopted or are considering adoption of either Coherent GovernanceO or Policy GovernanceO.