Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

This book endeavors to cultivate activism literacies in White teachers in order to disrupt the system of white supremacy and racial oppression in education. This book focuses primarily on White teachers' responsibility in becoming advocates for, and accomplices to communities of color.

The book will show how art can be used to teach the Traits of Writing. Each chapter will include a summary of each trait and art and writing lessons to demonstrate how to teach the trait.

Tomal and Wozniak provide timely information about the uses of social media and further engage readers to critically analyze the advantages and disadvantages associated with social media.

Using Authentic Assessment in Information Literacy Programs: Tools, Techniques, and Strategies offers teaching librarians practical resources and approaches that will help implement authentic assessment in any instructional setting, from one-shot instruction sessions or for-credit courses, in person or online.

Mindful Parenting helps parents raise children who will be calmer, more enlightened, and happier.

In the second edition of their 2000 book, John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking offer an updated version of the Contextual Model of Learning, as well as present the latest advances in museum research, theory, and practice in order to provide readers an inside view of how and why people learn from their museum experiences.

This book provides a comprehensive approach to addressing violence issues using research and evidence-based practices. By offering educators critical ways to measure, and approach violence and prevention, the book provides easy-to-implement suggestions and processes by which educators can created tailored programs to their schools' own needs.

The readers will learn about the importance of nurturing one's talent.

This book focuses on preparing students to be successful independent learners for the twenty first century. Students will construct their own meaning not only within the traditional brick and mortar environment with the assistant of the classroom teacher, but also in an online environment scaffolded by a virtual tutor.

In Death in Acadia, Randi Minetor gathers the stories of fatalities that have occurred in Maine's Acadia National Park, from falls to exposure to cardiac arrest--even getting swept out to sea--and presents dozens of misadventures.

This book addresses the nature of the learner and how to plan and deliver instruction for long term learning.

This book will help Library Support Staff (LSS) understand, support, and apply the basic principles of library supervision and management in their work on the topics of regulations and bylaws hiring, staff performance expectations, leadership and professional learning.

This timely book successfully combines theory and practice to intelligibly show how to prepare prospective school leaders for social justice, equity, and excellence.

The chapters examine new study abroad initiatives while looking closely at the critical role that guided teacher-led experience plays in facilitating intercultural growth and development.

This book gives teachers the tools and the teaching strategies to enable their students to become more discriminating consumers of information and misinformation coming at them from the Internet, social media, television and the tabloid press. It is an essential resource, rich in practical suggestions for classroom activities for every grade level.

Almost everyone considers himself or herself an authority on education because he or she has been to school. Depending on whether the school experience was a good one or not so good, people develop belief systems about what school should be. The authors of this book say that what schools should be is continuously improving.

Up and Running is a roadmap for creating a leadership program to meet the needs of colleges and the professional interests of employees. Authors share the basics of starting a program, such as application and selection process, budget, and program format, as well team building, decision making, conflict resolution, and diversity/inclusion.

This book provides fresh analysis of organizational culture in the community college context with a critical examination of the relationship between organizational culture and change.

City on the Line is about a revolution in public budgeting. It is the story of a hard luck city fighting through the Great Recession, a budget director trying to lead disruptive change, and a groundbreaking effort to link strategy, budget and data to get better results for residents.

This book provides examples and recommends highly effective and practical instructional and assessment strategies that classroom teachers can immediately implement and that school administrators can readily observe.

This book argues for a narrative approach to problem solving as it relates to the many challenges facing school boards, superintendents, principals, and other school leaders

This book offers a framework with corresponding rubrics anchored in professional standards: teacher, leader and teacher leader.

This book strives to empower teachers to integrate their unique talents, interests, quirks, and personalities into the classroom setting, and gives administrators, school staff and prospective educators tools to encourage a positive focus for these factors. It makes a helpful supplement for administrator and school leadership trainings.

This book offers insight into the ways in which engagement strategies at the school level can be developed and implemented in order to improve student outcomes.

Practical, field-tested advice on how academic leaders can deal with times pressures and the other stresses of their positions.

Communication and Teamwork: An Introduction for Support Staff contains essential strategies about interpersonal relations, customer service, teamwork, and communication. Using this handbook as a guide, Library Support Staff will be able to apply principles of teamwork by adapting the ALA-LSSC standards of Communication and Teamwork.

Organizing Archival Records has equipped non-professional archivists to tackle the challenging task of arranging and describing archival materials. The 4th edition preserves the practical, easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach of earlier editions while updating its content to reflect current archival practices.

Averting a School Crisis explains to its readers how to begin the school preparedness planning process for all the incidents your school can face.

This is a practical guide geared toward how to design, maintain, and support the effective teaching practices for adult learners.

Dr. Wages has written a detailed, well documented book that can serve as an informative resource to create an awareness of the multidimensional and complex issues of poverty.