Education

Learn how to use children's books during storytime to approach sensitive topics and increase children's social-emotional wellness-and how to create storytimes that are engaging, participative, and FUN!

Schools and libraries can make a difference by teaching kids how to identify and cope with emotions, how to communicate with confidence and empathy, and how to persevere even when things are difficult.

Pedagogies of Quiet: Silence and Social Justice in the Classroom started with one teacher's frustration with a room full of quiet students and shifted into exploring why and how teachers can incorporate a quiet praxis into their classrooms.

The digital revolution has greatly influenced communication, meaning a current, analytical examination of changing literacy skills is needed.

This book is an opportunity to both explore the concepts and theories that shape our current work as English educators and look ahead to new directions for the future of the field.

This important book is a call to action for the library community to address the literacy and life outcome gaps impacting African American youth.

American treatment systems overlook some of the most salient issues in Black mental health.

A broadly based historical survey, this book examines Native American boarding schools in the United States from Puritan times to the present day.

Activities to help children identify and express feelings and gain self-awareness and confidence.

Level B: Grades 3-4Children of the elementary school age think differently than do older children, adolescents, or adults.

A strategic plan is a useful tool for communicating the purpose of the library media center (LMC) to the administrators, teachers, and parents of the school community.

This book provides Latino students with a step-by-step roadmap for navigating the college process-from overcoming cultural barriers to attending college, to selecting the right school, to considering advanced degrees.

More than 670,000 middle school teachers (grades 6-8) are responsible for educating nearly 13 million students in public and private schools.

Activities to help children develop sense of security and self-worth by becoming familiar with themselves and the world around them.

How can teachers ensure that every student who graduates is competent in subject matter and responsible in citizenship?

This is a book about ethnocentric niche charter schools.

The Wrong Emphasis is a reminder and a warning for both parents and public school educators.

Seeking Balance: The Story of a Principal's Second Semester continues the story of fictional Principal Joe Gentry's first year on the job.

In The School Reform Landscape: Fear, Mythologies, and Lies, the authors take an in-depth and controversial look at school reform since the launch of Sputnik.

Reform in education has focused mainly on development of new programs and procedures to increase the achievement of the student in the classroom.

Emergent Teaching inspires teachers to teach with more spontaneity and creativity within an educational environment that is highly constrained.

Youth librarians and early literacy educators will find this book a helpful tool for making storytimes more inclusive and better representative of their community and the world at large.

Teachers begin the professional journey with a treasure chest full of experiences, hopes, and expectations gathered from early childhood.

Did you ever notice how many teachers start out their careers so positive only to end them in misery?

Education Game Changers is written for an international readership.

Literacy: Made for All is a classroom-ready, teacher-friendly resource for English and Writing teachers of Grades 9 through 12.

This book provides foundational thoughts on situations where deans find themselves when managing up, managing their peers and themselves, or managing down.

Parents want teachers to explain how they instruct children.

Sociocultural Issues in Physical Education: Case Studies for Teachers is useful to a wide range of individuals interested in increasing their sociocultural awareness and knowledge in order to consider how students' experiences are shaped in and through physical education classes.

Similar to the previous three volumes, Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Honigsfeld & Cohan, 2010), Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Cohan & Honigsfeld, 2011), and,Breaking the Mold of Education for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (Honigsfeld & Cohan, 2012), the purpose of this book is to offer a carefully selected collection of documented best practices for empowering students.

Competency-Based Leadership is intended for school leaders that currently are serving as practitioners in the field.

The hm Learning and Study Skills Program: Level II was designed to provide an introduction to learning and study skills for 8th, 9th, and 10th grade students through a series of activity-oriented units.

Reflecting everyday experiences at schools around the country, this book presents a series of situations to be analyzed, compared, contrasted, studied and discussed by those who want to be part of this new approach to education and school leadership.

The Use of Literary Sources in Social Studies, K-8 is a resource for teachers who wish to include varied literary genres in their social studies instruction along with a required social studies textbook.

Big Ideas for Little Kids includes everything a teacher, a parent, or a college student needs to teach philosophy to elementary school children from picture books.

Does your preschool child with ADHD have poor self-esteem?

The Department of Sports and Athletics should be committed to providing a Sports For All Intramural Sports Program.

In America, the average person will spend 90,000 hours at work, or about a quarter of his or her adult life.

Inclusion: Teachers' Perspectives and Practices delineates timely strategies that address teachers' concerns regarding the inclusive environment.

College presidents lead taxing and complex, though enormously fulfilling and rewarding, lives.

Designing your Teaching Life is written for student teachers and their program-based mentors.

Common Core State Standards for Grades 4-5: Language Arts Instructional Strategies and Activities is designed to help teachers teach CORE standards using research-based, effective instructional strategies in combination with ready-to-use activities.

Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students argues for reforms that will help, not hurt, America's public school students.

School safety is paramount in today's educational system.

This book makes a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary argument for investing in effective early childhood education programs, especially those that develop in children their proven natural capacity to construct knowledge by building meaningful relationships.

Level I: Grades 5-7Young adolescents have different developmental needs than other students.

Leaders in schools, universities, and other organizations are constantly bombarded with ethical dilemmas.

From Student to Professor is the doorway through which readers experience graduate school life, from both sides of the lectern.

Crowd Control 2nd edition is a nuts-and-bolts manual for teachers of middle and high school performance-based classes such as band, orchestra, and chorus.

The Warrior Principal: New Leadership for Urban Schools is a marriage between the Art of War and effective school leadership principles.