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This is a book about the struggles over reforming reading instruction and the corresponding effort to improve reading achievement in the United States over the last seven decades.

This is a book directed at those who work with boys and young men and are trying to develop a culture of reading among those boys and young men.

The book will guide both new and veteran teachers through the thinking behind being more prepared for possible disasters.

Transforming Professionals into Experts: A Systematic and Comprehensive Approach to Mid-Career Teacher Development provides a systematic, comprehensive program for advancing the professional skills of teachers that have already mastered foundational teaching skills.

The book offers concrete and specific suggestions for improving teacher education programs.

This book proceeds to provide a method for selecting teacher leaders, identification of a realistic set of performance expectations and a means for comprehensively and systematically evaluating job performance.

Elephant in the Classroom is an exploration of the vast complexity of teaching as it is described by research and experienced by teachers.

This book is a go-to guide for school leadership.

How to measure teacher workload and make necessary load adjustments are set forth in various strategies and innovative programming.

The focus of this text highlights teacher candidates' use of remote and best practices for K-12 literacy instruction and engagement of diverse students with diverse literacy learning needs.

The book will offer a progressive perspective of turnaround principals and enhance the current turnaround school literature.

This book identifies numerous conflicts within the field of education and provides the perspectives and information which stakeholders within the enterprise sweep aside or cover-up.

The distinctive element of this book is that it offers ways to model for students some procedures for the reading of narratives and to design learning experiences that will allow learners to discover "rules" for reading complex works of literature.

Teaching Social Studies to Multilingual Learners in Middle School explores strategies for teaching social studies to learners from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The book centers on a framework that integrates inquiry, primary source analysis, and visual literacy to provide a progressive learning sequence for students.

This book offers practical ideas and solutions to help every teacher develop lessons using teaming strategies.

Simply Notetaking and Speedwriting will teach the student how to record notes in various formats and how to utilize notetaking when studying or reviewing for an exam.

In this book David Andrew Snider provides a playbook for anyone interested in navigating the arts and arts management in this new era. Through clear lessons, relevant case studies, and a series of fun, interactive activities, the author shares core principles of arts management and how to adapt and innovate in these extraordinary times

This guide will examine the benefits of using these powerful cloud-based and low-cost or free applications for documentation, data and project management, communication, data storage, and data visualization for technical services staff operations in acquisitions and electronic collection management.

Knowing about the open source alternative to integrated library systems and being able to make accurate comparisons can save a library tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars a year while more closely matching the library's functional needs.

How to Care More offers a definition of care based in relational action, highlighting care as an umbrella concept that can catalyze personal and social change. Each chapter provides an overview of one skill to practice caring more, including listening, consent, collaboration, and cultivating inclusion, love, and resilience.

Kierkegaard and Luther reveals what Kierkegaard lauded, lanced, missed, and misjudged of Luther and spotlights the concord the two actually shared, namely, the negative yet necessary role that Christian suffering (Anfechtung) plays in Christian life.

Aging and the Life Course: Social and Cultural Contexts provides an accessible, up-to-date introduction to the study of aging and the life course from a distinctly sociological perspective.

This book investigates whether or not the author of John could have crafted his Gospel with knowledge of the Synoptics. By comparing John's reuse of material in the Gospel and the Jewish Scriptures with passages in the Synoptic record, Wendy E.S. North concludes that John wrote his gospel with knowledge of the Synoptic texts at certain points.

This book provides a theological account of the internet from a Catholic perspective. Katherine G. Schmidt engages digital culture by providing a context for media and mediation within the Catholic tradition, specifically focusing on the ecclesiology and sacramentality of the church.

This book focuses on the urgent need for a collaborative groundswell to push for justice and positive social change against a range of social evils. Valerie A. Miles-Tribble urges faith leaders and congregants to be prophetic change agents active in public justice witness with interreligious and activist networks.

This book argues that formation lies at the heart of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's ethical project. Ryan Huber examines Bonhoeffer's life story and his most influential ethical writings, from his encounter with Jesus Christ in the early 1930s until his arrest in 1943, to illustrate the centrality of Christological formation in both.