Learn all the essentials for making your first year of teaching a success! In this bestselling book, renowned educators Todd Whitaker, Madeline Whitaker Good, and Katherine Whitaker offer step-by-step guidance to thriving in your new role and developing classroom management skills.

The Essentials of Instructional Design, 5th Edition introduces the fundamental elements of instructional design (ID) to students who are new to ID.

This book sets out the principles of curriculum theory and provides a common framework and practical strategies for the successful implementation and effective management of powerful knowledge-based curriculum for all.

Using CBT and Mindfulness to Manage Student Anxiety provides a weekly framework utilizing cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to support children who are struggling with anxiety.

The second edition of this bestselling text, Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing is a fully updated and expanded guide for preservice teachers that provides a wealth of suggestions for helping learners at all levels of proficiency develop their reading and writing skills and fluency.

Reading for Life helps educational practitioners make informed decisions about which teaching methods to reject and select, and empowers parents to ask the right questions of professionals and policy makers. This book is an innovative, fresh assessment of how high-quality literacy teaching can be provided for all.

The fifth edition of the best-selling text, Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education, continues to address the increasing interest in ethics and assists educational leaders with complex dilemmas in today’s challenging, divided, and diverse societies.

Accessible and engaging, this text provides a comprehensive framework and practical strategies for infusing content area instruction in math, social studies, and science into literacy instruction for grades K – 6.

Now in its third edition, The Heart of Counseling is a key resource helping students to understand the importance of therapeutic relationships and to develop the qualities that make the therapeutic relationships they build with clients the foundation of healing.