• ISBN13: 9781475817850
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Library & Information Science
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publisher Imprint: Row&Little
• Publication Date: January 1, 2015
• Pages: 232
• Original Price: GBP 23.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 318 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Multicultural Education, Bilingual Education, and Professional Development

Accelerating and Extending Literacy for Diverse Students addresses the need to equip teachers with the best research and practices to ensure they become dedicated to not just teaching, but knowing and reaching diverse learners.

Dorothy A. Sisk is Conn Chair and Professor at Lamar University. Dr. Dorothy Sisk's professional career has spanned more than 40 years. She has been published in a variety of textbooks, academic journals, and in the SAGE reference volumes. Dorothy is the author and co-author of eleven books, including: The Growing Person, Intuition: An Inner Way of Knowing, and Leadership Making Things Happen with Doris Shallcross; Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom and Spiritual Intelligence: Developing Higher Consciousness with E. Paul Torrance; A Futures Primer with Charles Whaley; Leadership: A special type of Giftedness with Hilda Roselli; Enhancing the gift of Leadership with Hava Vidergor; Collective Literacy: Using Gifted Strategies to Enrich Learning for Every Student with Susan Israel and Cathy Block; and Creative Teaching of the Gifted and Making Great Kids Greater as a sole author. Her articles appear in the major journals of gifted education including: Understanding Our Gifted, Roeper Review, Gifted and Talented International, Gifted Education International, and Tempo.