American Quasar, a visual-textual collaboration, addresses personal and political trauma, the emotional craters left by family, and the ways in which one learns to love not only as son, brother, student, or lover, but from the space one occupies as citizen.

How can teachers of Latino English language learners actively engage their students' families in helping ELLs succeed in school? In this powerful book, David Campos, Rocio Delgado, and Mary Esther Soto Huerta provide guidance and resources to help teachers communicate and collaborate with the families of Latino ELLs.

Reaching Out to Latino Families of English Language Learners includes practical tips and tools, including reproducible form letters in English and Spanish, that can help teachers solicit valuable information about students from their families, extend families' knowledge of how U.S. schools operate, and provide families with ideas for helping students with their schoolwork at home. In addition, the authors

* Offer information on aspects of Latino culture relevant to student learning;

* Provide lists of websites and books on Latino culture and of Latino-themed children's books for use with students; and

* Outline a framework that educators can use to create a campus task force for engaging Latino families in student learning.

The more families of Latino ELLs learn about the curriculum, policies, and procedures of their children's schools, the more comfortable they will be collaborating with teachers. Likewise, the more educators learn about their students' backgrounds, the better able they will be to help them in the classroom. This complete resource will enable educators to work diligently and harmoniously with students' families in the service of what really matters: the academic success of Latino students.

Transform your behavior management with practical interventions that work

Classroom management is one the most pressing problems that teachers face--and studies show that the challenges are only increasing. If student behavior is not managed successfully, the learning environment may become so chaotic, unstructured, and ineffective that teachers cannot teach and students cannot learn.

The Big Book of Behavior Management helps teachers prevent as many misbehaviors as possible and provides them with research-based strategies to help them respond effectively when misbehavior does happen. Inside, you′ll find

• Information on the causes of misbehavior and how to create a classroom environment where students thrive
• A 7-step model for teaching positive, prosocial behaviors and preventing misbehavior
• 50 ready-to-use behavior interventions and practices for the ten most common challenges teachers face, including students' chronic tardiness, talking out of turn, and isolating themselves
• The latest research on classroom behavior and how it affects academics

Written for all teachers who need support in their classrooms, The Big Book of Behavior Management provides you with the right tools to manage and teach behavior, build relationships, and develop students′ academic, social, and self-regulation skills.

The number of students experiencing anxiety at school is on the rise. With this book, teachers can create emotionally supportive environments and strengthen children's abilities to cope with anxiety.

This must-have resource:

• Provides a framework for understanding anxiety, its causes, and the various ways it can present in young people
• Offers standalone action strategies for classroom use, including a matrix to identify which strategies may be most useful for specific situations
• Makes implementation of strategies easy with reproducibles for teacher and student use

Bring out the best in your male Latino students!

Largely misunderstood and often underserved, Latino boys miss out on key academic opportunities that hinder their achievement and success in school and beyond. Educator David Campos, a champion of higher education for Latino boys, provides strategies to promote success for Latino boys. This book demonstrates how to:

• Enhance engagement and achievement by addressing Latino boys' needs
• Explore personal and school-wide beliefs to better understand how to serve this population
• Develop strategies for motivating Latino boys to pursue higher education
• Address challenges that Latino boys face in the home and at school

Rhina P. Espaillat, judge of the 2014 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, describes Furious Dusk, David Campos's winning collection, as a work whose five parts trace a son's efforts--only partially successful--to fulfill his father's expectations and--perhaps even more difficult--understand those expectations enough to forgive them. The poet's reflections are catalyzed by learning of his father's impending death, which, in turn, forces him to examine his father's expectations against his own evolving concept of what it means to be a man.

The poems' speaker sifts through his past to find the speckles of memory that highlight the pressures to fit the mold of masculinity forged both by the Mexican culture of his father and the American culture he inhabits. The problematic norms of both rip the speaker in two directions as he recounts his father's severe parenting, as he explores the inability to father a child, as he witnesses human suffering, as he overeats and confronts the effects on his body, and, finally, as he realizes what it means to transcend these expectations. The speaker's epiphany frees him to reject masculine stereotypes and allows him to see himself simply as a human being. That realization, in turn, enables the speaker to see his father not only as father, husband, and man, but as a citizen of Earth.

Through Campos's bold imagery and accessible language and themes, he memorably adds to the continuing conversation of the effects of cultural expectations on the children of immigrant parents.

An overview of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) students in our schools--what they endure, their special needs, and the programs and groups that support them.

Diverse Sexuality and Schools: A Reference Handbook is an eye-opening report on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth in our schools--the isolation they feel, the hostilities they face, their unique developmental and emotional needs, and the innovative ways schools, communities, and organizations are working to support them.

Author David Campos offers a compelling, often harrowing, tour of the lives of GLBT students, including what researchers have learned over the past half-century and what the schools, the courts, and the government are doing to keep them safe regardless of their sexual orientation. But perhaps the book's greatest impact comes from the way Campos gives voice to this often neglected population, providing a forum for these students' painful testimonies of harassment, violence, and despair.

Part I offers 20 sets of activities designed around Latino role models, and aims to help students learn how Latinos offer unique contributions to this nation. It is expected that these resources can help Latino schoolchildren find inspiration to realize their own goals. Part II offers 20 sets of activities around select picture books that reflect the Latino community and cultural heritage.

The activities are designed to help children come to identify with the stories' controlling themes as they address Latino culture, history, values, and experiences. In all, the instructional sets are complete with questions that motivate critical thinking; activity ideas that reinforce the meaning or the intended message of the story; and vocabulary to enhance students' communication skills. Additionally, each set comes with corresponding worksheets for the students to complete.

We have a writing crisis on our hands. National results reveal that only about a quarter of 8th and 12th grade students in the United States have reached grade-level proficiency. Their scores reveal that far too many students aren't ready for college or prepared to meet the writing demands of the 21st century workplace.

Students struggle with writing for the simple reason that it is remarkably complex. Writing is a lengthy process; demands intense concentration; and requires attention to countless rules, conventions, and traits. In short, the patience and dedication necessary can be overwhelming.

The strategies and tools presented in this book target struggling writers in grades 3-8 (in any classroom around the world) and teachers with limited time. Campos and Fad describe eight traits that lead to writing success: focus, coherence, organization, development of ideas, voice, word choice, conventions, and presentation. With a solid understanding of these traits, students are firmly positioned on the road to mastery. The following materials are included (and available as printable downloads):

* Writing prompts
* Evaluation protocols
* Reflection forms
* 30 step-by-step writing strategies
* Reproducible worksheets and graphic organizers
* Differentiated strategies for ELLs and struggling readers
* Progress monitoring forms
* Parent resources

This book will help teachers teach writing to students with diverse learning styles, and the powerful tools presented are aligned with national standards and can be used immediately in lesson planning.