Accelerating and Extending the Literacy of Diverse Students keeps alive the conviction that the growing diverse student body can become successful learners. By creating a culturally relevant classroom that is validating and affirming as it acknowledges the strengths of diverse students, culturally relevant teaching can empower students, motivating them to excel in the classroom and beyond. Each chapter provides sound strategies that can be used to transform teaching of diverse students, using technology, visual literacy, picture books, bibliotherapy, and explorations of where words come from leading to a deeper appreciation and use of words as students read and write. Realizing that teaching can be wearing and stressful, one chapter provides suggestions on how teachers can recharge and nurture their inner lives to be the happy teachers that can change the world.

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.