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    1. Wiggins, Grant and Jay McTighe. Understanding by Design. Expanded 2nd Edition. VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2005.

    1. Boushey, Gail and Joan Moser. The CAFE Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literacy Assessment and Instruction. Maine: Stenhouse Publishers, 2009.

    2. Boushey, Gail and Joan Moser. The Daily 5 (2nd Ed.): Fostering Literacy Independence in the Elementary Grades. Maine: Stenhouse Publishers, 2014.

    3. Byrnes, James P. Language and Literacy Development (2nd Ed). New York: The Guilford Press, 2019.

    4. Clay, Marie M. Concepts of Print (2nd Ed). NH: Heinemann, 2017.

    5. Gillingham, Anna and Bessie W. Stillman. The Gillingham Manual: Remedial Training for Children with Specific Disability in Reading, Spelling, and Penmanship (8th ed. rev.). USA: EPS Learning, 1997 

    6. Glass, Karen. Know and Tell: The Art of Narration. USA: Karen Glass, 2018.

    7. Keene, Ellin and Susan Zimmermann. Mosaic of Thought: The Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction (2nd Ed). Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2007.

    8. McGregor, Tanny. Comprehension Connections: Bridges to Strategic Reading. NH: Heinemann, 2007.

    9. Moats, Louisa Cook. Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teachers (3rd Ed.). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing, 2020.

    10. Snowling, Margaret J. and Charles Hulme and Kate Nation. The Science of Reading (2nd Ed). NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2022.

    1. Barrs, Jerram. Echoes of Eden: Reflections on Christianity, Literature, and the Arts. Illinois: Crossway, 2013.

    2. Eco, Umberto. Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986.

    3. Ryken, Philip Graham. Art for God's Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts. Phillipsburg, N.J.: P & R Pub., 2006.

    4. Turley, Stephen. Awakening Wonder: A Classical Guide to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. PA: Classical Academic Press, 2014.

    1. Fairbairn, Donald. Understanding Language: A Guide for Beginning Students of Greek and Latin. Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2011.

    2. Kopff, Christian. The Devil Knows Latin. DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1999.

    3. Simmons, Tracy Lee. Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin. Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2002.

    1. Byl, John. The Divine Challenge: On Matter, Mind, Math and Meaning. Pennsylvania: Banner of Truth, 2004.

    2. Davis, Philip J. and Reuben Hersh. The Mathematical Experience. Mariner Books, 1999.

    3. Hardy, G. H. A Mathematician’s Apology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

    4. Howell, Russell and Jaems Bradley. Mathematics in a Postmodern Age: A Christian Perspective. Michigan: W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001.

    5. Huntley, H. E. The Divine Proportion: A Study in Mathematical Beauty,. New York: Dover Publications, 1970.

    6. Kaplan, Robert and Ellen Kaplan. The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics. NY: Oxford University Press, 2003.

    7. Kline, Morris. Why Johnny Can’t Add. New York: St. Martins Press, 1973.

    8. Lockhart, Paul. A Mathematician's Lament. New York, NY: Bellevue Literary Press, 2009.

    9. Ma, Liping. Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999.

    10. Poythress, Vern. Redeeming Math: A God-Centered Approach. Illinois: Crossway Books, 2015.

    1. Dodge, Norman. The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science. New York: Penguin Group, 2007.

    2. Schwartz, Jeffrey and Sharon Begley. The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force. New York: Harper Collins, 2002.

    3. Thelen, Esther and Smith, Linda. A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action. MA: MIT Press, 1994

    1. Grant, Edward. A History of Natural Philosophy: From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century. NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

    2. Harrison, Peter. The Territories of Science and Religion. Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

    3. Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.

    4. Mays, John. Teaching Science so that Students Learn Science. Texas: Novare Science and Math, 2009.

    5. McGrath, Alister. The Open Secret. MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.

    6. McGrath, Alister. The Science of God. Michigan: W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004.

    7. Medawar, P. B. The Limits of Science. New York: Harper and Row, 1984.

    8. Pearcey, Nancy and Charles Thaxton. The Soul of Science: Christian Faith and Natural Philosophy. Illinois: Crossway Books, 1994.

    9. Poythress, Vern. Redeeming Science: A God-Centered Approach. Illinois: Crossway Books, 2006.

    10. Sobel, Dava. Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love. New York: Penguin Group, 2000.

    1. Aristotle (translated by David Ross). The Nicomachean Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

    2. Pieper, Josef. The Four Cardinal Virtues. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016.

    3. Pieper, Josef. Faith, Hope, Love. San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2012.