Introduction Dedication: Thank God for Dr. King! - Jenifer Jasinski Schneider Section One: Ideas Inspired by James R. King

• Choosing our words to open minds: The role of teacher in the dialogic classroom - Danielle Dennis, Sherridon Sweeney, and Sarah Hart
• Kids make movies: Investigating media literacies in action through rhizomatic and memetic analysis - Deborah Kozdras, James Welsh, Jim King, and Jenifer Jasinski Schneider
• Creating places to connect and empower: Multimodal literacy accommodations for pre- service teachers with reading difficulties - Margaret Krause and Julia Hagge
• Linguistic landscapes and the navigation of new cities: A phenomenological self- study of what Jim King taught me - Lindsay Persohn
• Cognitive interviewing in cross- cultural survey-item validation: Considerations for culturally and linguistically diverse populations - Patriann Smith and James R. King
• The literacy professoriate’s secret: A history so invisible - Norm Stahl and Samuel DeJulio

Section Two: Tokens of Thanks for James R. King

• Letter to Jim - Marino Alvarez
• Jim King - Mary Alice Barksdale
• Sonnet for Jim King - Susan V. Bennett
• Real learning - Margaret Branscombe
• Personal Reflection - Roger Brindley
• Dear Jim... Letter to a Mentor and Friend - Linda Shuford Evans
• You make my head hurt: My professor, mentor, and friend - AnnMarie Gunn
• To Jim King on the Occasion of his Retirement - Susan Homan
• Letter to Jim - Sherry Moser
• Found Poems in James R. King’s Uncommon Caring: Learning from Men who Teach Young Children - Csaba Osvath
• Lessons from King: Being an academic and a good human - Sarah Pennington
• Influential professor, inspiring mentor, beautiful spirit! - Christine Picot
• Ode to Jim - Janet Richards
• Dear Jim - Elizabeth Shaunessy-Dedrick

Contributor Biographies Editors’ Note