 | Attention-Grabbing Tools for Involving Parents in their Chil
Attention-Grabbing Tools for Involving Parents in Their Children’s Learning
Author - Jane Baskwill
It is widely accepted that when home and school work together, children’s learning improves. Although this fact is readily acknowledged, communication between school and home is still often one-sided and remains a struggle for many teachers. This remarkable book is designed to help teachers find new ways to attract parents' attention and involve parents in their children's learning.
Attention-Grabbing Tools for Involving Parents in Their Children's Learning explores a wide range of tools. It strives to help teachers establish and maintain a parent-teacher relationship that holds the child at the centre of all education decisions. The book is full of specific ideas for nurturing the parent-teacher relationship.
Getting Started – from meet-the-teacher nights to gathering data and getting feedback
Newsletters – how to keep them fresh, interesting and interactive
Day-to-Day Routines – from the Friday Folder to pass-along books and dialogue journals
Learning Nights – programs that focus on projects, homework, science, maths and literacy
Face-to-Face Communication – from organising parent-teacher conferences to using learning portfolios
Take-Home Materials – a menu of suggestions for getting parents involved in their children's learning
Aimed at the busy teacher, the book offers easy-to-implement ideas for efficient communicating in the digital age, with suggestions for websites and blogs, Facebook and Twitter, online surveys and virtual pinboards, and much more.
Regular price: 29.95
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 | Authentically Engaged Families: A Collaborative Care Framewo
Authentically Engaged Families: A Framework for Collaborative Care and Student Success
Author: Calvalyn Day
Create a plan to connect with every family!
There’s no doubt that family engagement makes a world of difference for teachers and students—but connecting with parents of various ethnic, socioeconomic, or cultural backgrounds can be challenging for educators. Calvalyn Day’s groundbreaking book offers clear instructions for building strong relationships, beginning effective dialogues, strategizing, and monitoring progress.
Through the author’s perspective as a parent, counselor, and advisor to families at risk, readers will discover
- A step-by-step approach to family engagement developed for K-12 educators, including teachers, counselors, administrators and others
- Complete how-to’s for creating and carrying out a family engagement plan based on the author’s Vision, Plan, Action model
- Tools including a Parent Meeting Agenda, a Parent Empathy Map, an Educator Needs Assessment, and more
Whether you work at a small rural school, in a large urban district, or anywhere in between, this invaluable book offers wisdom—and smart strategies—that will transform the experience for your students and their families, and lead to sustainable success.
Published: 27th May 2016
ISBN: 9781506327068
Number Of Pages: 160
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| 9781506327068 |
 | Black Appetite White Food
Black Appetite. White Food.
Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom
Jamila Lyiscott
Black Appetite. White Food. invites educators to explore the nuanced manifestations of white privilege as it exists within and beyond the classroom. Renowned speaker and author Jamila Lyiscott provides ideas and tools that teachers, school leaders, and professors can use for awareness, inspiration, and action around racial injustice and inequity.
Part I of the book helps you ask the hard questions, such as whether your pedagogy is more aligned with colonialism than you realize and whether you are really giving students of color a voice. Part II offers a variety of helpful strategies for analysis and reflection. Each chapter includes personal stories, frank discussions of the barriers you may face, and practical ideas that will guide you as you work to confront privilege in your classroom, campus, and beyond.
90 Pages | Pbk
Regular price: 42.00
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| 9781138480667 |
 | Equity Partnerships
Equity Partnerships :
A Culturally Proficient Guide to Family, School, and Community Engagement
Angela R. Clark-Louque, Randall B. Lindsey, Reyes L. Quezada, Cynthia L. Jew
How often do you hear, The only parents who showed were the parents who didn't need to be here.
But how often do you consider time of day, lack of child care, cost of dinner, transportation, language of the presentation, even relevance of the topic & all real-world barriers for families of our historically underserved students.
Here at last is a resource that will open up access and reveal all-new ways to forge more culturally inclusive partnerships with families and communities; partnerships that extend well beyond parent-teacher conferences, PTA meetings, and the occasional bake sale.
The two big services Equity Partnerships provides? Using the Tools of Cultural Proficiency, you'll :
1. Discover new concepts and strategies to engage families and communities and reduce, if not eliminate, barriers--through four essential principles: communication, connection, collaboration, and community
2. Engage in frequent opportunities to reflect on your own assumptions and values, then collaborate with colleagues to co-create systemic practices and policies for devising, implementing, and assessing family and community engagement actions in your schools and districts
We know inherently that family and community engagement is critical to the success of our students. Let Equity Partnerships be your go-to tool for breaking down the walls that for too long have limited all of us.
176 Pages | Pbk | Published January 2020
Regular price: 42.00
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| 9781544324159 |
 | Home, School, and Community Collaboration
Home, School, and Community Collaboration: Culturally Responsive Family Engagement 3rd Edition
by Kathy Grant & Julie Ray
Filled with practical suggestions and reflective opportunities, Home, School, and Community Collaboration, Third Edition uses the culturally responsive family support model as a framework to prepare teachers to work with diverse families.
This text includes contributions from 22 experts in the field, offering a wide range of perspectives on issues of family involvement that today’s teachers are likely to encounter.
Authors Kathy B. Grant and Julie A. Ray offer the latest research on family demographics, including those with children who have special needs. Numerous real-life vignettes and case studies have been incorporated throughout the text to show readers the practical application of culturally responsive family engagement.
Regular price: 218.00
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| 9781483347547 |
 | Partners for Special Needs
Partners for Special Needs: How Teachers Can Effectively Collaborate with Parents and Other Advocates
by Douglas J. Fiore, Julie Anne Fiore
Learn how to collaborate with parents and special education advocates to ensure student success. This practical book shows you how to navigate the tricky path to meeting special education goals and outcomes. It also provides strategies to help you communicate and partner more effectively with families and specialists.
Part I of the book offers key information on how special education has evolved over recent decades and what the Individualized Education Plan process entails. Part II features techniques for strengthening communication so you can avoid conflict and create as strong a partnership as possible. You’ll learn the specific roles of advocates and parents, and you’ll gain practical strategies for communicating proactively and managing communication breakdowns. You’ll also uncover how to overcome the challenges of working with people during difficult times.
The book is filled with tips, examples, and reflection questions to help you implement the ideas immediately. With the essential strategies in this book, you can become the best support system for the child or children you serve!
Regular price: 52.99
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| 9781138714731 |
 | The Global Education Guidebook: Humanizing K-12 Classrooms W
Global Education Guidebook: Humanizing K-12 Classrooms Worldwide Through Equitable Partnerships (How to Promote Multicultural Education and Nurture Global Citizens)
by Jennifer D. Klein
Educators worldwide are striving to connect their students to classrooms and experts in ways that humanize the world, while preparing students to thrive in the 21st century. This practical guide takes readers through the steps and strategies needed to set up an equitable and global learning alliance that benefits all learners, founded in the tenets of global citizenship and cultural competence.
Readers also have access to reproducible worksheets and assessments for setting up and evaluating their cooperative learning partnerships. This book is perfect for specialists, after-school program leaders, camp counselors, and anyone seeking to foster global citizenship and encourage collaborative action in young people.
How this guide to global education will help you:
Explore examples of elementary, middle, and high school partnerships that target the critical thinking and 21st century skills students need for life in a complex world.
Gain wisdom from global education leaders and practitioners who have firsthand experience building successful and transformative global education partnerships for students.
Consider educational technology, communication platforms, organizations, and strategies for finding and fostering a long-term global partnership for education.
Understand the equity pitfalls of global partnerships and explore cross-cultural management strategies for building equitable relationships with other communities in the world.
Learn about assessing intercultural competence and partnership programs, as well as ways to expand global learning opportunities across your community.
Contents
Chapter 1: Building Global Competencies Via Global Partnerships
Chapter 2: Preparing for Global Collaboration: Considerations Before the Search
Chapter 3: Getting a Feel for What's Possible
Chapter 4: Finding Existing Partnership Programs That Work
Chapter 5: Finding a Global Partner on Your Own
Chapter 6: Strategizing for Successful Communication
Chapter 7: Avoiding Equity Pitfalls
Chapter 8: Exploring Social Justice Challenges Through Partnerships
Chapter 9: Assessing Global Competencies and Partnerships
Chapter 10: Building a Culture of Global Engagement Across the Community
References and Resources
Code: SOT5510
ISBN: 9781760565510
No of Pages: 230
Publish Date: 16 March 2018
HB
Regular price: 37.95
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 | The School Board Member's Guidebook
The School Board Member's Guidebook : Becoming a Difference Maker for Your District
Ryan Donlan, Todd Whitaker
Every student deserves a high-impact, well-qualified, and governance-driven school board. In this helpful book, best-selling authors Ryan Donlan and Todd Whitaker show you as a school board member how to make smart, worthwhile decisions that will lead to positive change in your district. The School Board Member’s Guidebook addresses the challenges of making realistic choices that will truly benefit the school and have a lasting impact. Topics include:
How to work and communicate effectively with the superintendent during the year :
How to find common ground with colleagues;
How to represent the interests and needs of the community at large;
How to keep your constituencies focused and informed through strategic planning and structured committee participation;
How to host constructive and cordial school board meetings;
How to capitalize on individual talents and strengths;
And more!
Each chapter offers strategies, tips, and sample scenarios. With these resources and the practical advice throughout the book, you’ll be able to make a lasting difference in the lives of every student in your district. You’ll be a Difference Maker.
Regular price: 35.00
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| 9781138049437 |
 | What Successful Schools Do to Involve Families: 55 Partnersh
What Successful Schools Do to Involve Families: 55 Partnership Strategies
by Neal A Glasgow and Paula Jameson Whitney
It's clear that students learn best when they are supported by a community that values education and includes not only teachers but also parents, families, and other mentors. Yet schools often find it difficult to successfully involve parents and families in childrens' educational lives.
Based on solid educational research that reflects culturally diverse communities, this important new book offers teachers and administrators 55 practical strategies for forming effective partnerships with every type of family group. The authors cover a wide range of opportunities for collaborating with families, from homework, parent conferences, and open houses to family literacy and math activities, to hot-button topics like bullying and discipline. Each strategy offers:
A synthesis of the related research
A description of how to use the strategy in a classroom or broader school setting
Precautions and pitfalls for consideration to help make implementation reasonably error free
Research sources for optional follow-up
Regular price: 75.00
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| 9781412956048 |
 | You Your Child and School
Title: You Your Child and School : Navigate Your Way to the Best Education
Author: Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica
Parents everywhere are deeply concerned about the education of their children, especially now, when education has become a minefield of politics and controversy. One of the world's most influential educators, Robinson has had countless conversations with parents about the dilemmas they face. As a parent, what should you look for in your children's education? How can you tell if their school is right for them and what can you do if it isn't? In this important new book, he offers clear principles and practical advice on how to support your child through the education system, or outside it if you choose to homeschool or un-school. Dispelling many myths and tackling critical schooling options and controversies, You, Your Child, and School is a key book for parents to learn about the kind of education their children really need and what they can do to make sure they get it.
ISBN: 9780141988627
Number Of Pages: 304
Published: 19th March 2019
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Regular price: 23.00
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| 9780241359891 |