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Partnering with Immigrant Communities
Action Through Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In a period of increasing economic and social uncertainty, how do immigrant communities come together to advocate for educational access and their rights? This book is based on a 5-year university partnership with members from Indonesian, Vietnamese, Latino, Filipino, African American, and Irish American...
Home, School, and Community Collaboration
Culturally Responsive Family Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Home, School, and Community Collaboration uses the culturally responsive family support model as a framework to prepare teachers to work effectively with children from diverse families. Authors Kathy B. Grant and Julie A. Ray skillfully incorporate numerous real-life vignettes and case studies to...
Partnering with Parents to Ask the Right Questions
A Powerful Strategy for Strengthening School-Family Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
How can we make it easier for schools and families to work together on behalf of all students? It all begins by tapping into the different strengths educators and parents and caregivers can contribute to building a strong partnership.
Partnering with Parents to Ask the Right Questions, by Luz...
by M. A. De Silva
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Hearing Dad for the First Time is about my own Fatherhood experience and how becoming a Dad has not only helped me become a better person, but also a better husband, brother and friend. There is no greater responsibility than parenting and becoming a Father has changed my life completely, giving me a new perspective on my life as a man.
Live, Love and Learn
How Young Children Learn to Speak, Read & Write through Everyday Life with You
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the first six years of life, children are learning to listen, speak, read and write, in contexts that are increasingly mediated through technology. Learning in home and community contexts occurs through everyday interactions between children, and between children and adults. The aims of this book...
No Biting, Third Edition
Solutions and Support for Toddler Programs
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
The first edition of No Biting sold 20,000 copies.
Over 50% new content.
Author Gretchen Kinnell shows how to record and analyze data to find a reason for the biting. Then how to make a strategy to avoid the biting.
A new, comprehensive chapter for infant-toddler specialists helps...
What We Learned from PISA
The Outstanding Performance of Students in Hong Kong and East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
The outstanding performance of East Asian societies in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is one of the most widely discussed topics in international assessments. PISA is a worldwide study of scholastic performance, conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
Potty Training Your Baby
A Practical Guide for Easier Toilet Training
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Contrary to traditional belief, the transition from diaper to potty can be started even before your child’s first birthday—and completed by the second! In Potty Training Your Baby, Katie Warren provides information on everything from where to buy a potty to dealing with those inevitable little...
Family Engagement with Schools
Strategies for School Social Workers and Educators
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Using forty years of evidence-based research as its core, Family Engagement with Schools: Strategies for School Social Workers and Educators is the only book written specifically for social workers and social work students who work in partnership with educators. The text helps translate the rich research...
What Does it Mean to be One?
A Practical Guide to Child Development in the Early Years Foundation Stage
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
What Does It Mean To Be One, from child psychologist Jennie Lindon, will give you the tools you need to ensure that your work with children, whether in a school, nursery or home setting, is relevant to their individual stages of development.This books looks at the six areas of learning in the EYFS and...
Winning the Math Homework Challenge
Insights for Parents to See Math Differently
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
If you’ve ever been stumped by your child’s math homework, this is the book for you. Winning the Math Homework Challenge shares students’ reasoning, thinking, and even misunderstandings about mathematics to provide you with the opportunity to see math through their eyes, including both the clarity...
by Geoffrey Ronald Dieckmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
From the Author’s experiences gained, over the years, in dealing with teenagers, their education and supervision as well as keeping in touch with their families, he has drawn together a number of topics that are known to have been of great help, in the past, to parents in their dealings with the education...
by George Goodman, Oscar Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
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Support Your Child With Science
In Their First Year at School
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
The first day at school is the day when an adventure of life-long learning begins and with a positive attitude your child will learn all the skills needed to equip them for adult life. The first year in school sets down the building blocks upon which all other learning takes place. Supporting your child...