Families Today

Families Today
Author: Connie R. Sasse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2000
Genre: Families
ISBN: 9780078207099

Families Today, Student Activity Workbook

Families Today, Student Activity Workbook
Author: McGraw-Hill Education
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2008-08-11
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780078884160

The Student Activity Workbook is designed to reinforce student learning with hands-on activities correlated to chapter content.

Discovering Life Skills Student Edition

Discovering Life Skills Student Edition
Author: McGraw-Hill Education
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2008-12-09
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780078884689

Glencoe's Discovering Life Skills puts students on the path to discovery and excellence!

School, Family, and Community Partnerships

School, Family, and Community Partnerships
Author: Joyce L. Epstein
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2018-07-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483320014

Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.

Families Today, Student Edition

Families Today, Student Edition
Author: McGraw Hill
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-01-08
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780078298400

The program that equips students with strong relationship skills!

School, Family, and Community Partnerships

School, Family, and Community Partnerships
Author: Joyce L Epstein
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 042996322X

School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools addresses a fundamental question in education today: How will colleges and universities prepare future teachers, administrators, counselors, and other education professionals to conduct effective programs of family and community involvement that contribute to students' success in school? The work of Joyce L. Epstein has advanced theories, research, policies, and practices of family and community involvement in elementary, middle, and high schools, districts, and states nationwide. In this second edition, she shows that there are new and better ways to organize programs of family and community involvement as essential components of district leadership and school improvement. THE SECOND EDITION OFFERS EDUCATORS AND RESEARCHERS: A framework for helping rising educators to develop comprehensive, goal-linked programs of school, family, andcommunity partnerships. A clear discussion of the theory of overlapping spheres of influence, which asserts that schools, families, and communitiesshare responsibility for student success in school. A historic overview and exploration of research on the nature and effects of parent involvement. Methods for applying the theory, framework, and research on partnerships in college course assignments, classdiscussions, projects and activities, and fi eld experiences. Examples that show how research-based approaches improve policies on partnerships, district leadership, andschool programs of family and community involvement. Definitive and engaging, School, Family, and Community Partnerships can be used as a main or supplementary text in courses on foundations of education methods of teaching, educational administration, family and community relations, contemporary issues in education, sociology of education, sociology of the family, school psychology, social work, education policy, and other courses that prepare professionals to work in schools and with families and students.

The Monument

The Monument
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-03-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780371601976

Twelve Years a Slave (First International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

Twelve Years a Slave (First International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
Author: Solomon Northup
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2016-12-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0393623424

This Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northup’s harrowing autobiography is based on the 1853 first edition. It is accompanied by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kevin Burke’s introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes. The Norton Critical Edition also includes: · The illustrations printed in the original book. · Contemporary sources (1853—62), among them newspaper accounts of Northup’s kidnapping and ordeal and commentary by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thomas W. MacMahon. · A Genealogy of Secondary Sources (1880-2015) presenting twenty-four voices spanning three centuries on the memoir’s major themes. Contributors include George Washington Williams, Marion Wilson Starling, Kenneth Stampp, Robert B. Stepto, Trish Loughran, and David Fiske, Clifford W. Brown, Jr., and Rachel Seligman, among others. · The 2013 film adaptation—12 Years a Slave—fully considered, with criticism and major reviews of the film as well as Henry Louis Gates's three interviews with its director, Steve McQueen. · A Chronology and Selected Bibliography.