Parent Participation category: 664 books
Light Up Your Child's Mind
Finding a Unique Pathway to Happiness and Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Based on the renowned "Renzulli Method," which has been adopted in schools all over the country, LIGHT UP YOUR CHILD'S MIND presents a practical program to help children fire up a love of learning to last a lifetime. World-renowned experts Drs. Renzulli and Reis illustrate the crucial role...
by Roy Hollinshead
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
This guide aims to help children between 9 and 14 years of age to make the best choices when buying anything. This will include paying household bills.
Starting simply the questions progress to illustrate what 'bills' are, why they have to be paid and ways to pay them. Encouraging a practical,...
Your Child's Strengths
A Guide for Parents and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
With this groundbreaking work, renowned educator Jenifer Fox argues against the flawed and maddening paradigm that "fixing"kids' weaknesses is the way to achieve success. Rather, Fox promotes focusing on kids' natural inclinations in three interdependent areas: Activity Strengths, Relationship Strengths,...
Leadership and School Boards
Guarding the Trust in an Era of Community Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
School boards shape society through systems of education. They choose who leads the system and how educators are selected to lead classrooms. They approve the allocation of millions of dollars every year. As leaders, the school board determines how their community defines the values, resources, and...
Marketing 101
How Smart Schools Get and Keep Community Support
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Marketing 101: How Smart Schools Get and Keep Community Support is a compact, practical handbook created to guide educators in the application of marketing strategies that get results. For many years, marketing has been implemented in school settings with a fragmented, piecemeal approach_only to have...
Harvard Schmarvard
Getting Beyond the Ivy League to the College That Is Best for You
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2009
Smarten Up—It's Time to Choose the Right College
Think that your life's growth, success, and happiness depend on which college you attend? The higher-profile school, the better, right? Wrong! Neither is true.
Written by, yes, a Harvard grad, Harvard Schmarvard rebuts the perception that image is...
Powered by Girl
A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
A playbook for working with and training girls to be activists of their own social movements
Drawing from a diverse collection of interviews with women and girl activists, Powered by Girl is both a journalistic exploration of how girls have embraced activism and a guide for adults who want...
The Lullaby Effect
The science of singing to your child
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Most parents think of music as a way to help their children sleep or soothe their nerves when upset, but the truth is that every time you sing to your child, something incredibly important is happening. Singing is one of the most natural experiences to share with your children and now we know even...
Rewiring Education
How Technology Can Unlock Every Student’s Potential
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
What if we could unlock the potential in every child? As it turns out, we can.
Apple’s iconic cofounder Steve Jobs had a powerful vision for education: employing technology to make an enormous impact on the lives of millions of students. To realize this vision, Jobs tapped John D. Couch,...
Reclaiming Childhood
Freedom and Play in an Age of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Children are cooped up, passive, apathetic and corrupted by commerce… or so we are told.
Reclaiming Childhood confronts the dangerous myths spun about modern childhood. Yes, children today are losing out on many experiences past generations took for granted, but their lives have improved...
by R. C. Cannon
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Thinking about Home Schooling? This is the book that will give you all of the basic answers along with loads of inspirational quotes.
Engage Every Family
Five Simple Principles
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Reach beyond theory and engage every family in student success
Family engagement increases student achievement but how do schools connect with families who don’t participate yet? Educators can easily become frustrated trying to reach the disconnected and often fall back to engaging the already...
Your Child's Writing Life
How to Inspire Confidence, Creativity, and Skill at Every Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
An illuminating, first-of-its-kind resource to help parents foster a love of writing in their child's life.
New educational research reveals that writing is as fundamental to a child's development as reading. But though there are books that promote literacy, no book guides parents in helping...
by Charles Png
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
What is it like to be the second child in the family?How do boys behave among their own brothers?Can we love each of our children differently?Immanuel's Stories covers the life of Immanuel in the first 3 years of his life – his conflicts, likes and loves. It is also the second book in the series...