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Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > Advice on education
The Caring Solidarity framework is both descriptive and
aspirational. It is an attempt to empower White teachers to do the
work of interrogating their racial privilege and join in Caring
Solidarity with their African American students. The framework can
be used to describe teachers who are working in Caring Solidarity
with their students and to develop teachers with intention toward
Caring Solidarity. We are in a unique historical moment that
demands White teachers become more effective in their schools,
classrooms, and communities and for researchers to find ways to
describe those teachers who build relationships of solidarity with
students. Considering today's tenor of the conversation around
race, picking up this book and considering its contents is an act
of defiance of the current climate, and/or one of devotion to the
art and craft of teaching children. Caring Solidarity is not a
replacement for current frameworks such as Culturally Sustaining
Pedagogy or Abolitionist Pedagogy but is a map for White teachers
to journey toward those pedagogies. Everyone starts from somewhere.
The path is winding and long but the goal, to create an equitable
and humane classroom, is worth the trip. The purpose of this theory
is to point the way.
The day after the deadly shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School the rallying cry heard across the country was "no-more
school shootings!" It was clearly evident that school shootings are
increasing and reactive measures are not going to change this.
Images from Parkland, Sandy Hook, and Columbine made it ever so
clear that whereas the atrocities caught our attention, schools are
still soft targets. There are no manuals from the United States
Department of Education to turn to for guidance to secure schools.
No guidance on how to train administration and staff, as they truly
are the first responders in such an event. Rather than wait for the
heads of the federal and state education departments to step up and
take-action, the time has come for all school leaders and
administrators to take the step to protect their school
communities. This book will help school leaders and administrators
proactively take action to protect their school communities and yet
still maintain a warm and nurturing learning environment.
Connect and Involve: How to Connect with Students and Involve Them
in Learning is a practical handbook of strategies and procedures
for teaching at all grade levels-elementary, middle, and high
school. The secret to increasing teaching effectiveness is to make
small changes in what teachers think and do-and to get their
students to make small changes in what they think and do. Every
time teachers connect with students and involve them in learning,
teachers engage them in powerful ways that make it more likely that
they will choose to learn and to do quality work. This book shows
how to be a more effective teacher through small changes in
planning and classroom procedures. Each chapter focuses on a key
strategy, and each chapter head and its subheads are an outline of
how to put the strategy into practice. Teachers can preview all the
ideas by reading the chapter titles, heads, and subheads. There are
no prescriptions here; teachers bring their expertise on the age
group, the subjects they teach, and the big ideas and key skills
students need to achieve on high-stakes testing. The strategies and
procedures provide ways for teachers to evaluate where small
changes can make a difference in achievement for their students.
When planning a child's Individualized Education Program (IEP), it
is vital that parents and educators are involved in collaborative
decision making. This book offers parents of children with autism
and other disabilities a unique way of approaching and tackling the
problems that can arise relating to the provision of special
education services. Taking a structured, cooperative approach to
IEPs, the easily applicable six question process enables parents to
determine the needs of their child and obtain the services required
by asking key questions during IEP meetings. Explaining the
approach through real life scenarios and issues, this book
demonstrates how to achieve effective collaboration with school
personnel, ensuring the child receives the appropriate and
necessary educational program and services. Providing a practical,
structured approach to IEP planning for parents and offering
insight into the parental perspective for educators, this book is
an invaluable resource for anyone involved in IEP meetings.
Problematic sexual behavior in children can be challenging to
understand, difficult to talk about, and hard to manage in school
and community settings. Without a systemic approach for addressing
these behaviors, communities run the risk of exposing their
children to harm and their organizations to liability. In
Problematic Sexual Behavior in Schools, Wilson Kenney lays out a
comprehensive school and community-based model for identifying and
addressing problematic sexual behavior in children that is based on
best-practice models for threat assessment. The reader will find
practical and fiscally sensitive recommendations regarding school
and community supervision, ideas for accessing consultation,
information about Title IX, and advice regarding how best to
approach these topics with families. Additionally, this book
contains all the necessary paperwork and guidance needed to
establish a formal school-based process for addressing problematic
sexual behavior in children, regardless of the size of one's
community. It is a comprehensive how-to guidebook for keeping both
schools and communities safe.
This book feasibly translates validated research and best practices
in assessment so that the reader can incorporate the best practices
of assessment into practical routines in schools and the classroom.
Readers of this book will strengthen their knowledge and skills in
selecting, designing, and using assessments that enable all
learners to actively participate and monitor their own progress
towards learning objectives. This book is intended to be a hands-on
guide for educators and students on the best and most effective
practices for supporting students in their role as self-assessors.
It develops sequentially from ensuring that students are assessment
ready, to engaging students in assessment, and ultimately
empowering students as assessors. Readers can also rely on the book
to help them improve specific aspects of self-assessment that are
most important in their setting and for their students.
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