Today's schools compartmentalize children and curriculum. Standardization dictates curricular content and assessment, narrowing the focus of classrooms and schools that serve diverse populations from varied geographical backgrounds. Against the backdrop of the western-derived, institutional framework of schooling are cultural ways of knowing that are place-based, holistic, experiential, and connected to oral storytelling. In the current movement toward acknowledging and understanding cultural knowledge, teacher education programs need to work in collaboration with cultural communities, honoring traditions and epistemologies and seeking to revitalize and sustain (Paris, 2012) language and culture. Such initiatives inform the big picture of educational reform and enrich mainstream university teacher education programs. This book highlights the journeys, challenges and unfolding stories of transformation that reside within university/community/school partnerships focused on cultural and linguistic revitalization through schooling.

The Children in your life have their favorite web sites that require Ids and passwords too. Are you tired of having them misplace your book of internet ids and passwords or asking you if you remember their information? Would it not be easier if they had their own? Well, The Little Net Book can help you. It is a simple and easy to use book. The children in your life can use it by themselves or with your help. A category can be put at the top of the pages to help organize the web sites.

Inside are rhymes that will help you to find out who the man in red is, as well as the other surprises that await you. There are also pages so you can draw your own pictures and write your own rhymes or riddles for your family and friends to try to guess the answers.

These poems are for children and the young at heart about nature, seasons and family. There also is a place for you to write a poem and draw a picture about it or to draw a picture of your favorite poem