Download or read book Educational Excellence for Your Child written by Kenneth Kimball and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning While Black written by Janice E. Hale and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-12-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Learning While Black Janice Hale argues that educators must look beyond the cliches of urban poverty and teacher training to explain the failures of public education with regard to black students. Why, Hale asks simply, are black students not being educated as well as white students? Hale goes beyond finger pointing to search for solutions. Closing the achievement gap of African American children, she writes, does not involve better teacher training or more parental involvement. The solution lies in the classroom, in the nature of the interaction between the teacher and the child. And the key, she argues, is the instructional vision and leadership provided by principals. To meet the needs of diverse learners, the school must become the heart and soul of a broad effort, the coordinator of tutoring and support services provided by churches, service clubs, fraternal organizations, parents, and concerned citizens. Calling for the creation of the "beloved community" envisioned by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Hale outlines strategies for redefining the school as the Family, and the broader community as the Village, in which each child is too precious to be left behind. "In this book, I am calling for the school to improve traditional instructional practices and create culturally salient instruction that connects African American children to academic achievement. The instruction should be so delightful that the children love coming to school and find learning to be fun and exciting."—Janice Hale
Download or read book The Schools Our Children Deserve written by Alfie Kohn and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing against the tougher standards rhetoric that marks the current education debate, the author of No Contest and Punished by Rewards writes that such tactics squeeze the pleasure out of learning. Reprint.
Download or read book Unleash Educational Excellence written by Brenetia Adams-Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every child was born to be someone great. However, a child's journey to greatness in life begins with how seriously they engage in the educational process. That foundation is only developed when parents fully engage in the educational journey and purposely forge a collaborative connection to their child's teacher. Research strongly supports that children who embrace education early as a critical component in their growth are maximally successful in school and consistently do well in other endeavors. It is solely the responsibility of parents to ensure that foundation is strong."Unleash Educational Excellence" is an educational guidebook that provides simple, yet empowering strategies for parents and educators to help children on a life-long educational journey for success. This dynamic resource helps parents in all parenting situations understand that education begins in the home and parents are a child's first teacher and strongest advocate for long-term success. Whether dual parent households, single parent homes, non-resident father parenting, special needs parenting, and foster care parenting, this book provides proven strategies and life-long lessons to strengthen the family, enhance the child's school journey, and ensure a success mindset throughout the child's life."Unleash Educational Excellence" is critical to the foundation of the experiential education philosophy, a critical strategy purposed to enhance the classroom learning environment for student engagement. Defined as a process in which teachers purposefully involve students in hands-on experiences and subsequent reflections in order to maximize learning in the classroom and make it more applicable to life outside the classroom. Educators cannot effectively facilitate experiential education without the fundamentals that a parent teaches at home and without the parent being intrinsically engaged in the experiential learning process. "Unleash" is the tool to assure parents and teachers work in close collaboration to ensure educational excellence for every child in school and life!
Download or read book How to Help Your Child Achieve Academic Success in School Educating Your Child During the Elementary Middle and High School Years written by Christopher Harrison and published by Inward Journeys Consulting. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supportive of Christian and Religious values.
Download or read book Homeschooling for Excellence written by David Colfax and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE COLFAXES DIDN'T START TEACHING THEIR BOYS AT HOME TO GET THEM INTO HARVARD - BUT THAT'S WHAT HOMESCHOOLING ACCOMPLISHED! For over fifteen years, David and Micki Colfax educated their children at home. They don't think of themselves as pioneers, though that's what they became. Unhappy with the public schools, the Colfaxes wanted the best education possible for their four sons: a program for learning that met the evolving needs of each child and gave them complete control of how and what their children learned. The results? A prescription for excellence-Harvard educations for their sons Grant, Drew, and Reed. (Their fourth son is still too young for college.) Now the Colfaxes tell how all parents can become involved in homeschooling. In a straight-talking book that reads like a frank conversation among friends, they tell what they did and how they did it: their educational approaches, the lessons they learned, and what materials-books, equipment, educational aids-proved most useful over the years. Best of all, they show you how you can take charge of your children's education-in an invaluable sourcebook that will help you find a rewarding and successful alternative to our failing schools.
Download or read book An Ethic of Excellence written by Ron Berger and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author gives us a vision of educational reform that transcends standards, curriculum, and instructional strategies. He argues for a paradigm shift-a schoolwide embrace of an "ethic of excellence" and with a passion for quality describes what's possible when teachers, students, and parents commit to nothing less than the best. The author tells exactly how this can be done, from the blackboard to the blacktop to the school boardroom.
Download or read book Giving Your Child the Excellence Edge written by Vicki Caruana and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Achieving Educational Excellence written by Alexander W. Astin and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1985-04-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Book Fiesta written by Pat Mora and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a ride in a long submarine or fly away in a hot air balloon. Whatever you do, just be sure to bring your favorite book! Rafael López's colorful illustrations perfectly complement Pat Mora's lilting text in this delightful celebration of El día de los niños/El día de los libros; Children's Day/Book Day. Toon! Toon! Includes a letter from the author and suggestions for celebrating El día de los niños/El día de los libros; Children's Day/Book Day. Pasea por el mar en un largo submarino o viaja lejos en un globo aerostático. No importa lo que hagas, ¡no olvides traer tu libro preferido! Las coloridas ilustraciones de Rafael López complementan perfectamente el texto rítmico de Pat Mora en esta encantadora celebración de El día de los niños/El día de los libros. ¡Tun! ¡Tun! Incluye una carta de la autora y sugerencias para celebrar El día de los niños/El día de los libros. The author will donate a portion of the proceeds from this book to literacy initiatives related to Children's Day/Book Day. La autora donará una porción de las ganancias de este libro a programas para fomentar la alfabetización relacionados con El día de los niños/El día de los libros.
Download or read book Getting Our Kids Back on Track written by Janine Bempechat and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2000-03-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting Our Kids Back on Track is a no-nonsense guide for achieving academic success written by an acclaimed expert in the study of motivation and achievement in children. In this indispensable resource, author Janine Bempechat claims that the so-called self-esteem movement has actually worked to undermine academic excellence in our nation's schools. As an alternative, she offers parents clear-cut advice and details step by step how to create a structured, predictable, and consistent home environment that will inspire children to reach their full intellectual potential.
Download or read book You Your Child and School written by Sir Ken Robinson, PhD and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential book for parents to help their children get the education they need to live happy, productive lives from The New York Times bestselling author of The Element and Creative Schools Parents everywhere are deeply concerned about the education of their children, especially now, when education has become a minefield of politics and controversy. One of the world’s most influential educators, Robinson has had countless conversations with parents about the dilemmas they face. As a parent, what should you look for in your children’s education? How can you tell if their school is right for them and what can you do if it isn’t? In this important new book, he offers clear principles and practical advice on how to support your child through the K-12 education system, or outside it if you choose to homeschool or un-school. Dispelling many myths and tackling critical schooling options and controversies, You, Your Child, and School is a key book for parents to learn about the kind of education their children really need and what they can do to make sure they get it.
Download or read book Excellence for All written by Jack Schneider and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early twenty-first century, a startling consensus had emerged about the overall aim of American school reform. In an era of political discord, and in a field historically known for contentiousness, the notion of promoting educational excellence for all students was a distinct point of bipartisan agreement. Shaped by a corps of entrepreneurial reformers intent on finding "what works" and taking it to scale, this hybrid vision won over the nation's most ambitious and well-resourced policy leaders at foundations and nonprofits, in state and federal government, and in urban school districts from coast to coast. "Excellence for all" might, at first glance, appear to be nothing more than a rhetorical flourish. Who, after all, would oppose the idea of a great education for every student? Yet it is hardly a throwaway phrase. Rather, it represents a surprising fusion of educational policy approaches that had been in tense opposition throughout the twentieth century--those on the right favoring social efficiency, and those on the left supporting social justice. This book seeks to understand why the "excellence for all" vision took hold at the time it did, unpacks the particular beliefs and assumptions embedded in it, and details the often informal coalition building that produced this period of consensus. Examining the nation's largest urban school districts (Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York), the author details three major reform efforts in chapters titled "The Right Space: The Small Schools Movement"; "The Right Teachers: Teach for America"; and "The Right Curriculum: Expanding Advanced Placement."
Download or read book The Missing Piece written by Dolores R. Card, Hermon R. Card and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are in an education crisis. We need to restore the teaching profession to one of respect and support and provide effective education to enable current students, the "new kids," to rise to their full potential "What a fabulous book. Herm and Dolores have written a truly inspirational resource for teachers. This should be required reading for anyone preparing to enter the classroom--and for anyone who needs to step back and rethink, think through, or reconsider their practice. They speak to the reader's heart as well as the head, and Herm's poetry is the best medicine I know for preventing teacher burnout." --Carol Jago, president of the National Council of Teachers of English and long-time middle and high school teacher in Santa Monica, California "The Missing Piece by Dolores and Hermon Card is the book we've all been waiting for about how to educate the 'new kids, ' this evolutionary bunch of uniquely different individuals known variously by labels as quirky as they are. You name it and this book covers it, and in a style as usable as it is advanced. Dolores and Hermon encourage students to make connections to themselves and then work beyond themselves to extend their reach--'to work with us, not for us.' "The raw truth about our current education system and how to fix it is covered, with poetry, with solutions and with expansive teaching styles that include meditation, Reiki, chakras, the higher self, and the importance of spirituality. No, this isn't new age; it is new thought, in its most courageous form--a balanced and realistic way to educate the whole child. "I was blown away by The Missing Piece. No one else has looked at our educational system today, and the various proposals to fix what's wrong, with eyes and hearts broad enough to recognize what was and is still missing, what the 'new kids' must have--a holistic approach. Thank you, Dolores and Hermon Card, for giving us a miracle." --P. M. H. Atwater, L.H.D., author of Children of the Fifth World, Future Memory, and Near Death Experiences: The Rest of the Story
Download or read book Transformative Ethnic Studies in Schools written by Christine E. Sleeter and published by Multicultural Education. This book was released on 2020 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on Christine Sleeter's review of research on the academic and social impact of ethnic studies commissioned by the National Education Association, this book will examine the value and forms of teaching and researching ethnic studies. The book employs a diverse conceptual framework, including critical pedagogy, anti-racism, Afrocentrism, Indigeneity, youth participatory action research, and critical multicultural education. The book provides cases of classroom teachers to 'illustrate what such conceptual framework look like when enacted in the classroom, as well as tensions that spring from them within school bureaucracies driven by neoliberalism.' Sleeter and Zavala will also outline ways to conduct research for 'investigating both learning and broader impacts of ethnic research used for liberatory ends'"--
Download or read book The Equation for Excellence written by Arvin Vohra and published by Roland Media Distribution. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Raising an a Student written by Chinwe Njoku and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever stay up at night wondering if your child is going to fulfil their potential by following the academic path they are on? Are you tired of feeling like there is something the education system is holding back from your child's success? Don't you long to remove the guesswork from helping your child achieve consistent academic excellence? Raising an 'A' Student is your step-by-step playbook on the most important steps every parent needs to take as your child's biggest cheerleader. Instead of 101 rules, dos and don'ts on how to raise an 'A' student, this book will guide you on how to develop and harness your child's cognitive skills. You would also learn how to: * Ask the right questions in school choices * Work collaboratively with your child to plan their future. * Get your child's educational providers on your side. * Secure your child's education in the best schools for free. * Failure-proof tests, exams, and other assessments. Having spent most of her life in education at the receiving and giving end of academia, Dr Chinwe Njoku, a qualified teacher and researcher, is passionate about parents being confident in their decisions for their children's education.
