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 cultu...

In today’s fast-paced world, we’ve never seen people more stressed, anxious, and time poor than we are now. The big question is: how can we help individuals overwhelmed by constant pressures to cultivate a better mindset and cope with daily challenges? How can you transform your mindset and conquer these with ease?In the Time Poor Series: Mindset, we’ve gathered insights, practical tips, and real-life strategies fr...

The Tennis Parent's Bible is a comprehensive survival guide to becoming a world class tennis parent or coach. This book opens the door to hundreds of hours of player specific instruction, while saving thousands of dollars, time and aguish. The Tennis Parent's Bible should be required reading for every inspiring player, coach and player.Tennis teaching professionals, academy directors, college coaches and/or high school coaches who have kept current with behavioral sports science wi...

This intimate, eminently practical memoir of a successful homeschooled family of six children illuminates today’s most exciting choice in education, and shows how it works from cradle to college.What is it that homeschoolers do that the public schools can’t or won’t? There are at least as many answers as there are studies. But nothing can capture the homeschooling experience in all its richness like the story of a real family that homeschools its children in middle...

Parenting Tough Kids delivers simple, proven strategies to improve the behavior, organization, learning, and emotional well-being of all children.Parents will find case studies and practical ideas to help youngsters improve memory and organization, complete homework and chores more easily, deal with school bullies, build emotional resilience, and create healthy friendships.

Griffith and Smith explore the innumerable, hidden, seemingly mundane tasks like getting kids ready for school, helping with homework, or serving on the PTA can all have profound effects on what occurs within school. Based on longitudinal interviews with mothers of school-age children, this book exposes the effects mothers' work has on educational systems as a whole and the ways in which inequalities of educational opportunities are reproduced.

Educational eBooks with spreadsheet formulas that help with school work#ePatterns & support for making spreadsheets to practice spelling or plan and track studies with a homework diary.Published as eBooks consisting of simple formulas to be copied into applications such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Calc these practical ePatterns aim to encourage investigation of functions and formulas along with learning on how to customize them to your family’s own requirements and to ...

From the founder of You Can Do It! Education, a program for promoting student social-emotional wellbeing and achievement that is being used in thousands of schools, a guide to supporting struggling students.California State University professor and educational psychologist Michael Bernard shows parents how to help their children succeed in school to the very best of their abilities. You Can Do It! reveals the various types of underachieving students, tells...

One key to a successful 1:1 initiative is keeping parents informed on the ins and outs of having mobile devices in the home. The Parent’s Guide to Supporting Digital Age Learners offers insight and guidance for parents facing some of the new challenges that come with mobile devices, including concerns about screen time, cyberbullying and digital footprints. This book provides advice, tools and scenarios parents can use with their children to maintain digital wellness, use social media safe...

In a period of increasing economic and social uncertainty, how do immigrant communities come together to advocate for educational access and their rights? This book is based on a 5-year university partnership with members from Indonesian, Vietnamese, Latino, Filipino, African American, and Irish American communities. Sharing rich examples, the authors examine how these diverse groups use language and literacy practices to advocate for greater opportunities. This unique partnership demonstr...

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 of three books aimed at highlighting the importance of fathers in society.Immanuel's Stories will set us thinking about the roles we play as fathers and parents. It ...

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