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All NCPIE ResourcesThere are currently 329 organization resources in the NCPIE database. To order a resource, please contact its publishing organization. AARP Grandparent Information Center601 E Street NW Washington DC 20049 Voice: 800-424-3410 Fax: 202-434-6470 Web Address: www.aarp.org/grandparents/
Resource Title: Grandparents Raising Their Grandchildren: What to Consider and Where to Find Help Price: Free Description: An online resource for grandparents who are sole caregivers for grandchildren. Resource Title: Parenting Grandchildren: A Voice for Grandparents Price: Free Description: A newsletter written to meet the needs of grandparents who are raising their grandchildren and professionals who serve them. Resource Title: Support Groups for Raising Grandchildren Price: Free Description: A web page dedicated to helping grandparents who are sole caregivers for their grandchildren join and form support groups. Resource Title: Welfare Reform and Your Family Price: Free Description: An examination of how welfare reform has affected grandparents raising grandchildren. Academic Development Institute IL Voice: 217-732-6462 Web Address: www.adi.org
Resource Title: The School Community Journal Description: The School Community Journal includes research and field reports related to the school as a community of teachers, students, parents, and staff. Family-school relations, site-based management, sociology of education, systems theory, the classroom community, and other topics are covered. The school can function as a thriving community! Academy for Educational Development Schools and Community Services1825 Connecticut Ave NW Washington DC 20009 Voice: 202-884-8400 Fax: 202-884-8200 Web Address: www.aed.org
Resource Title: Bridging the Gap: A Rationale for Enhancing the Role of Community Organizations in Promoting Youth Development Price: Free Author: Karen J. Pittman and Marlene Wright Description: February, 1991. An examination of the reasons to include community organizations in the pursuit of the goals of self-esteem building and opportunity development for youth. Alaska Parent Information and Resource Center 210 FerryJuneau AK 99801 Voice: 907.586.6806 Fax: 907.463-3811 Contact: Julie Staley Contact E-mail: julies@serrc.org Web Address: www.akpirc.org
Resource Title: Parent Guides Price: Free Author: AKPIRC Description: AKPIRC has a assortment of guides that share information with families on ESEA, state accountability, why parent involvement is important, and how parents can be more involved. Most guides are written at two levels, in-depth and an overview. Resource Title: PowerPoint trainings for families Price: Free Author: AKPIRC Description: AKPIRC offers an assortment of ready to use PowerPoint presentations that school staff and communities can use to share with families. Topics include: understanding Alaska's statewide tests, helping children develop language skills, and more. Alliance for Children and Families 1001 Connecticut Avenue NWSuite 601 Washington DC 20036 Voice: 202-429-0400 Fax: 202-429-0178 Web Address: www.alliance1.org
Resource Title: Families in Society Description: Bi-monthly. This peer-reviewed professional journal serves as a forum for addressing the interests, activities, and concerns of professionals in direct practice as well as associates in supervision, administration, policy and planning, research, and education. Formerly known as Social Casework. American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education 1307 New York Avenue NWSuite 300 Washington DC 20005 Voice: 202-293-2450 Fax: 202-457-8095 Web Address: www.aacte.org
Resource Title: Various Publications about Education Description: AACTE maintains an extensive list of publications on a variety of topics related to education, including Research and Reference, Standards and Assessment, Teaching and Learning, Diversity Issues, Education Reform Issues, Federal and State Issues, Leadership Issues and Professional Development. American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences 400 North Columbus Street#202 Alexandria VA 22314 Voice: 703-706-4600 Fax: 703-706-4663 Contact: Roxana Marissa Ayona Contact E-mail: RAyona@aafcs.org Web Address: www.aafcs.org
Resource Title: Journal of Family & Consumer Sciences Price: Non-Members 1/Yr $140 Individual $173 Institution Author: Part of the AAFCS membership benefit. Description: Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences (JFCS) The Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences: From Research to Practice (JFCS), the official publication of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS), contains peer-reviewed articles, practical information that promotes the well-being of individuals and families, and AAFCS news. Articles published in JFCS are indexed by Family Index Databse, Family and Society Studies World Wide, and the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). The JFCS is published four times a year: January, March, September, and November. American Association of School Administrators Community Outreach1801 North Moore Street Arlington VA 22209 Voice: 703-875-0706 Fax: 703-807-1849 Web Address: www.aasa.org
Resource Title: AASA Professor Description: A quarterly journal focusing on research and best practices that advance the profession of educational administration. American Federation of Teachers 555 New Jersey Avenue NWWashington DC 20001 Voice: 202-393-4272 Fax: 202-393-6371 Contact: Rosalind LaRocque Contact E-mail: rlarocqu@aft.org Web Address: www.aft.org
Resource Title: How Parents & Families Can Communicate Better With Teachers and School Staff Price: Free Description: Helping Your Child Succeed: The third in the Helping your Child Succeed series, this covers communications between parents and school staff. Resource Title: Helping Your Child Succeed: How Parents Can Work with Schools and Communities to Help their Children Meet High Standards Price: Free Description: The second in the Helping your Child Succeed series, this covers relations between the family and the community, with topics about monitoring your child's part time job, supporting zero tolerance for violence, etc. Resource Title: Helping Your Child Succeed: What Parents & Families Can Do at Home to Help their Children Meet High Standards Price: Free Description: The first in the Helping your Child Succeed pamphlet series, this offers tips to use at home to help children achieve success at school. Resource Title: Educational Research and Dissemination Program: Partnerships Supporting Student Learning Price: Free Description: One of many courses included as part of the AFT's ongoing professional development program, this focuses on enabling parents to better support their children as learners and achievers. Strategies include helping classroom practitioners develop learning partnerships with parents by assigning more productive and inclusive homework, explaining classroom work and grading systems, correcting student work, and providing timely feedback to students and parents. Available to union members only. America's Promise — The Alliance for Youth 909 N Washington StreetSuite 400 Alexandria VA 22314 Voice: 703-684-4500, 800-365-0153 x3835 Fax: 703-535-3900 Contact: Kris Minor Contact E-mail: KrisM@americaspromise.org Web Address: www.americaspromise.org
Resource Title: Communities of Promise Toolkit: "How to Become a Community of Promise" Price: Free Description: This toolkit contains information and resources on how to make your community a Community of Promise by increasing resources and opportunities for young people. The following guides are available: "Becoming a Community of Promise: Proven Strategies That Are Working," "Guide to Conducting a Needs Assessment," "Community of Promise Implementation Pack," "Neighborhood Planning Guide" and "City/County Planning Guide." Resource Title: Keeping America's Promise Television Special Price: $12.00 Description: Video of the one-hour television special that aired on the FOX highlighting the efforts being made to help youth throughout the United States. Includes remarks by Presidents Clinton, Bush, Carter, Ford and Former First Lady Nancy Reagan. America's Promise Chairman, General Colin L. Powell, narrates the program. Length: Approx. 40 Minutes. Resource Title: Making a Difference -- Saving Our Kids Price: $12.00 Description: This 30-minute video features examples of how America's Promise commitment makers are keeping their promise to our nation's youth. Guests include: former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, General Powell, Janet Jackson, Carlos Santana, Oprah Winfrey, Rita Morena and Hugh O'Brien. Annenberg Institute for Social Reform 1640 Roxanna Road NWWashington DC 20012 Voice: 202-882-1582 Fax: 202-882-2138 Contact: Anne T. Henderson, Senior Consultant, Community Involvement Program Web Address: steinhardt.nyu.edu/iesp/
Resource Title: Community Organizing for School Improvement in the South Bronx Price: Free Description: This case study tells the story of how low-income parents organized, with help from the community group that redeveloped their housing project, to improve a poor-performing school in district 9. The paper focuses on community organizing as a new form of parent and community engagement, and analyzes the political situation in low-income neighborhoods. Resource Title: Demystifying the Data Price: Free Description: This information sheet is aimed at making NYC school data accessible and understandable. Each sheet is devoted to one issue (such as performance budgeting) and explains it in a jargon-free manner. Included in School Watch. Resource Title: School Watch Price: Free Description: This newsletter provides community groups with information on NYC public school performance and examples of school reform strategies in action. It purpose is to encourage more groups to become involved in school improvement. Published quarterly. Resource Title: Various Reports and Evaluation Studies Price: Free Description: Published evaluation studies on programs such as the cost-effectiveness of small schools, reorganizing NYC special education programs, and privatizing public schools. ASPIRA Association, Inc. 1444 I Street NWSuite 800 Washington DC 20005 Voice: 202-835-3600 Ext. 114 Fax: 202-835-3613 Contact: Hilda Crespo, Vice President, Public Policy Contact E-mail: hcrespo@aspira.org Web Address: www.aspira.org
Resource Title: The APEX Workshop Series Manual and Facilitators Guide Price: $85.00 Description: The APEX Workshop series has 10 workshops which address parent training. They promote parent engagement in their children's education and in the leaderhip structure of their schools. Also included is a Facilitator's guide available in both English or Spanish. Resource Title: Making the Most of Your Child's Education: A Guide for Parents Price: $5.00 each Description: An easy to read introductory curriculum on parent involvement written specificcaly for Hispanic parents. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development 1703 N BeauregardAlexandria VA 22311 Voice: 703-575-5610 Fax: 703-575-5408 Contact: Barbara Gleason Web Address: www.ascd.org
Resource Title: The Brain and Learning Price: $590.00 (Members $490.00). Author: Marian Diamond, Pat Wolfe, Eric Jensen, Geoffrey Caine, Robert Sylvester Description: Video Series. includes the videotape What Parents Need to Know. (ASCD video, 1998) Four 20- to 30-minute videotapes and a Facilitator's Guide. This video series explains how the brain functions and shows examples of elementary through high school classrooms where teachers are applying brain-based principles to enhance learning. It also encourages parents to become full partners in the effort to make education more brain friendly. Resource Title: Classroom Leadership and Classroom Leadership Online Price: Free online. Paper copies $3.00 each. Description: Classroom Leadership Online is the online sister publication of Classroom Leadership. It is published 9 times a year (monthly except January, June, and July) and is linked thematically to Educational Leadership, ASCD's magazine. Classroom Leadership Online is a free publication that helps readers explore education topics, as seen through teachers' eyes and heard through teachers' voices. Resource Title: Communicating with the Public: A Guide for School Leaders Price: $22.95 (Members $18.95). Author: Anne Meek Description: (ASCD book, 1999) 8" x 10", 144 pages. This book helps educators gain the knowledge and confidence they need to create and implement an effective communication program. It provides strategies for cultivating the ongoing relationships necessary for long-term support of schools, including the communication roles of educators working in schools and those working in central offices. Basics include: Strategic communications planning; analysis; teamwork between schools and central offices; coordination with community relations offices; and program evaluation. Resources include a school climate checklist; tips for working with the news media; guidelines for conducting focus groups; and help with creating news releases, Web sites, and videos. Resource Title: Curriculum Update Price: Additional copies are $3 each (prepaid only). Description: Reports trends, research findings, exemplary programs, and available resources in a specific curriculum area. It is published four times per year as a supplement to Education Update, the official newsletter of ASCD. Subscriptions to Curriculum Update are included in ASCD membership. Resource Title: Educational Leadership Price: Additional copies are $6 each. Description: 96-page, full-color magazine. Published monthly September through May, except bi-monthly December/January. Intended primarily for leaders in elementary, middle, and secondary education, but is also for anyone interested in curriculum, instruction, supervision, and leadership in schools. Frequently includes articles that reflect parents' perspectives or focus on parental roles in the context of a particular monthly theme. For example: "A Parent's Perspective: Educating the Digital Generation." (October 2000), "Who's Afraid of Standards? A Parent's Perspective." (February 2000), "From Fund Raising to Hell Raising: New Roles for Parents." (April 2000), "Making Parent Involvement Meaningful." (January 1998). Subscriptions are included in ASCD membership. Resource Title: Education Update Newsletter Price: Additional copies are $3 each (prepaid only). Description: Education Update is the official newsletter of ASCD and is published 8 times a year (monthly except February, April, July, and October). Subscriptions to Education Update are included in ASCD membership. Resource Title: How to Coordinate Services for Students and Families Price: $8.95 (Members $6.95). Author: Larry Guthrie Description: (ASCD book, 1996) 6" x 9", 61 pages. This book proposes an integrated services collaboration for students in crisis, as an alternative to the traditional social services now offered. A nine-step plan outlines how to get an integrated services collaborative started, where it should be located, and how to get funding. Resource Title: How to Create Successful Parent-Student Conferences Price: $95 (Members $79). Description: (Video, 1998) This 15-minute videotape is part of ASCD's How-to video series. Watch actual teachers demonstrate ways to create "win-win-win" situations for students, parents, and teachers. Topics include: the first step to take when planning every conference, how to deal with an irate parent, examples of "door-opening statements" that encourage conversation, how to use portfolios of student work in conferences, and what to do after a conference. Also available in closed-captioned format. Resource Title: How to Form Networks for School Renewal Price: $8.95 (Members $6.95). Description: (ASCD book, 1995) 6" x 9", 57 pages. This book provides practical guidelines for establishing practitioner-driven networks for increasing professional knowledge, motivation, self-esteem, and effectiveness in efforts with students. Includes sample formats and activities for meetings, with numerous suggestions for ways to keep networks infused with information and resources. Resource Title: How to Make Homework More Meaningful by Involving Parents Price: $95 (Members $79). Author: Joyce Epstein Description: (Video, 2001) This 15-minute videotape is part of ASCD's How-To video series. It demonstrates how to use homework to strengthen students' skills and make learning more meaningful. This video features assignments that help students establish regular schedules, and demonstrate and discuss what they've learned, strategies for initiating and encouraging family participation, and ways to follow-up assignments with class discussion and demonstration. Resource Title: InfoBrief Price: Individual copies are $4.50 each. Description: Published four times per year, ASCD Infobrief provides concise information on current education issues to administrators, teachers, families, policymakers, journalists, and others. Subscription is included in ASCD Premium membership. Resource Title: Managing Today's Classroom Price: Set of three is $580 (Members $480). Individual tapes $210 each (Members $180). Author: Rheta DeVries Description: The Managing Today's Classroom video series shows how teachers are creating positive learning environments where students behave well because they want to. Two videotapes, a Facilitator's Guide, and a special tape, A Parent's Guide, explain and demonstrate how teachers can instill a commitment to good behavior in all students by: fostering mutual respect among students and teachers, promoting self-regulation and autonomy, creating a sense of community in the classroom, and motivating students through an engaging curriculum. These videos feature teachers explaining why traditional approaches that use rewards and punishments often don't work, and also show elementary and secondary schools classrooms where effective management practices are being used. The accompanying Facilitator's Guide shows how to create a powerful in-service course for new and experienced teachers in all grade levels. Plus, a 25-minute video tape explains this new classroom management approach to parents so that they can support the strategies and use them at home. Three videotapes: Tape 1: Managing Today's Classroom: Elementary Schools and Facilitator's Guide, Tape 2: Managing Today's Classroom: Secondary Schools and Facilitator's Guide, Tape 3: Managing Today's Classroom: A Parent's Guide and Facilitator's Guide are available as a set or individually. Also available in closed-captioned format. Resource Title: Mentoring the New Teacher Price: Complete set $785 (Members $685.00), individual tapes $115.00 (Members $95.00). Author: Developed and produced by James B. Rowley and Patricia M. Hart of the University of Dayton School of Education, Dayton, Ohio Description: (Video, 1994) Available exclusively through ASCD, this set of videotapes and Facilitator's Guide presents case studies of the most common problems faced by beginning teachers: dealing with students' personal problems; handling classroom discipline; planning lessons and homework; coping with a lack of instructional resources; relating to parents; motivating students; dealing with students' individual differences; and evaluating student work. Based on extensive research, this series offers a candid, realistic approach to how experienced teacher mentors can help new teachers through their first years in the profession. Complete set includes: Eight 17- to 20-minute case study videotapes, one 6-minute Overview tape, and 170-page Facilitator's Guide. The following tapes are also available individually: Tape 1: Dealing with Students' Personal Problems, Tape 2: Classroom Discipline, Tape 3: Dealing with Individual Differences, Tape 4: Motivating Students, Tape 5: Planning Classwork, Tape 6: Lack of Instructional Resources, Tape 7: Parent Relations, Tape 8: Evaluating Student Work. Resource Title: Parents As Partners in Schooling Price: $34.95 Description: ASCD's PD Online course is designed to help educators and parents understand they are equal partners in schooling and to provide resources that support effective parent involvement programs. The interactive, multimedia format allows you flexibility to develop your knowledge and skills at a time that fits your schedule. Course includes interactive lessons that have been specially designed for Web-based training. Each lesson is supplemented with extensive reading material and access to discussion groups. Resource Title: The Principal Series Price: Single tape prices from $140; series cost is $1,130 (Members $930.00). Author: Richard DuFour and Karen Dyer Description: (Video, 1998-1999) Seven 15- to 45-minute videotapes and two Facilitator's Guides. An excellent tool for principal leadership training, The Principal Series brings school leaders up-to-date on the newest research-based methods for improving student performance. Hear from experts Richard DuFour and Karen Dyer, and see principals demonstrate effective leadership, communication, and management skills These videos are also designed to help principals involve parents in the school community. Specifically, Principal as Culture Shaper shows how to help parents contribute to the school's mission and success; and Principal as Ambassador discusses ways to involve parents and build alliances within the community. The following single tapes are available: Tape 1: The Evolving Role of the Principal, Tape 2: Creating a Collaborative Learning Community, Tape 3: Survival Tips, Tape 4: Principal as Culture Shaper, Tape 5: Principal as Manager, Tape 6: Principal as Instructional Leader, Tape 7: Principal as Ambassador. Resource Title: Schools as Communities Price: $466.00 ($396.00 Members). Description: (Video) The video series focuses on successful schools in which educators create a sense of belonging for their students and include teachers, parents, and the community. 2 videos with facilitator's guide. Resource Title: Various Audiotapes about Education Price: Varies, beginning at $14.95 (Members $11.95) per tape. Description: The ASCD audio library features some of the most popular presentations from ASCD conferences and institutes. Examples include: Helping Parents Understand Performance-Based Assessment, Seven keys to Successful Parent Involvement and Promoting Parents' and Policymakers' Assessment Literacy, Celebrate Learning with Student-Led Conferences: Increase Student Accountability, Involve Parents, and Help Meet Standards, Homework Central: Parent Communication for the 21st Century. Center for Law and Education 1875 Connecticut Ave NWSuite 510 Washington DC 20009 Voice: 202-986-3000 Fax: 202-986-6648 Web Address: cleweb.org
Resource Title: Beyond the Bake Sale: An Educator's Guide to Working With Families (1986) Price: $10.95 Author: Anne T. Henderson, Carl Marburger and Theodora Ooms Description: 160 pp. This classic guide explains how to build partnerships that go beyond boosterism to effective schooling, with attention to high school families, and single, low-income and working parents. Often used for staff development and other teacher training. Resource Title: The Family is Critical to Student Achievement: A New Generation of Evidence Price: $14.95 Author: Anne T. Henderson and Nancy Berla, editors Description: 176pp. Softcover. (1994) Reviews 66 studies that document the positive effects of parent involvement on student achievement. A short introduction reviews the studies, major findings, and trends in the research. "Taken together, the studies summarized in this report strongly suggest that when schools support families to be involved, children from low-income families and diverse cultural backgrounds approach the grades and test scores expected for middle class children." Resource Title: Parents are Powerful Price: $2. Bulk orders available for as low as $1 per copy. Description: 32 pages. 1997. A full-color guide written for a general parent audience, it gives parents practical advice to guide their children from preschool through high school. It also informs them of their rights and what to expect from key federal programs like Title I, IDEA, and Vocational Education. Available in Spanish. Resource Title: Powerful Schools Handbook: Starting and Running a Collaborative School Improvement Program Price: $19.95 Description: 148 pp. This is a true grassroots guide to organizing in neighborhoods to make schools and communities stronger. It is based on the experience of four public elementary schools and several community groups in Seattle, Wash., but its message is universal. The Powerful Schools Handbook tells how to start an effort to improve student performance while building stronger communities; outlines fundraising and managing volunteers; describes family involvement and community involvement; and explains the role of community schools and their adult education programs in improving outcomes for children. It also includes samples of all the materials used by Powerful Schools. Published by One Court Street Press. Resource Title: Urgent Message for Parents Price: $3 single copy. See order form for discounts on multiple copies. Author: Anne Henderson, Anne Lewis, Kathy Boundy, Paul Weckstein, Larry Searcy Description: 16 pp. In English. 2000. This guide answers parents' questions about standards -- what do they mean for my child, what if my child didn't pass the test, how can I help my children learn what they need to know? It gives examples of high and low level student work, explains the difference between the new and the old tests, and tells how families can improve student achievement. This is an excellent resource for staff development, parent training and conferences. Center for Parent Leadership at the Prichard CommitteePO Box 1658 Lexington KY 40588-1658 Voice: 859-233-9849, ext. 227 Fax: 859-233-0760 Contact: Molly Toney Contact E-mail: mtoney@prichardcommittee.org Web Address: www.centerforparentleadership.org
Resource Title: Parents and Teachers Talking Together Facilitators Guide Price: $75 Description: Responding to the growing need for increased parent and teacher communication, the Center for Parent Leadership has created a workshop and trainer's guide that enable parent leaders, community organizers and educators to fortify relationships between parents and teachers through focused discussions on how they can work together to improve education in their community. Parents and Teachers Talking Together encourages communication by addressing two important questions:
The guide takes users through a four-hour meeting where these issues are discussed. And it shows how groups are using the exercise to identify shared concerns and priorities and set in motion the solutions required to make a real difference for students. Resource Title: No Child Left Behind: What's In It For Parents Price: $15 Author: Anne Henderson Description: CPL's guide, No Child Left Behind: What’s in it for Parents, spotlights six key leverage points in the law that parents can use to: get information about school and student performance; use the information to influence education policies and programs; and hold schools more accountable for results. In easy-to-understand terms, parents will learn which schools are affected by the law — plus how, when, and what they can do to advocate for better schools and quality teaching. “As a parent leader, you want to be at the table when your school is addressing such issues as closing the achievement gaps between different groups of students, recruiting and keeping highly-qualified teachers, or school safety,” said the guide’s author, Anne Henderson, an expert on parent engagement and community organizing. Resource Title: The Case for Parent Leadership Price: $10 Description: When parents have information, skills and organizational support, they are enabled to become decision making partners in their local schools. Readers of the Case for Parent Leadership will find:
Center for the Development of Schools and Communities 1201 Columbia Road NWWashington DC 20009 Voice: 202-328-5412 Fax: 202-328-9411 Contact: Anne Bouie, Ph.D. Contact E-mail: cdsc1@aol.com
Resource Title: Working with Families and Communities Price: varies Author: Anne Bouie, Ph.D. Description: This is a structured professional development program for teachers and administrators who wish to design and implement positive change that can secure the endorsement of families and create positive experiences for parents, family networks, and community members. Resource Title: Exploring Your Community Price: 15.00 per copy Author: Anne Bouie, Ph.D. Description: This workbook presents a process and experiences that help school staff to learn about, and connect with resources in the immediate community surrounding the school. It is interactive and will help school staff utilize this information to increase their ability to work with and engage families and community members in the life of classrooms and the school. Resource Title: How to Help Your Child Succeed in School Price: varies Author: Anne Bouie, Ph.D. Description: This is a learning experience designed for parents and families. The work includes interactive sessions that help families learn how to support their children, work with teachers and become involved in the life of the school. Resource Title: School Program and Process Assessment Price: 20.00 per copy Author: Anne Bouie, Ph.D. Description: This tool helps school staff assess what they do and how they implement programs in seven key areas, including parental and community engagement. Children's Aid Society 105 East 22nd StreetNew York NY 10010 Voice: 212-949-4800 Fax: 917-286-1580 Contact: Sarah Jonas, Director of Curriculum Contact E-mail: sarahj@childrensaidsociety.org Web Address: www.childrensaidsociety.org
Resource Title: Building A Community School Description: A description of the Children's Aid Society community school model and a workbook/guide on to how to start a community school in your own community. Resource Title: CAS News Price: Free Description: A newsletter for friends and supporters of the Children's Aid Society. Read about Children's Aid's amazing array of arts programs, the innovative Medicaid Enrollment project, and other society happenings. Resource Title: Parents in a Community School Description: Covers the vital role parents play in a community school and how to engage parents as partners. Children's Council of San Francisco 445 Church StreetSan Francisco CA 94114 Voice: 415-276-2900 Fax: 415-343-3331 Contact: Daniel Safran, Deputy Director Contact E-mail: dsafran@childrenscouncil.org Web Address: www.childrenscouncil.org
Resource Title: Children's News Price: Free Description: Quarterly newspaper with news about San Francisco child care and other community resources, information on policy and advocacy and special features. In English and Spanish. Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition Parent Information and Resource Center7150 Hooker Street Westminster CO 80030 Voice: 720-890-0123 Fax: 720-540-8455 Contact: Richard Garcia Contact E-mail: richard@coparentcoalition.org Web Address: www.coparentcoalition.org
Resource Title: Engaging Mexican Immigrant Parents in their Children's Education; A Guide for Teachers Author: Enduring the Academis Success of our Children Communities in Schools, Inc. 2345 Crystal DriveSuite 801 Arlington VA 22202 Voice: 1-800-CIS-4KIDS (543) Fax: 703-518-4571 Contact: Robert Seidel Contact E-mail: siedelb@cisnet.org Web Address: www.cisnet.org
Resource Title: Communities In Schools and the Model of Integrated Student Services: A Proven Solution to America's Dropout Epidemic Author: Communities In Schools, Inc. Description: A summary of high-quality, independent research on the beneficial impact of the CIS Model of integrated student services Council for Exceptional Children 1110 North Glebe Road#300 Arlington VA 22201 Voice: 800-224-6830 Fax: 703-620-4334 Contact: Deb Ziegler, Associate Executive Director Web Address: www.cec.sped.org
Resource Title: The ADD/ADHD Checklist: An Easy Reference for Parents & Teachers Price: $17.75 (CEC Members $16.00) Author: Sandra Rief Description: This upbeat and encouraging book presents the latest on ADD/ADHD in a fast-paced, concise format. Through a series of checklists the author first distills basic information on the condition-traits, diagnosis, treatment schemes, medication-then gives special information and advice to parents and teachers, presents academic and behavioral strategies, and explains resources available. A section on ADD/ADHD and the law (IDEA and 504) will be especially useful in explaining where a student with ADD/ADHD stands in terms of special education services. Resource Title: College Planning for Gifted Students, Second Edition, Revised Price: $24.00 (CEC Members $16.80) Author: Sandra L. Berger Description: Use this step-by-step guide for discovering the right fit between student and college. Helps students examine personal goals, values, and learning styles. Describes how to figure out what a college is really like. Revised edition includes information on how to get college planning information from the Internet. Resource Title: Kids with Special Needs: Information and Activities to Promote Awareness and Understanding Price: $16.95 Author: Veronica Getskow and Dee Konczal Description: A great sourcebook designed to help children-and adults-develop an understanding and empathy for individuals with disabilities. Pages of reproducible material provide simulations, games, and activities. Gives background on communicative, developmental, physical, and learning disabilities. Ideal for parents and teachers who want to understand more about inclusive classrooms, planning an IEP, and meeting their child's needs. Resource Title: Practical Ideas for Addressing Challenging Behaviors Price: $12.00 Description: This monograph shows how you can more effectively prevent, identify, and address challenging behaviors by taking a positive behavioral approach. Research-based strategies written in accessible language are accompanied by examples of how strategies are implemented in real-life situations in early childhood programs at home. Resource Title: Raising Your Child to Be Gifted: Successful Parents Speak! Price: $16.80 (CEC Members $11.76) Author: James Reed Campbell Resource Title: Secrets of Discipline for Parents and Teachers: 12 Keys for Raising Responsible Children Price: Book (#S5285) is $12.95, Video (#S5286) is $18.95. Set (#S5290) is $29.95 Author: Ronald G. Morrish Description: Find out why behavior management alone fails. Learn about teaching compliance, setting limits, developing good habits and encouraging good decision making. Learn the importance of planning and commitment. Especially helpful in working with children who have ADHD. Video features popular speaker Ron Morrish. Resource Title: Successfully Parenting Your Baby with Special Needs Price: $49.95 Description: This new video will both educate and encourage parents who are expecting or have given birth to a baby with special needs. Both parents and experts in the field of pediatrics explain early intervention. Compassionate testimonials from parents, grandparents, and professionals underscore the need to teach parents in utilizing the early intervention approach. The success stories of babies with special needs who are thriving as a result of early intervention offer inspiration and guidance. Resource Title: Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete Authoritative Guide for Parents Price: $17.75 (CEC Members $16.00) Author: Russell A. Barkley Description: A wise and compassionate book for parents and professionals that points the way toward a positive approach for managing children and youth with ADHD. Presents pioneering research that provides insight into preventing the disorder from becoming a major problem for family life. Provides suggestions on how to manage ADHD behavior in everyday situations. Presents information on a variety of medications. Resource Title: Teaching a Young Child to Read Price: $16.95 Author: Wood Smethhurst Description: Good instruction is good instruction is good instruction! And good reading instruction may prevent the need for special education placement for some children. This book was written for parents, but presents such solid, time-tested basic reading instruction methodology that any practitioner faced with beginning or non-readers should also have a copy. Although designed for use with children up to age 7, it is also useful for remediation for somewhat older children. In fact, the systematic phonics instruction can be adapted for any age. Resource Title: With All Due Respect: Keys for Building Effective School Discipline Price: $16.95 Author: Ronald G. Morrish Description: Exceptional children often do not receive the direct instruction and positive practice required for the development of respectful, responsible behaviors. This book lets you learn how to increase time for teaching, improve standards for student work, put the authority back in the teacher role and decrease reliance on punishment and suspension. Council of Chief State School Officers One Massachusetts Ave NWSuite 700 Washington DC 20001-1431 Voice: 202-336-7000 Fax: 202-789-1792 Contact: Elizabeth Partoyan, Strategic Initiative Director, Next Generation Learners Contact E-mail: elizabethp@ccsso.org Web Address: www.ccsso.org
Resource Title: Ensuring the Education Rights of All Children, 2001 Description: This report reflects the priority actions for CCSSO in 2001. These priority actions reflect the leadership direction of CCSSO's current Board Chair, Dr. Peter McWalters, Commissioner of the Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The priority actions encompass: 1) providing for the needs of all children; 2) implementing all elements of standard-based systems; 3) adjusting speed and scope of education reform implementation; 4) helping public and policy leaders understand the scope and boldness of reform and expect rates of progress in education; and 5) committing to strategic partnerships among community, business, faith institutions and education as essential to overcoming poverty and deprivation and assuring success in education. Resource Title: Gaining the Arts Advantage: More Lessons From School Districts that Value Arts Education Description: This brief report summarizes the October 2000 meeting of the Arts Education Partnership, during which 32 school districts from 19 states discussed the current status of arts education in their districts. These districts were profiled in a 1999 report from the Partnership, which identified 13 critical success factors to create and sustain arts education. The new report highlights how these districts have enhanced financial support, program quality, and community support for their arts partnerships. 2001. Resource Title: Gaining Ground Description: Monthly newsletter published under the auspices of CCSSO's High Poverty Schools Initiative. Features articles on the latest research, policy, and practice developments related to improving the achievement of students in low-performing, high poverty school districts. Resource Title: Primary Level Assessment for IASA Title I: A Call for Discussion Description: This paper begins with a review of appropriate assessment techniques in pre-k through grade 3 settings and then presents the thesis that developmentally appropriate assessment and accountability assessment can be united. Two programs are described to illustrate examples of emerging techniques for measuring young children for accountability purposes. 2001. Resource Title: Students Continually Learning: A Report of Presentations, Student Voices and State Actions Description: This report reflects the proceedings of CCSSO's 1999 Summer Institute. The Institute and proceedings were done in partnership with the Forum for Youth Investment (formerly the IYF-US). The Institute and accompanying report examined three issues: early development so every child enters school ready to learn; extended time to learn to assure all students achieve standards; and charging the student battery to stimulate motivation for success. 2001. Council of the Great City Schools 1301 Pennsylvania Ave NWSuite 702 Washington DC 20004 Voice: 202-393-2427 Fax: 202-393-2400 Web Address: www.cgcs.org
Resource Title: Beating the Odds Price: $20 each plus $5 shipping and handling per copy for 1-10 copies. $15 each plus $5 shipping and handling per copy for more than 11 copies. Description: A study of the performance of inner-city schools with regard to academic goals and standards in math and reading.Have urban schools made progress with the reforms of the last several years? Which districts have made the most progress, and how have they done it? Resource Title: What Works in Urban Education Price: Free Description:
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Resource Title: For Now and Forever Price: $24.95 for 20 (Spanish and English available) Author: Derry Koralek Description: This booklet for parents is designed to explain the concepts of resilience, protective factors, as well as offering strategies for parents to use that will promote social/emotional growth. Resource Title: Devereux Early Childhood Assessment Price: $39.95 for 40 (English and Spanish available) Author: Paul LeBuffe and Jack Naglieri Description: The assessment tool is a standardized, norm-referenced, strength-based assessment of protective factors and resilience in preschool agend children. Parents and teachers both complete this assessment in order to better help each individualize and plan to help the child develop strong social/emotional skills. Resource Title: Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (DECA) Program Kit Price: $199.95 Description: The DECA Kit contains assessments, parent guides, a teacher strategy guide, an observation journal of reproducible planning forms, a user's manual and a technical manual. The Kit is designed to help classroom teachers assess and plan to build children's resilience. District Community Voices Organized and Informed for Change in Education (DC Voice) P.O. Box 73055Washington DC 20056 Voice: 202-986-8535 Fax: 202-238-0109 Contact: Erika Landberg, Senior Associate for Community Engagement Contact E-mail: elandberg@dcvoice.org Web Address: www.dcvoice.org
Resource Title: The Demand for Information for Educational Decision Making in the District of Columbia: A Public Discourse Price: Free on request; on Web site Author: Michele Moser, Heath Brown, Barbara Frank, George Washington University; Tahi Reynolds, Ph.D., Erika Landberg, Alyssa Alston, Samuel Rosaldo, DC VOICE Description: This report on the education information study conducted by DC VOICE and the Public Education Research Consortium (PERC) contains three sections: 1. Major findings from other states and districts with exemplary information systems 2. Washington DC survey and focus group results 3. Implications and recommendations. Both the full report and the abridged version, Information Please!, are available on the DC VOICE Web site. Resource Title: Youth Voices Front and Center: D.C. Youth Speak Up About Their Education Price: Free on request; on Web site Author: Erika Landberg and Corae Briscoe Description: This report is based on seven discussion groups conducted with more than 60 youth ages 14-20 during December 2003-January 2004. Students daid they want their class wrok to: - be connected to their present and future lives, and - meet individual student needs by addressing different learning styles and giving special attention to those who have fallen behind. Resource Title: New Teacher Survey Price: Free on request; on Web site Author: Tahi Mottl Reynolds, Ph.D. Description: The most comprehensive feedback from DCPS teachers now available, particularly from new teachers, this survey was conducted at the end of the 2002-2003 school year and contains teacher views on: - professional develoment - new teacher supports such as orientation and mentoring - the general classroom conditions needed to promote quality teaching for every child. Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School 3220 16th Street NWWashington DC 20010 Voice: 202-265-7237 Fax: 202-265-4656 Contact: Linda R. Moore, Executive Director Contact E-mail: lindam@ewstokes.org Web Address: www.ewstokes.org
Resource Title: Elsie Whitlow Stokes: A Place to Call School -- Parent Handbook Price: Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School Author: Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School Description: This handbook is guide for parents, providing information on the school's history, mission and goals, admission process, policies, support services, code of conduct and parent compact. Embrace Diverse Schools 6807 Bluecurl CircleSpringfield VA 22152 Voice: 703-644-3039 Contact: Eileen Kugler Contact E-mail: EKugler@EmbraceDiverseSchools.com Web Address: www.EmbraceDiverseSchools.com
Resource Title: Debunking the Middle-Class Myth: Why diverse schools are good for all kids Price: $29.95 Author: Eileen Gale Kugler Description: In this award-winning book, Eileen Kugler highlights how diversity in schools stimulates and deepens education for each child, an advantage lost to homogenous schools. She challenges each stakeholder to take part in strengthening our diverse schools. Resource Title: Partnering with Parents and Families to Support Immigrant and Refugee Children at School Description: Immigrant students face unique mental health challenges, often unidentified and untreated, that impact their academic success. Building a partnership with their families can be a key to supporting mental health of the students and their entire family Resource Title: Building Partnerships with Immigrant Parents Description: Highlights lessons learned from a unique parent partnership program created in a high school where half of the parent population was born outside the United States. EPIC -- Every Person Influences Children, Inc. 1000 Main StreetBuffalo NY 14202 Voice: 716-332-4100 Fax: 716-332-4101 Contact: Vito Borrello Contact E-mail: borrellov@epicforchildren.org Web Address: www.epicforchildren.org
Resource Title: Building Your Child's Success in School Book Price: $14.00 Author: EPIC Description: This 80-page book is filled with easy everyday activities for parents to do with their children (ages 4-10), building the parent/child relationship, while encouraging reading, critical thinking, writing, and building good character. Resource Title: Creating Home-School Partnership & Parent Involvement Resource Guide Price: $15.00 Author: EPIC Description: This guide offers "best practices" guidelines for creating home-school partnerships and parent involvement in schools. Tools for a school self-assessment, analysis of strengths and needs, and the creation of a parent involvement plan are provided. Resource Title: Pathways to Character PK-8 Resource Guides for Teachers Price: $30.00 Author: EPIC Description: The teacher guides, grades PK-8, integrate character education into classroom instruction. The activities, tied to NYS learning standards, promote nine character traits which impact responsible behavior, effective decision-making, and civility. Resource Title: Just for Teens Parent & Facilitator Manuals Price: $30.00-$45.00 Author: EPIC Description: Just for Teens curriculum addresses the needs of participants as teens & as parents. Activities ranging from 30-60 minutes cover 24 topics in 4 main areas: Fundamental Parenting Skills, Bonding with Your Child, Relationships, & Personal Well-being. Resource Title: EPIC Parenting Manuals Price: $15.00-$20.00 Author: EPIC Description: EPIC offers programs for Parents of Infants and Toddlers, Parents of Young Children, Parents of Young Adolescents, and a Family Literacy Series - Ready, Set, Read. Manuals provide activities and information to help parents raise responsible children. Families and Schools Together, Inc. 2801 International LaneSuite 212 Madison WI 53704 Voice: 608-663-2382 Fax: 608-663-2336 Web Address: www.familiesandschools.org
Resource Title: After-School Multifamily Groups: A Randomized Controlled Trial Involving Low-Income Latino Children Price: Free Author: McDonald, Moberg, Brown Description: Prevention of drug abuse with the Families and Schools Together (FAST) Program Resource Title: Families and Schools Together: An experimental analysis of a parent-mediated multi-family group program for American Indian children Price: Free Author: Kratochwill, McDonald, Levin, Young Bear-Tibbetts, Demaray Description: Prevention of school failure with the Families and Schools Together (FAST) Resource Title: Families and Schools Together: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Multi-Family Support Groups for Children At Risk Price: Free Author: Kratochwill, McDonald, Levin, Scalia, Coover Description: Prevention of Special Education Referrals with the Families and Schools Together (FAST) Program Families and Work Institute 330 Seventh AvenueNew York NY 10001 Voice: 212-465-2044 Fax: 212-465-8637 Contact: Ellen Galinsky Web Address: www.familiesandwork.org
Resource Title: Ask the Children Price: Paperback - Pub. #V99-01P $14.00, Hardcover - Pub. #V99-01 $25.00 Author: Ellen Galinsky Description: 1999. This study reveals surprising new facts and comprehensive practical ideas for the millions of mothers and fathers struggling to manage work and family life. Ask the Children is the first book to ask children what they really think about work, family, and many other topics. Parents will hear children's perceptions and opinions - both reassuring and insightful. Ellen Galinsky proposes a new conceptual model for understanding how work and family affect our lives. Resource Title: Community Mobilization: Strategies to Support Children and Their Families Price: $22.00 Pub. #C96-01. Author: Amy Laura Dombro, Nina Sazer O'Donnell, Ellen Galinsky, Sarah Gilkeson Melcher, and Abby Farber Description: 1996. 372 pages. This comprehensive guide will lead you through the practical steps needed to turn your vision for community-based action for children and families into reality. The book includes detailed descriptions of successful community collaborations around the country, as well as tips from the service providers, businesses, policy-makers and parents involved. A must for anyone working to create systemic change to improve the quality of services in his or her community. Resource Title: The Seven Lessons of Early Childhood Public Engagement Price: $10.00, #C20-01 Author: Nina Sazer O'Donnell and Ellen Galinsky Description: May, 2000. This brief describes recent early childhood public engagement efforts and outlines lessons for public engagement leaders. Part I defines public engagement and describes how national, state and local leaders have stimulated public engagement in early childhood issues. Part II outlines seven key lessons that informed these efforts. Part III offers concrete tips for how a wide variety of community members-from architects to youth-can take action to promote the healthy development of our nation's youngest children. Family Friendly Schools 411 N. Main StreetGalax VA 24333 Voice: 800-890-7794 Fax: 276-236-9979 Contact: Sam Bartlett, CEO Web Address: www.familyfriendlyschools.com
Resource Title: Making Your School Family Friendly Price: $8.00 Author: Constantino, Steven M Description: Making Your School Family Friendly is specifically designed for high schools to understand the processess necessary to implement explicit family engagement programs to support the academic achievement of high school students. Resource Title: Take This Job and Love It! Price: $15.00 Author: King, Jerry Description: As a highly successful speaker, educator and author, Jerry King is known to educators as the “Attitude Doctor”. Jerry utilizes his unique and effective speaking style to motivate, inspire, and enrich the careers of educators around the country. His experience as a classroom teacher and school administrator enables him to effectively connect with his audience. He had been identified as one of “America’s Training Experts for Educators.” Jerry's most requested seminars are based on his wildly successful book: Take this Job and Love It: The 6 Dynamic Strategies of Successful Teaching. Resource Title: Engaging All Families Price: $21.95 Author: Constantino, Steven M Description: Dr. Constantino's book "Engaging All Families" is designed to help schools and districts design and implement family engagement programs that support the academic and educational lives of children. First Day Foundation 210 Main StreetPO Box 10 Bennington VT 05201 Voice: 802-753-3005 Fax: 802-753-3009 Contact: Evie Herrmann, Executive Director Contact E-mail: evieh@sover.net Web Address: www.firstday.org
Resource Title: First Day Newsletter Price: Free Description: A quarterly newsletter that chronicles the first hand First Day stories of schools and communities that have participated in creative ways in the First Day of School America campaign. Resource Title: First Day of School Activity Guide Price: Free Description: A 36-page guide to assist schools and communities in planning and implementing First Day Celebrations for parents. The Guide contains suggestions for First Day activities at the elementary, middle and high school levels, sample letters to parents, employers and the media, and lists of national resources for family and community involvement. George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education 1730 N. Lynn StreetSuite 401 Arlington VA 22209-2004 Voice: 703-528-3588, 800-925-3223 Fax: 703-528-5973 Contact: Janet Brown Contact E-mail: jbrown@ceee.gwu.edu Web Address: ceee.gwu.edu
Resource Title: Promoting Excellence Series Price: $8 for set Author: CEEE Description: This series of publications is designed to provide tools for those seeking sound, research-based models and strategies for the design or evaluation of services for English Language Learners. Resource Title: State Assessment Policy and Practice for English Language Learners: A National Perspective Author: Charlene Rivera and Eric Collum (Eds.) Description: CEEE research around assessment policies for English language learners has resulted in several major national studies designed to build an understanding of states' strategies for including this student group. This volume contains 3 studies: 1. Analysis of State Assessment Policies Regarding Accommodations for ELLs 2. A Survey and Description of Test Translation Practices 3. Examination of State Practices for Reporting Participation and Performance of English Language Learners in State Assessment Resource Title: An Analysis of State Policies for the Inclusion and Accommodation of English Language Learners in State Assessment Programs during 1998-1999 Price: $10 Author: Charlene Rivera, Charles Stansfield, Lewis Scialdone, and Margaret Sharkey (Eds.) Description: In addition, the 2001 report is supplemented by an online database that includes the following three search online engines at http://r3cc.ceee.gwu.edu/lepstatepolicyreport/Search.asp: 1. Search State Policies - This search presents a list of general policy items such as "State has a policy regarding inclusion/exemption." Selecting policy items from the list and pressing the search button returns a list of states that address the policy items selected. 2. Search Inclusion and Accommodation Decision and Criteria - This search presents a list of decision makers such as students, parents, and teachers as well as a list of criteria such as time in U.S. and time in state's schools. The decision and criteria items can be applied to either inclusion/exemption policy or accommodation policy. 3. Search Accommodation Policies - This search presents a list of accommodations and allows the user to specify whether a certain accommodation is allowed on some components, all components, or not at all. This section also allows the user to specify whether or not state policy indicates that scores are reported when different accommodations are used. Resource Title: Brokering External Policies to Raise Student Achievement: The Case of Plainfield, New Jersey School District Price: free Author: Marilyn Muirhead Description: This report examines the actions taken by Plainfield Public School District (PPS) -- one of the districts affected by the 1998 New Jersey State Supreme Court Abbott decision -- to implement the Abbott policy. Plainfield provides an example of a district that has adopted a CSR model and experienced a significant increase in language arts literacy achievement results across all its elementary schools. Resource Title: Technical Assistance Briefs: Literacy Tutor-Training Manual Price: free Author: Judy Blankenship Cheatham Description: This accessible, jargon-free tutor-training manual can help any motivated adult make a difference in the life of a child who needs help improving his or her reading skills. The manual addresses: * Best practices for tutoring children; * Appropriate children's books; * Assessment and instruction; * Working with the classroom teacher; * Adaptation of content-area materials to tutoring situations; * Age appropriateness and its relationship to tutoring; * Working with the English language learner; * Emerging literacy; * Responsibilities and legal issues; and * Documentation Harvard Family Research Project Longfellow Hall, Appian WayCambridge MA 02138 Voice: 617-495-9108 Fax: 617-495-8594 Contact: Margaret Caspe Web Address: www.hfrp.org
Resource Title: Beyond the Parent-Teacher Conference Price: Free Author: Heather B. Weiss, Holly Kreider, Eliot Levine, Ellen Mayer, Jenny Sadler and Peggy Vaughan Description: AERA Presentation, 1998. Discussions about home-school communication generally focus on formal, scheduled school activities offered to all parents, such as parent-teacher conferences or back-to-school nights. In contrast, this paper examines a variety of alternative communication patterns that are important mechanisms for parents and teachers to gain information and make decisions about children. Resource Title: Early Childhood Digest: Families and Teachers as Partners Price: Free Author: Holly Kreider Description: March, 1998. Early Childhood Digest is a quarterly report on ways that families and schools can work together to help young children learn and grow. This issue provides information on what parents and teachers can do to work together more effectively. Resource Title: Early Childhood Digest: Family Involvement in Early Childhood Programs: How to choose the right program for your child Price: Free Author: Priscilla M.D. Little Description: May, 1998. This issue looks at what parent involvement is and how families and schools can choose early childhood programs that encourage family involvement. Resource Title: Evaluating School-Linked Services: Considerations and Best Practices Price: $8 Author: Karen Horsch Description: 1998. 31 pages. Nine evaluators of school-linked services programs identify considerations and best practices related to evaluating outcomes, sustainability, and collaboration to help determine how school-linked service programs work, what their impact is, and whether they should be expanded. Resource Title: Generating Family-School Partnerships Through Social Marketing Price: Free Author: Sylvia Sensiper Description: 1999. The outgrowth of a meeting of six national organizations promoting family-school partnerships, this article discusses methods to enhance family involvement through social marketing. By arguing that schools should view parents as "customers," teachers and administrators can reach out to parents in effective and successful ways. Resource Title: New Skills for New Schools: Preparing Teachers in Parent Involvement Price: Free Author: Angela M. Shartrand, Heather B. Weiss, Holly M. Kreider, and M. Elena Lopez Description: 1997. This report reviews teacher certification requirements of all 50 states and the District of Columbia and examines 60 teacher-education programs that mention family involvement. The report also identifies nine teacher-education programs that focus on family involvement as an important concept, engage students in hands-on activities, and promote a broad concept of family involvement that recognizes the value of home-school collaboration. Hispanic Policy Development Project 122 East 42nd Street42nd Floor New York NY 10168 Voice: 202-822-8414 Contact: Siobhan O. Nicolau, President
Resource Title: Queridos padres, en los Estados Unidos la escuela es nuestra tambien Description: Parent booklets that contain empathetic messages in Spanish to U.S. Hispanic families explaining the importance of families in education and how families can work with the schools their children attend. Resource Title: Together is Better: Building Strong Partnerships Between Schools and Hispanic Parents Description: This publication presents information, strategies and techniques for teachers, principals, and school districts derived from parent-school partnership projects developed to encourage cooperation between Hispanic families and the schools their children attend. Resource Title: You're a Parent . . . You're a Teacher, Too. Join the Education Team. Description: Parent booklets that contain empathetic messages in English to U.S. Hispanic families explaining the importance of families in education and how families can work with the schools their children attend. KSA-Plus Communications 2300 Clarendon Blvd.Ste. 600 Arlington VA 22201 Voice: 703-528-7100 ext. 114 Fax: 703-528-9692 Contact: Adam Kernan-Schloss, President and CEO Contact E-mail: adam@ksaplus.com Web Address: www.parents.ksaplus.com
Resource Title: Parent Leadership Starter Kit Price: $7.50 Author: Misc. Description: Everything a parent leader needs to know to become a more effective advocate and decision-maker, including quizzes, checklists and lots of useful advice about making use of the No Child Left Behind law. Resource Title: 12 Things Parents Should Know and Expect Price: free PDF download from web site Author: Adam Kernan-Schloss Description: As a parent, here are 12 things you should know about and expect from your schools ... and yourself. Resource Title: The Case for Parent Leadership Price: free PDF download from web site Author: Misc. Description: The publication features a number of useful resources: checklists and mini-quizzes to help you judge how parent-friendly your schools are; practical advice for parents, educators and policymakers on what they can do — right now — to promote the kind of parent involvement that will have a sustained impact on student learning; and examples of successful parent leadership programs from New York to California. Resource Title: Using Data as an Advocacy Tool Price: $5 Author: Adam Kernan-Schloss Description: An 8-page guide that looks at how parents leaders can get smart about their school's data... identify which students are being well-served and which students are not ... and be able to ask the kinds of questions that lead to school improvement. Resource Title: No Child Left Behind: What's in It for Parents Price: $7.50 Author: Anne Henderson Description: This guide takes a closer look at how the new federal law requires schools and districts to involve parents in the hard work of school improvement. Readers also will learn about the six leverage points that parents and community members can use to ensure every child receives a high-quality education. For each leverage point, the guide suggests specific steps parents can take to ensure that their schools are doing what the federal law requires of them. English and Spanish versions. MegaSkills Education Center of the Home and School Institute 1500 Massachusetts Ave NWSpecial Projects Office/Ste. 042 Washington DC 20005 Voice: 202-466-3633 Fax: 202-833-1400 Contact: Dorothy Rich, President Web Address: www.MegaSkillsHSI.org
Resource Title: Age and grade differentiated MegaSkills Books: new for 2003 Price: check with Institute for kit pricing Description: Age and grade differentiated MegaSkills Books new for 2003: Preschool MegaSkills Early Elementary MegaSkills Upper Elementary MegaSkills Middle School MegaSKills School-Home Connections Administrator Guide Resource Title: Improving Student Achievement Through MegaSkills Price: $79 per video with accompanying print materials Author: Dorothy Rich Description: Instructional videos for staff development and parent involvement: age/grade differentiated as above for minibooks: Each Video/DVD (40 min. presentation) has consistent set of features: including new Adult MegaSkills and Family Place. Resource Title: MegaSkills Staff and Family Libraries Author: Institute staff Description: Institute school and family libraries include: MegaSkills: 3rd and 2nd Editions Spanish/English Handbook What Do We Say? What Do We Do? Nurturing the Educational Leader Within You Survival Guide for Today's Parents and related titles Resource Title: MegaSkills Leader Training for Parent Involvement Price: Training Fees Author: Dorothy Rich and Harriett Stonehill Description: MegaSkills Leader Training for Parent Involvement provides training and complete content for a comprehensive series of workshops for parents. The instruction focuses on how MegaSkills can help parents support children's learning at home in partnership with school programs and provides grade coded home, academic learning for parents to do with children. Trainer of trainer is available. Resource Title: MegaSkills Essentials for the Classroom Price: Training Fees Author: Dorothy Rich and Harriett Stonehill Description: MegaSkills Classroom Essentials trains classroom teachers and staff in how to teach MegaSkills directly to students. The instructional program provides a complete curriculum and integrates into the regular work of the classroom in subjects including reading, social studies, science and math. Resource Title: Improving Student Achievement Through MegaSkills Price: check with Institute for kit pricing Author: Dorothy Rich Description: Age and grade differentiated MegaSkills Books new for 2003: Preschool MegaSkills, Early Elementary MegaSkills, Upper Elementary MegaSkills, Middle School MegaSKills, School-Home Connections, Administrator Guide Mississippi Forum on Children and Families 737 N. President StreetJackson MS 39202 Voice: 601-355-4911 Fax: 601-355-4813 Contact: Jill Ivey Dent Contact E-mail: jillivey@mfcf.org Web Address: www.mfcf.org
Resource Title: Big School Newsletters Price: Varies on Quantity Author: Jane P. Boykin & Betty Trotti Description: The letters are written to promote school readiness from a child’s point of view. The ten Big School Newsletters are sent to students that have registered for kindergarten. The letters are sent every week throughout the summer before the children start kindergarten. The letters address children’s concerns about what is going to happen to them at Big School. The Big School Letters encourage reading and promote school readiness. They also give the child much needed self-assurance about the new adventure they are about to begin. Resource Title: Community Classrooms Price: Varies on Quantity Author: Jane P. Boykin & Betty Trotti Description: Community Classrooms is a community development approach to early childhood education. Produced by the Mississippi Forum on Children and Families with the initial development supported in part by the Bell South Foundation, Community Classrooms affirms the important role a community plays in supporting parents and preparing children for school success. Community Classrooms has a parent guide that is 32 pages in an easy to read format that assists parents in identifying the teachable moments of everyday life. There are 13 community classrooms in the parent guide. Each classroom is detailed with a description, eight “Words to Know”, and five “Lessons to Learn”. The guides are splashed with bright colors and simple artwork that parents and children will enjoy. Preparing children for school success is not a difficult job- it’s a joyful job! Teachers in Community Classrooms use three simple curriculum principals: Look, Talk, Listen. Because of the bel! ief that Children are Born to Learn and their Communities are full of teachers, Community Classrooms is designed to use the environment children grow in. Montana Parent Information and Resource Center Network 127 N. HigginsSuite 307 Missoula MT 59802 Voice: 800-914-1927 Fax: 406-721-4584 Contact: Barbara Riley Contact E-mail: briley@montanapirc.org Web Address: www.montanapirc.org
Resource Title: MPIRC Online Newsletter Price: Free Description: This newsletter, sent regularly by the MPRIC office, is full of resources for parents, teachers and administrators, and it's delivered straight to your email inbox. To subscribe to the newsletter, send a blank email to info@montanapirc.org with "Subscribe" in the subject line. Resource Title: Training: Parents as Teachers (PAT) Description: This research-based, nationally recognized, home-based program provides parents with information on child development from birth to age 5, and models learning opportunities that encourage language and intellectual growth, physical and social skills. There are various sessions based on different ages of children Length: 2-5 days Audience: Head Start/Even Start/Early Head Start, home-visiting programs, teen parent program providers Call 1-800-914-1927 or email us at info@montanapirc.org. Resource Title: Training - Families and Schools Together (FAST) Description: FAST is an innovative prevention and parent involvement program that promotes child resilience and preventing school failure, delinquency and substance abuse. Participants will learn how to lead these FAST sessions in their communities. Length: 1-2 days Audience: school staff, parents and community members Call 1-800-914-1927 or email us at info@montanapirc.org. Resource Title: Just the Facts for Montana Parents Price: Free Description: MPIRC is pleased to offer information to parents and educators about roles & responsibilities involved with No Child Left Behind. Contact us for free information, publications & trainings. Resource Title: Family Resource Center Description: Literacy Support Specialist AmeriCorps members coordinate day-to-day operations of school-based Family Resource Centers in western Montana communities. They outreach to parents, providing information and tools for parents to empower themselves in support of children's education. They facilitate literacy-based, parent-child learning activities appropriate for each grade level. And they recruit volunteers from within the school population and the surrounding community to partner with them in planning and facilitating programs for parents and students through the Family Resource Centers they all help create and sustain. http://www.wordinc.org/fam_basics/about_host.htm National Association for the Education of Young Children 1509 16th Street NWWashington DC 20036 Voice: 800-424-2460 Fax: 202-328-1846 Contact: Davida McDonald, Policy Coordinator Contact E-mail: dmcdonald@naeyc.org Web Address: www.naeyc.org
Resource Title: Meeting the Challenge: Effective Strategies for Challenging Behaviors in Early Childhood Environments Price: $9.00 Author: Barbara Kaiser, Judy Sklar Rasminsky Description: This reader-friendly book offers easily understandable ideas and strategies proven to work for children with the most challenging behaviors and to benefit every child in your early childhood setting. Resource Title: Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs, Revised Edition Price: $15.00 Author: Carol Copple, Sue Bredekamp Description: Expanding from the core ideas of the influential 1987 edition, this volume spells out more fully the principles underlying developmentally appropriate practice and guidelines for classroom decision making. The revised edition is explicit about the importance of the social and cultural context in considering appropriateness of practices. For all engaged in the care and education of infants and toddlers, 3- through 5-year-olds, or primary-grade children, this book offers an overview of each period of development and extensive examples of practices appropriate and inappropriate with children in that age group. Resource Title: Learning to Read and Write: Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Young Children Price: $16.00 Author: Carol Copple, Sue Bredekamp, Susan B. Neuman Description: Developmentally appropriate, research-based strategies for promoting children's literacy learning in preschool, kindergarten, and elementary classrooms and infant/toddler settings. Resource Title: Family-Friendly Communication for Early Childhood Programs Price: $10.00 Author: D. Diffily, K. Morrison Description: This practical book puts into your hands engaging messages on topics ranging from biting to the role of play. Tailor these to your program or use them as-is in newsletters, handouts, or other family communiques. Plus, dozens of strategies for bringing parents on board as full, knowledgeable partners in your program. Resource Title: Raising a Reader, Raising a Writer: How Parents Can Help (brochure) Price: $0.50/ $12.00 (100 or more) Description: This appealing brochure is designed to raise parents' awareness of the many enjoyable, no-pressure ways they can contribute to their children's earliest literacy experiences. National Association of Elementary School Principals 1615 Duke StreetAlexandria VA 22314 Voice: 703-684-3345 Fax: 703-548-6021 Contact: Raven Padgett, Director of Communications and Public Information Contact E-mail: rpadgett@naesp.org Web Address: www.naesp.org
Resource Title: Principals in the Public Engaging Community Support Price: NAESP Member: $19.95; Non-member (N/M): $25.95 Description: All the tools and techniques you’ll need to ensure positive engagement of families and the broader community in the life of your school are here. Use this comprehensive resource to:
Resource Title: Report to Parents: A Complete Set - All in English AND Spanish Price: $70.95 Description: Enlist the help of your school’s parents! Regular communication will enhance parents' awareness of the issues affecting their children. More than 80 appealing, easy-to-read bulletins make it easy to stay in touch. Topics include safety, homework, discipline, testing, report cards, stress, and much more. Ready to reproduce, these 80 parent bulletins offer a complete selection of sound information to pass along to the parents in your learning community. Resource Title: Success Starts at Home - Booklet Price: NAESP Member: $10.00; Non-member (N/M): $14.50 Author: NAESP and World Book, Inc. Description: All parents want the best for their youngsters. Most are doing their best. But all parents can use concrete suggestions on how to better support education at home. This bright new 15-page brochure outlines five effective steps to help children do their best. Parents are given many suggestions as they are reminded to:
Resource Title: Raising a Reader: Advice to Parents of Young Readers Price: NAESP member: $12.00; non-member: $16.00. Sold in packages of 25. Description: National Association of Elementary School Principals and World Book Educational Products Answers to the questions parents ask educators. Reading is the tool a child needs most at school, and it is essential for success in nearly every job or career. This practical booklet offers good ideas and encouragement to parents who want to make reading a priority. Topics include:
Resource Title: 176 Ways to Involve Parents Price: $31.95 Author: by Betty Boult Description: This hands-on guide is for educators who recognize both the need to and the benefit of involving parents in a school or the classroom. These practical and ready-to-use ideas were generated from the practice of exemplary educators who consistently involve parents in all aspects of school life. The book presents its ideas in five distinct sections: Making it Happen, Creating the Climate, Sustaining Involvement, Working in the Classroom, and Venturing Beyond the Bake Sale. Resource Title: ABC’s of Effective Parent Communication Price: $26.95 Author: by Dyan Hershman and Emma McDonald Description: Principals understand the importance of working closely with parents to ensure student success. This book gives you concrete guidelines on every aspect of communicating with parents, including making initial contact with parents, staying in touch with phone calls, e-mails, and conferences, talking about student behavior and academic progress, and keeping parents involved as volunteers, tutors and chaperones at events. A great resource for all administrators! Resource Title: Parents and Teachers Working Together Price: $26.95 Author: by Carol Davis and Alice Yang Description: It is essential to develop a strong relationship with students’ parents. Gain tips for instituting a strong relationship with every parent with Parents and Teachers Working Together. This book demonstrates multiple ways to communicate from letter writing to conferencing. Resource Title: Strengthening the Connection between School and Home Price: $26.95 Author: NAESP in cooperation with Educational Research Service Description: Principals play a key role in promoting a strong partnership between a school and its families and in the empowerment of parents to positively affect the education of their children. This book tells you how to give parents that power, as you strengthen the connection between home and school. Resource Title: Raising Tweens: A parent`s guide to understanding your 9- to 12-year old Price: $16.00 Author: by NAESP and Family Circle Description: This brochure helps parents of pre-teens understand the physical, neurological, and emotional changes that occur during the tween (9-12) years. Practical tips on how parents can build their children’s self esteem by teaching valuable life skills are also included. Sold in packs of 25. National Association of School Psychologists 4340 East West HighwaySuite 402 Bethesda MD 20814 Voice: 301-657-0270 Fax: 301-657-0275 Web Address: www.nasponline.org
Resource Title: Communique For Parents Description: NASP's Newsletter for parents. Includes articles on Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), social skills and grade retention. Resource Title: Handbook of Parent Training: Parents as Co-Therapists For Children's Behavior Problems, 2nd Edition Price: $85.95 Author: Edited by James M. Briesmeister and Charles E. Schaefer Description: John Wiley & Sons, 1998, 594 pages. The second edition of this book offers a unique opportunity to learn about the latest empirical findings and clinical developments in parent training from more than 30 leading innovators in the field. It provides complete updated information on behavior problems such as non-compliance, ADHD, and bladder control. Includes new chapters on childhood disorders such as separation anxiety, failure to thrive, eating problems, poor sleep habits and developmental disabilities. There are also chapters on helping children deal effectively with divorce and helping parents handle temperamental and antisocial children. Resource Title: Helping Children at Home and School: Handouts From Your School Psychologist Price: $70.00, $60.00 (Members), 7 or More, $51.00. Author: Edited by Andrea S. Canter and Servio A. Carroll Description: 1998, 630 pages . This collection of the parent/teacher handouts published each month in Communique has quickly become one of NASPs most popular items. This amazingly useful resource from NASP contains over 150 reproducible handouts, in a sturdy three-ring binder, usable when working with students, parents, teachers and other colleagues. Annotated bibliographies are listed on topics such as parenting and Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual issues, What is a School Psychologist? in English and Spanish, and a selection of NASPs positions statements. This is the ideal tool for all your professional and home-school collaborative purposes. Resource Title: Should My Child Repeat A Grade? Price: Free Description: Brochure to help parents with retention decisions. Resource Title: Solve Your Child's School-Related Problems Price: $18.00 Author: Edited by Michael Martin and Cynthia Waltman-Greenwood Description: Harper Perennial, 1995, 282 pages. Covering almost 40 different school related issues, each chapter provides clear definitions, shows parents how to recognize possible problems, describes proven at-home solutions, and finally, provides advice on when professional help may be necessary. Issues covered include ADHD, grading, homework, learning disabilities, perfectionism, study skills, school phobia, and much more.This book is an ideal consultation tool and makes a great resource for parent resource centers. Resource Title: The Unmotivated Child: Helping Your Underachiever Become a Successful Student Price: $13.00 Author: Natalie Rathvon Description: Simon and Schuster, 1997, 224 pages. Do you know a bright child who consistently fails to achieve in school? This book offers solutions that can help him or her make a rapid and lasting improvement. Learn the warning signals to watch for in elementary, middle and high school students. Find out how to look beneath surface behavior for the beliefs that influence an underachievers attitude and actions. Includes: five methods for communicating constructively with an underachiever, seven strategies for overcoming the homework trap, seven practical techniques for working with teachers, guidelines for supporting the student through the change process, including dealing with setbacks. This is an ideal tool for working with parents and teachers to help any child live up to his or her potential. It is also a good, low-cost addition to your schools or community's parenting resource center. Resource Title: Home-School Collaboration: Enhancing Children's Academic and Social Competence Price: $85.95 Author: Edited by Sandra L. Christenson and Jane Close Conoley Description: NASP Publication, 1992, 531 pages. Learn how to enhance the possibilities for students success by fostering collaboration between the school and the home/parents. This comprehensive volume provides conceptual and empirical bases for home-school collaboration, exemplary programs and models for contemporary ethnic issues, and competence enhancement for emotional and behavioral problems. It gives you proven approaches for enhancing home-school collaboration, behavioral interventions, homework, and handling specific populations, such as abused children and children of divorce. National Association of Secondary School Principals 1904 Association DriveReston VA 22090 Voice: 703-860-0200 Fax: 703-476-5362 Contact: Josephine Franklin Contact E-mail: franklinj@principals.org Web Address: www.nassp.org
Resource Title: All Kids Can Learn Toolkit Price: $45.00 Author: Produced by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and Collaborative Communications Group Description: Use this toolkit at faculty meetings, during professional development workshops, at district meetings, and with parent groups to start a dialogue about school improvement and how high standards can improve student achievement and teacher and principal performance. Includes: (2) Schools That Learn: High Standards for Teacher and Principal Performance. A 28-minute videotape that paints a picture of what effective standards-based classrooms, instruction, and schools look like. Schools That Learn documents good practice in three diverse school districts in Texas, California, and Kentucky. The accompanying discussion guide can open up discussions among educators about how they can get all students achieving at high levels. (3) Expecting Success: How Standards Raise Student Performance. This 14-minute videotape helps parents understand what standards really mean to their child's education and explains, through the voices of parents, commonly used terms like "standards" and "rubric." The videotape and the accompanying discussion guide are excellent tools for building the relationship between home and school.
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Figuring It Out: Standards-Based Reforms in Urban Middle Grades.
Anne C. Lewis describes how six very different urban districts tackled
standards-based reform in their middle schools. She concludes by outlining what
standards based reforms need to continue. Resource Title: Building Parent Involvement Practitioner Price: $2 (members), $3 (non-members). Author: Leon Lynn Description: May, 1994. This newsletter defines the scope of the challenge, innovative programs in eight urban schools, and Epstein's six types of cooperation among families, schools and other community organizations. Resource Title: Conducting Effective Conferences with Parents Price: $54.95 (members), $59.95 (non-members). Description: Videotape. Resource Title: The Cornucopia Kids -- Revised Edition Price: $1.75 (members), $2.75 (non-members). Author: Bruce A. Baldwin Description: 1996, 20 pp. Baldwin expands on his popular earlier work with more common sense and thought-provoking suggestions for turning today's teenagers into productive and happy adults. A must for every parent, teacher, and principal. Resource Title: Creating Our Future: Parents as Partners in Education Price: $54.95 (members), $59.95 (non-members). Description: High School Magazine, March 1995. Establishing strong school-home partnerships, preparing students for college success, updating the secondary school business curriculum, evaluating support staff members. Resource Title: From Information to Interaction: Involving Parents in the Literacy Development of Their Adolescent Price: $12 (members), $15 (non-members). Author: James A. Rycik Description: Bulletin. October 1998. Resource Title: Gold Files Selected Articles on Parenting Price: $35.00 each Description: Each Gold File, assembled by the Bureau of Educational Research and Services at Arizona State University's College of Education, contains approximately 60-100 pages of selected articles that are systematically updated to reflect the most current thinking on the subjects. Topics available include:
Resource Title: Helping Students Develop Self-Motivation: A Sourcebook for Parents and Educators Price: $9.00 Author: Donald R. Grossnickle Description: 1989. 32 pp. Parents and educators must work together to provide opportunities for students to develop self-motivation and self-management skills. This book is a blueprint for working with students. Resource Title: Helping Your Kid Make The Grade Price: $2.50 Author: Sandy Dornbusch Description: 1986. 12 pp. A university professor teamed up with high school principals to find out how family life affects school performance. This booklet describes their conclusions and suggests how educators and parents can help students make the grade. Resource Title: How Parents and Students Can Enrich the Work of a Community of Learners Price: $12 (members), $15 (non-members). Author: Anne Wescott-Dodd Description: Bulletin. February 1999. Resource Title: How To Improve Parent-Teacher Conferences: A Guide for Parents from the Principal Price: $2 (members), $3 (non-members). Author: Les Potter Description: From Tips for Principals, March 1996. Resource Title: Schools in the Middle Price: Each issue is $5.00 (Members), $7.00 (Non-members). Description: Publication of the NASSP. Some issues specific to parent involvement include "Parental Involvement." September/October 1997. "Parent, Family, and Community Involvement in the Middle Grades." Schools in the Middle. March 1999. "Families Play a Role.". May/June 1999. National Association of State Boards of Education NASBE Policy Clearinghouse1012 Cameron Street Alexandria VA 22314 Voice: 703-684-4000 Fax: 703-836-2313 Web Address: www.nasbe.org
Resource Title: Caring Communities: Report of the National Task Force on School Readiness Price: $10.00 Description: 1991, 56 pp. This report redefines school readiness and presents a vision for what schools, communities, families, and federal and state governments must do if the nation is to meet the important national goal of ensuring that every child comes to school ready to learn. The Task Force was chaired by then-governor Bill Clinton. Resource Title: Creating Good Schools for Young Children: Right from the Start Price: $12.00 Description: 1995, 48 pp. This is a study of 11 developmentally appropriate elementary school programs based on the principles set out in Right from the Start. It provides detailed descriptions of the programs, looks at how they were developed, gives results in terms of student achievement and other indicators, and reviews the lessons learned. Resource Title: Online Reports and Policy Briefs on Family Involvement Price: Free Description: NASBE has published the following reports and policy briefs concerning family involvement:
Resource Title: Right from the Start Price: $8.50 Description: 1988, 55 pp. This is a report of NASBE's Early Childhood Education Task Force, which held hearings and visited schools in four cities to gather information on the status of early childhood learning. Now in its sixth printing, this seminal work calls for developmentally appropriate, ungraded elementary school units to serve children 4-8 and for new partnerships between schools and early childhood programs and community agencies. Resource Title: Winning Ways: Creating Inclusive Schools, Classrooms, and Communities Price: $12.00 Description: 1995, 48 pp. This follow-up report to Winners All takes an in-depth look at the roles a variety of groups and organizations (including teachers, parents, board members, administrators, and higher education) can play in promoting inclusive education. Based on individual interviews and focus group discussions with people actually involved in creating inclusive educational settings, Winning Ways provides each group with recommendations, strategies for action, and pitfalls to be avoided. National Center for Education and the Economy 700 11th Street NWSuite 750 Washington DC 20001 Voice: 202-783-3668 Fax: 202-783-3672 Web Address: www.ncee.org
Resource Title: For Our Children: A Parent's Guide to New Standards Price: Free Description: Most Americans, particularly parents, believe that the expectations, or standards, that schools hold for our children are too low. Research, common sense and experience show us that raising expectations -- setting higher standards -- helps our children learn more. Research shows that students learn more when expectations are higher. The following pages illustrate how New Standards taps that desire to learn and helps children like yours live up to their academic promise. Resource Title: Speaking & Listening for preschool through the third grade Price: $45.00 Description: Book/CD-ROM from New Standards®. This resource spells out the skills children need to learn in preschool, in kindergarten and 1st grade, and know by 2nd and 3rd grade. It answers these questions for early childhood educators and childcare providers: How do children develop speaking and listening skills? Why is talking so important? What should children talk about — and why? What instruction helps children develop into competent — and confident — speakers? Resource Title: New Standards® Primary Literacy Standards Price: $45.00 Description: The New Standards Primary Literacy Standards give teachers and parents examples of the kind of reading and writing that children should be able to do in kindergarten through 3rd grade. Drawn from real classrooms, these work samples even include a CD-ROM of recordings of children reading specially identified books that allow adults to rate their progress against the standards. The New Standards Primary Literacy Standards are an unprecedented set of grade-by-grade expectations in reading and writing for students in kindergarten through 3rd grade. They state what primary grade students should know and be able to do, and how well they should be able to perform. The Primary Literacy Standards challenge traditional classroom practice by giving equal weight to the teaching of reading and writing, linking the skills in one to the other. Resource Title: What Parents Need to Know About Reading and Writing Price: $3.00 Description: Parents want to help their children become better readers and writers. To be able to do this, parents have to know what the standards are and how good is good enough when it comes to reading and writing in the primary grades. To help parents, New StandardsTM has created a clearly written and vividly illustrated handbook for parents. What parents need to know about reading & writing provides examples of what books children should be reading and samples of how they should be writing for grades kindergarten through third grade. At each grade level, the handbook provides tips that can help children meet their grade level expectations. These tips are displayed as a convenient, tear-out poster at the back of the handbook. With the information in this handbook, parents can make reading and writing a fun family experience. This handbook is a companion to the award-winning Reading & Writing: grade by grade — primary literacy standards for kindergarten through third grade Resource Title: New Standards(TM) Student Performance Standards Price: Complete set (Elementary, Middle School, High School, Video) $120.00, any individual volume plus video is $45.00. Video only, $8.00. Description: The performance standards are the result of a two-year effort to make standards operational. They not only provide clear expectations for student achievement, but also include numerous examples of student work that show what work that meets standards looks like. These standards are the basis of the New Standards assessment system. Published in three volumes – elementary, middle, and high school, each volume contains performance standards for English language arts, mathematics, science, and applied learning. A unique feature of the standards is a video showing standard setting work for the "speaking and listening" standard. The video shows how each student performance is linked to the standards and why that performance counts as standard-setting. Resource Title: America's Choice Curriculum and Instruction Materials for New Standards(TM) Price: $8.00 each Description: "How will the adoption of the New Standards Performance Standards or other state and local standards change my instruction and curriculum?" Classroom teachers with this query find that much is written about standards reform in general, but very little of it deals with how standards impact a classroom, its rituals, routines, procedures, artifacts, and the instructional strategies that enable students to progress toward achieving standards. These booklets describe a composite of "best practices" from successful standards-based classrooms at the elementary and secondary levels. Resource Title: Ramping-Up: Secondary Students as Writers Price: $25.00 Description: Ramping-Up exercises are designed for use with secondary school students who have no history as writers and little, if any, interest in writing. The aim of Ramping-Up is simple: accelerate the students to the point where they can merge with the flow of their regular standards-based classroom and successfully handle demanding curriculum at their grade level. Ramping-Up is a cumulative sequence of five sets of writing exercises that are organized in such a way that the skills developed in previous exercises are reinforced and synthesized with new skills worked out in later activities. Th final assignment is not simply another exercise – it is a synthesis of all of the exercises and the culminating event of a series of exercises that work together to create a particular kind of writing experience. It is an experience aimed at generating confidence, fluency and skill in student writers who up to this point have had difficulty writing in the classroom. Resource Title: Thinking for a Living – Education and the Wealth of Nations Author: Ray Marshall and Marc Tucker Description: You'll immediately understand how this groundbreaking book found its way to the top of the most influential American policymaker's reading lists - including President Bill Clinton's, who recommended the book to his entire staff. Why the widespread popularity? Because authors Ray Marshall and National Center on Education and the Economy President Marc Tucker present the most timely and compelling report available on the current state of our education system, and the enormous chasm that needs to be crossed between our students' preparedness and their abilities to function in a new economy. The need for education reform is real, the timeline is urgent, and the necessity for families, communities, and businesses to maximize the skills of future workers will never have a greater impact on our quality of life. National Center for Family & Community Connections with Schools at the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory 211 East Seventh StreetAustin TX 78701 Voice: 800-476-6861 Fax: 512-476-2286 Contact: Lucy Wood Web Address: www.sedl.org/connections/
Resource Title: Emerging Issues in School, Family, and Community Connections Price: $14 Author: Catherine Jordan, Amy Averett, Deborah Donnelly, Marilyn Fowler, Margaret Myers, Evangelina Orozco, Lacy Wood Description: This research synthesis is the first in a series that will examine key issues in the field of family and community connections with schools. The issues highlighted in this synthesis represent critical areas of work in family and community connections with schools where clarification, agreement, and further development are needed, as well as promising new directions that are emerging. It is based on a review of over 160 publications. Resource Title: National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools Annotated Bibliography 2001 Price: Free Description: This publication is an annotated bibliography of recent journal articles, books, reports, conference papers and proceedings, and literature reviews related to school, family, and community connections. Researchers and practitioners can use this bibliography as a tool for accessing current research-based information, theory, and practice. This bibliography is also available as a searchable database on the Center's website. Resource Title: Creating Collaborative Action Teams Price: Masters $225.00; CD-ROM of all materials (English only) $39.95; Print and CD-ROM package $250.00 Author: Catherine Jordan, Amy Averett, Jerry Elder, Evangelina Orozco, Zena Rudo Description: This guide and toolkit consist of activities and resources that individuals, school districts, and other organizations can use to build partnerships between home, school, community, and students. Developed and tested with 22 different local sites over five years, these materials guide participants through a five-stage Collaborative Action Team development process. Materials are available in English, Spanish, and on CD-ROM Resource Title: Resource Guide for Planning and Operating After-School Programs Price: $18.00 for printed version, available online free. Description: This guide provides a description of timely, inexpensive resources to support after-school programs for school-aged children. Many of the materials in the guide also represent resources for before-school, summer programs and community learning centers. Resource Title: Thriving Together: Connecting Rural School Improvement and Community Development Price: $39.95 (Print materials, English or Spanish), $29.95 CD-ROM (English only) Author: Martha Boethel Description: Thriving Together is designed to give practitioners the background information and basic tools needed to get started with a joint school-community development effort. It includes worksheets to help you get started with your project and an extensive resources section to link you to other organizations and publications. Available in English, Spanish, and on CD-ROM. National Center for Family Literacy 325 West Main StreetSuite 300 Louisville KY 40202 Voice: 502-584-1133 x134 Fax: 502-584-0172 Contact: Brenda W. Logan, Director School Reform Initiatives Contact E-mail: blogan@famlit.org Web Address: www.famlit.org
Resource Title: Training Price: See Website Description: The National Center for Family Literacy is the premiere organization for the delivery of family literacy training. Emphasizing the most recent language and literacy research, our training distills proven methods into practical solutions. Resource Title: PACT Time in the Elementary School Video Kit Price: $75 Description: PACT Time in the Elementary School Video Kit This video kit provides teachers and/or parents the opportunity to see PACT Time for school-age children (ages 5-12)in action. The kit includes one 12-minute video, one facilitator's guide, 10 participants' manuals, and 20 completion certificates. It is designed to facilitate both an overview training session and a more in-depth training session for those who are interested in implementing interactive literacy activities with parents and children in the elementary school setting. (2001) Resource Title: Pathways: A Primer for Family Literacy Program Design and Development Price: $21 Description: This practical guide traces the steps for starting and maintaining a quality family literacy program, from initial community assessment to strategies for success that include evaluation, recruitment and retention, and raising public awareness. The book offers insights to program planning based on 10 years experience in family literacy implementation and training. Resource Title: Stories of Impact: Improving Parent Involvement Through Family Literacy in the Elementary School Price: $14 Description: This inspiring and practical book examines how famiy literacy impacts children's outcomes by increasing parent involvement and helping parents improve their own skills. The book also provides real program examples of blended funding opportunities and success stories from the Toyota Families in Schools program implemented in 45 Title I schools across the nation. Resource Title: Recruitment and Retention for Family Literacy Programs Kit Price: $55 Description: Tools, resources and guidance that every literacy program needs. This kit includes a guidebook filled with straightforward ideas for engaging adult students and keeping them motivated. National Clearinghouse for Comprehensive School Reform George Washington University2121 K Street NW Suite 250 Washington DC 20037 Voice: 877-766-4CSR Fax: 202-833-4891 Contact: Monica R. Martinez, Director for Outreach Web Address: www.centerforcsri.org
Resource Title: Benchmarks Price: Free Description: NCCSR's quarterly newsletter. Past topics include:
Resource Title: Catalog of School Reform Models Price: Free Description: Last spring, NCCSR and the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory formed a partnership to update the Catalog of School Reform Models. Over the past several months we have added new models to the Catalog, updated all of the contact and cost information, and created a sorting mechanism. To help educators find the right model to meet their school's needs, users can now search by:
Resource Title: School Reform Issue Briefs Price: Free Description: Occasional papers covering a wide array of trends and issues in CSR, NCCSR Issue Briefs are designed to be of interest to CSR researchers, policymakers and practitioners. Recent briefs include:
Resource Title: Step by Step Price: Free Description: A part of the NCCSR web site designed to help people who are thinking about school change with their planning and research. School change is a multi-faceted process involving many steps, and this collection of tools is for educators to use during the multiple stages of the change process. This site presents a suggested progression for the reform process. Resource Title: Unlocking the Nine Components of CSRD Price: Free Description: CSRD, the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration program funded by the U.S. Department of Education, requires that participating schools develop and implement school improvement plans with the following nine components: goals, supportive staff members, research-based methods, external assistance, parental and community involvement, staff development, coordination of resources, evaluation and comprehensive approach. This publication provides dozens of online resources on these components to help educators create effective schoolwide improvement plans. National Community Education Association 3929 Old Lee HighwaySuite 91-A Fairfax VA 22030 Voice: 703-359-8973 Fax: 703-359-0972 Contact: Beth Robertson Contact E-mail: brobertson@ncea.com Web Address: www.ncea.com
Resource Title: Grantseeking: How to Find a Funder and Write a Winning Proposal Price: Single copy: $14.95, 2–9 copies: $12.95, 10 or more: $9.95 Author: Larry E. Decker and Virginia A. Decker Description: Here, in plain English, is a detailed road map of the sequential activities followed by successful grantseekers. The entire grantseeking process — from generating a good idea through identifying the right funder, writing a winning proposal, and administering the grant — is laid out in detail, with models and examples. Both novice and experienced grantseekers find this volume Resource Title: The "Hard-to-Reach" Parent: Old Challenges, New Insights Price: Single copy: $11.95, 2–9 copies: $9.95, 10 or more: $7.95 Author: Renee White-Clark and Larry Decker Description: The popular stereotype of "at risk" families is that the adults are unemployed and the family is on welfare. The truth is that two-thirds of the people on welfare are working: 38 percent of poor families receive no public cash assistance at all. Some poor parents do experience unspeakable hardships, but the faith and determination of many have enabled them to overcome enormous obstacles to achievement. This monograph provides a realistic view of the "hard-to-reach" and gives insights for getting parents involved in the education of their children. Resource Title: Home, School, and Community Partnerships Price: Single copy: $28.95, 10 or more: $24.95 Author: Larry E. and Virginia A. Decker Description: Many Americans worry about what they see as a growing gulf between the American public and its public schools. Troubling trends seem to indicate a fraying relationship among families, schools and communities. Though there is agreement that change needs to occur, there is no agreement on the best way to make that change. This book will help educators weave some of the best ideas for creating and sustaining family and community engagement into a comprehensive home-school-community partnership program tailored to their own communities. Please see NCEA's Publications and Products page for details and ordering information. Resource Title: Transforming Schools into Community Learning Centers Price: $29.95 per copy Author: Steve Parson Description: This practical new book with a vision of the future of education is by long-time NCEA member Steve Parson. Steve is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Virginia Tech. He also is a consultant and trainer in the fields of community education, educational partnerships, and education reform. Transforming Schools into Community Learning Centers demonstrates how your school can: Provide services to the entire community, not just to school-age children; and Develop community resources as an integral part of the school's instructional program. Further, the book profiles sites at which various components of the vision have already been set in motion. And it provides guidelines for implementation developed from real experiences at real schools. Resource Title: Reforming Public Schools through Community Education Price: 1–9 copies: $24.95, 10+ copies: $19.96 Author: Jack D. Minzey and Clyde E. LeTarte Description: Authors Jack Minzey and Clyde LeTarte offer an up-to-date analysis of the status of education today, with a prescription for hope and a method for action through community education. Minzey and LeTarte clearly explain community education in practice and philosophy and show how community education is the framework for creating learning communities called for in virtually every reform effort. National Council of La Raza 1111 19th Street NWSuite 1000 Washington DC 20036 Voice: 202-785-1670 Fax: 202-776-1792 Web Address: www.nclr.org
Resource Title: Academia del Pueblo: Math and Science Price: $45.00 Description: 600 pp. Part of the Project EXCEL series, ADP-MAS aims to increase and strengthen informal math and science education opportunities for Hispanic elementary school students. ADP-MAS is designed to be implemented by community-based teachers and para-educators in collaboration with neighborhood schools. Curriculum highlights include Nuestro Mundo Creativo (Our Creative World) work stations, which feature connections between the lessons presented and the arts. Literature Links connect math and science to stories, poetry and picture books, and Parent Links tie home experiences to classroom learning. Available in English with English and Spanish student handouts. Resource Title: Job Readiness Tool Kit Price: $15 Description: 240 pp. The Job Readiness Tool Kit is a unique resource for community-based job readiness programs serving Latino youth and adults. Lesson plans guide instructors through culturally-relevant, interactive exercises for job training workshops or entire courses. Lessons use worksheets, discussions, research, interviews with peers or mentors, role-plays, group projects, presentations, self-assessment exercises, and games. The Tool Kit addresses: Getting Started and Motivated; Self-Assessment and Promotion; Job Search and Selection; Applying for the Job; Getting Ahead in the Workplace; Problem-Solving At Work; and Career Planning. The Tool Kit was made possible by a grant from the Coors Brewing Company. Available in both English and Spanish. Resource Title: Project Success Price: $65.00 Description: 870 pp. Part of the Project EXCEL series, Project Success is an after-school academic enrichment curriculum for at-risk adolescents. Law-related education (LRE), in the context of citizenship in a constitutional democracy, is the central focus of this curriculum. Students will be exposed to constitutional, consumer, and housing law, as well as some aspects of criminal law. Available in English with English and Spanish student handouts. Resource Title: Sabemos y Podemos: Learning for Social Action Price: $15 Description: 220 pp. In the Sabemos y Podemos: Learning for Social Action curriculum, "power" means using language and literacy skills, not as ends in themselves, but as a means to social action. A resource for ESL, Literacy, or Adult Basic Education programs, Sabemos y Podemos explores: school success for Latino children, expanding work options and improving working conditions for Latinos, and identifying community issues that might range from tenant concerns to police harassment. It provides guidelines for organizing for change, and for forming alliances with youth, parents, teachers, co-workers, and community members. Funded by Western Union, as part of their Aprender Es Poder education program. Available in both English and Spanish. National Crime Prevention Council 1000 Connecticut Ave., NWThirteenth Floor Washington DC 20036 Voice: 202-261-4160 Fax: 202-296-1356 Contact: Meghan Sharp, Program Manager Contact E-mail: msharp@ncpc.org Web Address: www.ncpc.org
Resource Title: Be Safe and Sound - School Safety Resources Price: Free Description: NCPC's Be Safe & Sound campaign is an effort to get parents and caregivers involved in increasing the safety and security of their children’s schools. To that end, NCPC has produced two resources: "Caregivers’ Guide to School Safety and Security," and "School Safety and Security Toolkit: A Guide for Parents, Schools, and Communities." Visit www.ncpc.org/besafe for more information and to sign up for our newsletter. Resource Title: Teens, Crime, and the Community Price: Varies Description: Teens, Crime, and the Community (TCC) is NCPC's national initiative to get teens involved in crime prevention to make themselves safer and their communities stronger. "Community Works", the TCC curriculum, uses education and action to teach youth about their chances of victimization and what they can do about it. Youth Safety Corps, the TCC club model, mobilizes students to improve the learning environment of their schools by designing and running projects to prevent youth crime, violence, and drug abuse. Visit www.nationaltcc.org for more information. Resource Title: Resources for Children and Their Caregivers Price: Varies Description: NCPC’s publications for children address a wide range of topics, including home and neighborhood safety, bullying, alcohol and drugs, conflict management, media violence, diversity, and Internet safety. For example, “Helping Kids Handle Conflict” includes imaginative activities to help children learn nonviolent ways to settle arguments, deal with bullies, and avoid fights. “Get the Message! McGruff’s Tool Kit To Keep Children Safe” helps school administrators give children the knowledge and skills around such issues as bullying, conflict management, and appreciating diversity. For more information and to order, visit www.mcgruffstore.org. Resource Title: Children's Website: McGruff.org Description: McGruff.org is a resource for both parents and children. Children can have fun while learning about safety; the site provides comic books, puzzles, and quizzes on a variety of issues from bullying to smoking and drugs to internet safety. Parents will find important tips and information that will help them teach their children how to be safer at home and in the community. Resource Title: McGruff Strategies Center Price: Free Description: The McGruff Strategies Center is a "virtual institute" created to expose crime prevention advocates to examples of others' successes. This online forum and resource center is a platform for communities to tell their crime prevention story. It was developed on the premise that the key to effective crime prevention is cooperation and coordination among the criminal justice, social, economic, family, and other systems that make up a community. Visit www.ncpc.org/strategies to check it out. National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY) 1825 Connecticut Ave NWSuite 700 Washington DC 20009 Voice: 800-695-0285, 202-884-8200 TTY: (800) 695-0285; (202) 884-8200 Fax: 202-884-8441 Contact: Information Specialist Contact E-mail: nichcy@aed.org Web Address: www.nichcy.org
Resource Title: Developing Your Child's IEP Price: Free Author: Theresa Rebhorn Description: Written expressly for parents by a parent, this 28-pager gets to the heart and soul of the IEP. It looks at every component of this all-important document. Find it online at: www.nichcy.org/InformationResources/Documents/NICHCY%20PUBS/pa12.pdf Resource Title: Building The Legacy: A Training Curriculum On IDEA 2004 Price: Free Description: The curriculum is intended to help all those involved with children with disabilities understand and implement the IDEA 2004, the nation's special education law. Available online at www.nichcy.org/Laws/IDEA/Pages/BuildingTheLegacy.aspx Resource Title: Categories of Disability Under IDEA Resource Price: Free Description: If you want to find out how IDEA defines the disability categories under which a child may be found eligible for services, this publication will tell you. Posted online at: www.nichcy.org/InformationResources/Documents/NICHCY%20PUBS/gr3.pdf Resource Title: Your Child's Evaluation Price: Free Description: How schools determine if a student has a disability and is eligible for special education? This 4 pager describes IDEA's requirements for evaluation. Posted online at: www.nichcy.org/InformationResources/Documents/NICHCY%20PUBS/GR3/PDF Resource Title: Questions Often Asked by Parents about Special Education Services Price: Free Description: Here is a comprehensive but brief look at the special education process from start to finish, beginning with the question "Why is my child struggling in school?" Posted online at: www.nichcy.org/InformationResources/Documents/NICHCY%20PUBS/lg1 National Dropout Prevention Center Clemson University209 Martin Street Clemson University Clemson SC 29631-1555 Voice: 864-656-2599 Fax: 864-656-0136 Contact: Marty Duckenfield Contact E-mail: mbdck@clemson.edu Web Address: www.dropoutprevention.org
Resource Title: Family Literacy Strategies Resource Price: $8 Author: D.A. Stegelin Description: This publication is a follow-up to Early Literacy Education and focuses on family strategies to encourage literacy. Resource Title: Parent Involvement in Service-Learning Price: $7 Author: Cathy Berger Kaye Description: Prevent "parent dropout." Learn how to involve parents of children of all ages through service-learning. Resource Title: Solutions to the Dropout Crisis Price: Free Author: NDPC Staff Description: This is a live radio webcast that is archived each month on different dropout prevention strategies. Go to www.dropoutprevention.org/webcast National Education Association's Read Across America National Education Association1201 16th Street NW Washington DC 20036 Voice: 202-822-7289 Fax: 202-822-7292 Contact: Anita Merina Contact E-mail: amerina@nea.org Web Address: www.nea.org/readacross
Resource Title: Read Across America Resource Calendar National Education Knowledge Industry Association 1718 Connecticut Avenue NWSuite 700 Washington DC 20009 Voice: 202-518-0847 Fax: 202-785-3849 Contact: Richard Hershman, Vice President for Legislative Affairs Web Address: www.nekia.org
Resource Title: Washington Update Price: Free Description: These publications will keep you informed about what's happening with education research and development and the federal government. National Fatherhood Initiative 101 Lake Forest BoulevardSuite 360 Gaithersburg MD 20877 Voice: 301-948-0599 Fax: 301-948-4325 Web Address: www.fatherhood.org
Resource Title: The 10 Greatest Gifts I Give My Children: Parenting from the Heart Price: $12.00 Author: Steven W. Vannoy, Fireside Press Description: The 10 Greatest Gifts project is dedicated to taking the struggle out of parenting and putting the joy back in. Its goal is to help families create their own unique family vision along with a working, proactive plan to nurture and fulfill this vision. Resource Title: The Fatherhood Movement: A Call to Action Price: $60.00 Author: Wade F. Horn, Ph.D., David Blankenthorn, and Mitch Perlstein, Lexington Books Description: The fatherhood movement has established itself as the most innovative and effective response to the most daunting crisis facing American families. Written by the movement's founders, The Fatherhood Movement illustrates methods for reconnecting men with their children and restoring the fragile bonds that hold our society together. This book provides valuable insights into the historical, social, economic and spiritual dimensions of the "disappearance" of fathers from society. Reflecting the complex nature of this problem, the contributors include activists, politicians, public intellectuals, and academics from a broad range of disciplines. They not only identify the root causes of the widespread withdrawal of fathers from their family life, but also offer specific remedies on individual, local, and national levels. This book is a timely and important contribution to a topic of growing concern to all Americans. Resource Title: Fatherhood Today Price: Free Description: Fatherhood Today, the National Fatherhood Initiative's quarterly newsletter, updates members and friends about the activities and progress of NFI in addition to providing informed discussion on a wide range of issues dealing with fathers, fatherhood, and the fatherhood renewal movement. Resource Title: Father Involvement: For Such a Time as This Price: $7.50 Author: Ron J. Clark, MPP Description: Filled with valuable lessons and tips for individual fathers and for professionals who work with them, this book offers an effective tool in today's quest to improve father involvement. A happily married, proud father of two sons, Clark is the Director of the Virginia Fatherhood Campaign and has worked as a consultant to several private and public youth and family service agencies across the nation. Resource Title: Multicultural Counseling With Teenage Fathers Price: $29.95 Author: Mark S. Kiselica, Sage Publications Description: An up-to-date and in-depth guide for dealing with teenage fathers, this volume provides a framework for responding to not only the general but also the culturally specific needs of any given unwed teen father. Offering perceptive solutions, the author significantly contributes to the existing literature on how to help teenage men who face unplanned, out-of-wedlock fatherhood by providing clear and concise guidance within the web of legal, family and personal issues surrounding teenage fatherhood. The book examines the role of the teenage father's relationships - to his parents, his child, the mother of his child and her parents, and his peers - as they relate to his adjustment and changing worldview. While sensitive to cultural considerations, Multicultural Counseling with Teenage Fathers illuminates ways in which to encourage teenage fathers to take control of their lives and act responsibly regardless of cultural background. Resource Title: Parents as Mentors Price: $14.00 Author: Sandra Burt & Linda Perlis Description: An exciting new way to approach parenting that will make a magical difference in a child's life. Parents as Mentors is not just another parenting book. It is a book that will help every mother and father succeed in the most important undertaking of their lives: shaping the life of their child. This positive and reassuring guide answers many common parenting questions with sensitivity and authority, drawing from the most enduring concepts in research and theory as well as the authors' 27 years of practical parenting. In this hectic age, this book illustrates the most effective ways parents and children can maximize their limited time. The authors provide a plan on how to develop a child's full potential simply by learning to identify, affirm, and develop his or her natural talents and abilities. Resource Title: Playing to Learn Brochures: Activities for Parents and Children Price: $4.00 Description: These offer a collection of creative, colorful child development brochures packed with activities and ideas that promote the joys of parent-child interaction. The brochures are written and organized in a clear, respectful, approachable style, and suggest creative playthings that are easily located and cost little or nothing. They are useful for parents with varied reading abilities, resources and backgrounds. Set of 4 brochures (Birth to Six Months, Six to Twelve Months, One to Three Years, Three to Five Years). Also available in Spanish. Resource Title: Responsible Men, Responsible Fathers: Curriculum Price: The curriculum is available in two formats: a two-day train-the-trainer workshop for up to 25 professionals ($1000 plus expenses); or purchase the curriculum alone for $35.00. Author: Randell D. Turner, Ph.D. & Neil Tift Description: This is a 12-module parent education curriculum for fathers and men with limited literacy skills. Resource Title: The Better Homes and Gardens New Father Book: What Every Father Needs to Know to be a Good Dad Price: $9.95 Author: Wade F. Horn, Ph.D, and Jeffrey Rosenberg Description: Meredith Books and the National Fatherhood Initiative have teamed up to create the state-of-the-art fathering book for new dads. It offers practical tips on everything from what to expect from a new baby to how to effectively discipline older children. The book is based on the authors' personal and professional experiences. An indispensable guide that every new father — and even more experienced fathers — can turn to for answers about such matters as:
Resource Title: Coaching for Fatherhood Price: $13.95 Author: Lewis Epstein, New Horizon Press Description: Coaching for Fatherhood outlines a step by step method to revitalize fatherhood, utilizing family histories and participants. It expands men's visions of themselves and the families that formed them. Through it, men can learn to actively participate in their present families, develop a stronger sense of themselves, and become truly involved in their children's lives. Resource Title: Complete Smart Dads Toolkit Price: $39.95 Author: Paul Lewis, Family University Description: Fathers in the 90s are waking up ... to their unique contributions to child development ... to the rewards of being much more than banker and disciplinarian! This Complete Smart Dads Toolkit provides the balanced mix of practical strategies, tools and creative techniques to give your child a powerful legacy of love and support. Seven items included in the convenient storage case are: Terrific Tips for Dads, day to day ways to instill fifteen important skills, attitudes and values in toddlers through teenagers; Dad Plan Quick Reference Playbook, 64 pages of planning sheets, resources for effective family meetings, chores, action plans and more; Five Key Habits Key Ring; "Quick Talk" Conversation-Starter Cards, 45 quick reference guides to launch a great conversation at mealtimes, bedtimes or drive-times with your child; Climb and Repel, a game to build the dad/child relationship; Dad Trax, a cassette of ten segments of fathering tips for "drive-time" listening; and, Five Key Habits of Smart Dads cassette (see description later in the While Supplies Last section). National Head Start Association 1651 Prince StAlexandria VA 22314 Voice: 703-739-0875 Fax: 703-739-0878 Web Address: www.nhsa.org
Resource Title: Parent Involvement: A Training Manual for Head Start Staff Price: Free Description: This new staff-focused training manual includes exercises to use in your staff development and training workshops and instructions on how to conduct an ongoing peer group for social services and parent involvement staffs. Resource Title: Parent's Guide After Head Start: Success in Public School Price: $4 for non-members, $2 for members. Discounts available if you buy in bulk. Description: This guide offers easy, practical, common sense steps to help parents and students make the transition from Head Start to public schools . Checklists guide parents through the multiple steps of transition, from meeting the new teacher to becoming involved with the parent-teacher association. In English and Spanish. Resource Title: The V2K Tool Kit for Voter Participation: A Voter Participation and Lobbying Guide for Head Start Parents, Staff, and Friends Price: Free Description: With nearly 18 million former Head Start children and their families nationwide, and more than 835,000 children in the Program today, the Head Start community stands to make a major impact in the upcoming elections. This user-friendly guide shows you how to make your voice heard. National Middle School Association 4151 Executive ParkwaySuite 300 Westerville OH 43081 Voice: 800-528-NMSA Fax: 614-895-4750 Contact: Betty Edwards, Executive Director Contact E-mail: bedwards@nmsa.org Web Address: www.nmsa.org
Resource Title: This We Believe: Successful Schools for Young Adolescents Author: National Middle School Association Description: This new, expanded edition of our association's position paper must be read thoughtfully by every middle level educator, policymaker, parent, and anyone interested in the best thinking about Successful Schools for Young Adolescents, the very apt sub-title. Presenting a vision of a developmentally responsive middle school, this resource opens with a section on the importance of middle level education from the point of view of young adolescents and our changing society. This is followed by the heart of the document, an elaboration of the 14 characteristics of successful middle schools. A Call to Action then provides specific suggestions for using this document as a tool to improve middle level schools. An important concluding feature of This We Believe is a completely rewritten section of the characteristics of young adolescents, prepared by noted scholar, Dr. Peter Scales of the Search Institute. The new This We Believe is truly a significant document that should be read and studies widely and used in every middle school. Resource Title: Keys to Reengaging Families in the Education of Young Adolescents Price: $20.00 (NMSA members: $16.00) Author: Hazel Loucks and Jan Waggoner Description: This comprehensive resource includes abundant suggestions and materials to help answer a critical need documented by decades of research and the experiences of educators nationwide. Every middle school should have this tool available as efforts to increase communication with families are implemented. Pull-out sections may be used as stand-alone handouts, communication enhancers for newsletters, supplements for parent-teacher conferences, or as general information for community organizations. Spiral bound to facilitate reproduction. Resource Title: H.E.L.P. Price: $20.00 for 50 brochures (NMSA members: $16.00) Author: Judith Baenen Description: Parents of young adolescents are worried. But now there's H.E.L.P. Beginning with the exhortation, "get ready for changes!" H.E.L.P. tells parents what to expect of young adolescents and why, offering compassionate, practical solutions to common problems: forgetting, irritability, power plays, friendships, chores, and more. Sold in packets of 50 for distribution to parents, this affordable pamphlet can make a real difference in students' lives outside the classroom. Also available in Spanish. Resource Title: What is a Middle School? Price: $15.00 for 50 brochures (NMSA Members: $12.00) Description: Order online at www.nmsa.org or by calling 1-800-528-NMSA (6672) ResourceDescription4: This attractive and informative brochure for parents, school boards, and the community helps to build understanding and gain support for the modern middle school. It defines early adolescence as a time of rapid growth and change, explaining how the middle school supports adolescent development through active learning, teaming, integrated instruction, and exploratory learning. Resource Title: Promoting Harmony: Young Adolescent Development and School Practices Price: $12.00 (NMSA Members: $9.60) Description: The premise of Promoting Harmony is deceptively simple, "the process of becoming a successful school begins with an understanding of young adolescents and an appreciation of their unique needs." This book shows how teachers, students, and parents can work together in harmony and gives many examples of successful school practices. With chapters on physical, sexual, intellectual, social development, and personal characteristics of young adolescents, this book offers an intimate glimpse into the development of 10- to 15-year-olds and provides essential insights into what their behavior means. National Network of Partnership Schools Johns Hopkins University3505 North Charles Street Baltimore MD 21218 Voice: 410-516-8807 Fax: 410-516-8890 Contact: Joyce Epstein Web Address: www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/
Resource Title: Reprints of Research and Practice Recommendations Price: Prices range from $.50 to $8. Description: The Center makes available a large number of articles and reprints from other magazines and publications on topics ranging from research on partnership development to surveys of existing practices. National Parent Teacher Association 1400 L St NWSuite 300 Washington DC 20005 Voice: 202-289-6790 Fax: 202-289-6791 Contact: Sheri Johnson, Director of Programs Contact E-mail: sjohnson@pta.org Web Address: www.pta.org
Resource Title: Building Successful Partnerships: National PTA's Parent Involvement Initiative Price: $18.95 Description: Schools with strong parent involvement programs experience profound benefits for students, parents, teachers, and administrators. Research shows that when parents are involved in students' education, those students generally have higher grades and test scores, better attendance, and more consistently completed homework. Building Successful Partnerships is a multifaceted program focused on increasing awareness and implementation of the National Standards for Parent /Family Involvement Programs. This implementation guidebook is a comprehensive resource for parents, educators, communities, schools, designed to provide the foundation for developing a quality parent involvement program. Resource Title: National Standards for Parent/Family Involvement Booklet Description: Voluntary guidelines to strengthen parent and family involvement on behalf of children in schools and other programs. The six standards and their quality indicators provide PTAs, schools, and communities with the components that are needed for highly effective parent/family involvement programs. Resource Title: Our Children Price: $10 (Members), $20 (Non-Members) Description: The official magazine of National PTA. Published bimonthly, it provides information and ideas on how to make households, neighborhoods, schools, and communities better places for children. Our Children offers a variety of exciting new features and columns, including "Our PTA," a special center section devoted entirely to the work of parents and PTAs across the country, "What's Happening in Washington," information on how to help adults advocate on behalf of children, "Chalkboard," stories told from the perspective of educators, and "Frontlines," the latest news, facts, and people affecting children and youth. Resource Title: Parents Guide to the Information Superhighway Price: $5.00 Description: Offers a simple step-by-step introduction to parenting in the online world. This guide is a starter "tool kit" to introduce parents to technology in an online world and provide some tools and rules for use with children at home, at school, and in the community. Developed in conjunction with National PTA and the National Urban League, with advisors including the American Library Association. National School Boards Association 1680 Duke StreetAlexandria VA 22314 Voice: 703-838-6722 Fax: 703-683-7590 Contact: Aaron Dorsey, Project Manager Contact E-mail: adorsey@nsba.org Web Address: www.nsba.org
Resource Title: American School Board Journal Description: The American School Board Journal is an award-winning, editorially independent education magazine published monthly by the National School Boards Association. Founded in 1891, American School Board Journal chronicles change, interprets issues, and offers readers practical advice on a broad range of topics pertinent to school governance and management, policy making, student achievement, and the art of school leadership. Resource Title: Communities Count: A School Board Guide to Public Engagement Price: $20.00 Author: Michael A. Resnick Description: This publication guides school board members through the community engagement process and includes help in understanding the rationale, the benefits, and the concerns that are part of the process of convening the community. Although the specifics of community engagement will be unique for every community, experience shows that success is based on some common principles, a good plan, and continous work. Resource Title: Safe Schools, Safe Communities Price: $25.00 Author: Julie E. Lewis, Dean Pickett, Janet L. Pulliam, Richard A. Schwartz, Anne-Marie St. Germaine, Julie Underwood, and Jay Worona Description: Emphasizing the need for cooperation to prevent and respond to violence at school, this book examines how schools and communities can work together to make our schools safe. Among the topics discussed are the need to balance school safety needs and the rights of individual students, how to deal with threats of violence, the role of the school attorney in response to violence, and how to work with the media in times of crisis. Resource Title: The Educated Student: Defining and Advancing Student Achievement Price: $20.00 Author: Michael A. Resnick Description: In succinct language, this unique publication presents key ideas from education's best thinkers and examines future trends and other factors influencing education today. It presents recent policy developments in the areas of standards and assessments through a jargon-free discussion of the basic concepts needed for effective decision-making. The goals of "The Educated Student" are to offer school board members a wide-angle lense through which to view student achievement, to suggest the right questions to bring to their policy deliberations, and to provide a working knowledge that will inspire dynamic board leadership to raise student achievement. Resource Title: The Key Work of School Boards Guidebook Price: $20.00 Author: Katheryn W. Gemberling, Carl W. Smith, and Joseph S. Villani Description: This guidebook provides information for understanding and implementing the Key Work of School Boards. It is intended as a support to help school boards understand and achieve the essential elements of their work. The guidebook provides a framework of eight 'key' action areas that successful boards have focused their attention on: vision, standards, assessment, accountability, resource alignment, climate, collaboration, and continuous improvement. National Urban League 120 Wall StreetNew York NY 10005 Voice: 212-558-5300 Fax: 212-344-5332 Contact: Deirdre Jackson Contact E-mail: djackson@nul.org Web Address: www.nul.org
Resource Title: Read & Rise: Preparing Our Children For A Lifetime of Success Price: FREE - While Supplies Last Author: NUL & Scholastic Description: Read and Rise is a resource guide that offers research-based information and practical tips to help you engage your child in reading and literacy-building activities. The guide is divided by age and grade. Each section includes: An Introduction, where you will find brief, research-based information on the common literacy behaviors by age and grade. A list of Milestones, important literacy goals that your child should be able to achieve at each age and by the end of each grade. Try This!, ideas and activities that can help you help your child gain the skills needed to become a successful reader. And Book Nook, which presents five basic features to look for when choosing books for your child. Resource Title: Read & Rise Magazine Price: FREE - While Supplies Last Author: NUL & Scholastic Description: As a publication, the magazine is primarily targeted to African-American children, ages 3-5 and promotes a pride of heritage while introducing young children to basic concepts that are important tools for reading and literacy development. Through a variety of stories, poems and other activities, parents and caregivers have the opportunity to explore concepts of print with young children, helping them to develop phonemic and phonological awareness and gain a fundamental understanding of the alphabet. It also provides research-based information on the range of practical ways parents can foster their children’s reading and literacy development, in easy-to-understand language, while providing them with ideas for games and activities that they can do with their children. Designed to be fun as well as educational, the magazine also offers an introduction to the world at large, from stories about nature and science, to whimsical pieces about people in the neighborhood. Resource Title: Read & Rise: Parent Circles Author: Suzanne C. Carothers, Ph.D. Description: The Parent Facilitators' Guide is designed to serve as a resource to Urban League affiliate staff as they work with parents/caregivers in communities across the country. This guide is structured so that parents work in Read and Rise Parent Circles and the circles are based on carrying forward the legacy of the Reading Circles in which African American slaves found a way to teach each other how to read. Suzanne C. Carothers, author of the Parent Facilitators' Guide, envisions the circles "as contemporary Reading Circles in which the facilitator not only leads the particular series of circles to help parents support their children's learning, but acts as a trainer of trainers to create Circles of Training that continue the process". The guide also contains information about the process of reading, how young children develop as readers, and how parents can support their children’s early steps to reading in a five session workshop series. NetSmartz Workshop Program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children699 Prince Street Alexandria VA 22314 Voice: 1-877-446-2632 Fax: 703-549-3055 Contact: Laurie Nathan Contact E-mail: lnathan@ncmec.org Web Address: www.NetSmartz.org
Resource Title: Tips to Prevent Sexting Price: Free Description: As trusted adults with a mission to protect children online, engage your communities on the issue of sexting. Share these tips with young people so that they are better informed. Read through the parent Q & A for more information about the issue. Ohio Parent Information and Resource Center 3021 Vernon PlaceCincinnati OH 45219 Voice: 513-221-3660 Fax: 513-487-5314 Contact: Vandelia Todd, Program Director Contact E-mail: vtodd@lys.org Web Address: ohiopirc.lys.org
Resource Title: Back to School Toolkit Price: no cost Author: staff Description: Information for parents and schools about how to get started on the "right foot" for the return to school. Suggestions about homework, developing a study area, preaparing for teacher conference, reading, saety tips, handling frustation, and grade level activities. Resource Title: Empowering Parents and Communities Price: no cost -- prior training Author: staff Description: This is a 24-hour parent leadership training curriculum that enavles caregivers/parents to increase their involvement and sharpen their skills for effective leadership. EPC promotes the development of parents and caregivers to understand the needs of children and the issues that challenge parents as well as other community leaders. Resource Title: Parents As Partners Price: no cost Author: staff Description: Provides information on identifying the type of school in regard to parental involvement; covers barriers of, strategies to increase, and benefits of parental involvement and collaboration. Resource Title: Advocating for Children in Schools Price: no cost Author: staff Description: Reviews IDEA '97, Individualized Education Plans, Multi-factored Evaluations, 504 plans, getting serives for spaecial needs children and parental involvement. Resource Title: No Child Left Behind Price: no cost Author: staff Description: Provides the most up-to-date information on the President's education mandate, icluding school choice and supplemental education services. Oliver Moles 6904 Stonewood Ct.Rockville MD 20852 Voice: 301-770-2325 Fax: 301-770-6955
Resource Title: Reaching all families: Creating family friendly schools Author: Oliver Moles, editor Description: A collection of best practices for schools to welcome and involve families produced by the U.S. Department of Education in 1996, and now available only on the web. Eighteen practices cover introducing school policies and programs, personal contacts, ongoing communications, special practices and programs, and special groups. Resource Title: Strong Families, Strong Schools (Oliver Moles) Author: Jennifer Ballen and Oliver Moles Description: A review of 30 years of research on family involvement in children's education as well as programs with research evidence based in schools, communities, businesses, and state and federal initiatives. Produced by the U.S. Department of Education in 1994 as the opening rationale for its Partnership for Family Involvement in Education, now only available on the web. PACER Center, Inc. 8161 Normandale BoulevardMinneapolis MN 55437 Voice: 952-838-9000 TTY: 952-838-0190 Fax: 952-838-0199 Contact: Paula F. Goldberg, Executive Director Contact E-mail: pgoldberg@pacer.org Web Address: www.pacer.org
Resource Title: 1997 Individuals with Disabilities Act Amendments Increase Access to Technology for Students Families and Advocates Partnership for Education (FAPE) Price: Free Description: 2 pages. An overview of the implications of the 1997 IDEA for students, particularly as they relate to the availability of Assistive Technology. Resource Title: PACER Publication Catalog Parent Education Network 5 N Lobban AveBuffalo WY 82834 Voice: 307-684-7441 Fax: 307-684-5314 Contact: Terri Dawson Contact E-mail: tdawson@wpic.org Web Address: www.wpen.net
Resource Title: Building Blocks for Literacy (video) Price: free to Wyoming families, $10.00 to others out of state Author: Kick Starts for Kids Description: Parent-friendly video for helping families with ideas to increase thier childrens literacy skills. 30 minutes long Parent Educational Advocacy Training Center 100 N. Washington StreetSuite 234 Falls Church VA 22048 Voice: 1-800-869-6782 TTY: 1-703-923-0010 Fax: 1-800-693-3514 Contact: Michelle Frappier Contact E-mail: Frappier@peatc.org Web Address: www.peatc.org
Resource Title: Virginia Parent Information Resource Center Price: Free Author: PEATC Description: PEATC is Virginia's Parent Information Resource Center (V-PIRC) serving culturally, linguistically, educationally, economically and geographically diverse families and the schools, programs and communities who serve them. Resource Title: Parent Teacher Information - PTI Price: Free Author: PEATC Description: PEATC is the parent information and training center serving families and professionals of children with disabilities in the Commonwealth of Virginia. PEATC promotes respectful, collaborative partnerships between parents, schools, and professionals. Resource Title: NEXT STEPS Transition Program Price: Free Author: PEATC Description: PEATC is launching a multifaceted NEXT STEPS Transition Program designed to help families, youth with disabilities, and professionals develop effective partnerships while learning how to tap into valuable community resources. Resource Title: Outreach to African Americans and Latino Communities Price: Free Author: PEATC Description: As Virginia's families continue to diversify, language barriers and cultural differences create additional challenges to children with disabilities and their families. Resource Title: Reading and Literacy Price: Free Author: PEATC Description: PEATC is developing ways to enable parents and professionals to teach reading skills that incorporate strategies and 'how-to' information. In the area of assessment, we are looking to offer critically needed information. Parent Institute P.O. Box 7474Fairfax Station VA 22039-7474 Voice: 800-756-5525 Fax: 800-216-3667 Contact: Peggy Costello Contact E-mail: custsvc@parent-institute.com Web Address: www.parent-institute.com
Resource Title: Newsletters for Parents Description: The Parent Institute offers 11 newsletters educators can give to parents. Each newsletter is full of ideas to help parents help their children learn and succeed in school. Titles include: Parents make the difference! ® (in Early Childhood & Elementary School versions); Parents still make the difference! ® (in Middle & High School versions); Helping Children Learn ® (in Early Childhood & Elementary School versions); Helping Students Learn ® (in Middle & High School versions); Building Readers ® (in Reading Readiness and Elementary versions); Firm, Fair & Consistent. ® All parent newsletters are also available in Spanish. Resource Title: Newsletters for Educators Description: Ideas Staff Can Use is published in both Elementary and Secondary editions – each addressing the unique parent involvement needs of your school with four full pages of practical programs that work, and downloadable tools. And from our sister company, The Teacher Institute, Better Teaching ® gives both new and veteran teachers inspirational, thought-provoking ideas they can use immediately in their classrooms. Resource Title: Booklets, QuickTips, & StudentTips Price: Price is based on a sliding scale, please call for more information. Description: Resource Title: Booklets Resource Title: QuickTips Resource Title: Student Tips Resource Title: Videos Price: Price is based on a sliding scale, please call for more information. Description: The Parent Institute videos let educators show parents how they can help their children learn. Included are various titles under the topics of: Discipline, Parenting, Parent-Teacher Conferences, and Motivating Parents. Resource Title: School Success Web Content Service Description: Our Web Content Service provides parent involvement ideas and articles automatically delivered to a school’s website for parents to read 365 days a year. Available in Elementary and Secondary editions. The service comes personalized with the principal’s name and the school’s name. If a school doesn’t have a website, we’ll provide a basic web page that contains the Web Content Service. Also available in Spanish. Parental Involvement Exchange (PIE) 140 Hepburn Rd. Suite 8-0Clifton NJ 07012 Voice: 973-801-9289 Contact: Anthony D. White Sr. Contact E-mail: adwhitesr@gmail.com Web Address: www.parentalie.com
Resource Title: The Parental Involvement Exchange (PIE) Description: The Parental Involvement Exchange (PIE) website is designed to focus on the delivery of useful resources for personal charged with addressing quality education. The resource categories are as follows; Parent Resources (Parenting, Single Parenting, Grand Parenting, Advocacy, Special Education Advocacy, Fatherhood,Parents Asking The Right Questions) Title I, Superintendents, Administrators, School Board Members, High Schools, Parental Involvement Practitioners, Community Organizing, Mentoring, and Resources by States. Resource Title: Consulting Services Description: Parent Involvement Exchange (PIE) offers workshops, in-services, customized workshops/in-services, strategic planning services, and community organizing for institutions and organizations. Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc. 2228 Ball DriveSt Louis MO 63146 Voice: 314-432-4330 Fax: 314-432-8963 Web Address: www.patnc.org
Resource Title: Evaluations of PAT Child Outcomes: Kindergarten Readiness and Beyond Price: Free Description: The Missouri School Entry Assessment Project is a comprehensive early childhood assessment effort designed to gather information about what young children who enter Missouri's public kindergartens know and can do and to relate this information to their prekindergarten school experiences. Findings from the 1998 school readiness assessment project involving 3,500 kindergarteners in Missouri show that Parents as Teachers achieves its goal of preparing children for success in school. Resource Title: Parenting Tips to Promote Intellectual Development Price: Free Description: A series of tips about ways to raise your children that will promote neural and intellectual development, from pre-natal till pre-school age. The basic assumption is that the learning that takes place in the first years of a child's life will make a significant difference in the child's development later. Resource Title: Statewide Implementation of PAT in Missouri: Outcomes at Age Three and in Early Elementary School Price: Free Description: Results of the a study that followed 380 Missouri families involved in the Parents as Teachers curriculum, and found that these children tested above average in language, problem-solving and other intellectual abilities, and social development than comparison children. Parents for Public Schools 200 N. Congress StreetSuite 500 Jackson MS 39202 Voice: 601-969-6936 Fax: 601-969-6041 Contact: Anne Foster Contact E-mail: afoster@parents4publicschools.org Web Address: www.parents4publicschools.org
Resource Title: Parents for Public Schools E-Newsletter Price: Free Description: A free monthly newsletter describing the work of PPS on behalf of strong public schools and all students. Resource Title: Parents for Public Schools Clearinghouse Price: Free Description: A free weekly update on the latest developments on improving public schools, national education issues, and parental involvement. Resource Title: PPS Chapter Manual: A comprehensive and practical guide to organizing and sustaining a community-based organization Price: Free Description: The manual includes successful activity ideas and samples from PPS chapters across the country, i.e. publicity, school governance, school tours, site-based management, special events, business networks, and recruitment for enrollment. Parent-U-Turn 9711 San Gabriel AvenueSouth Gate CA 90280 Voice: 323-564-6545 Fax: 323-564-8541 Contact: Mary Johnson / Founder Contact E-mail: l.johnson8@worldnet.att.net Web Address: www.teachingToChangeLA.org
Resource Title: Parent Survioral Guide Price: $20.00 Author: Parent-U-Turn Description: Parents Survioral Guide is recommend for parents of children k-12 grades. The booklet is a mapp for parents on the school structure and how to get their children "Beyond High School to University. Parent Survioral Guide cover such topics, college preparation, scholarhips/grants available for undocument immigrants and Afro-American students. Others topics include ABC"S for students success, Special Education, How to work within the school structure and what each department roles in students acheivement. Parents Survioral Guide is translate in both English and Spanish. Resource Title: Scholarships/Grants Available for Immigrant Students Price: $15.00 Author: Parent-U-Turn Description: Information of organization that looking for children of Immigrants and Afro-American students that need assisting to help first generation to attend college. Scholarships guide lists the organizations contact person, address, telephone number and requirement for the scholarships. Many of the scholarships organizations doesn't require students to have a social security. Poverty and Race Research Action Council 1015 15th St. NW#400 Washington DC 20005 Voice: 202-906-8024 Fax: 202-387-0764 Contact: Philip Tegeler Contact E-mail: ptegeler@aol.com Web Address: www.prrac.org
Resource Title: Poverty & Race Newsletter Price: Print subscriptions are $25 per year, $45 for two years. Author: Chester Hartman, Editor Description: This 20-28 page bi-monthly newsletter journal is designed as a forum for communicating news and ideas within the network of researchers and advocates working on race and poverty issues. Reports the results of PRRAC-sponsored research, the advocacy work that research has assisted and other relevant news. Each issue lists in the Resources Section 100-200 recent reports and studies on race/poverty issues. Prince George's County Public schools Department of School Development9880 Good Luck Road Room 1 Lanham MD 20706 Voice: 301-552-4294 Fax: 301-552-4293 Contact: Beverly Holley Contact E-mail: bholley@pgcps.org Web Address: www1.pgcps.org/schooldevelopment
Resource Title: Professional Development and Parent Education Description: Human Resources: Director and Coordinators who work on-site with schools as well as systemically to provide comprehensive coordination and training for school and central office staff and the larger parent community. Training Modules offered by DFCS Staff include: Comer SDP Orientation; Comer SDP 5-Day MSDE-approved CPD Course; Team Leader Facilitative Leadership Training; Support Staff Skill Development Training; Workshops in Effective Engagement and Collaboration With Parents for Parent Teams, Central Office and School Administrators, Teachers and Support Staff; Child Adolescent Growth and Development; School Improvement Planning; School and Systems Change; Culture and Diversity; Team and Community Building; Effective Communication Skills; Classroom Management; Cooperative Discipline; Cooperative Learning; Student Leadership; Student Motivation; Peer Coaching and Collaboration; etc. Resource Title: Title 1 Mobile Activities Center Van Description: The department serves as a centralized location and dissemination source for the deployment of the Title 1 Mobile Activity Center Van to communit events to share information and resources regarding research-based best practices for parent and family engagement. Resource Title: Strengthening Partnerships with Parents, Families & Community Author: PGCPS Staff Description: This resource document has been assembled through collaborative efforts of members of the Prince George’s County Public Schools’ Task Force on Parent, Family, Community and Business Outreach Initiatives, under the direction of Dr. Wesley Boykin, Chief Administrator, Division of Strategic Planning and School Support, and with facilitation by Sheila Jackson, Director, Department of Family and Community Outreach Services. Additional resources and materials, as well as trained facilitators for on-site assistance in implementing partnership strategies, are available and can be obtained by calling (301) 552-4294 or e-mailing sjackson@pgcps.org. Included in this manual are documents adapted, with permission, from the work of a variety of researchers in the field of education and parent, family, and community involvement, to whom we are deeply grateful. Dr. James P. Comer, Founder of the Yale University Child Study Center’s School Development Program has a long-established relationship with Prince George’s County Public Schools. His work has had an enormous impact upon our district’s efforts in engaging stakeholders in positive ways to support student achievement. Research and work in schools by Dr. Joyce Epstein Director, Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships and the National Network of Partnership Schools, Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Anne Henderson of the National Committee for Citizens in Education/Center for Law and Education and Dr. Dorothy Rich all have helped to operationalize the our thinking to provide the following:
Project for School Innovation 197A Center St.Dorchester MA 02124 Voice: 617-825-0703 Fax: 617-474-1103 Web Address: www.psinnovation.org
Resource Title: Including Every Parent: A How-To Guide for Engaging and Empowering Parents at Your School Price: $22.95 Author: collectively written by teachers and parents from the school Description: In the 2002-03 school year, PSI worked with a team of teachers and parents from the Patrick O'Hearn School in Dorchester, Massachusetts to explore and document the school's effective parent involvement practices--close to 100% of parents are involved at the O'Hearn in some way. In the how-to book, "Including Every Parent," teachers, administrators, and parents can find a variety of specific strategies for encouraging parents to be present at school, participating in school events, partnering in their children's education, and empowered to lead their own initiatives for school improvement. Resource Title: Customized trainings, consultations, & workshops Price: consulting rates negotiated with PSI for each project Author: collectively written by teachers and parents from the school Description: O'Hearn teachers and parents who worked with PSI to develop the how-to book, "Including Every Parent" are also available to provide schools, districts, and education conferences with customized trainings, consultations, and workshops to share effective parent-involvement practices from the O'Hearn school. Quality Education for Minorities Network 1818 N Street NWSuite 350 Washington DC 20036 Voice: 202-659-1818 Fax: 202-659-5408 Web Address: qemnetwork.qem.org
Resource Title: Brownbag Discussion Series Description: These documents examine the implications for minorities of proposed educational reform; current and pending relevant legislation; and promising educational strategies and research findings. Resource Title: QEM's Major Reports Description: QEM seeks to bring clarity and focus to issues of public policy as they affect children and youth who have been historically underserved by the educational system. These reports provide background information and current thinking on educational issues and their implications for minorities, highlight exemplary models that demonstrate quality education at work; keep focus on critical issues affecting public policy. Currently available:
Reading Is Fundamental, Inc. ® 1825 Connecticut Avenue NWSuite 400 Washington DC 20009 Voice: 202-287-3220, 877-RIF-READ Fax: 202-287-3196 Contact: Corrie Fisher, Senior Program Specialist Web Address: www.rif.org
Resource Title: Becoming A Family of Readers Description: This video features parents and their children modeling book sharing and encouraging viewers to become involved in family literacy programs. Co-produced by RIF® and Literacy Volunteers of America. Resource Title: Helping Your Children Become Readers Description: This flyer features ten reading tips in easy-to-read language. Available in English and Spanish. Purchase includes RIF's permission to duplicate and distribute unlimited copies, so long as they are free of charge. Resource Title: Parent Brochures from Reading is Fundamental, Inc. Description: These pocket-size items are for parents who want their children to grow up reading. Titles include Choosing Good Books For Children; Family Storytelling; Reading Aloud to your Children and Summertime Reading. RMC Research 1815 N. Ft. Myer DriveSuite 800 Arlington VA 22209 Voice: 703-558-4800 Fax: 703-558-4823 Contact: Bob Witherspoon Web Address: www.rmcresearchcorporation.com
Resource Title: 7 Themes: Parent, Family, and Community Involvement in the Middle Grades Price: Free Description: Parent, family, and community involvement in the middle grades is changing due to educational restructuring and reform. Read about some promising practices and successful models in this booklet. Resource Title: How Families Teach, Support, Learn and Make Decisions Price: Free Description: Parents are the central contributor to their children's education. Every parent wants their children to be successful in school but often doesn't have the time or the understanding given recent changes in education. Consider these ideas for using the many talents families have to give children the chance to do the best they can in school. Resource Title: Parents Ask About... Price: Free Description: Not sure what to ask about when you visit your child's Title I or classroom teacher? You're not alone. Title I can be a complicated subject. Reading through these five parent brochures will help you better understand Title I and what it means to be a parent of a Title I student. School Family Media, Inc. 100 Stonewall BlvdSuite 3 Wrentham MA 02093 Voice: 800-644-3561 Contact: Tim Sullivan Contact E-mail: tsullivan@schoolfamilymedia.com Web Address: www.schoolfamilymedia.com
Resource Title: School Family Nights Price: Free Description: Ready-made guidebooks and toolkits for hosting high-appeal involvement evenings at school. How-to instructions, posters, letters home, etc. Resource Title: PTO Today Magazine Price: $20/year Author: Craig Bystrynski, Editor Description: A six-issues-per-year magazine focused exclusively on helping parent-teacher group leaders do their work well. Practical features, inspiration, best practices, community -- all on the work of these often under-appreciated school volunteer organizations. South Carolina School Improvement Council College of Education, Wardlaw Suite 001University of South Carolina Columbia SC 29208 Voice: 800-868-2232 Fax: 803-777-0023 Contact: Cassie Barber, Executive Director Contact E-mail: barber2@gwm.sc.edu Web Address: sic.sc.gov
Resource Title: Handbook for Effective School Improvement Councils in South Carolina, "The Basics" Price: Free to SIC members in SC; available on website Author: Jean M. Norman, Ed.D. Description: "The Basics" outlines the roles and responsibilities of School Improvement Councils in South Carolina as a participant in the state's improvement and accountability process. Statute requirements and effective practices accompany the organizational structure and the functions of monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the school improvement plan. Resource Title: Handbook for Effective School Improvement Councils in South Carolina - Creating and Education Foundation for Your School Price: Free to SIC members in SC; available on website Author: Betsy Wolff, MPH Description: Creating an Education Foundation for Your School gives step by step actions for setting up a school education foundation in South Carolina. Resource Title: Council NEWS Price: Free to SIC members in SC; available on website Author: Cassie Barber, Editor Description: Free to SC School Improvement Councils, available on website ResourceDescription3: A 6-page newsletter sent four times a year to all SIC members with information about current council activities, legislative actions, training opportunities, current education research, web links, and effective practices. Special Education Action Committee, Inc. Parent Assistance Center PO Box 161274Mobile AL 36616-2274 Voice: 800-222-7322 TTY: 251-478-1208 Fax: 251-473-7877 Contact: Beverly Burden, Administrative Assistant Contact E-mail: mksseac@seacpac.com Web Address: www.seacparentassistancecenter.com
Resource Title: ImPACT Newsletter Price: 2.00 Description: The ImPACT newsletter is published two times yearly and includes information of interest to parents of children with disabilities, special education teachers and others. Resource Title: Parent Press Description: The Parent Press is published twice yearly and mailed to all Title One schools for distribution to students and families. Included in this publication is information about state assessments, homework requirements and helpful tips for parents to assist their students with schoolwork and homework. Study Circles Resource Center A Project of The Paul J. Aicher Foundation697 Pomfret Street PO Box 203 Pomfret CT 06258 Voice: 860-928-2616 Fax: 860-928-3713 Contact: vL. (Sally) Campbell, Senior Program Director Contact E-mail: sallyc@studycircles.org Web Address: www.studycircles.org
Resource Title: Where a diverse community comes together to make schools better for all Price: $1.50 print copy Description: In a school district of more than 140,000 students with 160 nationalities represented, study circles provide a bridge for Montgomery County Public Schools to reach out to people of all backgrounds, and a way for schools and community to work together to improve education for all students. (2006) Resource Title: Montgomery County, Md., Public School Study Circles (DVD) Price: $5.00 Description: A video highlighting the efforts of Montgomery County Public Schools (Md.) Study Circles Program to address racism and student achievement in the district's schools and community. (6 minutes) DVD Resource Title: Education: How can Schools and Communities Work Together to Meet the Challenge? Price: $5.00 print copy Description: A multiple-session discussion guide including recommendations for tailoring the discussion to a particular community or organization's concerns (1997) Resource Title: Helping Every Student Succeed: Schools and Communities Working Together Price: $5.00 print copy Description: A four-session discussion guide to help schools and communities improve academic achievement for all students. (2002) Resource Title: Building Strong Neighborhoods: A Study Guide for Public Dialogue and Community Problem Solving Price: $5.00 print copy Description: A four-session discussion guide on many important neighborhood issues including: race and other kinds of differences; young people and families; safety and community-police relations; homes, housing and beautification; jobs and neighborhood economy; and schools. (1998) Resource Title: Changing Faces, Changing Communities: Immigration & race, jobs, schools, and language differences Price: $5.00 print copy Description: A multi-session discussion guide designed to help communities face the challenges and meet the opportunities raised by the arrival of newcomers; includes pointers on how to involve public officials. (1998) Resource Title: Confronting Violence in Our Communities: A Guide for Involving Citizens in Public Dialogue and Problem Solving Price: $5.00 print copy Description: A four-session discussion guide examining how violence affects our lives, what causes violence, and what can be done in neighborhoods and in schools. (1994) Resource Title: Youth Issues, Youth Voices: A Guide for Engaging Youth and Adults in Public Dialogue and Problem Solving Price: $5.00 print copy Description: A multiple-session discussion guide to help young people and adults address the community issues which involve and impact them. (1996) Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers at PACER Center8161 Normandale Boulevard Minneapolis MN 55437 Voice: 952-838-9000 TTY: 952-838-0190 Fax: 952-838-0199 Contact: Sue Folger, Co-Director Contact E-mail: sfolger@pacer.org Web Address: www.taalliance.org
Resource Title: Parent and Professional Collaboration: A Cultural Perspective Author: Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers Description: This curriculum addresses the development of meaningful parent/professional collaboration. Through a focus on how cultural differences affect how persons understand and relate to one another, the curriculum provides strategies that address barriers to effective cross-cultural communication. Includes: 28 color transparencies in covers, 34-page curriculum for trainers, all in a 1 1/2" D-ring binder. Resource Title: Positive Behavioral Interventions Author: Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers Description: This curriculum introduces families to a new way of thinking about their child's behaviors and about the need to advocate for behavioral instruction. Professionals find very useful. Approved by the U.S. Department of Education. 1999. Each set contains: 37 color transparencies in covers, 37-page curriculum for trainers, all in a 1 1/2" D-ring binder. Resource Title: IDEA '97 Workshop For Families Author: Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers Description: Approved by U.S. Office of Special Education Programs. This curriculum contains the IDEA '97 training and transparencies that are of key interest to parents of children with disabilities. 1999. Each set contains: 89 color transparencies in covers (available in Spanish, or with Native American graphics at a separate cost), 102-page curriculum for trainers (also available in Braille), all in a 4" D-ring binder. Resource Title: Understanding ADHD: A Workshop Curriculum Author: Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers Description: This curriculum provides information for parents, teachers and others about ADHD including behavior management, strategies for parents, and instructional strategies for teachers. It can be used in total as a 3 hour workshop, or as a series of shorter trainings for community education purposes. The curriculum consists of four units that can be used as short workshops or as the foundation for discussion groups related to each topic area. Each set contains: 59 color transparencies in covers, 64-page curriculum for trainers, all in a 1 1/2" D-ring binder. Resource Title: Is Your Child a Target of Bullying? Intervention Strategies for Parents of Children with Disabilities Author: Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers Description: A new, one-of-a-kind curriculum developed for parent audiences has just been released by the ALLIANCE. The appealing design and easy-to-understand, common-sense suggestions are sure to inform and encourage families as they address bullying issues. The curriculum covers: defining disability harassment, common views about bullying, how to talk to your child about bullying, using the IEP to react to bullying behavior, federal laws that apply to disability harassment, and the role of school policy to respond/prevent disability harassment. Tellin' Stories Project of Teaching for Change PO Box 73038Washington DC 20056-3038 Voice: 202-588-7204 Contact: America Calderon, Jill Weiler Contact E-mail: Acalderon@teachingforchange.org Web Address: www.teachingforchange.org
Resource Title: Between Families and Schools: Creating Meaningful Relationships Price: $10.00 Description: 60 pp. A user-friendly, action-oriented guide to meaningful family involvement Offers practical suggestions for those intent on improving family-school relationships, challenging readers to rethink traditional notions of "parent involvement" and supporting them to collaborate with other key stakeholders for change. This 60-page booklet is the result of a year-long action research project conducted by parents, teachers and a student in Washington D.C. Resource Title: Life Treasures from the Heart of a Child Description: Student stories from the diverse community of Bruce-Monroe Elementary School in Washington, D.C. Resource Title: Teaching for Change Catalog Price: Free Description: Multicultural resources that suggest ways that educators can address the lessons or "hidden curriculum" about race, class and gender that students learn from school. The Indiana Parent Information and Resource Center The Indiana Partnerships Center9325 Compton St. Suite 108 Indianapolis IN 46240 Voice: 866-391-1039 Fax: 317-205-9790 Contact: Julie Havill Weems Contact E-mail: jhavill@fscp.org Web Address: www.fscp.org
Resource Title: Research Brief on Family Engagement Price: Free Author: Indiana PIRC and Center for Excellence in Leadership of Learning Description: Summary of research on Family, School and Community Partnership in a family-friendly format for interested administrators, teachers, community partners and parent leaders. Resource Title: Books on Board Price: $50.00 Author: Indiana Parent Information and Resource Center Description: Compilation of activities in Spanish and English for families to learn the five components of literacy and implement activities at home to support: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Fluency, and Comprehension. Includes chapter on Writing. Resource Title: Guide to Developing Family Resource Centers Price: $3.00 Author: Indiana Parent Information and Resource Center Description: Colorful and family-friendly guide to creating a physical space in a school for parents. Includes the purpose of centers, examples of centers, steps to develop a center. Resource Title: College Pathways Research Brief Price: No charge for one/ $1.00 for additional copies Author: Indiana Parent Information and Resource Center Description: 4 page research brief that highlights several schools districts nationally who have successful initiatives to help students graduate on time and are prepared for college and other post secondary experiences. The National High School Alliance 4455 Connecticut Avenue NWSuite 310 Washington DC 20008 Voice: 202-822-8405 Fax: 202-872-4050 Contact: Sara Goldware, Program Assistant Contact E-mail: goldwares@iel.org Web Address: www.hsalliance.org
Resource Title: A Call to Action: Transforming High School for All Youth Description: The Call to Action provides leaders at the national, state, district, school, and community levels with a common framework for building public will, developing supportive policies, and actually implementing the practices needed to radically change the traditional, factory-model high school that tracks and sorts students. Websters International, Inc. 5729 Cloverland PlaceBrentwood TN 37027 Voice: 800-727-6833 Fax: 615-373-1030 Contact: Virginia Schmidt, Director, Public Relations Web Address: www.bowdoinmethod.com
Resource Title: Bowdoin Method I Description: Nationally validated curriculum for parenting children 3-7 years. Games, videos and activities reinforce the parenting skills of "at risk" families in a fun and effective manner. Ten subjects prepare parents for their children's success in school and in life. Researched and developed for parents with a second/third grade reading level, this basic skills approach is also available in Spanish. Resource Title: Bowdoin Method II Description: A continuation of the nationally validated Bowdoin I series, with emphasis on character education, good citizenship and expanding "at risk" children's reading and math skills. The "easy to read" parent books, videos and games cover 7 important topics for parenting today in a fun and engaging manner. Appropriate for parenting children 5-12 years of age. Resource Title: Parent Involvement Resource Manual Description: Developed by a national recognized Title I Director and parent education advocate, this manual provides enjoyable ideas for parent activities, handouts and workshops. A must for Title I programs, it comes complete with Federal Guidelines for Parent Education Programs and effective strategies for encouraging parent participation. This simple and easy-to-use manual is a practical source of information for all parenting programs. Resource Title: Your Baby Talks To You Description: Parenting infants birth to 3 years. This Interactive curriculum includes "hands-on" games, video and activities for fun and informative classes, and is especially successful with teen parents. This basic skills curriculum is multicultural and developed for "at risk" parents to meet their child's social, emotional, physical and intellectual needs.
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