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All NCPIE ResourcesThere are currently 304 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. 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. Resource Title: Lessons for Life Tool Kit Price: Free Description: This is a series of documents created to help teachers implement the Lessons for Life Bill of Rights, which is designed to set high standards of conduct and achievement for children. Topics vary from tips for establishing effective student discipline to establishing partnerships with families to encourage student success. 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 Committee PO Box 1658Lexington KY 40588-1658 Voice: 859-233-9849 ext 229 Fax: 859-233-0760 Contact: Bev Raimando, Director Contact E-mail: raimando@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. Communities in Schools, Inc. 277 South Washington StreetSuite 210 Alexandria VA 22314 Voice: 703-519-8999 Fax: 703-519-7537 Contact: Bob Seidel Contact E-mail: Seidel@cisnet.org Web Address: www.cisnet.org
Resource Title: Facts You Can Use Description: Published 2-3 times a year, this resource looks in-depth at current issues in education, such as violence in schools, and family strengthening as a means of helping students remain in school. Resource Title: Network Connector Description: This biweekly 2-3 page news brief, delivered online or by fax, features up-and-coming news about CIS National, CIS Locals, and general news tidbits concerning education posted on the web. Resource Title: Network News Description: This quarterly newspaper reports on national news, local news, funding, and important contacts for schools. 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: Tracy Runfola, Senior Associate Contact E-mail: tracyr@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 Fax: 703-644-2373 Contact: Eileen Kugler Contact E-mail: EKugler@Kuglercom.com Web Address: www.EmbraceDiverseSchools.com
Resource Title: Debunking the Middle Class Myth: Why diverse schools are good for all kids Price: $23.95 Author: Eileen Gale Kugler Description: A straight-talking book on breaking through the myths to reveal the unique benefits that diversity brings to K-12 schools. The book provides strategies for educators, families, and community members on breaking down barriers to parent involvment and student achievement in multicultural communities. Named Book of the Year by the National Association for Multicultural Education and by Delta Kappa Gamma International Honor Society. 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: 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. 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:
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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: 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. 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. 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 |
