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Bridging School & Home through Family Nights

Ready-to-Use Plans for Grades K?8

By: Diane W. Kyle,Ellen McIntyre,Karen B. Miller,Gayle H. Moore

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Bridging School & Home through Family Nights

Ready-to-Use Plans for Grades K?8

By: Diane W. Kyle,Ellen McIntyre,Karen B. Miller,Gayle H. Moore

Improve student achievement through academically focused family nights! Research confirms the link between family involvement and academic success. Yet, as student populations become increasingly diverse, educators face a daunting challenge in establishing close connections with families. Bridging School and Home Through Family Nights: Ready-to-Use Plans for Grades K-8 offers all the information, materials, and resources for planning and implementing events that build effective relationships. Drawing on their own experiences and extensive research, the authors include information on adapting events for special populations, issues around providing food and incentives, cost-saving ideas, and additional resources. Each of the book’s thirteen family night chapters is a self-contained unit that provides event procedures, needed materials, connections with national standards, and numerous reproducibles, including: • Invitations • Agendas • Sign-in sheets • Evaluation forms • Activity worksheets • Handouts • Overheads Productive family night experiences offer an enjoyable and meaningful way for schools to reach out to families and get them involved. This book is appropriate for K-8 teachers and principals or anyone in the school or district responsible for family events.

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252

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Simon and Schuster

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1629148911

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9781629148915

Reaching Out

A K-8 Resource for Connecting Families and Schools

By: Diane W. Kyle,Ellen McIntyre,Karen B. Miller,Gayle H. Moore

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Reaching Out

A K-8 Resource for Connecting Families and Schools

By: Diane W. Kyle,Ellen McIntyre,Karen B. Miller,Gayle H. Moore

Too often, today’s student feels alienated from school, and learning suffers as a result. Developing a relationship with the family can provide the missing link in the educational chain. Reaching Out is an invaluable resource for compassionate educators interested in building strong relationships with their students’ families. A dynamic team of teachers and teacher educators have combined their first-hand experience and in-depth research in this essential guidebook. By involving the entire family in the educational experience, teachers can bridge the gap separating home and school and help produce happier, healthier, and smarter kids. Highlights include: -Building trust with families -Communicating in positive ways with students’ families -Implementing family workshops -Involving families through innovative homework ideas Based on a five-year study, the information will be particularly helpful for teachers whose classrooms reflect a diverse student population. By incorporating these concepts and techniques, you not only enhance the learning experience you also help your students to be more compassionate and excited about school.

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217

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Simon and Schuster

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1632209829

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9781632209825

Six Principles for Teaching English Language Learners in All Classrooms

By: Ellen McIntyre,Diane W. Kyle,Cheng-Ting Chen,Jayne Kraemer,Johanna Parr

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Six Principles for Teaching English Language Learners in All Classrooms

By: Ellen McIntyre,Diane W. Kyle,Cheng-Ting Chen,Jayne Kraemer,Johanna Parr

A highly accessible and practical resource for applying sociocultural theory to both pedagogy and parent involvement. It begins with theory, but then provides excellent examples of how the principles might be meaningfully applied in real classrooms." —Robert Rueda, Professor University of Southern California Ensure high student achievement in diverse classrooms with this proven instructional model! This vital resource presents educators with an instructional approach that is flexible and practical enough for mainstream classroom use—yet also academically rigorous and grounded in research on teaching English language learners (ELLs). Ideal for elementary and middle school teachers as well as ELL specialists, this book offers six key principles to help educators address language development in a regular classroom while supporting ELL students in learning academic content. This field-tested model is based on five standards for pedagogy from the Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE) as well as the authors′ sixth principle for family involvement. Focusing on one principle per chapter, this book includes: Lessons, tips, and in-depth vignettes from teachers who have been trained in the model Advice on working successfully with ELL families Guiding questions and self-assessments based on CREDE′s indicators for achievement of standards to help teachers monitor their own development Six Principles for Teaching English Language Learners in All Classrooms will not only assist ELLs, but will ultimately benefit all learners in the inclusive classroom.

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Corwin Press

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1452295328

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9781452295329

Bridging School and Home Through Family Nights

Ready-to-Use Plans for Grades K-8

By: Diane W. Kyle

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Bridging School and Home Through Family Nights

Ready-to-Use Plans for Grades K-8

By: Diane W. Kyle

Bridging School and Home Through Family Nights is a handy book that practitioners can readily pick up and select activities, ideas, and themes for including families in the learning process. This practical book offers thirteen self-contained units full of activities, sample invitations, agendas, charts-everything a staff member needs to plan a successful event."--Susan N. Imamura, Principal Manoa Elementary School, Honolulu, HI "The useful content, reader-friendly tone, and easy-to-understand style speak directly to teachers and school staff responsible for parent involvement activities. The family nights can be used as a series of yearlong family activities or school staff can pick and choose the family nights that fit their academic focus."--Michele R. Dean, Principal Montalvo Elementary School, Ventura, CA Improve student achievement through academically focused family nights! Research confirms the link between family involvement and academic success. Yet, as student populations become increasingly diverse, educators face a daunting challenge in establishing close connections with families. Bridging School and Home Through Family Nights: Ready-to-Use Plans for Grades K-8 offers all the information, materials, and resources for planning and implementing events that build effective relationships. Drawing on their own experiences and extensive research, the authors include information on adapting events for special populations, issues around providing food and incentives, cost-saving ideas, and additional resources. Each of the book's thirteen family night chapters is a self-contained unit that provides event procedures, neededmaterials, connections with national standards, and numerous reproducibles, including: Invitations Agendas Sign-in sheets Evaluation forms Activity worksheets Handouts Overheads Productive family night experiences offer an enjoyable and meaningful way for schools to reach out to families and get them involved. This book is appropriate for K-8 teachers and principals or anyone in the school or district responsible for family events.

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1412914671

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Bridging School & Home through Family Nights

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Reaching Out

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Six Principles for Teaching English Language Learners in All Classrooms

Six Principles for Teaching English Language Learners in All Classrooms

Bridging School and Home Through Family Nights

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