An updated edition of the award-winning analysis of the role of race in the classroom features a new author introduction and framing essays by Herbert Kohl and Charles Payne, in an account that shares ideas about how teachers can function as "cultural transmitters" in contemporary schools and communicate more effectively to overcome race-related academic challenges. Original.

Solve toddler challenges with eight key mindshifts that will help you parent with clarity, calmness, and self-control. In Why is My Child in Charge?, Claire Lerner shows how making critical mindshifts—seeing children’s behaviors through a new lens —empowers parents to solve their most vexing childrearing challenges. Using real life stories, Lerner unpacks the individualized process she guides parents through to settle common challenges, such as throwing tantrums in public, delaying bedtime for hours, refusing to participate in family mealtimes, and resisting potty training. Lerner then provides readers with a roadmap for how to recognize the root cause of their child’s behavior and how to create and implement an action plan tailored to the unique needs of each child and family. Why is My Child in Charge? is like having a child development specialist in your home. It shows how parents can develop proven, practical strategies that translate into adaptable, happy kids and calm, connected, in-control parents.

This work captures the voices of TFA novices who offer candid accounts of their experiences in Becoming Teach For America Teachers. Previously unanswered questions are addressed: Why do recent college graduates apply to Teach For America? How are they recruited, trained, and hired? How do they learn the culture (s) of the community, schools, grade level, curriculum, and children they teach? Is there a “culture” of the TFA organization? What recommendations do they offer to TFA donors, policy-makers, future corps members and the public? Woven into this book, are perspectives from mentors who worked alongside TFAers, administrators who hired them, corporate C.E.O.’s who supported them, and policies (both local and national) that privileged TFA over non-TFA teachers. Finally, a compelling series of eyewitness narratives introduces each chapter’s theme, documented from the author’s own, “Notes from the Field.” These accounts offer rich, descriptive vignettes that present the challenges TFAers faced, as they occurred. Schools reflect the multitiered and often non-level playing field that comprises America’s educational landscape. Learning on Other People’s Kids: Becoming a Teach For America Teacher provides readers a glimpse into the corps member experience in a rare ethnographic account.

Making friends is a skill like any other-there are rules to follow, ways to measure your progress, and reasons why some people are better at it than others. Although it may seem like this skill comes naturally to those who don't have Asperger's disorder, nonverbal learning disorder (NLD), or other problems relating to others, the reality is that even the most popular people must constantly hone their abilities in order to make new friends and keep the friends they already have. This workbook includes forty activities you can do to recognize and use your unique strengths, understand the unspoken rules behind how people relate to each other, and improve your social skills. After completing the activities in this workbook, you will discover that you can get along with others and build friendships despite the challenges you face. All you need is the confidence to be yourself while still keeping the feelings of others in mind.

Do you have children that seem to be far more unruly than their peers? Do they struggle to make friends or to know how to act when they are around other people? Do you find that they are always interrupting you or they are constantly causing problems for people around you? If so, then keep reading.... Children everywhere are learning--that much is true. Much of this learning happens naturally over time. Children learn how to behave and how to act with other people by being taught. However, sometimes, there is a bit of a disconnect there--instead of being taught what to do, children just fail to do what was expected of them altogether. Maybe they struggle to make their friends. Maybe they act in inappropriate manners, such as constantly cutting off what people are saying, not managing their emotions, or seeming not to recognize their emotions at all. These are signs that your child lacks social skills that are crucial. These social skills are what teach your child how it is that they should be behaving in the first place. Without the social skills that your child needs to know, he or she will not be able to interact with peers in an effective manner. They will not manage to deal with their emotions in a meaningful manner, and instead, they can lash out at other people. They can cause problems. They can yell and scream. All of this can lead to very serious problems that will need to be corrected as soon as possible to grant your child the best chance at success possible. This book is here to help you with all of that--in buying this book and reading through it, you will find that you are guided through understanding precisely why these social skills matter and how to ensure that your child can develop them. You do not want your child to suffer or struggle in life--and for that reason, you will find that spending the time to better their relationships and the skills that go along with being able to maintain them is precisely what you need to do. Within this book, you will find that following information that will help you do just that: All sorts of information on why social skills matter, how to recognize when a child is struggling with social skills, and why they will need extra help to better deal with their relationships Several activities that will guide your child through learning the skills necessary to make friends More activities on how to maintain relationships to engage with your child to support that development Activities that are centralized around communication--both in learning to talk to other people, and in learning how to listen actively and effectively to ensure that your child will have these crucial life skills AND MORE! There is no need to hesitate--reading this book and implementing the activities within it will help you take your child far in life, and all you have to do is sit down and get started. All you will need is a few minutes out of each and every day. If you are ready to start helping your child learn and grow, then scroll up right now and click on that BUY NOW button today!

Knowledge is understanding, so before we can understand newcomers to North American we have to learn about them. This book shows young students how to bridge cultural gaps to find shared values with others while also teaching them the value of diversity.

With so much emphasis these days on making students globally competitive and prepared to beat students of other nations on international assessments, and with so much talk about academic rigor and emphasis on rigid accountability measures, we are in danger of losing sight of the most fundamental element of successful teaching and learning — love. Teaching Students to Love Learning, Not Just Endure It makes the case that if we really want 'no child left behind' we must return to the solid foundation on which successful teaching and learning has always rested — the love of teacher for her students (and they for her) and the passion of the teacher for her discipline and her desire to share that passion with her students.