Education(Others & Schools)

Children

Easy Homeschooling Techniques
Lorraine Curry
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Your guide to the low cost, time saving, high quality method. Written as a technique manual for the beginner and gives step by step instructions.

 

First Year of Homeschooling Your Child, The
Linda Dobson
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A comprehensive guide for homeschooling your child; how to get started, the best ways to develop an effective curriculum; kid-tested and parent-approved learning activities for all age levels.

 

Home Learning Year by Year
Rebecca Rupp
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How to design a homeschool curriculum from preschool through high school. Based on the traditional pre-K through 12th-grade structure.

 

Regular Education

Adoption and the School: Resources for Parents and Teachers
Lansing Wood
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From tots to teens, school can often be a challenge for the adopted child. Sometimes it's "simply" a matter of educating the educators about adoption, diversity, inclusion, language, and special educational needs. Sometimes you need to go further and tackle deeply held traditional practices and policies. Either way, ADOPTION AND THE SCHOOLS will help you and your child's teachers make school a better place for your adopted child.

 

An Educators Guide to Adoption

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Baby pictures ... Family Trees ... Family Life ... Cultural Heritage. These popular school assignments can be difficult, if not impossible, for adopted children. AN EDUCATOR'S GUIDE TO ADOPTION will help teachers to increase their understanding of families built by adoption. It gives them the tools to deal with possibly awkward situations and provides resources for integrating lessons about family diversity into the standard curriculum. Every family with school-aged adopted children needs a copy of this book to educate the educators.

 

Better IEPs: How to Develop Legally Correct and Educationally Useful Programs
Barbara Bateman
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a definitive guide to understanding and writing Individualized Education Programs. It presents a powerful, three-step process that focuses on the individual student and avoids the all too common routinized approach to program development.

 

Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys
Jawanza Kunjufu
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The author began writing these volumes in 1982. They have been well received by parents. This is a wonderful book for parents who want to know the best ways to prepare their Black boys for becoming Black men. The book(s) addresses many issues in between childhood and adulthood, such as “how we can reduce the number of African-American males in special education”; “Mothers and sons”; and other topics of interest to parents raising a Black male in America.

 

How to Get Services by Being Assertive
Charlotte Des Jardins
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"Many parents are not receiving the services they are entitled to by law for their child; and, many professionals have been unable to obtain services their parent/consumer clients are legally entitled to. This handbook is written in direct response to the many parents and professionals who have expressed their feelings of frustration and impotence at their inability to get services."

 

Parenting a Struggling Reader: A Guide to Diagnosing and Finding Help for Your Child's Reading Difficulties
Susan L. Hall
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The first completely comprehensive, practical guide for recognizing, diagnosing, and overcoming any childhood reading difficulty. While headlines warn about the nation's reading crisis, Susan Hall (whose son was diagnosed with dyslexia) and Louisa Moats h

 

Real-Life Homeschooling: The Stories of 21 Families Who Teach Their Children at Home
Rhonda Barfield
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Discover the challenges and rewards of tailoring instruction to each child's needs while catering to his or her inquisitiveness and curiosity. See why the number of children being taught by their parents is growing nationwide - at home, there are no overcrowded classrooms, no unknown dangers lurking in the halls, and no doubts as to the quality of the education." Whether you are just contemplating homeschooling or are a veteran seeking fresh ideas and help in overcoming obstacles - look no further. Real-Life Homeschooling shows just how practical and rewarding it is to educate children and provide them with what they need most - you!

 

White Teacher
Vivian Paley
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Vivian Paley presents a moving personal account of her experiences teaching kindergarten in an integrated school within a predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood. In a new preface, she reflects on the way that even simple terminology can convey unintended meanings and show a speaker's blind spots. She also vividly describes what her readers have taught her over the years about herself as a "white teacher".

 

Special Education

Complete IEP Guide: How to Advocate for Your Special Ed Child
Lawrence Siegel
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Written for parents of special-education children in the U.S., this unique and helpful book provides a map through the Individualized Education Program (IEP), a process that determines the specific elements of a child's special education. It discusses step-by-step how to: understand the details of the IEP, arrange the best possible program for a child, resolve disputes with school districts, develop a child's IEP each year...and more.

 

Getting Past No: Negotiating your way From Confrontation to Cooperation
William Ury
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Offers proven breakthrough strategy for turning adversaries into negotiating partners. You'll learn how to: Stay in control when under pressure; defuse anger and hostility; find out what the other side really wants; counter dirty tricks; use power to bring the other side back to the table; reach agreements that satisfy both sides' needs.

 

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Roger Fisher
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In this new edition, two negotiation experts from Harvard offer a universally applicable method for negotiating personal and professional disputes without getting taken--and without getting nasty. Concise, step-by-step, proven strategies aid the reader in coming to mutually acceptable agreements in any type of conflict.

 

Getting Together: Building Relationships as We Negotiate
Roger Fisher
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A straightforward approach to creating relationships that deal with difficulties as they arise.

 

Helping Children Overcome Learning Difficulties
Jerome Rosner
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Highly praised by parents and educators, Rosner's classic handbook has sold over 80,000 copies. This revised edition has been extensively updated and expanded to include a wealth of new activities to help children with "enigmatic learning problems"--learning disabilities, dyslexia, attention deficit disorder. Graphs, charts, tests.

 

Kids with Special Needs: Information and Activities to Promote Awareness and Understanding
Dee Konczal
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Children with disabilities have special needs, but perhaps their greatest need is to be understood and accepted by other children. It includes background information and simulation exercises about communicative, developmental, physical, and learning disabilities. A comprehensive resource for parents and teachers of children with special needs.

 

Negotiating the Special Education Maze: A Guide for Parents & Teachers
Winifred Anderson
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Now in its third edition, "Negotiating the Special Education Maze" is one of the best tools available to parents and teachers for developing an effective education program for their child or student. Every step is explained, from eligibility and evaluation to the Individualized Education Program (IEP) and beyond. This edition covers changes in disability laws, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). It reviews early intervention services for children from birth to age three, and for those who have young adults with special needs, it also covers transitioning out of school.

 

Special Needs

Fantastic Antone Succeeds! Experiences in Educating Children With Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Judith Kleinfeld
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Alcohol-affected children can achieve far more than the stereotypes suggest - experienced parents and teachers offer the wisdom of practice.

 

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