home and school

Partnering with parents to ask the right questions

a powerful strategy for strengthening school-family partnerships

Santana, Luz

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Jump-starting boys

help your reluctant learner find success in school and life

Withers, Pam

Why are the smart, perceptive boys struggling at school? Filled with reassurance and support, this book has heart-warming true stories, take-action checklists and over 200 helpful tips.

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Family matters

how schools can cope with the crisis in childrearing

Evans, Robert

2004

Explores how recent changes in children's and parents' roles in the family have impacted the education system and offers teachers advice and strategies for dealing with the effects of those changes.

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Character matters

how to help our children develop good judgment, integrity, and other essential virtues

Lickona, Thomas

2004

Provides parents with more than one hundred strategies to help their children develop good judgement, integrity, and other essential virtues.

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Teachers and parents

an adult-to-adult approach

Rich, Dorothy

1987

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Keys to reengaging families in the education of young adolescents

Loucks, Hazel E

1998

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No easy answers

the learning disabled child at home and at school

Smith, Sally Liberman

1995

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Easy and effective ways to communicate with parents

Mariconda, Barbara

2003

Offers advice to teachers on how to build positive relationships with parents, discussing the parent-teacher partnership, explaining how to start the year off right, looking at methods of communicating with parents, and considering techniques for defusing tension, and dealing with serious issues.