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Communicating Effectively and Meaningfully with Diverse Families by Katia González; Rhoda Frumkin Communicating Effectively and Meaningfully with Diverse Families: An Action Oriented Approach for Early Childhood Educators provides readers with opportunities to critically reflect upon the impact of culturally responsive practices and intercultural communication when communicating and collaborating with families. With a special focus on inclusive practices and ways to effectively develop partnerships with families, pedagogical strategies are provided highlighting specific case studies. The impact of critical reflection is also explored in this valuable monograph.
ISBN: 9004368035

Publication Date: 2018-04-26
Educating Everybody's Children by Robert W. Cole (Editor) Designed to promote reflection, discussion, and action among the entire learning community, Educating Everybody's Children encapsulates what research has revealed about successfully addressing the needs of students from economically, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse groups and identifies a wide range of effective principles and instructional strategies. Although good teaching works well with all students, educators must develop an extensive repertoire of instructional tools to meet the varying needs of students from diverse backgrounds. Those tools and the knowledge base behind them are the foundation of this expanded and revised second edition of Educating Everybody's Children. Each strategy discussed in the book includes classroom examples and a list of the research studies that support it. The most important thing we have learned as a result of the education reform movement is that student achievement stands or falls on the motivation and skills of teachers. We must ensure that all teachers are capable of delivering a standards-based curriculum that describes what students should know and be able to do, and that these standards are delivered by means of a rich and engaging "pedagogy of plenty." By these two acts we can ensure that all schools will be ready and able to educate everybody's children.
ISBN: 9781416606741

Publication Date: 2008-06-01
Interviewing As Qualitative Research by Irving Seidman This popular text provides step-by-step guidance for new and experienced researchers who want to use interviewing as a research method. Appropriate for individual and classroom use, this expanded edition explains the rationale for interviewing and the complexity of selecting interview participants, important interviewing techniques, and how to work with the results of interviews.
ISBN: 9780807761489

Publication Date: 2019-05-31
Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice in Educational Leadership by Ashraf Esmail (Editor); Abul Pitre (Editor); Antonette Aragon (Editor) Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice in Educational Leadership provides educational leaders with practical steps for implementing multicultural education into schools. Drawing from multicultural scholars like James Bank's it equips educational leaders with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to ensure that schools provide all students with equal educational opportunities. Concepts such culturally responsive leadership, transformative leadership, and restorative justice are discussed throughout the book.
ISBN: 9781475834314

Publication Date: 2017-03-08

Resources for Effective Presentations

Reality Check: Be a Powerful Presenter This article focuses on need of confidence, proper communication skill and proper eye contact for speakers who are giving presentation and mentions need of gaining attention of the audiences. Topics discussed include gaining self-awareness through feedback mechanism , addition of meaningful gestures illustrating phrases or concept to express passion, and need of pause by presenters.
Effective Presentation Skills Tutorial This tutorial by Northern Illinois University covers the following topics: preparing for the presentation, organizing the presentation, designing effective presentation materials, rehearsing the presentation, delivering the presentation, and Handling questions and answers.

Family Engagement Resources

Toolkit of Resources for Engaging Families and the Community as Partners in Education The Toolkit of Resources for Engaging Families and Community as Partners in Education provides resources for school staff to build relationships with families and community members and to support family well-being, strong parent-child relationships, and students’ ongoing learning and development. Originally developed for the Guam Alliance for Family and Community Engagement in Education, the Toolkit is based on information from a variety of sources that address engagement in diverse communities. As a result, the Toolkit is applicable in a variety of contexts—and wherever school staff are interested in enhancing engagement of families and community members. The Toolkit is divided into four parts, and each includes a series of activities that can be used with family and community members, as well as other diverse cross-stakeholder groups. The Toolkit offers an integrated approach that helps school staff understand how their own cultural experiences and backgrounds influence their beliefs and assumptions about families and community members, and consequently influences their efforts to engage others in support of student learning. It also addresses how to build a cultural bridge through cross-cultural communication and how to use strategies that build trust between families, community members, and schools. In addition, the Toolkit helps school staff understand how to use two-way communication with families to gather and share data about student interests, progress, and outcomes.
Joining Together to Create a Bold Vision for Next-Generation Family Engagement: Engaging Families to Transform Education Commissioned by Carnegie Corporation of New York, Joining Together to Create a Bold Vision for Next-Generation Family Engagement: Engaging Families to Transform Education is intended to spark a conversation around the power of family, school, and community engagement.

Finding Local Resources for Families

211.ORG Comprehensive source of local social services information. Can search by state for resources to help with supplemental food and nutrition programs, shelter and housing, utilities assistance, healthcare, addiction, mental illness, and more.
Child Care Aware® of America State by state listing of resources for child care, financial assistance, health and social services, and more.
Programs for Families and Children - U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Streaming Video

Education in Video
An online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. Containing more than 1,300 hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.

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