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An Action Plan for Creating Effective Schools
A basic plan of action can help education leaders ensure success for all students.
Today’s school leaders are challenged to ensure their schools are effective—providing a quality education for every student—but they must do that with fewer resources than in the past. They need an...
Author:
Kenneth Cummings
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Leadership
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Parent Involvement
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Empathetic Consciousness
If there is one adolescent trait that I value and quite frankly bet on every time, it is that adolescents are among the most resilient creatures on earth. This resilience is catalytic in their growth, and in helping...
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Jeffrey Rothstein
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What's Best for Kids? Tips for Parents
The first tip is thinking ahead... One of our best tools as parents is being prepared. As your son or daughter gets to the middle school years, get ready for at least occasional conflicts. Think through what is truly...
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Judith Baenen
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Service-Learning
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Service-learning is a teaching and learning method that connects meaningful, community service experiences with academic learning, personal growth, and civic responsibility (Shumer & Duckenfield, 2004). Learning...
Author:
Shirley Theriot
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Community Involvement
Habla con ellos—Talk to them: Latinas/os, achievement, and the middle grades
Moving bilingual children beyond subordinated categories toward full engagement in relevant and authentic learning that embraces their communities.
Our faculty in the Education Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte often spends time discussing issues we see within our middle grades program, including with our undergraduate teacher candidates...
Author:
Spencer Salas, Jeanneine P. Jones, Theresa Perez, Paul G. Fitchett, & Scott Kissau
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Parent Involvement
Research Summary
What is parent involvement? Parent involvement is important to the educational success of a young adolescent and yet generally declines when a child enters the middle grades (Epstein, 2005; Jackson & Andrews,...
Author:
Elizabeth Pate, Gayle Andrews
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Parents' Relationships and Involvement: Effects on Students' School Engagement and Performance
This study focused on parents' relationships and involvement in their children's lives and the effects on the students' school engagement and school performance. The study used the Wave I data from the National...
Author:
Yun Mo, Kusum Singh
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Build a Productive Parent-Teacher Team
The last United States Census reported that young adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in the care of someone other than their parents. Couple this with adolescents' growing need for independence, and...
Author:
Joe Bruzzese
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Improving Collaboration
Strong family-school collaboration can help all students succeed.
Decades of research confirms that positive parental involvement is critical for students’ success in school, and federal policy mandates effective programs at all school levels; however, parent involvement often...
Author:
Darcy J. Hutchins
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Student-Led Conferences: Involving the Most Important Player
"Your son's average is a low C. His grade is not as high as it should be, primarily because he is not turning in his homework, and I am not sure he is studying for tests. I was hoping you could shed some light on...
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Shawn A. Faulkner and Christopher M. Cook
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