Talented Teachers, Empowered Parents, Successful Students! ― Classroom Strategies for Including All Families As Allies in Education

Shouldn’t every parent be a teacher’s greatest asset and ally in nurturing and educating all students? Shouldn’t every teacher actively include and empathetically engage with all parents, especially those who seem the most clueless, careless, or cantankerous?TALENTED TEACHERS, EMPOWERED PARENTS, SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS! provides educators with a wealth of creative strategies, practical solutions, and professional development activities to transform teacher-parent relationships into pleasant, productive partnerships of mutual trust, respect, and collaboration.The author’s twenty-five years of classroom experience in meeting the needs of a diversity of students at large, urban Title I schools (including teaching gifted and special needs students, as well as English Language Learners) ensure his advice is teacher-friendly and timely—and actually works!Affordably priced to fit within any teacher's or school's budget, this inspiring book empowers educators of all grade levels and in any school environment to:• MOVE PARENTS FROM INVOLVEMENT TO INVESTMENT with easy-to-implement techniques for keeping every family engaged with weekly classroom updates and individualized student progress reports.• WIN OVER EVERY PARENT by treating them as the experts they are with a variety of activities that honor their insights and elicit their input on what is best for their child.• TRANSFORM PARENT COMPLAINTS INTO AFFIRMING ENCOUNTERS that leave the parent more satisfied than if there had been no conflict at all!• EMBRACE A WHOLE-CHILD APPROACH that values the core needs of each student and puts parents and teachers on the same page in moving each child forward—socially, emotionally, soulfully, and academically.• ACQUIRE POWERFUL, RESEARCHED-BASED TEACHING TECHNIQUES to cultivate a classroom of willingness, wisdom, wonder, warmth, and worth so parents gain the confidence that their child is in caring, capable hands while at school.• GROW FROM THE INCLUDED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES AND BOOK STUDY QUESTIONS that inspire and equip teachers and parents to work together, as well as to become the best adults they can be for the children they both care for and care about.Every parent wants their child to succeed in school, and most are willing to do their part—as long as they feel invited, informed, and equipped to do so. Teachers who provide parents with the reassurance, recognition, and resources offered in this book are certain to form the strong home-to-school bonds that allow every child to realize their full potential.