Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.

Teach students the math skills they need to enter the workforce Plan a business-oriented curriculum for your students with this full-color, easy-to-read text that focuses on the skills students need on the job. Math for the World of Work covers critical skills like whole numbers, fractions, decimals, averages, estimating, measurements, and ratios. Each skill is introduced in a cross-curricular context that helps students learn about the business world. Lessons are reinforced with problem-solving activities, exercises, and review questions to give students plenty of practice and solidify their understanding of new skills. And features like Application Activities and Technology Connections ensure that students understand how to apply the skills they acquire. Lexile Level 860 Reading Level 3-4 Interest Level 6-12

Silva (mathematics education, San Jose State U.) provides an expanded framework of understanding for K-6 educators and educational specialists to use when teaching students who are having difficulties learning mathematics.

Differentiated Instruction for the Middle School Math Teacher is a practical and easy-to-use resource for teaching a standards-based math curriculum to all learners. It gives you effective ways to present math concepts, shows how to provide opportunities for guided practice, and offers ideas for modifying the material to provide access to the same content standard for all students in the inclusive classroom. This book also contains key strategies for collaborating with other professionals, suggestions for involving the students' families by tying math concepts to students' everyday lives, and valuable assessment strategies. The lessons in the book cover middle school math topics correlated to the standards of the National Council of Teachers of Math, ranging from numbers and operations to problem solving and reasoning. Each lesson includes: Instructions for presenting the lesson to the whole class Worksheets designed to help review and reinforce theconcepts presented in each lesson A section on how to adapt the lesson for the inclusive classroom, including descriptions of different stations for different learners A home-school connection with family-based everyday math activities Suggestions for how to assess students' grasp of the concepts presented in the lesson

A mathematics professional development program for inclusive classrooms Developed by the Education Development Center and Bank Street College of Education, this professional development program will show general and special education teachers how to collaborate to provide a high-quality, standards-based mathematics education to all students, including those with disabilities. The Math for All learning experiences detailed in the corresponding facilitator’s kit will help teachers: Assess students’ strengths and needs Use multiple instructional strategies to teach specific math concepts Tailor lessons based on individual students′ strengths and needs to help them achieve high-quality learning outcomes in mathematics This program will emphasize how the neurodevelopmental demands of a math lesson interact with individual students′ strengths and needs. The authors will provide step-by-step guidance for adapting materials, activities, and instructional strategies to make lessons accessible to all students. This participant book includes the handouts and reproducibles for the program. The forthcoming kit will include a facilitator’s guide and a corresponding DVD.