Chapter One
What does "sharing the role of expert" mean?
What is working with and learning from families instead of doing to or for families.
What does the word paradigm mean?
What is model, theory, perception, assumption, or frame of reference
Homework is the leading factor to...?
What is improving students' academic performance
what is race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, gender identity, regionality, family structure, disability status, and sexual orientation
What is the bus number that Joy drives?
What is #11
How can educators have cooperative problem-solving between themselves and parents?
What is keeping the blaming between parents and teachers at a low level so that people can remain calm and level-headed while solving problems
What is the main goal of national educational goal number one?
What is all children will have access to high-quality and developmentally appropriate preschool programs that help prepare children for school.
What helps with implementing school-wide collaborative strategies?
What is teamwork
What is culture?
What is culture encompasses macro-level processes and deals specifically with the values and norms that govern and organize a group of people defining characteristics and behaviors that are deemed appropriate or inappropriate for an organized group.
How many rules does the Energy Bus have?
What is 10
Why do educators struggle to collaborate with families?(multiple possible answers)
What is time, overburden, do not know how to, and fear doing so
What is the main goal of national educational goal eight?
What is every school will actively engage parents and families in a partnership that supports the academic work of children at home and shared educational decision making at school.
What should educator-parent relationships build off of?
What do culturally responsible teachers do?
What is actively connecting what and how they teach to the cultural and linguistic backgrounds that exist in the homes and communities of their students
Adversity helps to..?
What is "grow"
Why do low-income parents have a negative perception of schools?
What is they feel talked down on or blamed.
What is the separation paradigm?
What is when educators believe school and home should be separate spheres
What is an effective strategy for building strong relationships with families as an educator?
What is look for ways to learn from and use the parents’ perspective
What is a major cause of the discontinuity between culturally and economically diverse families and the culture of school communities?
What is a lack of shared values and expectations
What was the man on the bus repeating over and over?
What is "too blessed to be stressed"
How can educators build effective relationships?
What is examine their own beliefs and expectations on how roles and power should be structured
What is the first stage in changing something in your life?
What is recognizing the area in your life you wish to change
Teachers assumptions about their students family environment can do what?
What is build links between school and home or sever them
What is the child development program?
What is a literature-based moral development program that uses family homework activities to connect home culture with school culture by drawing on family experiences
At the end of the book, what position does George now hold?
What is "Chief Energy Officer"