Chapter 1
A continuous cycle of poverty seen year after year where families don't see a way out.
What is generational poverty?
Distinctive ways of "ordering experience" or of "constructing reality"
What is a Paradigm?
This refers to a relationship that involves close cooperation between people who have joint rights and responsibilities.
What is Partnership?
The values and norms that govern and organize a group of people.
What is Culture?
The driver of the bus who teaches George about the 10 rules of The Energy Bus,
Who is Joy?
A family is affected by an unexpected event such as job loss, illness, death, or divorce.
What is situational poverty?
Educators expect parents to transfer these characteristics: ways of being, knowing, writing, talking, and thinking.
What is cultural capital?
This strategy may involve a teacher reaching out to the student's family to become known in a number of different ways.
What is Reaching Out and Sharing Oneself?
The socioeconomic standing of an individual or, in the case of children, their families.
What is Social Class?
George only takes the bus because of this unexpected event.
What is car troubles?
Both parties aid in student education and success.
What is Teachers AND Parents?
A two-way exchange of information between parents and school staff.
What is Family-School Collaboration?
This strategy involves educators to encourage families to share their perspective and expertise about their child.
What is Valuing and Affirming Family Expertise?
Culture, race, ethnicity, nationality, and class are used to describe this term.
What is Diverse Identities?
Joy states, this is the key fuel to move your bus forward.
What is positive energy?
Communication from school to families is problem focused as well as negative.
What is a Barrier to a Collaborative Relationship?
One-way flow of information between schools and parents.
What is Parent Involvement?
Educators use this strategy by focusing on learning about students homes and communities to design activities that are meaningful to students.
What is Involving Families as Significant Participants in Children's Learning?
The diverse social interests and identities of other cultures in the teaching method.
What is Expanding Knowledge?
Joy states, the last rule is to embrace joy and gratitude in your journey.
What is have fun and enjoy the ride?
The key elements to this term are school and linguistic practices, historical bodies of knowledge, and essential for students, home, and communities.
What is Funds of Knowledge?
This act was created to embody six principles of parental involvement that empowers parents to be a part of their children's education and for schools to provide avenues for parents to do so.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
Educators hold meetings at the beginning of the school year to introduce parent and/or students to the school and staff.
What is Back-to-School programs?
The systemic imposition of one set of cultural values over others.
What is Cultural Hegemony?
Rule #1 states, you need to take responsibility of these two things.
What is your own life and choices?