FBR: Let’s Bee Friends

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Why is Bear bothered by Bee when she can be a sweet friend? Character concept: Trustworthiness: Be a good friend.

Why is Bear bothered by Bee when she can be a sweet friend? Character concept: Trustworthiness: Be a good friend.

Let's Bee Friends is a "tail" of adventure and friendship starring Sweet Pea the Bumble Bee. This book is a photo journal with each page reminds us that friendship is an important part of spreading the buzz of happiness. As the reader turns from page to page they are introduced to a beautiful new creature. The ever loving Sweet Pea warms our hearts as she gathers her entourage of friends along the way. This is a feel good inspirational book for all ages. It reminds us, no matter how different we all are, we can have friends near and far! Spread the buzz, get the book!

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.

Cat the Cat sure likes her flying friends. You will too! Join this spunky feline as she introduces the very youngest readers to her world, where a surprise is waiting in every book.

An updated edition of the award-winning analysis of the role of race in the classroom features a new author introduction and framing essays by Herbert Kohl and Charles Payne, in an account that shares ideas about how teachers can function as "cultural transmitters" in contemporary schools and communicate more effectively to overcome race-related academic challenges. Original.

Investigates the art of reading by examining each aspect of reading, problems encountered, and tells how to combat them.