This picture book teaches students all about the many important people who work at a school. Featuring engaging images and simple, repetitive phrases, students will be eager to develop their early literacy skills with this engaging text that aligns to the National Council for the Social Studies and other state standards.

Many different people work at your school. Read through the pages of this book to find out all about school workers. Featuring simple phrases, exact text-to-image relationships, large font, and vibrant photographs, this book is aligned to the National Council for the Social Studies, state standards, and helps students become familiar with the many people that contribute to a school environment. Including six copies of Workers at My School and an accompanying lesson plan, this 6-Pack provides standards-based activities that will engage kindergarten students, support reading and writing competency, and develop content-area literacy.

Discusses what the school cafeteria worker does, including prepare healthy lunches, serve the food, and clean up the cafeteria.

Build literacy skills and social studies content-area knowledge with this nonfiction title! This 6-Pack offers an integrated English language arts approach that specifically addresses California content standards for history-social science, as well as reading, writing, and English language development standards. Many different people work at your school. Read through the pages of this book to find out all about school workers! Featuring simple phrases, exact text-to-image relationships, large font, and vibrant photographs, this book helps students become familiar with the many people that contribute to a school environment. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan that aligns to California's History-Social Science Content Standards.

Roads, bridges, and buildings would not be possible without construction workers! Construction workers are great problem solvers who use tools and machines to get the job done. This informative book will help readers build knowledge on how construction workers shape our communities.

Little readers will learn all about what grocery store workers do and why they are important in our communities. Very simple text combined with correlating and colorful images will both inform and strengthen reading skills. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Junior is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.

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.

This book introduces children to the important people who make our communities cleaner, safer, and better. Action shots feature people working in construction, at schools, in hospitals, fighting fires, doing police work, and volunteering. An activity asks children what kinds of things they could do to volunteer in their own communities.

Are your employees like a synchronized "V" of geese in flight-sharing goals and taking turns leading? Or are they more like a herd of buffalo-blindly following you and standing around awaiting instructions? If they're like buffalo, their passivity and lack of initiative could doom your company. In How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead, you'll discover how to transform buffalo into geese-by reshaping organizational systems and redefining employees' expectations about what it takes to succeed. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.