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| Changing Family-School Roles and Relationships | |
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| Connecting with Families: A Nice or Necessary Practice? | |
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| Learner Objectives | |
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| The Influence of Families on Children's School | |
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| Success Changing Models of Teaching and Learning | |
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| Sharing the Role of Expert with Families | |
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| Building On Students and Families | |
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| Funds of Knowledge Practicing No-Fault Problem Solving | |
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| Creating Opportunities for Meaningful, Non-Problematic Interaction | |
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| Discovering the Benefits of Connecting with Families Identifying the Barriers | |
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| The Philosophy Underlying Our Approach | |
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| From Separation to Collaboration: Changing Paradigms of Family-School Relations | |
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| Understanding Paradigms | |
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| The Power of a Paradigm Shift | |
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| A Typology of Family-School Paradigms | |
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| The Separation Paradigm | |
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| The Remediation Paradigm | |
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| The Collaboration Paradigm Implications for Your Professional Practice | |
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| Building Culturally Responsive Family-School Partnerships: Essential Beliefs, Strategies and Skills | |
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| Learner Objectives | |
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| Vignettes Thinking and Working as Partners | |
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| Translating Beliefs into Action: Dyadic or Group Focused Strategies | |
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| Creating Collaborative Dyadic Relationships Reaching Out and Sharing | |
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| Oneself Valuing and Affirming Family Expertise | |
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| Involving Families as Significant Participants in Children's Learning | |
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| Focusing on Group Climate-Building | |
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| Examining Existing School Norms and Practices | |
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| Redesigning Core Routines and Practices | |
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| Structural Supports for Family-School Collaboration | |
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| Evidence of Effectiveness Developing Your Skills in Family-School Collaboration Skill | |
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| Understanding Oneself, One s Personal Reactions and Attitudes Skill | |
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| Understanding and Valuing Family and Community Strengths Skill | |
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| Reaching Out and Communicating Skill | |
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| Understanding and Appreciating Family Diversity Skill | |
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| Building in Opportunities for Positive Non-Problematic Family School Interaction Skill | |
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| Creating Active, Co-Decision-Making Roles in Planning and Problem Solving and Accessing Needed Services Discussion | |
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| Understanding Families in their Socio-cultural Context | |
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| From Family Deficit to Family Strength: Examining How Families | |
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| Influence Children s School Success | |
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| Learner Objectives | |
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| Vignette Moving Beyond Stereotypes: Changing Research Perspectives Using Systems Theory to Understand Family Life | |
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| Family Systems Theory Ecological Systems Theory Looking at Key Family System Processes | |
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| Family Beliefs and Expectations | |
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| Family Emotional Climate | |
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| Family Organizational Patterns | |
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| Family Learning Opportunities | |
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| Strengthening Families Capacities to Help Their Children Succeed | |
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| Benefits of a Family Strengths | |
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| Perspective Scanning for Strengths | |
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| Understanding Family Stress and Change | |
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| Diverse Family Forms Blended Families | |
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| Single-Parent Families | |
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| Gay and Lesbian Families | |
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| Intergenerational and Multigenerational Families | |
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| Adoptive and Foster Families Using Family Life Cycle Theory | |