Robert Ward

Shouldn't every parent be a teacher's greatest asset and ally in nurturing and educating all students? Shouldn't every teacher actively include and empathetically engage with all parents, especially those who seem the most clueless, careless, or cantankerous? TALENTED TEACHERS, EMPOWERED PARENTS, SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS provides educators with a wealth of creative strategies, practical solutions, and professional development activities to transform teacher-parent relationships into pleasant, productive partnerships of mutual trust, respect, and collaboration. The author's twenty-five years of classroom experience in meeting the needs of a diversity of students at large, urban Title I schools (including teaching gifted and special needs students, as well as English Language Learners) ensure his advice is teacher-friendly and timely-and actually works Affordably priced to fit within any teacher's or school's budget, this inspiring book empowers educators of all grade levels and in any school environment to: - MOVE PARENTS FROM INVOLVEMENT TO INVESTMENT with easy-to-implement techniques for keeping every family engaged with weekly classroom updates and individualized student progress reports. - WIN OVER EVERY PARENT by treating them as the experts they are with a variety of activities that honor their insights and elicit their input on what is best for their child. - TRANSFORM PARENT COMPLAINTS INTO AFFIRMING ENCOUNTERS that leave the parent more satisfied than if there had been no conflict at all - EMBRACE A WHOLE-CHILD APPROACH that values the core needs of each student and puts parents and teachers on the same page in moving each child forward-socially, emotionally, soulfully, and academically. - ACQUIRE POWERFUL, RESEARCHED-BASED TEACHING TECHNIQUES to cultivate a classroom of willingness, wisdom, wonder, warmth, and worth so parents gain the confidence that their child is in caring, capable hands while at school. - GROW FROM THE INCLUDED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES AND BOOK STUDY QUESTIONS that inspire and equip teachers and parents to work together, as well as to become the best adults they can be for the children they both care for and care about. Every parent wants their child to succeed in school, and most are willing to do their part-as long as they feel invited, informed, and equipped to do so. Teachers who provide parents with the reassurance, recognition, and resources offered in this book are certain to form the strong home-to-school bonds that allow every child to realize their full potential.

Maximize your child’s potential in ways that extend beyond academics alone. Gain a clearer, more cohesive relationship with their teachers. A Teacher’s Inside Advice to Parents: How Children Thrive with Leadership, Love, Laughter, and Learning explains how to support and inspire all kids towards success and satisfaction. When parents and teachers share common goals and methods to meet a child’s essential needs, this wraparound effect flows seamlessly from home to school and back again. This affirming, practical parenting approach provides expert insight for connecting with the classroom and influencing your child in four fundamental aspects: ·Leadership supplies the appropriate guidelines and routines your child requires in order to feel a soothing sense of security, structure, and stability. ·Love offers the attention, encouragement, and acceptance that create a strong bond of trust and open communication between you and your child. ·Laughter adds the joy, excitement, and adventure that embolden and assist in your child’s personal exploration of creativity, purpose, and direction. ·Learning develops and reinforces your child’s knowledge, wisdom, and skills vital for a contributing, self-sufficient life. The Four Ls of Parenting directly lead to the cooperation, confidence, contentment, and capabilities parents and teachers both strive to foster in every child—all accomplished with increased efficacy and delight while nurturing and educating the kids they care about so deeply.

Finally become the teacher you always dreamed of—and the teacher your students always needed. This is the book every educator has waited for! A current classroom teacher honestly and empathetically addresses the struggles and frustrations teachers face today, while also offering straightforward, realistic solutions and sound strategies to meet those challenges head on with renewed confidence, enthusiasm, and efficacy. This book illustrates a commonsense, multi-dimensional teaching approach that consistently attends to the essential needs of all students by motivating them on four fundamental fronts: ·Firmness provides safety, security, and structure that engenders courteous student cooperation and orderly classroom management. ·Fairness fosters caring, community, and recognition that supports a strong teacher-student rapport and personalized attention. ·Fascination delivers passion, pertinence, and peer interaction that evokes sustained student engagement and investment. ·Facilitation furnishes differentiated lessons and formative feedback that ensures increased student achievement and independence. A Firm, Fair, Fascinating Facilitator simultaneously supplies all four of these indispensable student necessities because every child requires leadership and limits, understanding and encouragement, meaning and inspiration, as well as excellent instruction in order to reach their full potential. This book has it all because our students need it all!

Finally become the teacher you always dreamed of—and the teacher your students always needed. This is the book every educator has waited for! A current classroom teacher honestly and empathetically addresses the struggles and frustrations teachers face today, while also offering straightforward, realistic solutions and sound strategies to meet those challenges head on with renewed confidence, enthusiasm, and efficacy. This book illustrates a commonsense, multi-dimensional teaching approach that consistently attends to the essential needs of all students by motivating them on four fundamental fronts: ·Firmness provides safety, security, and structure that engenders courteous student cooperation and orderly classroom management. ·Fairness fosters caring, community, and recognition that supports a strong teacher-student rapport and personalized attention. ·Fascination delivers passion, pertinence, and peer interaction that evokes sustained student engagement and investment. ·Facilitation furnishes differentiated lessons and formative feedback that ensures increased student achievement and independence. A Firm, Fair, Fascinating Facilitator simultaneously supplies all four of these indispensable student necessities because every child requires leadership and limits, understanding and encouragement, meaning and inspiration, as well as excellent instruction in order to reach their full potential. This book has it all because our students need it all!

The opportunity for teachers to take control of their professional growth is at hand! This workbook was written by a current classroom teacher who knows the difference between useful, engaging professional development and insulting, interminable inservices. It contains twenty intriguing, interactive activities created to complement your reading experience of The Firm, Fair, Fascinating Facilitator and for you to evolve into a successful, satisfied Four F’s teacher. These invaluable exercises are ready to go for a complete series of individualized, small group, or whole staff professional development options. Designed for teachers of all subjects and at all phases of their careers, you will find yourself often returning to these activities whenever you need to self-reflect, self-evaluate, or shore up your classroom confidence. Through the discussion guides, you will also have several spirited, searching conversations, either with your colleagues or within the privacy of your own thoughts, which will challenge and assist you in refining and articulating your personal opinions about a wide range of educational issues. Critical thinking, introspection, and empowerment are at the core of this workbook’s goals.

This book tells the story of an extraordinary group of families, the Lockwoods, the Days and the Metcalfes of Yorkshire and London, and their contingent of wealthy and notable people. Among the wealthiest was the boot blacking manufacturer Charles Day, who made the kind of fortune that would easily rank him alongside today's richest rock stars. Perhaps the most notable, indeed noble, was Priscilla Cecilia Armytage-Moore who became the Countess of Annesley. But they are not alone. Other family members include influential architects such as Henry Lockwood the designer of Bradford Town Hall and the company town of Saltaire, leading lawyers such as solicitor general Sir Frank Lockwood, top businessmen among them Charles Armytage-Moore who founded a leading firm of stockbrokers and Sir Joseph Flawith Lockwood head of the EMI corporation, and famous actors including Margaret Lockwood, one of the best-loved British film actresses of her day. This books traces their roots and tells their stories.

Smart, tough Los Angeles FBI agents Jack Harper and Oscar Hidalgo breathe sighs of relief after violent diamond smuggler Karl Steinbach is finally arrested in a complex sting. Vowing vengeance on the agents who brought him down, Steinbach is imprisoned - only to be offered a release with total immunity in a dodgy deal with Homeland Security.As Jack and Oscar's team of agents start to die, it becomes clear that Steinbach's is no idle threat. But when the pair investigate their slain comrade's lives, they discover that what looked like retribution is actually tied to a web of deceit that stretches to the highest echelons of the FBI. Navigating car chases, shootouts, and even venomous reptiles, Jack and Oscar furiously pursue clues scattered throughout the underbelly of Los Angeles, in a desperate attempt to find the killer - before he finds them.With a storyline crackling with action, a dazzling cast of thugs, traitors, killers and creeps, and a cinematic portrait of a Los Angeles clogged with corruption and greed, Robert Ward's turbulent new thriller is clever, contemporary and cool as ice.

Understanding James Leo Herlihy is the first book-length study of one of America's most neglected post-war writers. Herlihy (1927-1993), an occasional actor, made his professional mark in life as a playwright and novelist. Herlihy's body of work includes numerous plays, two collections of short stories, and three novels. His best-known novel, Midnight Cowboy, was later adapted into a screenplay by John Schlesinger. It was the only X-rated movie to receive an Academy Award--three, in fact, in 1969: best picture, best director, and best adapted screenplay. In Understanding James Leo Herlihy, Robert Ward examines Herlihy's writing with reference to its historical, cultural, and personal contexts. Ward portrays Herlihy as a product of his environment, influenced by the 1950s and 1960s culture, including the youth rebellion, the erosion of the traditional family, and the increasing sexual liberation. Herlihy's award-winning novels, plays, and short stories display persistent themes of displacement, alienation, and the loss of innocence--all themes that Ward views as parallel to Herlihy's personal life. Through a biographical introduction and a detailed discussion of the major novels, plays, and short stories, Ward details the writer's successful works.

Lenora and Roger Work's tropical honeymoon in Key West is a distant memory. One bit of business remains. On their final night in paradise, a musician they befriended has an odd request. A "deadbeat" dad from their hometown, Philadelphia, the musician wants them to contact his fifteen year-old daughter, Mariela, and deliver a gift. When Roger, a disbarred lawyer and paralegal with Philadelphia's Defender's Association locates Mariela, he discovers she's serving three months for a first-time shoplifting offense. Roger's investigation uncovers a web of corruption and child endangerment.This third installment in the Roger Work series comes full circle from eclectic Key West to the underbelly of the streets of Philadelphia, proving everyone deserves a second chance.