Working With Parents Building Relationships for Student Success [Paperback]

Ruby K. Payne (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 23, 2005

Tips for teachers to build communication with parents of their students

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About the Author

Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D., career educator, speaker, business owner and creator of Crossing the Tracks trademark, is an expert on the mindsets of economic classes and on crossing socioeconomic lines at school, in business and for social change. She has written or co-authored more than a dozen books and, as founder and CEO of aha! Process, Inc. has published more than 150 books, DVDs and other materials.

Product Details

• Paperback: 51 pages
• Publisher: aha! Process, Inc. (November 23, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1929229623
• ISBN-13: 978-1929229628
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #113,528 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D. of Baytown, Texas has been a professional educator since 1972. She has been a secondary-school teacher and department chairperson, an elementary-school principal, a consultant, and a central-office administrator. The lessons learned during these years are the bedrock on which aha! Process, Inc. has been built. Her first book, A Framework for Understanding Poverty, is a powerful tool for educators to use when teaching children from poverty. She has led hundreds of workshops and has worked with several thousand teachers and administrators, both nationally and internationally. Ruby Payne founded aha! Process, Inc. (formerly RFT Publishing Co.) in 1996 and serves as its president. In that capacity, she continues to consult and write.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Reviewed by Barb Radmore, March 19, 2007

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This review is from: Working With Parents Building Relationships for Student Success (Paperback)

Ruby Payne's 2006 contribution to the field of educational literature is Working With Parents- Building Relationships for Student Success. This is a very concise discussion on tools that can be used by anyone in the education field as they deal with their students' parents.

Parents are always both the blessing and the bane of a school, from the teachers to the administrators. The lines of communication are often fraught with miscues, misunderstandings and missteps. But both the school and the parent are working for what they feel is best of the student. Payne has written a 50 page primer that reviews the basics of successful communication, the emphasis is on working with parents from poverty and parents of wealth. 33 pages comprise the bulk of the information, the rest is called an appendix. Its format is easy to follow with bulleted and numbered lists, bold titles and tables. She includes case studies that challenges the readers to interpret and respond to scenarios to practice her suggestions. They could be used both in staff trainings or as a personal learning tool. The appendix includes an article Ms Payne wrote as part of her No Child Left Behind series. This one, number IV of the 4 part series, is "Parent and Community Involvement. It reinterates many of the points covered in the first part of the book.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful & Practical Ideas for Increasing Parent Involvement!, December 6, 2006

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Andrea "School Social Worker & Mommy" (Mississippi, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Working With Parents Building Relationships for Student Success (Paperback)

Ruby Payne offers excellent and practical ideas for involving parents from all socio-economic backgrounds! This book is wonderful! I HIGHLY recommend it!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Working With Parents, April 1, 2008

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L. M. Baker "hooked on books" (Evansville,IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Working With Parents Building Relationships for Student Success (Paperback)

This book was a quick read, but offered good tips on working cooperatively with parents for the good of their children. As with Ruby Payne's other works, I felt it offered practical and easy to apply information.