Picky Parent Guide: Choose Your Child's School with Confidence, the Elementary Years (K-6) Book

Picky Parent Guide: Choose Your ChildÂ?s School with Confidence, the Elementary Years (K-6), the flagship title in an exciting new parenting/education series, is the definitive action manual and reference guide for parents of school-age children. It is the first complete, high quality book that combines: 1. A thorough discussion of child and family needs as they relate to education. 2. Research based guidance on school quality fundamentals, regardless of school type. 3. A complete toolkit that organizes the school choice process for parents. Picky Parent Guide is written in a fresh, friendly, motivating style and has many special features to make the school choice or review process easy for parents. The text is filled with engaging graphics, lots of touching stories that illustrate the impact of proper child, family, and school fit, and contains a complete set of 22 Confident Choice Tools, checklists, and tables that organize and simplify the whole process. Readers can create customized lists of questions to ask principals, teachers and other parents when visiting schools based on their own unique child and family needs. Picky Parent Guide is packed with dozens of practical ways to improve every childÂ?s school performance and every familyÂ?s satisfaction with its school choices. It contains a point-by-point discussion about how to discover each childÂ?s unique set of learning strengths, challenges and styles as well as other capabilities, passions, social needs and other factors important for choosing the right school. The book helps parents address their own values about curriculum content, disciplinary methods, parental involvement as well as practical matters like transportation, scheduling, and money. Using the tables and checklists provided, readers can develop a personalized profile of a Great Fit school. The authors, nationally recognized school choice experts and parents of two school-age children, Bryan C. Hassel, Ph.D. and Emily Ayscue Hassel have advised leaders from the school house to the White House. Here they help you get what your child deserves from school. The new era of parental choice in elementary education is here, and it is up to parents to become smart school shoppers for their children. Picky Parent Guide takes the stress out of these critical, yet confusing, decisions, and allows parents to obtain the best educational results for their children.Read More