Picky Parent Guide: Choose Your Child Title: Picky Parent Guide: Choose Your Child's School With Confidence, the Elementary Years, K-6

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Picky Parent Guide: Choose Your Child's School With Confidence, the Elementary Years, K-6 by Armchair Press (CA)

Choosing Your Child's School (K-6)

Very good reference on the variety of elementary schools (K-6) and the services that each can offer. Guidelines on which factors parents should consider in choosing a school for their children were also given. School administrators and teachers were also informed on how the parents will choose a school. School administrators and teachers were made to be aware of on how to meet the parents' expectations while conforming to the educational goals and standards. A more sociable approach for schools.
Picky Parent Guide: Choose Your Child's School With Confidence, the Elementary Years, K-6 by Armchair Press (CA)

very helpful

helpful in focusing our needs and my son's learning style to determine where he should attend school
Picky Parent Guide: Choose Your Child's School With Confidence, the Elementary Years, K-6 by Armchair Press (CA)

Picky Parent Guide

This book does an excellent job of hand holding a parent through the steps of choosing a school that is just right for a child and their family. It is easy to read and transiitions easily from subject to subject while giving in-depth and invaluable information about what to look for in a school, teacher and administration. It is a comprehensive tool for making an educated choice with the many options that are available to parents today.
Picky Parent Guide: Choose Your Child's School With Confidence, the Elementary Years, K-6 by Armchair Press (CA)

You need this book in your bookcase!

There are few things more important than picking the right school for your child and this book will show you how to do it and feel very confident about your decision. We used this book when we were deciding whether to switch from private to public schools for our kids. We used many of the toolkits/checklists which made the process much easier. We have made the switch and our children have never been happier. Thank you for writing such an important book.
Picky Parent Guide: Choose Your Child's School With Confidence, the Elementary Years, K-6 by Armchair Press (CA)

Wow. Am I Glad I Read This!

If parents were asking these questions consistently, there is no doubt that the quality of education in America would be significantly better. The Picky Parent Guide provides an excellent framework to think about what educational choice really means, and the tools to put these ideas into action. The concepts are easy, and logical. This is an indispensable book for parents to learn about what they can do to help pro-actively and constructively ensure the optimal learning environment for their childen. The book enlightens parents about the factors to consider, and that indeed, there are a lot more choices in elementary education than you might think. Parents' choices are not limited to the question of public vs. private vs. parochial. The Picky Parent Guide is a great primer on how each child can be encouraged and supported to get the best possible education. It's an easy read - VERY helpful, very common sense, very encouraging and very actionable information. Read before your kids are in school so you have a way to think about this subject, and then read it again as your kids approach school age so that you can put what you've learned into action.
Picky Parent Guide: Choose Your Child's School With Confidence, the Elementary Years, K-6 by Armchair Press (CA)

Book Description

Picky Parent Guide: Choose Your Child’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 child’s school performance and every family’s satisfaction with its school choices. It contains a point-by-point discussion about how to discover each child’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.