Advocacy Leadership: Toward a Post-Reform Agenda in Education (Critical Social Thought) In this timely and important new book, Gary Anderson provides a devastating critique of why a managerial role for educational leaders is counterproductive, especially for improving opportunities for low-income students and students of color, and instead proposes ways of re-theorizing educational leadership to emphasize its [...] Read more »
Forward Advocacy Foster Care Video – Education
Forward Advocacy is an educational awareness video designed to advocate and raise awareness about foster youth and former foster youth in America about their educational pathways. This was accomplished via professional and personal stories in regards to the risk and protective factors that inevitably come with being in foster care. This movement is going to [...] Read more »
Informed Advocacy in Early Childhood Care and Education: Making a Difference for Young Children and Families
Informed Advocacy in Early Childhood Care and Education: Making a Difference for Young Children and Families This practical guide describes the critical need for advocacy in the field of early care and extols the ethical responsibilities of all early child educators, as outlined in the Code of Ethical Conduct (NAEYC 2005). Organized into three [...] Read more »
Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy – The Special Education Survival Guide
Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy – The Special Education Survival Guide Pete and Pam Wright provide you with a clear roadmap to effective advocacy for your child. You will learn about your child’s disability and educational needs, how to organize your child’s file and develop a master plan. You’ll learn about conflict, negotiating, creating paper [...] Read more »
SLI Research, Education, Advocacy
Since it’s inception in 2007, the Sports Legacy Institute (SLI) has made incredible strides in advocacy, education, and research of concussions and brain trauma in athletes and other at risk groups. A 501 (c) (3) organization, based out of Boston, MA, SLI has reached millions through live presentations, television, radio, and print media in order [...] Read more »
A Guide to Special Education Advocacy
A Guide to Special Education Advocacy Disability law can be complex and intimidating, so how can concerned parents use it to ensure their child with a disability receives the appropriate education they are legally entitled to? A Guide to Special Education Advocacy gives strategies for advocating for better provision of special education in schools. Despite [...] Read more »
Advocacy and Educational Technology: A Guide to Getting Your Voice Heard
Advocacy and Educational Technology: A Guide to Getting Your Voice Heard You have the power to effect change. Without your voice, elected officials can too easily forget the needs of schools and digital-age learners, and funding can slip through the cracks. As a passionate member of the ed tech community, stand up and make your [...] Read more »
NYS OCFS B2H Training: Ep. 9: Special Needs Community Advocacy and Support
Learn about the Special Needs Community Advocacy and Support for eligible foster children in the NYS OCFS Bridges to Health Medicaid-waiver program, which provides expanded and enhanced services to foster children who have serious emotional or developmental disabilities or are medically fragile. This program also serves their families, including birth parents, foster parents, pre-adoptive parents, [...] Read more »
Introduction to Advocacy: Research, Writing and Argument (7th Edition) (University Casebook Series)
Introduction to Advocacy: Research, Writing and Argument (7th Edition) (University Casebook Series) This overview of the use of litigation in dispute resolution is particularly well-suited for use in an introductory lawyering course. It instructs students on efficient preparation, proper form, and effective presentation of arguments. Content covers interpreting facts and developing core theory, legal research, [...] Read more »
Community Health Nursing: Advocacy for Population Health (5th Edition)
Community Health Nursing: Advocacy for Population Health (5th Edition) Now more than ever–locally, nationally, globally–society is in need of community health services. This book emphasizes the application of community health nursing as it relates to specific populations, settings, and community health problems. Theoretically and scientifically sound, as well as practical and applicable, this resource is [...] Read more »