Award-winning principal, Baruti Kafele, writes handbook for parents and handbook for teachers toward raising the achievement levels of Black children

Jersey City, NJ (BlackNews.com)--Recognized as a parent favorite since 1991, A Black Parent's Handbook to Educating Your Children (Outside of the Classroom) is a book that no parent of elementary or middle school-aged children should be without!

Written by award-winning principal, Baruti K. Kafele, it is a guide providing strategies and suggestions for parents to utilize towards the educational growth and development of their children.

With achievement levels and drop out rates at epidemic proportions throughout the national African American community, there is a continued need to provide parents with meaningful and relevant material to foster immediate change.

A Black Parent’s Handbook does just that through the following topics: Preparing for Success, Reading for Success, Setting Goals for Success, Studying and Testing for Success, Communicating for Success, Collaborating for Success and Distractions to Success.

Kafele’s second book, A Handbook for Teachers of African American Children is a guide providing strategies and suggestions for teachers to utilize towards raising the achievement levels of African American children.

Kafele states emphatically that A Handbook for Teachers is a "must read" for any teacher that has even one African American student in his/her classroom.

He says that as long as classroom teachers fail to make solid connections with their African American students, learning will certainly fail to occur.

A Handbook For Teachers of African American Children shows teachers how to make such connections with their African American students through the following topics: African-centered Instruction, Mission-driven Teaching, Motivating Your Students, Effective Classroom Instruction, Planning and Organization, Managing Your Classroom, Making Connections, Holding Yourself Accountable, Professional Development and Parental Engagement.

For additional information, log on to Kafele’s website at www.principalkafele.com.