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Author: Christine Mitchell
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This guide covers a greater number of specific assignments than some of the other resources on this topic. The problem with each specific school project is described, and suggestions are provided to make the assignments more inclusive. The outline offers teachers an 'at-a-glance solution' without having to search through a longer publication. Exclusive ready-to-use worksheets are included, which can either be handed out as they are, or offered as examples to aid students in drawing their own alternative version of the Family Tree chart.
Another unique feature of this workbook is the section offering rebuttals to common arguments educators may have against modifying these assignments. The arguments presented are actual ones that the author faced when addressing this subject with a school administrator, who eventually agreed to educate her staff on these issues. This useful guide will help foster and adoptive parents advocate for their children, and it will help educators be more sensitive to the needs and issues of foster and adoptive children.
About the Author:
Author and illustrator Christine Mitchell lives in California with her husband and two children. Her younger daughter joined the family at age of four, and was adopted from foster care.
Wanting to celebrate the adoption and reassure her daughter of her permanent place in the family, Ms. Mitchell searched for a special book as an adoption finalization gift. With most children’s adoption books reflecting infant adoptions, she was disappointed by the lack of picture books for children adopted as toddlers or older. Ms. Mitchell was inspired to write and illustrate Welcome Home, Forever Child, which offers children a loving message of reassurance and permanence.
Ms. Mitchell recently completed a guide for parents and educators to assist with school assignments that can be challenging and troubling for adopted children. This project arose after Ms. Mitchell’s older daughter was assigned family-based projects that her younger daughter and many adopted children would be unable to complete.
The author has two other children’s books in progress, both geared towards children adopted beyond infancy. “I have always enjoyed writing and drawing,” says Ms. Mitchell, “but that part of me was put on the back burner for many years. I am thrilled to be using these skills now, to hopefully be of some help to other families along their adoption journeys.”
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