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Valuable teacher knowledge, skills, and best practices are presented in these sections of the Staff Development Handbook:

• Culturally responsive teaching
• Family and community involvement
• Language transfer and interference issues.

School-Home Connection Newsletters encourage family involvement. There is a newsletter for each unit, and for each Chapter in the Welcome Unit.

For teachers working with Spanish-speaking students, a list of Cognates/False Cognates is very beneficial. The list is located at the end of the Staff Development Handbook.

The School-Home Connection Newsletters and the list of English-Spanish Cognates/False Cognates are located in the Milestones California Teacher's Resource Book and on the Milestones California Teacher's Resource CD-ROM.

Experienced teachers will pick up some new strategies; new teachers will find these sections practical.