Resh Institute Resources
Resh Institute’s Marcy Jackson is the author of Educational Leadership for Parents© (2012); for parents striving to navigate their child’s education; P.A.R.E.N.T.S. Life Skills, Literacy & Leadership Framework for Social Change© (2015) for new, returning, and reentry parents; and Pour the Water: Transformative Solutions for Equity & Justice in Special Education (2024), which addresses frameworks for antiracist practice and policy for parents, physicians, providers, policymakers, and related professionals.
Pour The Water
Pour The Water is a much-needed book of transformative solutions for equity and justice in special education. Written by Marcy Jackson, the book calls for the reexamination of special education programs and reflection for educators, providers, and sectors that service Black Students with Special Needs (BSSN).
Education is as essential to well-being as water, yet many Black students with special needs lack equitable access to this vital resource. In Pour the Water, special education advocate, Marcy Rachamim Jackson, blends advocacy and academia, with a compassionate lens of social justice and spirituality.
Jackson questions the practices of identification and service for students with gifts, delays, disabilities, and differences. Relying on expert interviews, medical research, social context, and program examples, she guides readers over obstacles and on to opportunities for the most underserved.
At the critical intersection of race and disability, this book offers frameworks for antiracist practices and policy to help teachers, providers, researchers, professors, and graduate students create equitable learning environments where all students can thrive.
P.A.R.E.N.T.S. Workbook
P.A.R.E.N.T.S. Life Skills, Literacy, and Leadership© is a research-based competency framework of seven life skills. Taught in the context of parenting, our program helps families achieve their parenting goals.
Gain the direction and self-control you need to become a new or better parent with this Easy Read / Simple Text, reviewed by educators, physicians and parents!
The handbook explains seven (7) life skills and includes ten (10) sections with over thirty (30) activities: introduction, self-awareness, scenario, parenting action, reflection, guidance, research challenge, planning, follow up and notes pages.
The purpose of this handbook is to raise awareness of parental responsibilities and life-skills to better prepare and develop effective parenting.
Informed decision-making on the primary parenting life skills, is what we hope you will learn from this independent use of the P.A.R.E.N.T.S. Life Skills, Literacy and Leadership Handbook with Journey map.
“Pour The Water offers an abundance of data about how educational systems fail to prepare Black students in the skills to succeed in life. The heart of the book are chapters 5-9. By starting each chapter with a goal for the system to address, it focuses on what the overall educational system and other organizations need to do to address the issues of inequity and injustice for BSSNs. It also serves as a map to help focus and implement the recommendations and measure the success or failure of the goals.”
Robert Felton, M.A., Retired Montgomery County Public Schools’ Administrator and pioneer in inclusive education