The Survival Guide for New Special Education Teachers

The Survival Guide for New Special Education Teachers
Author: Catherine Creighton Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: First year teachers
ISBN: 9780865865068

This book offers practical guidance on such topics as roles and responsibilities, school environment and culture, classroom organization and management, collaboration with other professionals, and individual professional development.

Ensouling Our Schools

Ensouling Our Schools
Author: Jennifer Katz
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2018-06-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1553797434

In an educational milieu in which standards and accountability hold sway, schools can become places of stress, marginalization, and isolation instead of learning communities that nurture a sense of meaning and purpose. In Ensouling Our Schools, author Jennifer Katz weaves together methods of creating schools that engender mental, spiritual, and emotional health while developing intellectual thought and critical analysis. Kevin Lamoureux contributes his expertise regarding Indigenous approaches to mental and spiritual health that benefit all students and address the TRC Calls to Action.

A Principal's Guide to Special Education (3rd Edition)

A Principal's Guide to Special Education (3rd Edition)
Author: David F. Bateman
Publisher: Council For Exceptional Children
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0865864799

An essential handbook for educating students in the 21st century, since its initial publication A Principal's Guide to Special Education has provided guidance to school administrators seeking to meet the needs of students with disabilities. The third edition of this invaluable reference, updated in collaboration with and endorsed by the National Association of Elementary School Principals and the National Association of Secondary School Principals and incorporating the perspectives of both teachers and principals, addresses such current issues as teacher accountability and evaluation, instructional leadership, collaborative teaching and learning communities, discipline procedures for students with disabilities, and responding to students' special education needs within a standards-based environment.

Wrightslaw

Wrightslaw
Author: Peter W. D. Wright
Publisher:
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Aimed at parents of and advocates for special needs children, explains how to develop a relationship with a school, monitor a child's progress, understand relevant legislation, and document correspondence and conversations.

Wrightslaw

Wrightslaw
Author: Peter W. D. Wright
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Special education
ISBN: 9781892320162

[This text] teaches you how to use the law as your sword and your shield. Learn what the law says about: Child's right to a free, appropriate education (FAPE); Individual education programs, IEP teams, transition and progress; Evaluations, reevaluations, consent and independent educational evaluations; Eligibility and placement decisions; Least restrictive environment, mainstreaming, and inclusion; Research based instruction, discrepancy formulas and response to intervention; Discipline, suspensions, and expulsions; Safeguards, mediation, confidentiality, new procedures and timelines for due process hearings.--Back cover.

The Everything Parent's Guide to Special Education

The Everything Parent's Guide to Special Education
Author: Amanda Morin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2014-05-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1440569673

Children with special needs who succeed in school have one thing in commonNtheir parents are passionate and effective advocates. This valuable handbook explains how to evaluate, prepare, organize, and get quality services, no matter what a child's disability. Includes worksheets, forms, and sample documents and letters.

Shhh! It's Special Ed

Shhh! It's Special Ed
Author: Caryla Resavy-Geil
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2007-07
Genre:
ISBN: 1598869965

They have been silenced long enough. It's time to take a stand. "Shhh! It's Special Ed. Your School Districts Best Kept Secret" tells the story that few are ready to hear. Elected officials, administrators, teachers, and even some parents have kept this group in the dark. They won't even talk about it. This book blows the lid off the premise that these young adults can't do it. In fact, they can, and they do! "Shhh! It's Special Ed. Your School Districts Best Kept Secret" explains what needs to happen to help this group find independence and ownership of their own lives. Together, we can give them a future. Take a chance, get involved, make a difference.

The Survival Guide for Kids in Special Education (And Their Parents)

The Survival Guide for Kids in Special Education (And Their Parents)
Author: Wendy L. Moss
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2017-07-26
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1631981684

Tools, strategies, and advice help kids in special ed build on their strengths and be their best in and out of school. When kids learn they might receive special education, they often have questions and worries. This book gives kids lots of tools and strategies they can use to deal with their concerns, whether they are in the process of being evaluated for special ed or already receiving special ed services. Readers will learn to cope with their challenges, understand reasons for testing, and see the benefits of accepting special education supports. The book includes special features such as: Stories about kids’ experiences with special education drawn from the authors’ conversations with hundreds of students Approachable and relatable explanations of individual education plans (IEPs) and 504 plans for both parents and kids Reproducible forms to help kids think about their strengths, challenges, goals, worries, and more A section just for parents addressing common questions