A World Away From IEPs: How Disabled Students Learn in Out-of-School Spaces (Disability, Culture, and Equity Series)

Step outside of the IEPs and behavioral paperwork currently generated in schools, go where disabled people are thriving today, and see the results in learning, growth, and expression. This authoritative book offers readers alternative ways to think about learning and behavior in special education. Through illustrative case studies and a disability studies lens, author Erin McCloskey uses the voices of people with disabilities to show how these students progress creatively outside the classroom and school building-at the dojo, the riding arena, the theater stage, the music studio, and other community-centered spaces where disabled students can make choices about their learning, their bodies, and their goals. Balancing theory and practice, the book describes alternative learning spaces, demonstrates how disabled students learn there, and passes on the important lessons learned in each space. The ideas apply to students of all ages with a wide variety of disabilities. Book Features: <ul> <li>Uses the voices of people with disabilities to promote alternative ways to think about learning and behavior in special education.</li> <li>Presents rich case studies and briefer interludes to illustrate how disabled students are learning and thriving in surprising ways outside of school where they have opportunities to explore.</li> <li>Distills important key takeaways from each case study through chapter sections of "lessons learned."</li> <li>Promotes informed discussion of the concepts in the book with questions at the end of each chapter.</li> <li>Combines theory and practice to help readers put the concepts into action in a variety of settings with a variety of disabled students.</li> </ul>

McCloskey, Erin

Politics & Social Sciences

Teachers' College Press

Step outside of the IEPs and behavioral paperwork currently generated in schools, go where disabled people are thriving today, and see the results in learning, growth, and expression. This authoritative book offers readers alternative ways to think about learning and behavior in special education. Through illustrative case studies and a disability studies lens, author Erin McCloskey uses the voices of people with disabilities to show how these students progress creatively outside the classroom and school building―at the dojo, the riding arena, the theater stage, the music studio, and other community-centered spaces where disabled students can make choices about their learning, their bodies, and their goals. Balancing theory and practice, the book describes alternative learning spaces, demonstrates how disabled students learn there, and passes on the important lessons learned in each space. The ideas apply to students of all ages with a wide variety of disabilities. 
Book Features: Uses the voices of people with disabilities to promote alternative ways to think about learning and behavior in special education. Presents rich case studies and briefer interludes to illustrate how disabled students are learning and thriving in surprising ways outside of school where they have opportunities to explore. Distills important key takeaways from each case study through chapter sections of “lessons learned.” Promotes informed discussion of the concepts in the book with questions at the end of each chapter. Combines theory and practice to help readers put the concepts into action in a variety of settings with a variety of disabled students.

British Columbia Nature Guide

Science & Math

Kennedy, Gregory

Biological Sciences

Lone Pine Media BC

To be Canadian is to hear the call of the wild, and one of our enduring symbols of wilderness is the bear. All three species of this magnificent carnivore -- black, grizzly and polar -- can break your neck with a simple swat of their massive arms and clawed paws. Nevertheless, bears are not evil or monstrous. It is your behaviour that can make all the difference. Your BEST defense is to learn everything you can about bears and act accordingly.
That's where this book comes in. You'll discover how bears communicate, what they eat, how they socialize, what habitat they use, what time of year they are active, what they do around their cubs and what their various vocalizations signify. This book features:
-- stories of bear attacks, both historical and contemporary, showing how suddenly and unexpectedly bears can severely injure and kill humans -- detailed identification of each bear species, including illustrations, range maps and black and white photos -- population densities -- typical dangerous behaviours to avoid -- survival techniques.
Armed with the right information and common sense, you can travel and play safely in the great Canadian wilderness.

Bear Attacks in Canada

LONE PINE PUBLISHING*

The Nature Guide to Atlantic Canada lets you discover the wonderful diversity of nature that lies right outside your front door. Whether you live in the city or in the country, hundreds of species of plants and animals share your living space. Get to know your neighbours! Covering every square inch of Atlantic's Canada's incredibly varied landscape, this book helps you identify over 400 species of mammals, birds. Amphibians, retiles, invertebrates, fish, trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses and ferns. This latest nature guide for Atlantic Canada is the perfect resource for anyone- teachers, parents, students, children's groups-interested in learning more about nature in their backyard and beyond.

Nature Guide to Atlantic Canada

Nature & Ecology

The British Columbia Nature Guide lets you discover the wondrous diversity of nature that lies right outside your front door. Whether you live in the city or the country, hundreds of species of plants and animals share your living space. Why not get to know the neighbors?Covering every inch of BC's incredibly varied landscape, this book teaches you to identify 406 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, invertebrates, trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses and ferns:* Colour illustrations of each species* Native uses of plants* Animal behavior* Ecology and range* Similar species cross-referenced* Colour maps showing ecoregions, parks and nature areas across BC.

In the United States, approximately 2.5 million students are diagnosed as having a learning disability and the majority of those children are placed in special education because of an inability to read as expected. As a result of this diagnosis, these children may be placed in special education classrooms - classrooms that are separate from the 'mainstream' population. For children with learning disabilities, there is likely no place, other than in school, where a student's inability to read as expected leads to this separation from hisher peers. Once school is over, these children play alongside the kids in their neighborhoods, participate in sports teams, and attend community activities. This book looks at the impact of being labeled as learning disabled and separated from peers in school through the eyes of Samson, a middle school student described both as learning disabled and a non-reader. This qualitative case study explores how Samson, his family, his teachers and this researcher make sense of special education and the complexities of learning to read as an adolescent. Throughout this book, there is a contrasting of the laws and procedures designed to guide special education, with the actual experiences of those impacted by these laws and procedures. Through the three years that Samson was in middle school, this book investigates his perspective on his classes, his interpretation of what it means to 'be' a student in special education, and the process by which he learns to read. How disability gets created, contested, and discussed is highlighted through the many contexts that allow disability to be recognized and to fade into the background.

Taking on a Learning Disability: At the Crossroads of Special Education and Adolescent Literacy Learning

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Information Age Publishing

In the United States, approximately 2.5 million students are diagnosed as having a learning disability and the majority of those children are placed in special education because of an inability to read as expected. As a result of this diagnosis, these children may be placed in special education classrooms - classrooms that are separate from the 'mainstream' population. For children with learning disabilities, there is likely no place, other than in school, where a student's inability to read as expected leads to this separation from his/her peers. Once school is over, these children play alongside the kids in their neighborhoods, participate in sports teams, and attend community activities. This book looks at the impact of being labeled as learning disabled and separated from peers in school through the eyes of Samson, a middle school student described both as learning disabled and a non-reader. This qualitative case study explores how Samson, his family, his teachers and this researcher make sense of special education and the complexities of learning to read as an adolescent. Throughout this book, there is a contrasting of the laws and procedures designed to guide special education, with the actual experiences of those impacted by these laws and procedures. Through the three years that Samson was in middle school, this book investigates his perspective on his classes, his interpretation of what it means to 'be' a student in special education, and the process by which he learns to read. How disability gets created, contested, and discussed is highlighted through the many contexts that allow disability to be recognized and to fade into the background.

Taking on a Learning Disability: At the Crossroads of Special Education and Adolescent Literacy Learning (Hc)

From Monterey Bay in the south to the Klamath Mountains on the Oregon border, Northern California has some of the most iconic natural wonders in the US: redwood forests, San Francisco Bay, Yosemite, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and Lake Tahoe. Both beginning and more experienced naturalists will enjoy this guide to 400 of the region's most commonly encountered plants and animals. Birds, butterflies, wildflowers, trees, squirrels, bugs, and more. Each species account includes color illustrations, detailed notes on ecology, range, animal behavior, and native uses Separate color-coded quick reference guide With illustrated glossary, bibliography, and index for both common and Latin namesA must-have for every hike and camping trip!

Northern California Nature Guide

This new Bradt guide to Argentina reflects the resurgence and investment in quality tourism that is taking place in this country of passion and vast wilderness. A full range of must-do travel experiences are featured such as trekking on horseback through the Andes and wildlife excursions around the Valdés peninsula, famed for its penguin colonies and whale-watching. This guide also focuses on the small-scale initiatives for visitors that are mushrooming in Argentina; a couple of the possibilities include taking part in an archaeological dig or wildlife conservation project. Features include: &gt;Comprehensive details on Buenos Aires and other cosmopolitan cities &gt;Where to see wildlife in national parks and lesser-known regions &gt;Accommodations from ranch stays in the Pampa to downtown Buenos Aires, plus camping and backpacking options &gt;Everything one needs to know about the tango

Bradt Argentina (Bradt Travel Guides)

Travel

Burford, Tim

South America

Bradt Pubns

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A World Away From IEPs: How Disabled Students Learn in Out-of-School Spaces (Disability, Culture, and Equity Series)

A World Away From IEPs: How Disabled Students Learn in Out-of-School Spaces (Disability, Culture, and Equity Series)

British Columbia Nature Guide

Bear Attacks in Canada

Nature Guide to Atlantic Canada

British Columbia Nature Guide

Taking on a Learning Disability: At the Crossroads of Special Education and Adolescent Literacy Learning

Taking on a Learning Disability: At the Crossroads of Special Education and Adolescent Literacy Learning (Hc)

Northern California Nature Guide

Bradt Argentina (Bradt Travel Guides)