This book is essential reading for all who are interested in the most recent information on the policy, research, and practice of accommodating large-scale assessments in K-12 and beyond. The editors have compiled chapters by over 25 leading researchers and practitioners in the field of testing accommodations for students with disabilities and English language learners. Chapter authors include Jamal Abedi, Lizanne DeStefano, Stephen Elliott, Janette Klingner, James Shriner, Martha Thurlow, Gerald Tindal, and others. This book is an ideal resource for members of IEP teams who make decisions on testing accommodations for state assessments, as well as state departments of education and researchers.

Large Scale Assessments and Accommodations: What Works?

Education & Teaching

Jamal Abedi, Lizanne DeStefano, Stephen Elliott, Janette Klingner

Schools & Teaching

Council Exceptional Children (CEC)

This must-have publication for all special educators provides quick answers to the most common questions on IDEA 2004. Questions and answers are provided in a concise, easy-to-read format. This publication addresses a number of the most pressing policy issues in IDEA 2004, including highly qualified teachers, early intervention services, evaluations and reevaluations, response to intervention, specific learning disabilities, IEPs, procedural safeguards, discipline, research, personnel preparation, and more.

Understanding IDEA 2004: Frequently Asked Questions

Council for Exceptional Children

Written for the educator new to transition, this edition provides critical information including a thorough introduction to transition planning in a user-friendly question-and-answer format. Chapters include: legislation; self-determination; transition assessments; curriculum decision-making; support services; interagency planning; program evaluation; and resources.

Integrating Transition Planning into the IEP Process

Lynda West

This book presents a select set of articles taken from issues of TEACHING Exceptional Children that establish a cogent framework for understanding response to intervention (RTI) as a means of preventing academic failure and identifying students with learning disabilities (LD). The articles in the book have been selected because they embody the commendable components of best practice identified by the National Research Center of Learning Disabilities (NRCLD). These components are: 1) schoolwide screening; 2) research-based progress monitoring; 3) fidelity of implementation; 4) data-based decision making; 5) staff development and collaboration; and 6) parent involvement.

Responsiveness to Intervention (A TEC Articles Collection)

Alec F. Peck and Stan Scarpati

The Recipe for Writing curriculum for writers is a gourmet feast! The authors use cooking terminology and topics familiar to students and lay out a recipe approach to writing. The Students Cookbook contains ingredients and instructions to assist each student in blending up a 5-course narrative essay, from an introductory appetizer paragraph to a dessert summary paragraph. Developed by two seasoned special education teachers, this tasty teacher- and kid-friendly curriculum significantly increases writing achievement scores.

Recipe for Writing Teacher's Manual Revised

Charlotte McCloy and Marcia Gibson

An expanded follow-up to a CEC bestseller, this guide includes tools for assessing families and practitioners engagement in practices that promote positive post-school outcomes for youth with disabilities. Engaging and Empowering Families in Secondary Transition: A Practitioners Guide gives schools and agencies planning tools and practical strategies to foster family partnerships in five dimensions: collaborators in the IEP process; instructors in their youths emergent independence; peer mentors; evaluators and decision-makers; and systems-change agents.

Engaging and Empowering Families in Secondary Transition

Donna L. Wandry and Amy M. Pleet

Got the writing bug? This encouraging and inspiring book will help college and graduate students, practitioners, professors, and grant writers better express themselves, find their true voice, and understand the ins and outs of education publishing. Includes sections on: overcoming the challenges that face new writers; technology; expressing diversity; minority scholar voices; writing books, materials, and other professional products; becoming a successful grant proposal writer; working with editors of research journals; and working with editors of practice-oriented journals.

Publish, Flourish, and Make a Difference

Reference

Festus E. Obiakor, Bob Algozzine, and Fred Spooner

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Transition experts agree that learning to get around the community is one of the essential components of all school programs for students with disabilities regardless of the type or degree of disability. By teaching mobility skills across several areas and its impact for students to learn in the domestic, work, social, self-determination, and recreation domains, educators, families, and older students have a starting point for including these goals in individualized education programs (IEP). This guide provides examples of possible IEP goals and field-tested lesson plans for individual students or entire classes across all age and grade levels.

Getting Around Town Community Mobility Skills Disabilities

Health, Fitness & Dieting

M. Sherril Moon, Emily M. Luedtke and Elizabeth Halloran-Tornquist

Diseases & Physical Ailments

This collection of articles from TEACHING Exceptional Children (TEC) provides current descriptions and examples of practices and systems that form a continuum of positive behavior supports for all students. Schoolwide positive behavior supports, classwide practices, school climate and culture evaluations, and systems approach initiatives expand upon the articles originally published in TEC July/August 2008. Original topics covered: schoolwide discipline; classroom management and interventions; secondary and tertiary intervention systems; data-based decision making; family engagement and supports; cooperative initiatives; and wraparound support services.

Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (A TEC Collection)

Family Science Packets are organized around key science concepts aligned with the National Science Education Standards and are composed of two major sections: Teacher Notes and Family Science Activities. Each activity identifies processing skills critical for student advancement including formulating a hypothesis, making predictions, and collecting data. The 20 activities are divided between lower (K-1) and upper (2-3) primary grades, although a teacher's use of the materials may be applied based on students' needs and interests as appropriate. Materials for families are provided in English and Spanish on the accompanying CD.

U-STARS~PLUS Family Science Packets

Mary Ruth Coleman and Sneha Shah-Coltrane

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