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Watch, Listen, Ask, Learn
How School Leaders Can Create an Inclusive Environment for Students With Disabilities
This is your comprehensive resource on providing effective special education services in your school. Written for current and aspiring administrators and teacher leaders, the book offers action items, case studies, and reproducible tools to help you stay in front of special education law, know and support your learning services team, and ensure students with disabilities receive equitable, inclusive education.
This book will help district administrators, building leaders, and general and special education teachers:
- Understand legal regulations and policy surrounding special education
- Think ahead, be proactive, and set up supports for each student
- Discover a variety of special education service delivery models and practices
- Know how to best support the paraeducators, speech and language specialists, therapists, and other essential staff who comprise their learning services team
- Build and sustain strong parent and community support
- Utilize an effective MTSS model that includes academics, behavior, and mental health
- Embrace the challenge to remain professional learners, whether they’re veteran educators or just starting out
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1: What Every Leader Should Know About Special EducationChapter 1: Learning the Legal Basics of Special Education
Chapter 2: Striving to Meet the Least Restrictive Environment: Service-Delivery Models
Part 2: How Effective Leaders Support Special Education Personnel
Chapter 3: Supporting and Mentoring Special Education Personnel
Chapter 4: Supporting Paraeducator Personnel
Chapter 5: Collaborating With Related Services Personnel
Part 3: How to Progress Toward Schoolwide Implementation of Support for All
Chapter 6: Ensuring That Inclusive Education is Equitable Education: All Means All
Chapter 7: Establishing an Inclusive School in Eleven Steps
Appendix
SUMMARY: THE MAIN IDEA
STUDY GUIDE
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
- At-a-Glance Review of IDEA (2004)
- Figure 1.2: Guide to Special Education Abbreviations
- Figure 1.3: The Sequence of IEP Events
- Figure 2.1: Template for LST Duties
- Figure 2.3: Worksheet for MTSS Tier Development
- Figure 2.4: Example LST Meeting Agenda
- Figure 3.2: BICE Program Progress Form
- Figure 3.5: Give One, Get One Form
- Figure 4.2: Tasks Paraeducators Can Perform
- Figure 5.2: Curriculum-Planning Form
- Figure 7.1: Form for Implementation of the Eleven Inclusion Steps
- Figure 7.2: Sample Inclusion Climate Survey
- General Education Student Information Form
- Learning Services Team Log Sheet
- Learning Services Team Summary Form
- Sample Learning Services Team Referral Form
- Sample Parent Notice of a Learning Services Team Meeting
- Sample Special Education Referral Form
- Student Response Form for the Learning Services Team
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Books
- Buffum, A., Mattos, M., & Malone, J. (2018). Taking action: A handbook for RTI at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Cawn, B. (2020). Ambitious instruction: Teaching with rigor in the secondary classroom. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., Mattos, M., & Muhammad, A. (2021). Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work: Proven insights for sustained, substantive school improvement (2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Eastman, B., & Rasmussen, A. (2021). Authentic literacy instruction: Empowering secondary students to become lifelong readers, writers, and communicators. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Kise, J. A. G. (2021). Doable differentiation: Twelve strategies to meet the needs of all learners. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Marzano, R. J. (2017). The new art and science of teaching. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Navo, M., & Williams, A. (2022). Demystifying MTSS: A school and district framework for meeting students’ academic and social-emotional needs. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
Websites
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
- What Works Clearinghouse
- IRIS Center
- IRIS Center modules
- TeachingWorks
- National Center on Intensive Intervention
- Council for Exceptional Children
- University of Kansas
- Learning Forward
Chapter 4
- Parasharp Program
- Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence
- National Resource Center for Paraeducators
- Paraprofessional Resource and Research Center
Chapter 5
- Specialized Assessment and Consulting
- Communication Therapy Associates
- DotCom Therapy
- AVID
- Naviance
- Best Buddies
- National Association of School Psychologists
- National School Psychology Certification Board
- My Next Move
- CareerOneStop
- Boardmaker
- Don Johnston
- AbleNet
- Proloquo2Go
Chapter 6
- Brolly Program
- Community Advisory Committee Guidelines
- Whittier Area Cooperative Special Education Program
- Learning Disabilities Association of America
- National Down Syndrome Society
- Gifted Education Research, Resource, and Information Centre
- World Scholar’s Cup
- Knowledge Bowl
- NASA Space Place
- Academic Decathlon
- Destination Imagination
- Odyssey of the Mind
