Leading for differentiation: Growing teachers who grow kids

"Leading for Differentiation lays out the reflective thinking and action-oriented steps necessary to launch a system of continuous professional learning, culture building, and program assessment that will allow differentiation to take root and flourish in every classroom.

"Leading the change to a differentiated school means creating an environment in which each individual feels valued, challenged, supported, and part of a team working together for success. In this book, school leaders will learn how to set the course for positive change and create the structural supports that will help teachers grow as differentiators so that their students will thrive as learners." -publisher

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Enabling university: Impairment, (dis)ability and social justice in higher education

Enabling university: Impairment, (dis)ability and social justice in higher education takes the most recent, interdisciplinary research and demonstrates how to make higher education institutions open, accessible and socially just for staff and students with disabilities. Combining the scholarly fields of media platform management, information literacy, internet studies, mobility studies and disability studies, this book offers a guide and method to consider how students and staff with differing needs move through university processes, spaces and interfaces.

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Push to Open

Push To Open offers a proactive planning guide to help general education teachers understand some of the most critical characteristics of autism, and plan their classroom environment and teaching methods to avoid pitfalls that can occur around sensory, communication, social and instructional issues. Push to Open provides no-nonsense, practical guidance to make life easier and outcomes better for teachers and students.

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Peer Mentoring: Learning Together

Looking for an interactive curriculum for students who want to be involved in the inclusion of students with disabilities in their schools? The Center for Community Living and Careers at Indiana Institute on Disability and Community has one free for those who live in Indiana.

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Everyday Classroom Strategies and Practices for Supporting Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Everyday Classroom Strategies and Practices for Supporting Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders provides a practical approach to working with students on the spectrum. It helps to demystify the processes needed to help these students succeed and gives teachers the supports to plan appropriately for them. This resource clearly communicates how to create a classroom in which every learner succeeds with specific and easy-to-implement strategies for students who require minimal supports as well as those who require more intensive interventions.

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Inclusive Physical Activity

The second edition of Inclusive Physical Activity is an excellent resource for physical activity practitioners or students preparing to work with diverse populations in schools, fitness facilities, community recreation sites, and sport programs. This text shows how to provide optimal programming for all individuals—regardless of capability—so they can be healthy and active throughout the life span. Inclusive Physical Activity, Second Edition, can help you

• provide well-designed and appropriate physical activity for individuals of all abilities,
• increase opportunities for meaningful participation in lifelong physical activity, and
• facilitate physical activity to increase health and and wellness for individuals with disabilities.

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Friends & Inclusion

Looking for a book to help build community inclusion? Friends & inclusion: Five approaches to building relationships might be the ticket. Authors Peggy Hutchison, her husband, John Lord, and their daughter Karen remind us that "it's all about relationships! It's that simple and that complex." The trio have developed five approaches to building lasting, meaningful relationships in order to live fully engaged and participating citizens.

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Making inclusion work

Making inclusion work for students with autism spectrum disorders: An evidence-based guide is an indispensable resource for K-12 educators and autism specialists. A research-based, step-by-step process for assessing students at a range of skill levels, planning and implementing successful inclusion programs, and working as a team with other professionals and with parents are all discussed. It's packed with specific strategies for helping students with ASD follow the daily routine, learn from the general education curriculum, interact with peers, and overcome problem behaviors.

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Teaching Adolescents with Autism

Teaching adolescents with autism: Practical strategies for the inclusive classroom, written by an award-winning educator, offers insight into handling behaviors in older kids on the spectrum, implementing interventions in the classroom, and even differentiating instruction. Practical strategies and research-based practices for educating students with autism in inclusive settings makes the book itself all-inclusive.

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Social skills program

Making friends, preK-3: A social skills program for inclusive settings is the second edition of Ruth Herron Ross and Beth Roberts' Wanna play? (Corwin ©2006). The book features lots of games and activities that can be linked to IEP goals for kids with disabilities. It targets topics such as safety and regulating emotions and can also be used with kids without disabilities.

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The Power of Words

"One in 150 children in the United States has autism. As an adult with an autism diagnosis, Judy Endow has experienced first-hand what it feels like to be the “1” in the 1 in 150."

The Power of Words is a striking DVD that examines how even the best-intentioned words we use towards individuals with autism can affect inclusion and acceptance. In a poetic format, Endow reveals how damaging labels can be to persons with ASDs.

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Inclusive Programming

Inclusive programming for high school students with autism or Asperger's syndrome by Sheila Wagner, M.Ed, is a guidebook for teachers, parents, and adolescents with ASDs navigating their way through high school. The book tackles such issues as transitioning from middle school, bullying, dating, preparing for college, taking on part-time jobs, learning to drive and more.

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