Watch, Listen, Ask, Learn (eBook)

How School Leaders Can Create an Inclusive Environment for Students With Disabilities (An education leader’s guide to navigating the complexities of special education)

Belinda Dunnick Karge (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
240 Seiten
Solution Tree Press (Verlag)
978-1-954631-30-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1: What Every Leader Should Know About Special Education

Chapter 1: The Legal Basics of Special Education

Chapter 2: Service Delivery Models—Striving to Meet the Least Restrictive Environment

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: Measure Your Progress Toward Schoolwide Implementation of Support for All

Chapter 6: Inclusive Education Is Equitable Education—All Means All

Chapter 7: Eleven Steps for Establishing an Inclusive School

Appendix A: At-a-Glance Review of IDEA (2004)

Appendix B: Sample Learning Services Team Referral Form

Appendix C: A Sample Parent Notice of Learning Services Team Meeting

Appendix D: Student Response Form for Learning Services Team

Appendix E: Learning Services Team Log Sheet

Appendix F: Learning Services Team Summary Form

Appendix G: Sample Special Education Referral

References and Resources

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2022
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
• ISBN-10: 1-954631-30-8 / 1954631308
• ISBN-13: 978-1-954631-30-4 / 9781954631304