A Guide To Collaboration For Iep Teams

Developed for administrators, teachers, resource professionals, and parents, this skills-based book will help you work as a unified team to design, review, and modify IEPs for children with special education needs.

"Has the potential to transform the IEP process."---Kate Scorgie, Ph.D., Azusa Pacific University, California --

Winner of NAGC's 2021 Book of the Year Award This must-have resource: Provides gifted educators with methods and strategies for successful coplanning, coteaching, coaching, and collaboration. Enables effective management of differentiation. Increases educators' understanding of gifted students' needs. Features the tools and how to steps for facilitating and maintaining collaborative work in order to challenge and support gifted students all day, every day. Encourages professional learning and a focus on shared responsibility and reflection. The book also includes considerations for working with special populations, including twice-exceptional students, underachievers, and culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse learners, as well as meeting students' social-emotional needs, collaborating with families and communities, and advocating for gifted education.

"Schools constantly struggle to help students show improvement in academic achievement. One of the primary reasons for this is inconsistent or poor instructional practice. Research dictates that collaborative teams are an essential aspect of any successful school and can be vital in improving student achievement. In Collaborative Teams That Work: The Definitive Guide to Cycles of Learning in a PLC, authors Colin Sloper and Gavin Grift seek to help collaborative teams operate effectively in order to improve achievement in their school. They provide a path of twelve specific actions that will lead to greater collaboration. Also included in this book are a set of eleven actions for other types of teams, so educational teams of all types can see advances in their work. The key to increased student success is collaboration, and Collaborative Teams That Work is the ultimate guide to ensuring excellent collaboration"--

Accessibly written and specifically designed for secondary schools, Implementing Systematic Interventions provides you with the tools you need to successfully organize for and smoothly implement schoolwide intervention strategies. Discover how to: • Organize administrative support and leadership teams; • Create effective communication techniques and protocols; • Use effective models to select school-specific priorities; • Support staff and students during the transition; • Identify desired outcomes and assess whether or not they've been achieved. Featuring supplemental online resources, this essential guide helps your team avoid common mistakes, identify clear goals, and implement successful interventions to help every student succeed.

Your guide to responsive collaboration A responsive and collaborative approach meets the needs of students with disabilities in partnership with their families. Written to empower all members of the IEP or 504 team, this book guides educators and parents alike through the implementation of a responsive decision-making process on behalf of students. Learning disruption due to the pandemic has affected millions of students. This book offers practical tools for improving the fit between the learning profile of individual students and schooling. Responsive Collaboration for IEP and 504 Teams provides a framework that identifies opportunities to build connections between educators, establish relationships with service providers, strengthen school-family partnerships, address inequities, and develop student self-determination. Readers will find guidance on • Referral and eligibility determination • Individualized plan development • Responsive teaming over time • Other key practices related to responsive teaming, with links to implementation tools Drawing on the principles of social justice and responsive practice, this is your guide to navigating the complexities of IEP and 504 Team meetings for the benefit of students, educators, and families.

This text provides, from a rehabilitation perspective, comprehensive coverage of the dominant theories and techniques related to the occupational development, vocational behavior, and the organizational factors that impact the career development and employment of individuals with disabilities. It is designed for the CORE-mandated required course on employment and career development for the Master's Degree in rehabilitation counseling and for Licensed Professional Counselor certification. As the only book in rehabilitation and counseling that broadly addresses career development and employment of individuals with disabilities, it is a major contribution to the literature. Topics covered include major constructs in career development and employment of disabled individuals, theoretical foundations, occupational assessment, information and evaluation, intervention strategies, and populations and settings. To facilitate learning and promote application of theories and techniques, each chapter includes chapter objectives, discussion and review questions, and case studies. An instructor's manual is also included. Key Features: The only book in rehabilitation and counseling to provide comprehensive coverage of career development and employment and disability-related theory and research Fulfills CORE-mandated requirements and Professional Counselor licensure Authored by respected leaders in the field Provides chapter objectives, case examples, and discussion questions in each chapter along with instructor's manual