inclusive education

"Provides a pragmatic and thorough approach to creating inclusive, safe, and flexible environments for gender-diverse young people. The primary audience for this text is parents and K-12 educators, as well as the extended support network in a child's life. This book . . . answers the questions of how--how do we create inclusive environments for all children, how do we continue to educate ourselves, and how do we successfully navigate controversy and confusion so that we may best support children in today's schools?"--Provided by publisher.

"Learn how to make classroom grouping more intentional and more fluid in order to deliver targeted and equitable instruction, cultivate student interests, and strengthen the learning community"--.

Challenges the ways schools define "troublemakers" through the stories of four young people as they make their educational journey and find themselves being labeled and disciplined at every turn. Provides ideas on how the educational system can change how they label and treat students who don't fit the typical mold of a student and what educators can do to encourage these students to succeed in all aspects of their lives.

"This book helps teachers use love, acceptance, joy, and compassion to foster a sense of belonging among students who exhibit challenging behavior"--.

" ... offers administrators, teachers, and other educators working to promote inclusion a wealth of information about: the history and research base of inclusive education in the United States; ... essential curricular and instructional practices for inclusive schools, such as heterogeneous grouping, creative problem solving, and co-teaching; powerful organizational structures such as Multitiered System of Support and Schoolwide Positive Behavior Supports to help optimize the benefits of differentiation for all students; and a conceptual framework for coordinating educational initiatives and best practices for educating all students in general education."--Amazon.com.

Offers teachers of kindergarten through eighth grade an overview of autism spectrum disorders and strategies to help students with these disorders cope with and overcome any challenges they might face in the classroom.

"This instructive book looks at schools as safe places where children of all backgrounds and abilities can build strong social and emotional skills and improve attitudes about themselves and others. Showing kindness, accepting differences, learning to resolve conflicts, and expressing gratitude makes school a happy place for both students and teachers"--Provided by publisher.

"A thought-provoking and practical new vision for inclusion built on five disruptions to the status quo necessary to move inclusive schooling practices to the next level and realize the promise of meaningful educational experience for all students, including students with disabilities"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book provides secondary teachers with practical strategies to embed word study instruction in content area classes and support the needs of adolescent readers, particularly those with disabilities. The text includes ... teaching resources, such as sample lesson plans, reproducible teaching tools, web resource lists, and tips about technology-based learning tools"--Provided by publisher.

Offers practical strategies for teachers of students with high-functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome, covering sensory issues; difficulties with communication, behavior, and socialization; educational setting; types of intervention; and team work.