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This guide describes The Circle technique, a powerful and systematic way of engaging with students and building authentic relationships with and among them. It includes step-by-step instructions for conducting various types of Circles, sample questions to use with students in grades K-12, guidance on what to look for during Circles, and how to use information shared in the Circle to develop individualized supports for students.
More InfoBy Sandra Rief
This quick-reference guide by Sandra Rief provides an overview of what teachers need to know about dyslexia and the structured language approach. It also shares multisensory instructional strategies for teaching phonological awareness and early literacy word-level reading and writing skills that all teachers (Pre-K through Grade 2) will find beneficial integrating into classroom and Tier 1 small group instruction/intervention.
More InfoNow more than ever, with a push toward diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in education, educators are often unsure about how to update their disability awareness initiatives. This guide will give you clear and respectful guidelines for including disability within DEI frameworks.
More InfoBy Jennifer Caton and Mary Little
This guide provides critical information, practical strategies, and evidenced-based interventions about middle school mathematics instruction within MTSS. It offers an array of ways to use this highly effective framework to meet the needs of students who struggle with mathematics.
More InfoThis guide provides teachers with information that will help them understand and set expectations for language development. It also provides strategies that incorporate best practices for helping English learners develop content knowledge through language.
More InfoThis guide examines the widespread problem of chronic absenteeism in schools, from why students fail to show up to school, to how to prevent excessive absences, to how to find missing students and re-engage them so that they are able to get back on track and ultimately graduate and reach their full potential.
More InfoBy Wendy Ashcroft, B. Joyce Keohane, & Sue Argiro
This guide offers general and special education teachers, parents, and paraprofessionals quick-access to practical tips and effective ABA-based strategies for teaching children with autism who need support (level 1) and substantial support (level 2).
More InfoBy Wendy Ashcroft, B. Joyce Keohane, & Sue Argiro
This guide offers general and special education teachers, parents, and paraprofessionals quick-access to practical tips and effective ABA-based strategies for teaching children with autism who need substantial support (level 2) and very substantial support (level 3).
More InfoBy Sandra Rief
This guide is an invaluable quick-reference classroom tool for teachers, paraeducators, and all who serve students with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and learning disabilities (LD). It is also an excellent teacher-training/professional development resource for educators in both general education and special education classrooms.
More InfoBy Maurice Elias & Larry Leverett
This guide is designed to provide educators with tools and strategies to integrate social-emotional and character development (SEL) and culturally responsive education (CRE) into your classroom or school’s equity strategies.
More InfoThis guide provides parents with helpful information for understanding mental health in children, including myths and warning signs, and taking concrete action to improve their child’s mental health.
Also available in Spanish
More InfoThis guide provides parents with helpful information for understanding mental health in children, including myths and warning signs, and taking concrete action to improve their child’s mental health.
Also available in Spanish
More InfoThis Spanish-language guide provides parents with helpful information for understanding mental health in children, including myths and warning signs, and taking concrete action to improve their child’s mental health.
More InfoThis Spanish-language guide provides parents with helpful information for understanding mental health in children, including myths and warning signs, and taking concrete action to improve their child’s mental health.
More InfoThis quick-reference laminated guide provides an overview of UDL and recommends UDL strategies for providing multiple means of representation, multiple means of expression, and multiple means of engagement to meet the wide range of individual learning styles of students who are leaning entirely virtually, in a hybrid model, or in-person.
More InfoBy Sandra Rief
This guide provides educators easy-access guide to evidence-based tools and programs for catching dyslexia early, developing effective interventions, and helping students with dyslexia thrive in school and beyond
More InfoBy Isaiah Pickens & Schenike Massie-Lambert
This guide provides an overview of the three tenets of a TICR approach for maximizing students’ social-emotional and academic well-being, gives you the tools to understand the underlying reason for behavior issues, identifies common trauma triggers, and outlines how to adjust the classroom to become more responsive to the needs of students with trauma, and more!
More InfoThis guide will help teachers learn more about common mental health disorders, how to recognize warning signs, how to support students in need, interact with students in crisis, and cultivate a classroom climate conducive to good mental health.
More InfoThe ACT Matrix walks students through a process of identifying values, regulating emotionally challenging experiences, and achieving greater satisfaction and success academically and socially. It can be used at all grade levels (K-12).
More InfoBy Tony Spruill
This quick-reference laminated guide is designed to help school bus drivers and bus monitors understand the unique transportation needs of students with disabilities. It provides bus drivers and monitors with quick access to on-the-spot support and strategies as they transport students safely and pleasantly on a daily basis.
More InfoThis quick-reference guide presents detailed MTSS flowcharts for academic RTI, behavior (school wide positive behavioral support/SWPBS), social emotional RTI, and suicide prevention.
More InfoBy Toby Karten
This compact yet comprehensive guide provides K-12 educators of students who receive special education services with a brief overview of the purpose and essential elements of an individualized education program (IEP), along with adaptations, interventions, and supports to incorporate into the IEP as part of specially designed instruction (SDI).
More InfoThis guide provides K-12 educators with the knowledge and skills to create safe and inclusive school environments for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) students. In recent years, more national attention has been focused on the unique needs and challenges facing LGBTQ youth.
More InfoThis guide presents a 10-step instructional sequence for teaching students three types of self-management: self-monitoring, self-evaluation, and self-reinforcement. Each type can be taught to a whole class, small groups, or individual students (grades K-12). Any type can be used with both learning and social behaviors.
More InfoBy Toby Karten
This reference guide, for teachers of grades K-12, presents strategies and tools to help students and the staff who instruct them in inclusive classrooms develop and advance mindful practices. It includes activities which can be used with the whole class that will benefit all learners, as well as recommendations for exercises to address challenges specific to certain learners, including those with specific learning disabilities (SDL), intellectual differences, executive function difficulties, emotional differences, autism, and physical disabilities.
More InfoBy Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
In partnership with the Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability and Reform (CEEDAR), the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) has developed a set of High Leverage Practices (HLPs) for special educators and teacher candidates. HLPs provide those involved in special education teacher preparation and professional development with a set of practices that were identified through consensus among special educators.
More InfoBy Marc A. Brackett, Nicole A. Elbertson, Dena N. Simmons, and Robin S. Stern
This 6-page, quick-reference laminated guide by Marc Brackett and colleagues at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, provides educators with with an introduction to SEL, guidelines for effective implementation of SEL in your classroom and school, an introduction to the RULER approach to SEL, strategies to promote your own social and emotional wellbeing, and a classroom SEL evaluation tool.
More InfoThis newly updated guide (2019) is designed for teachers and other school professionals who agree with Martin Luther King, Jr., who said, “Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.” It provides an overview of what social, emotional, and character development (SECD) is, why it’s so important, and how to infuse simple character-building lessons throughout the curriculum and all aspects of the classroom and school.
More InfoThis guide helps educators get started with making, offering a framework for planning the logistics, student experience, and space design, with an eye toward building inclusive makerspaces. It provides practical guidance on planning a makerspace and makerspace program, with detailed recommendations for projects and logistics, tools and materials, space design, and more.
More InfoThis quick-reference laminated guide looks at the two mindset types identified by Carol Dweck (2006): fixed mindset and growth mindset. It reviews the characteristics of each mindset type and how a person’s mindset impacts the way that person deals with challenges, responds to criticism, relates to peers, and approaches learning tasks.
More InfoThis quick-reference laminated guide introduces teachers to Alexa and presents ideas for how to use it in the classroom to engage students, support and reinforce learning, and make the most efficient use of their own time.
More InfoThis new quick-reference laminated guide provides an overview of restorative practices and offers a three phase model with concrete strategies for implementing RP in the classroom. This compact yet comprehensive guide will help educators begin their journey toward transforming school culture through implementing restorative practices.
More InfoBy Thomas Gibbon and David Bateman
This quick-reference guide will help ensure that students with disabilities, and the families and teams that support them, set appropriately ambitious individual goals for life after high school and develop and execute a plan to achieve these goals.
More InfoThis all-new laminated reference guide is designed to serve as a valuable resource for teachers working with English learners in diverse classroom to help them address their students’ complex needs by unpacking learning. It offers proven strategies that make learning more accessible for English learners and help these students meet rigorous standards and achieve their greatest goals.
More InfoThis quick reference laminated guide provides an overview of best practices in STEM education for teachers of grades K-8. It addresses what STEM literacy is and why it’s so important, and provides an overview of best practices in STEM education.
More InfoBy Toby Karten
This newly updated and expanded laminated reference guides by Toby Karten is designed to assist general education (GE) teachers, special education (SE) teachers, and school staff in implementing inclusive practices and effective strategies that focus on students’ strengths and abilities.
More InfoBy Toby Karten
This newly updated and expanded laminated reference guide by Toby Karten is designed to assist general education (GE) teachers, special education (SE) teachers, and school staff in implementing inclusive practices and effective strategies that focus on students’ strengths and abilities.
More InfoBy Karen Kemp
This quick-reference laminated guide is designed to provide elementary educators with critical information about reading within an MTSS framework. It also offers practical strategies to use in the major areas of reading for students who require additional exposures within the core reading program.
More InfoBy Karen Kemp
This quick-reference laminated guide is designed to provide educators with critical information about MTSS as a framework for reading instruction in middle school, and give teachers practical techniques to implement within the general education classroom.
More InfoBy Jacqueline Thousand and Richard Villa
This quick-reference laminated guide by Jacqueline Thousand and Richard Villa, authors of The Inclusive Education Checklist provides a framework, examples, as well as technology and print resources to help classroom teachers differentiate their instruction using Retrofit and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approaches and Multiple Intelligences theory.
More InfoBy Jim Wright
From Jim Wright, founder of the definitive online RTI resource, www.interventioncentral.org, and author of several best-selling books on Response to Intervention, comes this new quick-reference laminated guide for teacher at any grade level.
More InfoBy Paula Kluth
In this six-page, quick-reference laminated guide, author Paula Kluth presents simple, effective strategies for supporting students on the autism spectrum in inclusive pre-K through 12th grade classrooms, and helping all learners succeed.
More InfoBy Kent Gerlach
Written by Kent Gerlach, author of Let's Team Up: A Checklist for Teachers, Paraeducators & Principals, this quick-reference laminated guide helps paraeducators survive and thrive as important members of school teams.
More InfoBy Tom Hierck & Garth Larson
This six-page, quick-reference laminated guide is designed to help schools move beyond standards to target-based grading and reporting. It includes examples of proficiency scales, proficiency targets, progress trackers, and summative rubrics.
More InfoBy Jim Wright
Designed for use by teachers, this 6-page, quick-reference laminated guide by Jim Wright, founder of Intervention Central (www.interventioncentral.org), describes a range of evidenced-based Tier 1 (whole class) RTI/MTSS strategies and interventions to prevent and manage disruptive or inappropriate classroom behaviors.
More InfoBy Stacy Dean
While UDL is not a new concept, many teachers need support to plan, instruct, and assess students under this framework. UDL and ESSA, by Dr. Stacy Dean, provides this support in a handy, quick-reference tool for K-12 teachers.
More InfoBy Estee Lopez
This quick-reference, tri-fold laminated guide is designed to increase educators’ ability to make teaching and learning decisions based on research-based best practices for the academic and language achievement of English language learners (ELLs).
More InfoBy Elizabeth McAvoy & Jacqueline Thousand
This six-page, quick-reference laminated guide is designed to help busy teachers easily access a wide range of basic mindfulness practices that help them return to the present moment throughout the day. It also guides teachers through the process of teaching mindfulness to students (K-12) in the classroom so that students are calmer, more confident, more self-reflective, less reactive, and better able to manage relationships and problem solve.
More InfoBy Joseph Renzulli & Marcia Gentry
This six page, quick-reference laminated guide by Dr. Joseph Renzulli and Marcia Gentry guide provides an overview of Enrichment Clusters, an innovative component of the Renzulli Schoolwide Enrichment Model, along with seven steps for implementation.
More InfoThis six-page, quick-reference laminated guide is a convenient tool for teachers charged with implementing the Florida State Standards (FSS). It explains how and why to use Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to ensure students with diverse backgrounds and learning needs can succeed.
More InfoBy Marilyn Friend and Brian Friedlander
This reference guide provides practical strategies on how technology can facilitate co-planning, expedite sharing of student data, and streamline many other tasks that ultimately assist in accomplishing co-teaching’s goal: improved student outcomes. Whatever your preferred computer platform, co-teachers can apply these strategies and applications to accommodate all learners’ needs.
More InfoBy David Bateman and Jenifer Cline
This reference guide is designed for classroom teachers to assist them in deriving meaning from all types of data, both standardized and non-standardized. It explores how and when data can be used effectively to improve student learning, as well as how teachers can interpret different forms of data to meet students’ diverse needs and assess ongoing progress.
More InfoThis reference guide is specifically designed to provide teachers with practical, evidence-based strategies for reducing test-related anxiety and improving test performance and overall well-being in students ranging from elementary to high school age. The guide includes recommendations for teaching effective study skills & habits, as well as specific test-taking skills, and much more!
More InfoBy Sandra Rief
This new quick-reference laminated guide provides practical strategies to support and enhance the developing Executive Function skills of students in grades 6-12. Readers will learn about performance difficulties and academic challenges executive function weakness can cause. You'll also gain specific strategies to help strengthen a variety of executive function skills.
More InfoBy Sandra Rief
This new quick-reference laminated guide provides practical strategies to support and strengthen the developing Executive Function skills of all elementary students. Teachers will learn about performance difficulties and academic challenges executive function weakness can cause. You'll also gain specific strategies to help strengthen a variety of executive function skills.
More InfoBy Maurice Elias and Marvin Berkowitz
This new quick-reference laminated guide is designed for school leaders, staff, and educators who seek not only to educate students, but also to promote character, social-emotional competence, and a schoolwide climate of safety, caring, challenge, support, respect, and inspiration.
More InfoThis reference guide is designed to help educators better understand the value of assistive technology (AT) in increasing all students’ access to the general education curriculum and improving the teaching/learning process for students with special needs.
More InfoBy Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria Dove
This new quick-reference guide is designed to support all educators of ELLs (ESL specialists, classroom teachers, paraeducators) as they engage in a complete collaborative instructional cycle consisting of co-planning, co-teaching, co-assessing, and reflecting on practice. The guide identifies and describes the four phases of the collaborative instructional cycle.
More InfoBy Wendy Ashcroft, Anne Marie Kolb Quinn, Angela M. Delloso
This guide provides PreK – 5th grade teachers with evidence-based, practical, teacher-friendly, strategies for helping children with special needs build social skills. Written by experienced classroom teachers, this guide recommends interventions for strengthening important social skills, including communication, conflict resolution, and team building skills. These ready-to-use strategies will help classroom teachers promote social competence in diverse learners.
More InfoBy Estee Lopez
This six-page laminated reference guide by Estee Lopez provides Pre-K teachers of ELLs with specific evidence-based strategies for promoting a strong language and literacy foundation. It focuses on family engagement, oral language and literacy, cultural awareness, social & emotional growth, learning and cognitive skills, and program models and strategies. Using the strategies and methods outlined in this guide, teachers will set the foundation for long-term success for young ELLs.
More InfoThis reference guide by Christine Ditrano provides both school wide, as well as classroom strategies for preventing disruptive behavior and enhancing a school's organizational climate using Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports, or PBIS. The multi-tiered PBIS problem-solving model is proactive and flexible, and provides a unifying framework for all school improvement efforts.
More InfoThis new six-page laminated reference guide by Padmaja Sarathy presents seven steps for maximizing academic, social, and life outcomes for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), while minimizing the impact of some of their complex behavioral and learning characteristics. Packed with practical and proven strategies, this guide is an invaluable resource for all those who work with children with ASD, including classroom teachers, paraeducators, support staff, and parents.
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