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We've surveyed school districts to find out what's new in staff development and picked the

best resources so you can select the offerings that meet your school's (district's) needs.

They are organized by staff development needs most commonly cited. You can purchase

items with a credit card or fax a purchase order to: 1-781-598-2427.

 

Behavior/504        Improvement of Instruction        ELL/Language       Reading/Writing       Special Education

 

Behavior and Instructional Interventions to prevent Special Education Referral (504 study teams)

 

PRIM - Pre-referral Intervention Manual

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pre-Referral Intervention Manual Third Edition
Stephen B. McCarney, Ed.D., Kathy Cummins Wunderlich, M.Ed.,  Edited by Samm N. House, 2006 570 p.

  • pre-referral intervention in regular education classrooms.

  • 4,000 intervention strategies for 219  common learning and behavior problems.

  • intervention strategies easily implemented by regular education teachers.

$84.95 (free shipping) (school purchase orders may be faxed to bookstore information below)

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Behavior Intervention Manual,

Edited by Samm N. House,

 

 

 

 

 

 

Over 768 pages of behavior management strategies you can use in the classroom. Checklists, documentation for 504 plans, etc., 

• Over 250 behaviors (768 pages) with
• specific goals,
• precise and measurable objectives, and
• easily implemented, practical, and appropriate intervention strategies that can be implemented in the regular education classroom.

$92.95  (shipping is free) (school purchase orders may be faxed to bookstore information below)

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Teacher's Encyclopedia of Behavior Management

 

 

 

 

 

896 pages

Randy S. Sprick, PhD.

Lisa M. Howard, M.S. 2000

Contains effective intervention strategies addressing 100 common classroom problems. Select an implementation plan to match the origin, duration, and severity of your classroom difficulty. Reproducibles (Encyclopedia Tools) are also available.

$92.95  (shipping is free) (school purchase orders may be faxed to bookstore information below)

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Improvement of Instruction

 

Tactics for Boosting Academic Achievement

1995-1999, Audience: General Education Teachers, Teacher Educators, Special Education Teachers, Beginning Teachers

This intervention resource features more than 100 demonstrated academic tactics--each with  a corresponding evaluation tool--for reading, writing, spelling, and more. Includes Coaching Checklists, directions for involving peer tutors, and classroom organization strategies. 

$84.95 (free shipping) (school purchase orders may be faxed to bookstore information below)

The Skillful Teacher; Research for Better Teaching
6th Edition 2008 By: Jon Saphier & Robert Gower
A standard text in courses about teaching, The Skillful Teacher is designed for both the novice and the experienced educator. It is a unique synthesis of the "Knowledge Base on Teaching" with powerful repertoires for matching teaching strategies to student needs. Designed as a guide for practitioners working to broaden their teaching skills, the book focuses on 17 critical areas of classroom performance. 

$92.95 (free shipping) (school purchase orders may be faxed to bookstore information below)

 

The Skillful Leader II: Confronting Conditions that Undermine Learning

by Alexander D. Platt 2008

This important new “Skillful Leader” book arms administrators and teacher leaders with step-by-step strategies to confront and raise the performance of teams and individuals who undermine student learning. The text includes methods of collecting data, strategies for intervention and tips for hiring and training. New individual and community profiles, together with legal notes, provide practical tools for busy leaders.

$92.95 (free shipping) (school purchase orders may be faxed to bookstore information below)

 

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ELL/Language Instruction and Resources

 

Making Content Comprehensible for English Language Learners, 3rd Edition: The SIOP® Model

Jana Echevarria, 2008, 256 p.
  •  New, user-friendly format of the SIOP® protocol.
  •  Background Sections include descriptions of the eight components and thirty features of the SIOP® Model, and are updated to reflect recent research and best practices to help readers plan and prepare effective sheltered lessons. CD-ROM with video clips, interviews of the authors, and reproducible resources (e.g., lesson plan formats), make this the perfect professional development asset for any grade level or content area teacher!

$74.95 (free shipping) (school purchase orders may be faxed to bookstore information below)
99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with the SIOP® Model

Jana Echevarria, Vogt, MaryEllen

 

This book responds to teachers who are looking for additional ideas and instructional strategies. The activities are grouped by each of the SIOP components and contain sample content and language objectives for each activity.

$79.95 (free shipping) (school purchase orders may be faxed to bookstore information below)

 

Administrators' Resource Guide for the SIOP® Model

Jana Echevarria, 2004

 

This guide is designed to assist administrators and instructional leaders in understanding the needs of English Language Learners and in gaining insight on the issues surrounding implementation of the SIOP model.

$49.95 (free shipping) (school purchase orders may be faxed to bookstore information below)

 

 

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Reading and Writing Assessment and Instruction

 

DIBELS Implementation Kit CD-ROM Catch Them Early, Watch Them Grow!
Using DIBELS in Your School

This 54-minute video formatted on a CD-Rom for your convenience, filmed in an actual classroom with professional instructors, allows DIBELS users to see firsthand how the Benchmark and Progress Monitoring assessments are administered. Catch Them Early, Watch Them Grow! features useful tips to make implementation smoother as well as plentiful “Score-Along” opportunities that give viewers the chance to practice scoring techniques and gain practical experience with each DIBELS subtest.

$149.95 (free shipping) (school purchase orders may be faxed to bookstore information below)

Leading Literacy Change

The odds of improving student literacy increase dramatically when engaged and informed leaders drive and support the high-fidelity implementation of research-based literacy programs. Key to changing student outcomes are building and sustaining teacher capacity using assessment of the current state of schools literacy; strategic action planning; and data-based implementation of core, supplemental, and intervention programs that are accompanied by effective leadership activities.

$81.95 (free shipping) (school purchase orders may be faxed to bookstore information below)

The Source for Early Literacy Development

by Linda K. Crowe, Sara S. Reichmuth

151 pages, reproducibles; contains resource CD-Rom

The Source for Early Literacy gives you the latest information on children’s emergent reading and writing from birth through age eight. Find out what you can do for your readers at risk with this excellent resource of reading and writing facilitation strategies, literacy activities, and cutting edge information about literacy development.
Benefits
  • Helps you understand reading and writing development
  • Helps you recognize what promotes or inhibits reading and writing
  • Helps you identify a child’s current state of literacy development.

$89.95 (free shipping) (school purchase orders may be faxed to bookstore information below)

 

 

 

Special Education

 

For Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Picture Plus Dictionary, 2nd Edition

Virginia McKinney

Hard Cover 2004, 576 pages

Students who arrive in the United States and all those who are learning English as well as American Sign Language should find this book very helpful.

This excellent unique resource contains literally thousands of words. Organized in English word order, each word is spelled and its proper part of speech is clearly identified. Each word is then accompanied by an illustration of its sign and an English sentence in which the word is used! There's even an illustration depicting the situation of the sentence! Designed from 30 years of experience in education of deaf students, this dictionary is truly one of a kind. Affordably priced, this is a resource you will not want to be without!

$109.98 shipping free.

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The LD Teacher's IEP Companion: (Adolescent & Adult)

 

Benefits
  • Helps you plan and write IEPs or 504 plans
  • Saves valuable time, leaving you essential time for transition and academic instruction
  • Covers areas where most older students with learning disabilities have needs
  • Teaches students to self-advocate
Features
  • Contains hundreds of IEP objectives
  • Includes classroom or transition activities for each IEP goal
  • Relates academic objectives to established national content standards
  • Provides extra tools such as profiles, planning sheets, and checklists

$89.95 shipping and handling free.

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The Source for Behavior Management in Autism

by Pam Britton Reese, Nena C. Challenner

 

Contains resource CD-Rom

Certain characteristics of autism can be used to understand what causes behavior problems in children with autism. This revealing resource takes you through the causes and successful interventions available to help them.
Benefits

Clear-cut descriptions and real-life examples of behaviors improve your ability to develop an intervention plan to improve:

  • social interaction behaviors such as weakness in joint attention
  • communication behavior such as echolalia
  • emotional regulation including weakness in self- and mutual regulation
  • sensory responses including hypersensitivity and motoric disorganization 

$89.98 shipping free.

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