This book is clear, practical, holistic and brilliant for teachers, administrators, parents and anyone who wants to raise emotionally healthy, civic-minded children. It is a usefull and inspiring guide and can be used at any grade level, k through 12. It includes ideas, lessons, courses, activities and approaches that have been proven in the field.

Character Education Connections: For School, Home and Community

Business & Money

Stirling, Diane

McKay, Linda

Archibald, Georgia

Berg, Shelley

Business Culture

Natl Professional Resources Inc

This book gives you 80 powerful, classroom-tested lesson plans to help students gain self-esteem and improve relationships with peers, teachers and adults outside of school. Imagine a classroom in which students: know how to give and take constructive criticism; interrupt conversations only when it is appropriate to do so; evaluate their personal strengths and weaknesses; set their own goals for self improvement; handle conflicts in a mature and responsible way; show respect in all of their actions.

The Power of Social Skills in Character Development: Helping Diverse Learners Succeed

Engineering & Transportation

Scully, Jennifer

Automotive

A resource filled with detailed, practical ideas for bringing character into the classroom.  All of the strategies are standards-based and easy to integrate into any curriculum.  This guide illustrates a practical, methodical approach to character education with practice-proven lesson plans that can be utilized in any inclusion setting.

Character Kaleidoscope: A Practical, Standards-Based Resource Guide for Character Development

Education & Teaching

Christesen, Mirka

Wasilewski, Susan

Schools & Teaching

This book offers practical advice, backed both by the author's personal experience as educators and coaches, and by empirical data, on how to create, implement and maintain a character based athletic program. The principles in Character and Coaching can be applied to any level of sports and to participants from all age groups, from elementary gym classes to college football.

Character and Coaching: Building Virtue in Athletic Programs

Yeager, John M.

Baltzell, Amy L.

Buxton, John N.

Bzdell, Wallace B.

This revised edition of our best seller focuses on a whole school approach that positions students as the centerpiece of educational decision-making. This book reinforces both the need for and the path to ensuring all students have full access to the entire general education curriculum. Excellent stand-alone resource for teachers and staff developers. Although designed to serve as a hands-on free-standing resource, the book is complimented by the companion video. It contains sections that address IDEA (PL. 105-17), development of the students program, collaboration, differentiated classrooms, curricular adaptations, supplementary aids &amp; services, and more. This book supports the implementation of inclusive practices by presenting the following: a definition and description of the inclusive practice, the relationship of the practice to IDEA, best practices based upon experience and current research, roles for school personnel, administrators, related services providers, and clinicians, roles for parents, black line masters for use in staff development activities, or by teachers to help structure inclusive classrooms, references for additional treatment about each topic, additional information about resources, organizations, videos, web sites, and a glossary.

Inclusion: A Service, Not A Place

Gartner, Alan

Lipsky, Dorothy Kerzner

This comprehensive professional development program filmed at Harvard University presents the work of Project Zero, a research group at the Graduate School of Education that explores the development of learning in children, adults and organisations. Through this video series and accompanying staff development guide, Project Zero staff provides an examination of how understanding can be viewed, taught, assessed and deepened. Former co-directors Project Zero Howard Gardiner and David Perkins present a foundation upon which the concept of understanding can be more fully explored, evaluated and enhanced. Presenting in this series are many senior researchers from Project Zero. Topics range from The Mindful Classroom to Rubrics for Thinking and Understanding. Project Zero researchers, internationally renowned in the field of teaching and learning, provide a complete package to teachers and staff developers who are committed to improving understanding in all environments for learners of all ages. Contents of Guide: This accompanying professional development guide provides valuable ideas and resources on how to use the video material in effective ways. Educating for Understanding is a set of eight videos filmed at Project Zero's annual summer institute for educators at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. The content is based on research about teaching and learning for understanding that was conducted at Project Zero between 1989-1996. The guide, designed for use with the video series, offers background about the topics and context of the videos, and it suggests practical ways for teachers and administrators to use them for all subjects and grade levels. The videos, coupled with the suggestions for facilitators, lists of resources, and handouts provided in the guide, can serve as the basis for a program of professional development designed to enhance educational practices and help students develop flexible understanding of important topics.

Educating for Understanding: A Guide to the Video Series

Hetland, Lois

Assistive Technology: A Way to Differentiate Instruction for Students With Disabilities

Friedlander, Brian S., Ph.D.

The transition to adulthood after high school is a critical juncture for students with disabilities. Educators need to help parents and students start preparing for this transition long before high school, when a formal transition plan is legally required. Effective transition planning is a long-term, ongoing process that can greatly influence the lifelong outcomes of students with disabilities. This 6-page, quick-reference laminated guide is written to address the needs of students with moderate to severe disabilities who are more likely to move into specialized vocational training or immediately enter the workforce after high school than transition to college. It reviews the school district's legal responsibilities under IDEA and Section 504, and identifies other federal laws with implications for students and adults with disabilities. It is designed to help all stakeholders, including the student, parents, and school district, set appropriately ambitious individual goals for life after high school and develop a plan to achieve these goals.

Transition to Adulthood for Students With Disabilities

Thomas Gibbon

David Bateman

Job Hunting & Careers

Co-teaching is an increasingly popular teaching model. Although it can be a very effective way of helping all students in inclusive classrooms learn, it can also be quite challenging for teachers to implement, especially at the secondary level, but it is a challenge well worth embracing. This updated and expanded edition of Co-Teaching in Secondary Schools: 7 Steps to Successful Inclusion, is an easy-to-use, quick-reference tool for middle and high school teachers embarking on co-teaching for the first time, as well for those in established co-teaching partnerships. Drs. Lisa Dieker and Rebecca Hines, well-known experts in the field of inclusion, have paired up to create a concise yet substantive laminated guide that offers teachers concrete strategies for building strong co-teaching teams. The guide walks collaborative teaching teams through the seven steps of successful classroom inclusion, and offers practical tips and examples to help teachers along the way. It also offers a checklist of the key characteristics of effective co-teaching classrooms to help teachers stay on track. Planning forms and helpful charts are also included to assist both special ed and regular education teachers in lesson planning and tracking informal teacher observations, as well as supervising paraeducators.

Co-teaching in Secondary Schools: 7 Steps to Successful Inclusion

Lisa Dieker

Rebecca Hines

This six page, quick-reference laminated guide is designed to serve as a valuable resource for teachers working with English learners in diverse classrooms 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. Because all students are language learners, the strategies in the guide, which include focusing on crosscutting skills, implementing project-based learning, and using buddies/partners, among others, benefit all students in K-8 classrooms. Sections include: understanding diversity among English learners; strategies to meet the needs of English learners in the content classroom; strategies to adapt learning and encourage cross-cutting theme connections; tools to break down content into manageable chunks; connecting content through cross-cutting skills to increase literacy; ideas for project-based learning.

English Learners: Strategies to Adapt Instruction in Content Areas

Carrie McDermott

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