This booklet contains key ideas and strategies for supporting paraprofessionals including: Clarifying Roles and Responsibilities,Communication with Team Members, Working as a Team, Curriculm Support, Knowing the Individual Student and Positive Behavior Support Plans. $10.00

This booklet contains key ideas and strategies for a successful IEP meeting, including: Making Strengths-Based IEPs, Being Prepared, Devloping SMART Goals, Knowing Adaptations, Modification and Accommodations, Creating the Least Restrictive Environment, Keeping it Positive.
A great review and refresher before your IEP meeting. $10.00

Two communication tip cards to help parents - or professionals - keep on track and remain positive in meetings. One card is on communication openers and the other is on tips for creating success.  $1.00

Peer Tutoring and Support provides the tools needed to propose and launch a successful Peer Tutor program. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to make inclusive schooling work! The book is filled with practical strategies that provide students with disabilities access to general education curriculum, to typical school-wide activities, and to rich opportunities to learn alongside their peers without disabilities. Co-authored by Rebecca Bond-Brooks and Elizabeth Castagnera, with a foreword from Paula Kluth, this user-friendly guide includes: tips and tools, checklists and charts, and forms and examples. $21.00

This "teacher friendly" resource contains easy-to-use ideas for adding vocabulary instruction into classroom schedules that are increasingly busy. Learn strategies that enhance students' vocabulary development and, in this second edition, strategy has been modified to include suggestions for differentiating instruction. Many great web resources and examples for grades K-12 are also included! 2009, 110 Pages  $20.00

By Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

This book outlines ways literacy can be infused into all content areas by presenting a number of instructional strategies including: read-alouds, anticipatory activities, questioning, notetaking, vocabulary instruction, and reciprocal teaching. Improve the reading and writing of middle and high school students-including English language learners-with this essentials text. $30.00

By Nancy Frey & Douglas Fisher

Because the bulk of any student’s school career is spent reading informational texts, developing strong skills in reading for information is essential to all students’ success. Packed with research-based, classroom-proven strategies, this text gives K – 5 teachers the tools they need to lay an educational foundation that promotes students’ success with informational texts throughout their school careers. $29.00

Edited by Kim Greene, Laurie Guthrie, Christina Kotinopoulos, Sophia Mellos, Julia Sullivan, and Jen Trim

This book outlines strategies that help teachers build students’ understanding of texts. The activities help build vocabulary and background knowledge, provide opportunities for reading, writing, and discussion, and introduce a variety of text formats. Each strategy models a step-by-step learning situation that will motivate and support student engagement and can easily adapted for any grade level!  $20.00

By Gay Ivey and Douglas Fisher

All teachers – across the content areas – have a role to play in students’ development of literacy. This book, full of research-based findings and engaging examples, urges teachers to incorporate rich literacy-based learning experiences into their classrooms, with the goal of helping students to learn and think across the curriculum. Readers will gain confidence that the task of improving literacy at the secondary level is essential, worthwhile, and achievable. (Published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development)  $24.00

By Barbara Moss

Ever wonder about the best ways to help students learn the comprehension strategies of inferring, synthesizing, visualizing, questioning, and summarizing when they are reading information texts? This collection contains 25 of the most important comprehension strategies that readers need as they learn from non-fiction texts, including textbooks, newspapers, magazines, and reference books.  $20.00

By Robin A. Ward

This book uses literature to provide an authentic context for practicing and discussing mathematics. Learn how through various selections of poetry, biographies, fiction, and nonfictions books you can explore mathematical concepts such as counting, addition and subtraction, multiplication, estimation, fractions, money, graphing, time and many more.  $20.00

By Barbara E. Buswell, C. Beth Schaffner and Alison B. Seyler

This innovative text contains practical how-to's for including and supporting all students in general education classes, both elementary and secondary. It explores the processes, thinking, and approaches that successful implementers of inclusion have used. An essential title for anyone looking for effective ways to make inclusion work. $18.00

By Mary Beth Doyle

With this easy-to-use workbook, paraprofessionals and the educators who work with them will sharpen their skills and build strong, respectful relationships with each other. Through field-tested activities, photocopiable forms, planning guides, and personal stories this teamwork-building resource helps paraprofessionals and educators create classrooms that welcome and effectively support all students. $30.00

By Douglas Fisher, Caren Sax, and Ian Pumpian

Addressing both processes and outcomes, this book provides a framework for developing inclusive high schools, illustrated by detailed accounts of high schools that have struggled, strategized, and ultimately achieved success. Through the experience and perspectives of this book’s respected authors, high school teachers, administrators, university faculty, and parents will recognize common challenges in inclusive schooling and find proven strategies that can be adapted to their own needs.  $27.00

By Rachel Janney and Martha E. Snell

In this easy-to-read manual, general and special education teachers, counselors, and family members will gain insight into students' behaviors and discover fresh, proactive ideas to help them develop appropriate behavioral skills. A quick and concise guide to current research and recommended methods, with the field-tested strategies professionals need for working with students with disabilities.  $25.00

by Cheryl Jorgensen, Ph.D., Mary Schuh, Ph.D., Jan Nisbet, Ph.D.

Three experts from the Institute on Disability's successful Inclusion Facilitator Training Option at the University of New Hampshire prepare readers to support key elements of inclusion, transform the hearts and minds of inclusion skeptics, lead a collaborative team, and advance organizational change. $30.00

By Craig H. Kennedy and Douglas Fisher

This proactive book provides middle school educators and administrators with the information they need to bring successful inclusion practices into their schools. This positive, upbeat handbook covers keys to inclusion including collaboration, differentiated instruction, positive behavior support, and how to modify core curriculum allowing all students to belong and achieve, in the classroom!  $27.00

By Paula Kluth,

This strategy-filled guidebook provides teachers with specific, creative ideas for including students with autism in both primary and secondary school classrooms. Brought to life with powerful first-hand stories and creative strategies, this book is your practical guide to understanding students with autism and including them fully in the classroom. $25.00

By Jonathan Mooney and David Cole

This innovative book, written by two students labeled as “academic failures” who graduated from Brown University at the top of their class, teaches students how to take control of their education and find true success. This text takes the reader on a journey toward personal empowerment and profound educational change, proving once again that rules sometimes need to be broken. $16.00

By Douglas Fisher, Associate Professor in the College of Teacher Education, San Diego State University & Nancy Frey, Assistant Professor in the College of Teacher Education, San Diego State University

As educators teach to an increasingly diverse population, they need a clear, concise guide to designing and implementing curriculum and instruction adapted to the specific requirements of their classrooms. This book is built around the lessons of classroom teachers, providing the “how-to” component of instruction design. $28.00

By C. Beth Schaffner and Barbara E. Buswell

This guide offers readers real-life examples of how friendship facilitation can be implemented in natural ways in schools, neighborhoods, and communities. Perfect for anyone working to build classrooms and schools that ensure caring, acceptance, and belonging for all students. $11.00

By Martha E. Snell and Rachel Janney

This easy-to-use guide helps teachers form and maintain effective collaboration teams that stimulate students’ academic progress and promote positive social behavior. Get information on creating action plans, working with family members and paraprofessionals, co-teaching, and resolving conflict. $25.00

by Richard A. Villa, Jacqueline S. Townsend, & Ann I. Nevin

This comprehensive guide highlights the benefits and challenges of co-teaching and imparts the secrets to successful collaboration that supercharge your craft with added productivity, intelligence, and creativity. Get answers to the tough questions about the sharing of responsibility, the organization of students, and the division of responsibility for teaching, learning and assessing. $33.00

By Richard A. Villa & Jacqueline Thousand

In this comprehensive resource on inclusive schooling, published by ASCD, administrators, general and special educators, and parents explore how inclusive education can support a diverse student body at all grade levels. Strategies such as cooperative learning, teaming, multi-age grouping, multicultural education, social skills training, and educational technology show how schools can meet standards and support learners.  $27.00

Second Edition

By Elizabeth Castagnera, Douglas Fisher, Karen Rodifer, Caren Sax, and Nancy Frey

This book provides practical tips to ensure that all students participate and learn successfully in secondary general education classrooms. It leads the reader through a step-by-step process for accessing general curriculum, making accommodations and modifications, and providing appropriate supports. Support strategies are enhanced in this second edition. $18.00

By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, & Caren Sax

This book walks readers through a step-by-step process to determine what and how to teach elementary students with disabilities in general education classrooms. This breakthrough publication highlights strategies for accommodating and modifying assignments and activities by using core curriculum. An essential text for elementary educators and parents. $18.00

By Nancy Frey

Gaining and maintaining student engagement is critical to learning. This book features practical ideas for engaging students through classroom management, procedures, community-building, and effective reading practices. Ideal for the beginning teacher, or experienced teachers who want to energize their practices! $20.00

By Rachel Janney and Martha E. Snell

This handbook offers teachers of grades K-12 step-by-step guidance on planning adaptations for individual students and adapting instruction and tests in key content areas. Expanded throughout and based on current research, this how-to guide is just what teachers need to design effective, flexible modifications for students with a broad range of ages, disabilities, and learning needs. $25.00

By Nan McDonald and Douglas Fisher

Involvement and immersion are the ways in which children feel welcome to write, move, create, draw, and express ideas about art and music. This book offers suggestions to classroom teachers so that classroom-reading activities can be extended into group discussions, cooperative learning arts projects, and creative performances. $22.00

By Paula Rutherford

This book presents research-based strategies for teaching and assessing diverse learners. A copy in the hands of every teacher will promote use of best practice in standards-based classrooms. Use this book as a tool to design and deliver focused, engaging, and challenging lessons, and assess the learning of K-12 students. $30.00

By Paula Rutherford An essential text for new teachers seeking support and a repertoire of effective teaching strategies during their first years in the classroom. This helpful volume is based on the concepts that: the best classroom management program is a good instructional program; effective teachers do not concentrate on control and compliance but rather on building learning centered environments; and, teachers need efficient and usable organizational systems for themselves, their students, and their classrooms. $30.00

By Carol Ann Tomlinson

Published by ASCD, this text offers extended examples and field-tested strategies that help teachers succeed in today’s increasingly diverse classrooms. Readers will explore proven strategies that match instructional approaches to the readiness, interests, and talents of all students. $21.00

A 20+ page book completed by an individual and/or his/her family to represent his/her own strengths, interests, hopes and dreams. The Portfolio offers a series of open- ended questions with space for the person to reflect, add artwork, and be creative. The intention of the Portfolio is to allow a person, along with family and friends, to reflect upon and demonstrate the hopes and dreams that are the foundations of building a healthy, well rounded and self-determined life. $6.00

By Michael T. Bailey

Over six million American families are involved in special education, and the numbers are growing. The complex web of laws, regulations, personalities and stresses, combined with anxiety over raising a child with a disability, have made special education advocacy an impenetrable maze to many parents. This book presents the complexities of the process in a simple-to-understand way and offers practical tips, checklists, and strategies on how to make the system work to insure the educational success of all children. $22.00

By Douglas Biklen with Richard Attfield, Larry Bissonnette, Lucy Blackman, Jamie Burke, Alberto Frugone, Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay, and Sue Rubin

This book challenges the prevailing, tragic narrative of impairment that so often characterizes discussions about autism. The heart of the book consists of chapters by people with autism themselves, either in an interview format with the author or written by themselves. This breakthrough volume allows a look into the rich and insightful perspectives of people who have heretofore been though of as uninterested in the world.  $21.00

A 20+ page book completed by an individual and/or his/her family to represent his/her own strengths, interests, hopes and dreams. The Portfolio offers a series of open- ended questions with space for the person to reflect, add artwork, and be creative. The intention of the Portfolio is to allow a person, along with family and friends, to reflect upon and demonstrate the hopes and dreams that are the foundations of building a healthy, well rounded and self-determined life. $6.00

By Randy Chapman

This easy-to-read book is an essential tool for parents seeking the best education possible for their children with disabilities. Updated to include recent changes in the federal law including identification, discipline, dispute resolution, amending of the Individualized Education Program (IEP), and much more. This handbook gives parents courage, credibility, and respect to effectively advocate for their child’s right to an inclusive education. $30.00

by Mary Falvey

Every parent is filled with dreams, fears, hopes, and questions when preparing a child for school — and when that child has a disability, this exciting time can seem overwhelming. This upbeat, reassuring handbook is an invaluable resource to share with parents of a school-age child with a disability. It demystifies complicated issues, encourages parents to celebrate abilities and recognize possibilities, and tells parents everything they need to know to be successful advocates throughout their child’s education.  $18.95

Developed by Mary Rugg, M. Irma Alvarado, Zolinda Stoneman, and Julianne Butler

This portfolio assists adults and school age individuals in identifying ways to become active participants in the daily life of their community. The portfolio offers a series of open-ended questions with space for the person to reflect, add artwork, and be creative. A powerful tool for use in transitional periods in a peron’s life…from one school to another…from school to work…or from classroom to classroom. $6.00

Developed by Mary Rugg, M. Irma Alvarado, Zolinda Stoneman, and Julianne Butler

This portfolio assists adults and school age individuals in identifying ways to become active participants in the daily life of their community. The portfolio offers a series of open-ended questions with space for the person to reflect, add artwork, and be creative. A powerful tool for use in transitional periods in a peron’s life…from one school to another…from school to work…or from classroom to classroom. $6.00

By Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey

This book uses nine in-depth case studies of actual city schools and districts to explore issues in urban inclusive education. Chapters examine how the city or district addressed early literacy instruction, diversity, peer relationships, access to the general education curriculum, curricular adaptations, and transition. This practical book is complete with sample forms and worksheets, ready to use, providing invaluable guidance for navigating the challenges of inclusive urban education. $25.00

By John Hockenberry

This moving chronicle is a story of obstacles-physical, emotional, and psychic-overcome again, and again, and again. Whether navigating his wheelchair through intractable stretches of Middle Eastern sand, or auditioning to be the first journalist in space, John Hockenberry is determined not only to bring back the story, but also to prove that nothing can hold him back from death-defying exploits. $16.00

By Julie Jacobson, Diane Lapp, Maria Mendez

This text is designed to provide teachers with research-based instructional practices that will foster both language and content area growth for all students in grades K-8. Learn how to provide standards-based lessons and extensions that will enable you to accommodate the linguistic differences among your students through effective and developmentally sensitive instruction.  $28.00

By Leah Katz, Caren Sax, and Douglas Fisher

A terrific resource for elementary teachers, this book helps begin the sometimes difficult conversation about diversity in the classroom. Through various activities outlined in this text, teachers can help create a sense of community in the classroom as they introduce students to new ways of thinking about the need for friendships and acceptance of others. $11.00

By Elizabeth Evans Getzel and Paul Wehman

A college education can open the door to greater participation in the workplace and community. With this research-based book, readers will learn what they can do to make this crucial opportunity available to young people with a wide range of disabilities. Filled with case studies, best practices, program guidelines, and strategies, this is a required resource for anyone who educates or coordinates services for individuals with disabilities. $35.00

By Candee Basford

Beginning when the author learns of her daughter’s disability and continuing for the next 26 years, this book features ten richly, evocative images, each revealing a lesson about self and society. This a story about uncovering deeply held and unexamined assumptions and about opening up to new possibilities of creating communities that welcome all of its citizens. $20.00

By Caren Sax & Colleen A. Thoma

Sensitive and practical, this guidebook gives readers the insight and diverse strategies they need to help young adults with significant disabilities direct their transitional plans. Readers will discover that expectations and opportunities for people with disabilities and their families will be increased through thoughtful, individualized transition assessments. $30.00

Edited by Eleanor W. Lynch and Marci J. Hanson

This text brings together detailed, accurate information on working with families and children with disabilities from specific cultural, ethnic, and language groups. Filled with open-ended case studies on ethical dilemmas, this is a comprehensive, must-have reference for any early intervention professional working with families whose customs, beliefs, and values may differ from their own. $45.00

By Helen K. Ezell and Laura M. Justice

Reading storybooks with young children is a fun, engaging interaction that can teach children critical concepts such as print awareness, vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, and conversational skills. This guidebook is ideal for early childhood educators in preschool, Head Start, and other child care programs who want to turn the fun of shared reading into a powerful learning experience for children, educators, and parents. $25.00

By Eliza Woloson

This beautiful picture book tells of the friendship of Isabelle and Charlie. They both like to paint, dance, slide, and play, but they also are different. Isabella has Down syndrome and Charlie doesn't. The story and bold illustrations help young children to appreciate their similarities and differences. After the story, the author briefly introduces the real Isabella and why friendships like her's and Charlie's make the world a more tolerant place. $15.00

By Lewis Jackson & Marjorie Leon, Behavior Specialist

Teaching students with troubling behavior is a challenge. Readers will learn steps for assessing student behaviors and developing positive, proactive behavior support plans. Includes innovate charts and forms. $12.00

By Kathie Snow

This book challenges today's conventional wisdom and provides innovative and commonsense strategies to help ensure children with disabilities lead real lives---the lives they would lead if they did not have disabilities . . . the lives of their dreams (and their parents' dreams)! This is not the usual parenting advice about children's "problems" and how to "fix them." Instead, this book demonstrates that the presence of a disability is not a barrier to success! $30.00

By Beth S. Rous, Ed.D., & Rena A. Hallam, Ph.D.

For young children with and without disabilities, positive outcomes depend on smooth, effective transitions between and within early intervention programs, preschool programs, and public school programs. Now there's a how-to guide that helps professionals across programs work together to make these transitions happen. Co-authored by top expert Beth Rous, this book gives readers a step-by-step model that's been field tested across the country and shaped by feedback from state and local agencies. $30.00

Guía de la Ley de Educación Especial is an essential tool for parents to help them get the best education possible for their child with disabilities. This book includes information regarding school services for children ages 3 - 21 as well as early intervention for infants and toddlers from birth through age two. The book is also an excellent resource for teachers and school administrators. Guía de la Ley de Educación Especial gives parents courage, credibility and respect to effectively advocate for their child.  $30.00

By Jonathan Mooney

When Mooney was labeled as having dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), he had to ride the short bus, was denigrated daily, and feared he’d lost his chance to be a regular kid. Shocking the skeptics, Mooney eventually graduated from Brown University, but even with his success, he could not shake the voice that insisted he would always be “less than.” To free himself and learn from others once labeled abnormal, he bought a short bus and hit the road. On Mooney’s 40,000 mile journey, he meets thirteen people, each testimony demonstrating that there’s no such thing as normal and that to really live, every person must find their own special ways of keeping on.  $25.00

By Alice Udvari-Solner and Paula Kluth Ideal for K-12 educators, this text outlines ways all students can have successful learning experiences. The book is divided into five sections: community/team building, teaching/learning, independent studying, creating active lectures, and assessing and celebrating. Each section includes directions, reproducible handouts, classroom-tested examples, and specific guidelines for supporting all diverse learners. $30.00

This powerful tool for inclusive schooling presents the thinking required to welcome all students to the classroom. The book is divided into three handbooks: Differentiating Instruction, Collaboration and Teaming, and Positive and Peaceful Behavior Supports. Each handbook presents strategies for understanding and supporting diverse learners including: classroom structures, instructional strategies, lesson ideas, and much more!  $18.00