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Differentiated Instruction for the Middle School Science Teacher: Activities and Strategies for an Inclusive Classroom, Grades 5-8. Joan D'Amico & Kate Gallaway, $35.95

Differentiated Instruction for the Middle School Science Teacher is a valuable resource for teachers in inclusive classrooms who are seeking new ways to reach all their students.

Differentiating Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities: Best Teaching Practices for General and Special Educators. William Bender, $52.50

Whether teaching inclusive or special education classes, instructors need effective differentiated and brain-compatible methods for learners with learning disabilities, at-risk students, or youngsters who may have learning difficulties. Demonstrating how to differentiate instruction in any classroom, this second edition of the best-selling book Differentiating Instruction for Students With Learning Disabilities shows teachers how to support learners through flexible, practical lessons to help them achieve significant gains in reading comprehension, language arts, and math.

Differentiation Through Learning Styles and Memory, 2nd Edition. Marilee Sprenger, $47.50

In this updated edition of the bestseller, Marilee Sprenger demonstrates how to optimize learning by using brain-based strategies that address students' social/emotional, cognitive, and physical learning preferences. The author provides readers with graphic organizers, current research on memory, and new charts to help implement differentiated strategies. This comprehensive resource provides the tools you need to create a brain-friendly learning environment and to differentiate content, process, and product for your students' diverse learning needs and strengths.

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From Tutor Scripts to Talking Sticks: 100 Ways to Differentiate Instruction in K-12 Classrooms. Paula Kluth & Sheila Danaher, $33.95

Ideal for helping students who need extra support, scaffolding, reminders, organization, or enrichment, this book gives general and special educators ready-to-use, research-based adaptations that enhance motivation and improve achievement for all children—including English-language learners and students with autism, emotional disabilities, cognitive disabilities, learning disabilities and other special needs. Everyone in the classroom will benefit from this timely, ultra-practical guidebook. This is the go-to resource for any teacher who has ever had a doubt that differentiated instruction can be simple and fun!

Great Ideas: Using Service-Learning and Differentiated Instruction to Help Your Students Succeed. Pamela Gent, $41.95

Much more than "community service,” service-learning activities help improve outcomes for all students when they're carefully linked to the curriculum and IEP goals. This book shows K-12 educators and administrators exactly how this approach promotes inclusion and differentiated instruction for students with and without disabilities. A fresh, hands-on guide to inclusion that goes beyond co-teaching, collaboration, or accommodations, this highly practical book will help educators make the most of every student's unique abilities—and build better communities inside and outside the classroom.

Just Give Him the Whale! 20 Ways to Use Fascinations, Areas of Expertise, and Strengths to Support Students with Autism. Paula Kluth & Patrick Schwarz, $22.95

When learners with autism have deep, consuming fascinations—trains, triangles, basketballs, whales—teachers often wonder what to do. This concise, highly practical guidebook gives educators across grade levels a powerful new way to think about students' obsessions: as positive teaching tools that calm, motivate, and improve learning.

This guide is brimming with easy tips and strategies for folding students' special interests, strengths, and areas of expertise into classroom lessons and routines. An enjoyable read with an eye-opening message, this short book will have a long-lasting impact on teachers' understanding of autism—and on their students' social and academic success.

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The Promise of Response to Intervention: Evaluating Current Science and Practice. Todd Glover & Sharon Vaughn, Editors, $44.95

As response to intervention (RTI) is adopted by increasing numbers of schools and districts, knowledge about "what works" continues to grow. This much-needed book analyzes the key components of RTI service delivery and identifies the characteristics of successful implementation. Critically reviewing the available research, leading authorities describe best practices in multi-tier intervention, assessment, and data-based decision making. Clear-cut recommendations are provided for implementing evidence-based interventions to support students' needs in reading, writing, math, and behavior. A state-of-the-art resource for K-12 practitioners and administrators, the book also will fill a unique niche in graduate-level courses.

Quality Literacy Instruction for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Christina Carnahan & Pamela Williamson, Editors, $64.95

This is a practical and invaluable text for anyone who is interested in helping emergent readers become proficient readers with a particular focus on how the unique characteristics of learners with autism spectrum disorders interact with the development of literacy.

Race to Equity: Disrupting Educational Inequality. Tim McCaskell, $26.95
Race to Equity is a dazzling, detailed view of the experiments, successes, and mistakes in the Toronto Board of Education's quest to provide truly equitable education for a diverse student body.

"For almost three decades McCaskell and his colleagues fought to reshape the system. Their attempts to deliver anti-racism, anti-sexism, and anti-homophobia education garnered national and international attention. McCaskell's astute blend of personal reflection and political theory illuminates a time of significant social struggle, cultural transformation, and deep learning. Drawing on a number of sources — his own memories, interviews with key participants, Board minutes, academic theory on different aspects of the work, and the wealth of documents produced along the way — McCaskell traces narrative threads through the "booming buzzing confusion" of institutional and social transformation. The result is a magical blend of personal reflections and political theory."

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RTI in the Classroom: Guidelines and Recipes for Success, K-5. Rachel Brown-Chidsey, Louise Bronaugh & Kelly McGraw, $40.95

Written expressly for teachers, this book is jam-packed with tools and strategies for integrating response to intervention (RTI) into everyday instruction in grades K-5. Numerous real-world examples connect RTI concepts to what teachers already know to help them provide effective instruction for all students, including struggling learners. Drawing on extensive classroom experience, the authors:

Explain the core features of RTI and what they look like in action

Describe evidence-based instructional methods for reading, writing, math, and behavior

Show how to fit assessment and progress monitoring into the busy school day

Present color-coded intervention recipes for all three tiers of RTI implementation

Provide hands-on tools and 50 reproducibles, with a large format and sturdy wire binding for ease of use

RTI in Practice: a Practical Guide to Implementing Effective Evidence-Based Interventions in Your School. James McDougal, Suzanne Graney, James Wright & Scott Ardoin, $60.00

This comprehensive resource offers school-based professionals a timely "how-to" guide to implementing a quality, three-tiered response-to-intervention (RTI) model in public school settings. It offers concrete, balanced perspectives and directions for implementing an evidence-based and effective RTI model in public schools. In addition, an accompanying CD-ROM includes reproducible forms, surveys, and screening tools. School psychologists and special education professionals and teachers will benefit from this volume.

Teaching Children Who Struggle with Mathematics: a Systematic Approach to Analysis and Correction. Helene Sherman, Lloyd Richardson & George Yard, $38.95

"Rich with case studies and assorted examples, this brief, targeted text is dedicated to helping teachers address the cognitive needs of children in Grades 1-6 who do not understand mathematical concepts and/or are not as skillful as they should be with those concepts. The authors present a systematic, three-step approach to assess students' math strengths and weaknesses and plan instruction accordingly."

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Teaching Fairly In an Unfair World. Kathleen Gould Lundy, $24.95

“This powerful book helps teachers redefine an inclusive curriculum by questioning what is taught, how it is taught, to whom, and under what conditions. The book explores opportunities for students to connect with social justice issues in the real world through imagined experiences found in short stories, novels, plays, picture books, graphic novels, and primary source documents, such as letters.”

Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom: Ways to Challenge & Motivate Struggling Students to Achieve Proficiency with Required Standards. Susan Winebrenner, $52.95 (includes CD-ROM)
A gold mine of practical, easy-to-use teaching methods, strategies, and tips, Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom helps teachers differentiate the curriculum in all subject areas to meet the needs of all learners—including those labeled remedial or LD; students of poverty; English language learners; and others who struggle to learn. Full of proven ways to significantly improve learning outcomes for students who score below proficiency levels, this is an essential resource for every educator. The included CD-ROM features all of the reproducibles from the book, plus many additional content organization and vocabulary charts covering study areas from art and music to math and science. Most forms are customizable. Macintosh and Windows compatible.

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Teaching Tough Kids: Simple and Proven Strategies for Student Success. Mark le Messurier, $51.95

Teaching Tough Kids delivers a refreshing collection of realistic ideas to sustain the organizational and behavioural transformations of all students, particularly those who 'do it tough'; who learn and react differently. They are complex kids who find life tougher than most.

Teaching Tough Kids pays particularly close focus on students identified with executive functioning difficulties including Learning Disabilities, ADD/ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Asperger Syndrome. ‘Tough Kids’ may also be those students who have endured neglect or too much stress and uncertainty in their lives and as a result display classic symptoms of hyperactivity, hyper vigilance and impulsivity.

The book focuses on building improved relationships, structures and behaviours, rather than seeing the student as a problem that must be fixed. Highlighting the value of promoting positive connections, the author presents ways to incorporate inclusive ideas into everyday practice and construct pathways for students to become engaged in their learning and achieve success.

Visual Tools for Differentiating Content Area Instruction, Grades 3-8. Roger Essley, $24.99

Strategies that make concepts in math, science and social studies accessible and support all learners across the curriculum.

Complete Booklist

Adolescents and Inclusion: Transforming Secondary Schools. Anne Bauer & Glenda Myree Brown, $39.95

The Challenges of Student Diversity in Canadian Schools: Essays on Building a Better Future for Exceptional Children. Judy Lupart, Editor, $44.95

Children with Exceptionalities in Canadian Classrooms. 7th Edition, Margaret Winzer, $110.20

The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners. Carol Ann Tomlinson, $24.95

Differentiated Instruction for the Middle School Language Arts Teacher: Activities and Strategies for an Inclusive Classroom. Joan D’Amico & Kate Gallaway, $32.95

Differentiated Instruction for the Middle School Science Teacher: Activities and Strategies for an Inclusive Classroom, Grades 5-8. Joan D'Amico & Kate Gallaway, $35.95

Differentiated Instruction: Making It Work (Grades 3-6). Patti Drapeau, $29.99

Differentiated Learning: Language and Literacy Projects that Address Diverse Backgrounds and Cultures. Kathy Paterson, $24.95

Differentiating for the Young Child: Teaching Strategies across the Content Areas, PreK-3. Joan Franklin Smutny & S.E. Von Fremd, $67.95

Differentiating Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities: Best Teaching Practices for General and Special Educators. William Bender, $52.50

Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom. Diane Heacox, $36.95; CDROM $24.95

Differentiation Through Learning Styles and Memory, 2nd Edition. Marilee Sprenger, $47.50

Educational Care: a System for Understanding & Helping Children with Learning Differences. Mel Levine, $46.95

Five Standards for Effective Teaching: How to Succeed with All Learners, Grades K-8. Stephanie Stoll Dalton, $29.99

From Tutor Scripts to Talking Sticks: 100 Ways to Differentiate Instruction in K-12 Classrooms. Paula Kluth & Sheila Danaher, $33.95

Getting Beyond Bullying and Exclusion PreK-5: Empowering Children in Inclusive Classrooms. Ronald Mah, $47.95

Great Ideas: Using Service-Learning and Differentiated Instruction to Help Your Students Succeed. Pamela Gent, $41.95

Inclusion of Exceptional Learners in Canadian Schools: a Practical Handbook for Teachers, 3rd Edition. Nancy Hutchinson, $97.95

Inclusive Classroom: a Practical Guide for Educators (Grades 3-9). SiriNam Khalsa, $23.95

Just Give Him the Whale! 20 Ways to Use Fascinations, Areas of Expertise, and Strengths to Support Students with Autism. Paula Kluth & Patrick Schwarz, $22.95

Making Differentiation a Habit: How to Ensure Success in Academically Diverse Classrooms. Diane Heacox, $49.95 (Book with CD-ROM)

Making RTI Work: How Smart Schools are Reforming Education through Schoolwide Response-to-Intervention. Wayne Sailor, $35.95

The Multiple Menu Model: a Practical Guide for Developing Differentiated Curriculum. Joseph Renzulli, Jann Leppien & Thomas Hays, $40.95

Practical Strategies for Elementary School Inclusion. June Stride, $30.95

Practical Strategies for Including High Schools Students with Behavioral Disabilities. June Stride, $28.95

Practical Strategies for Middle School Inclusion. Eileen Bowers, $28.95

The Promise of Response to Intervention: Evaluating Current Science and Practice. Todd Glover & Sharon Vaughn, Editors, $44.95

Quality Literacy Instruction for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Christina Carnahan & Pamela Williamson, Editors, $64.95

Race to Equity: Disrupting Educational Inequality. Tim McCaskell, $26.95

Resources for Teaching Children with Diverse Abilities Birth through Twelve. Penny Low Deiner et al, $72.95

RTI from All Sides: What Every Teacher Needs to Know. Mary Howard, $23.25

RTI in the Classroom: Guidelines and Recipes for Success, K-5. Rachel Brown-Chidsey, Louise Bronaugh & Kelly McGraw, $40.95

RTI in Practice: a Practical Guide to Implementing Effective Evidence-Based Interventions in Your School. James McDougal, Suzanne Graney, James Wright & Scott Ardoin, $60.00

The Scholastic Differentiated Instruction Plan Book. $17.99 (Includes CD-ROM with checklists and planning forms)

Social Relationships and Peer Support. Rachel Janney & Martha Snell, $30.50

Special Education in Ontario Schools, 6th Edition. Sheila Bennett & Don Dworet with Ken Weber, $39.95

Student-Directed Learning: Teacher’s Guides to Inclusive Practices. Martin Agran et al, $37.95

Student Diversity: Classroom Strategies to Meet the Learning Needs of All Students. Faye Brownlie, Catherine Feniak, & Leyton Schnellert, $24.95

Study Strategies Made Easy: a Practical Plan for School Success. Leslie Davis & Sandi Sirotowitz, $21.50

The Survival Guide for Teachers of Gifted Kids: How to Plan, Manage, and Evaluate Programs for Gifted Youth K-12. Jim Delisle & Barbara Lewis, $33.95

The Teacher's Guide to Intervention and Inclusive Education: 1000+ Strategies to help ALL Students Succeed! Glynis Hannell, $42.95

Teaching Children Who Struggle with Mathematics: a Systematic Approach to Analysis and Correction. Helene Sherman, Lloyd Richardson & George Yard, $38.95

Teaching Exceptional Children and Adolescents: a Canadian Casebook, 2nd Edition. Nancy Hutchinson, $53.90

Teaching Fairly In an Unfair World. Kathleen Gould Lundy, $24.95

Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom: Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use to Meet the Academic Needs of the Gifted and Talented. Susan Winebrenner, $45.95; CD-ROM $20.95

Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom: Ways to Challenge & Motivate Struggling Students to Achieve Proficiency with Required Standards. Susan Winebrenner, $52.95 (includes CD-ROM)

Teaching Tough Kids: Simple and Proven Strategies for Student Success. Mark le Messurier, $51.95

Technology, Computers and the Special Needs Learner. John Ray & M. Kathleen Warden, $73.95

Visual Tools for Differentiating Content Area Instruction, Grades 3-8. Roger Essley, $24.99

What Every Teacher Should Know about Students with Special Needs: Promoting Success in the Classroom. Roger Pierangelo & George Giuliani, $25.95