Alternative Approaches to Assessing Young Children, 2nd Edition. Angela Losardo & Angela Notari-Syverson, $43.95

In today's climate of increased accountability and diversity, alternative assessments for young children are more important than ever. That's why the timely new edition of this bestselling textbook is a must for all educators as they prepare to work with children who are culturally, linguistically, or developmentally diverse. This introductory text has been carefully updated to reflect 10 years of evolution in demographics, research, technology, and legislation. Pre- and in-service educators of children birth–8 years will:

• learn about six popular alternative assessment methods: naturalistic, focused, performance, portfolio, dynamic, and curriculum-based language
• explore the advantages and limitations of each approach
• effectively link assessment with intervention
• get clear and specific guidelines for before, during, and after assessment
• discover successful strategies for teaching in inclusive environments
• implement a transdisciplinary framework to ensure comprehensive, multidimensional assessment approaches

The included CD-ROM makes this book an invaluable resource, with more than 2 dozen printable forms for data collection, observation, progress monitoring, IEP/IFSP development, and more.

Grounded in the most current research and best practices, this essential new edition will help pre- and in-service educators capture the full picture of all young children's strengths and needs and provide them with appropriate, individualized instruction.

Dare to Differentiate: Vocabulary Strategies That Work, 3rd Edition. Danny Brassell, $26.50

The Differentiated Instruction Book of Lists, Grades K-12. Jennifer Fox & Whitney Hoffman, $39.95

Ready for immediate use, THE DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION BOOK OF LISTS offers over 150 up-to-date lists for developing instructional materials, lesson planning, and assessment. Organized into 12 convenient sections, the book is full of practical examples, teaching ideas, and activities that can be used or adapted to meet students' diverse needs. Coverage includes curriculum design, lesson planning, instructional strategies, assessment, classroom management, strategies by subject area (from Language Arts to Math to Physical Education), new media, etc.

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.

Differentiated Instruction Made Easy, Grades 2-8. Phyllis Kaplan, Virginia Rogers & Rande Webster, $26.95

Hundreds of multi-level activities for all learners.

Differentiated Instructional Strategies in Practice: Training, Implementation and Supervision. Gayle Gregory, $44.95

This workshop-friendly resource offers guidelines for small study groups or larger staff development meetings and includes research-based approaches for responding to concerns about change and for providing individualized support and mentoring. The book also offers suggestions for coaching, observation, supervision, and evaluation of staff members' use of DI practices as well as implementation and evaluation tools to measure school-wide progress.

Covering the basic elements of differentiated instruction, this book demonstrates how administrators and staff developers can help teachers develop the capacity for change and improve the quality of instruction, curriculum, and assessment. Includes a CD-ROM containing a wealth of reproducible material.

Differentiated Math Learning Centers, Grades K-2. Deborah Wirth, $21.99

35 independent centers that keep kids learning while you teach small guided math groups.

Differentiating the Curriculum for Gifted Learners. Wendy Conklin & Shelly Frei, $29.50

A great tool for new teachers and pre-service educators, this resource provides up-to-date, research-based theory and practical applications to help teachers effectively differentiate instruction with gifted students in mind. Packed with background information, underlying principles, plus extension, acceleration, and enrichment ideas, this book helps teachers to identify gifted students and their needs.

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 That Really Works, Grades K-2. Cheryll Adams & Rebecca Pierce, $23.95

Differentiation That Really Works, Grades 3-5. Cheryll Adams & Rebecca Pierce, $23.95

Differentiation That Really Works provides time-saving strategies and lesson ideas created and field-tested by practicing professionals in their own heterogeneous classrooms. The lessons in these two volumes can be used as written or can be modified to meet the needs of a particular classroom.

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.

Early Intervention for Reading Difficulties: the Interactive Strategies Approach.  Donna Scanlon, Kimberly Anderson & Joan Sweeney, $30.50

This book presents a research-supported framework for early literacy instruction that aligns with multi-tiered response-to-intervention (RTI) models. The book focuses on giving teachers a better understanding of literacy development and how to effectively support children as they begin to read and write. Detailed guidance is provided on ways to target these goals with K-2 students at risk for reading difficulties. Assessment and instructional strategies for whole-class, small-group, and one-to-one settings are discussed in depth.

The Essential Guide to RTI: an Integrated, Evidence-Based Approach, Grades K-12.  Silvia DeRuvo, $39.95  

Filled with practical tools and step-by-step guidelines, this book shows teachers how to implement RTI effectively. This valuable resource helps teachers assess school or classroom readiness for implementing the process, and offers extensive resources to help educators identify appropriate screening and progress monitoring tools for students. DeRuvo provides dozens of effective research-based interventions and instructional strategies that teachers can implement immediately in their classrooms, and offers guidelines for selecting additional curricula and strategies to support students with diverse needs, including students with disabilities and English language learners.

From Tutor Scripts to Talking Sticks: 100 Ways to Differentiate Instruction in K-12 Classrooms. Paula Kluth & Sheila Danaher, $38.50

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.

Helping Children Learn: Intervention Handouts for Use in Home and at School. Jack Naglieri & Eric Pickering, $43.95

In this fresh, practical approach to teaching struggling students, the authors have developed more than 75 highly effective intervention handouts — ideal for teachers to use in the classroom and share with parents for use at home.

A short questionnaire helps school psychologists pinpoint students' strengths and needs, and teachers use the handouts to address the areas that need work. Photocopiable and easy to print from the convenient new CD-ROM, the handouts in this edition fit perfectly with RTI — give teachers a clear and easy way to help struggling students and take next steps if more intervention is needed. Each intervention handout is ready to use: it clearly describes the skill involved, indicates which children should use the intervention, and suggests easy-to-implement strategies.

Just Give Him the Whale! 20 Ways to Use Fascinations, Areas of Expertise, and Strengths to Support Students with Autism. Paula Kluth & Patrick Schwarz, $20.50

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.

Quality Literacy Instruction for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Christina Carnahan & Pamela Williamson, Editors, $61.95

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."

Redefining Fair: How to Plan, Assess and Grade for Excellence in Mixed-Ability Classrooms. Damian Cooper, $32.95

In REDEFINING FAIR, the author confronts the resistance and obstacles schools experience when implementing differentiation and shows how to overcome them. Learn how to define proficiency accurately and differentiate to help all students achieve it. With a focus on mixed-ability classes, the author outlines instructional practices that engage, empower, and motivate students. Using stories, strategies, case histories, and sample documents, he explains how to implement equitable instruction, assessment, grading, and reporting practices for diverse 21st century learners.

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 for English Language Learners: Understanding, Differentiation and Support. Seth Aldrich, $37.50

This book provides guidance for educators (teachers, support staff, school administrators and instructors in schools of education) to assess, understand, and address the needs of English Language Learners (ELLs) within the context of the Response to Intervention process. RTI FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS empowers general and special educators, as well as support staff, to take on important roles and activities without necessarily having to speak the student's native language. Provides several ready-to-use resources that will help schools to implement core components of RTI for their English Language Learners.

RTI and the Paraeducator's Roles: Effective Teaming. Mary Lasater, $37.50

As RTI becomes a reality in more schools, all staff must be able to support this initiative. This book very explicitly provides paraeducators with the tools that will make them a meaningful part of the RTI team, with focus on the roles of collaborator, communicator, instructional supporter and progress monitor!

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.

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 Gifted Students in the Inclusive Classroom. Tracy Riley, $14.95

Appropriate learning for gifted and talented students is adjusted in pace, depth and breadth through curricula that are both enriched and accelerated. This book provides teachers with practical strategies for identifying and meeting the abilities and needs of these students through differentiation in general classroom settings.

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.

Teaching Students Thinking Skills and Strategies: a Framework for Cognitive Education in Inclusive Settings. Dorothy Howie, $43.95

Developing the ability to think is a major part of education, which helps students become independent learners and participate fully in a learning environment.

This book sets out the theory and outlines a model for implementing the teaching of thinking at whole-school, group and individual levels in inclusive settings. The model uses a three-tier approach to ensure that all learners are included: teaching thinking for all, which takes into account common needs; working with small groups, for those with exceptional needs such as learning difficulties or high ability; and addressing individualized learning needs, including those with a complex disability. The book also addresses the impact of different social contexts, cultures and environmental surroundings on learning.

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.