Listed below are the books available for check out from the Department of Instruction. If you wish to borrow one, please email audra.peister@weldre4.k12.co.us
Empowering Students to Write and Re-Write: Standards-Based Strategies for Middle and High School
Teachers by Warren E. Combs
SUMMARY: Provides teachers with everything they need to empower their students to revise and continuously improve their writing. It includes detailed strategies, examples of real student writing, and scripts for conversations between teachers and students.
How the Best Teachers Differentiate Instruction by Elizabeth Breaux and Monique Boutte Magee
SUMMARY: This book provides your students with diverse methods of acquiring knowledge, helps them deepen their understanding, presents different ways of retaining new skills and ideas, and offers an array of assessments that ensure all students can demonstrate their level of mastery regardless of their individual differences, abilities, and needs.
Learning Intervention Manual: Goals, Objectives, and Intervention Strategies by Hawthorne Educational
Services
Good to Great by Jim Collins
SUMMARY: The defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning
Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards: English Language Arts Grades 3-5 by Jeff Williams with
Elizabeth Homan and Sarah Swofford
SUMMARY: Provides insights and resources for teachers, administrators, and policymakers working with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) by championing a critical perspective and teaching that promotes students’ development as competent and critical problem solvers
Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards: English Language Arts Grades PreK-2 by Susi Long
with William Hutchinson and Justine Neiderhiser
SUMMARY: Provides insights and resources for teachers, administrators, and policymakers working with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) by championing a critical perspective and teaching that promotes students’ development as competent and critical problem solvers
The Energy to Teach by Donald H. Graves
SUMMARY: Offers insights along with proven-effective techniques on how highly effective teachers deal with the emotional demands, and how they gain help and support from their colleagues and administrators.
Common Formative Assessments: How to Connect Standards-Based Instruction and Assessment by
Larry Ainsworth and Donald Viegut
SUMMARY: Presents the big picture of an integrated standards-based instruction and assessment system and offers instructional leaders and teacher teams guidelines for developing high-quality common formative assessments.
Student-Centered Classroom Assessment by Richard J.Stiggins
Why Do I Have to Learn This? Teaching the Way People Learn Best by Dale Parnell
Effective School Interventions: Evidence-Based Strategiesfor Improving Student Outcomes (Second
Edition) by Natalie Rathvon
The Case for Constructivist Classrooms by Jacqueline Grennon Brooks and Martin G. Brooks
SUMMARY: This book presents a case for the development of classrooms in which students are encouraged to construct deep understandings of important concepts. It presents a new set of images for educational settings, images that emerge from student engagement, interaction, reflection,and construction.
Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement: Research on What Works In Schools: by
Robert J. Marzano
SUMMARY: Shows how a carefully structured combination of two approaches-sustained silent reading and instruction in subject specific vocabulary terms-can help overcome the deficiencies in background knowledge that hamper the achievement of many children.
The Teacher as Assessment Leader by Thomas R. Guskey
SUMMARY: Explores the importance of formative assessment and the responsibility of teachers to ignite positive change inside the classroom. Packed with strategies for designing, analyzing, and using assessments, this book shows how to turn the best assessment practices into everyday solutions.
Differentiated Instruction: A Guide for Middle and High School Teachers by Amy Benjamin
SUMMARY: Demonstrates how to make your classroom more responsive to the needs of individual students with a wide variety of learning styles, interests, goals, cultural backgrounds, and prior knowledge. Focusing on grades 6 through12, it showcases classroom-tested activities and strategies.
Writing in the Content Areas (Second Edition) by Amy Benjamin
SUMMARY: This book is for middle and high school teachers who assign essays, term papers, lab reports, and other writing tasks to students. It provides strategies and tips to help teachers of social studies, science, art, etc. improve the quality of students' writing and apply national and state curriculum standards.
But I'm Not a Reading Teacher: Strategies for Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas by Amy Benjamin
SUMMARY: This book shows content area teachers in middle and high schools how to boost student achievement by including lessons and strategies which focus on students' reading comprehension without detracting from content area focus. These mini-lessons and strategies are research-based and address the specific literacy challenges of each particular subject area.
Performance Based Learning and Assessment by Educators in Connecticut’s Pomperaug Regional
School District 15
SUMMARY: Describes a school district’s approach to teaching and learning that balances basic instruction with performance-based learning and assessment, using tools such as performance tasks, benchmarks, assessment lists, rubrics, and portfolios.
Leading and Managing RTI: 5 Steps for Building and Maintaining the Framework by John E. McCook, Ed.
SUMMARY: This book addresses the five major steps in leading, managing, and implementing response to intervention: awareness, commitment, capacity and infrastructure development, implementation, evaluation and retooling
The RTI Guide:Developing and Implementing a Model in Your Schools by John E. McCook, Ed.D.
SUMMARY: The purpose of this manual is to introduce you to the concept of response to intervention (RTI) and to guide you in developing and implementing your own RTI model.
Pyramid Response to Intervention: RTI, Professional Learning Communities, and How to Respond When
Kids Don’t Learn by Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Webber
SUMMARY: Readers will learn how RTI blurs the boundaries between regular and special education to create a unified system that serves all students, regardless of labels, the two accepted systems for implementing RTI and models of RTI at work in real schools, how the three big ideas of a PLC-a focus on learning, a collaborative culture, and a focus on results-make PLC and RTI natural partners, the characteristics of effective interventions, the central importance of building a strong core program, how to create effective supplements to the core program, when to apply intensive interventions, how behavioral interventions fit into a PRTI system, the keys to legal compliance and stakeholder support, and the role of leadership in creating, monitoring, and sustaining a PRTI system
Simplifying Response to Intervention: Four Essential Guiding Principles by Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos,
and Chris Webber
SUMMARY: In this sequel to Pyramid Response to Intervention, readers will learn how to use the four essential guiding principles to guide thinking and implementation,build team structures for collaboration, create a toolbox of effective interventions, develop a system of convergent assessment to identify students for interventions, determine their unique needs, monitor progress, and revise or extend learning , and address complex issues such as motivation, behavior, English language proficiency, and intense academic struggles
Professional Learning Communities at Work: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement by
Richard DuFour and Robert Eaker
SUMMARY: This book provides specific how-to-information about transforming schools into results-oriented professional learning communities.This resource describes the best practices from schools nationwide for: curriculum development, teacher preparation, school leadership, professional development programs, school-parent partnerships, and assessment practices.
7 Steps for Developing a Proactive School Wide Discipline Plan: A Guide for Principals and Leadership
Teams by Geoff Colvin
SUMMARY: This book contains a full range of effective behavior management practices to help educators develop a strong, affirming school environment that successfully serves students and staff.
Questions and Answers About RTI: A Guide to Success by Heather Moran and Anthony Petruzzelli
SUMMARY: This book is designed to guide a school or district through the implementation of a new RTI program. It delivers a concrete understanding of the components of a successful RTI model and answer the following questions: why try something different, what are the core beliefs of Response to Intervention, and what happens if in-class interventions aren't enough?
Transforming High Schools Through Response to Intervention: Lessons Learned and a Pathway Forward
by Jeremy Koselak
SUMMARY: High school leaders can attain measurable results through a framework of tiered, dynamic intervention strategies known as RtI. The author highlights essential steps for successfully implementing RtI and presents a pathway from avoiding common pitfalls.
Improving Adolescent Literacy: An RtI Implementation Guide by Pamela S. Craig and Rebecca K. Sarlo
SUMMARY: This book shows secondary teachers and administrators how to improve adolescent literacy through the Problem Solving/Response to Intervention process. It explains how to use PS/RTI as a tool for establishing achievable goals, identifying barriers, developing action plans, and monitoring the effectiveness of the intervention.
RTI Strategies That Work in the K-2 Classroom by Eli Johnson and Michelle Karns
SUMMARY: Targeted specifically to K-2 classrooms, the strategies in this book are research-based and perfect for teachers who want to expand their toolbox of classroom interventions that work. These ideas will help you meet the needs of your entire K-2 classroom, with strategies for listening, reading, mathematics, speaking, and writing.
RTI Strategies That Work in the 3-6 Classroom by Eli Johnson and Michelle Karns
SUMMARY: Targeted specifically to 3-6 classrooms, this book outlines 25 Response-to-Intervention strategies that will help students improve in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and mathematics. Each strategy is research-based and easy to implement and assess. The book includes correlations to the Common Core State Standards and scaffolding tips for English Language Learners.
School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook For Action by Joyce L. Epstein and
associates
SUMMARY: This updated edition details a framework that enables schools, district, and state leaders to develop more effective programs for family and community involvement. It shows how to create Action Teams for Partnerships and train team members in planning and implementing partnership activities to reach school goals.
Math Intervention: Building Number Power with Formative Assessments, Differentiation, and Games
(Grades 3-5) by Jennifer Taylor-Cox
SUMMARY: Useful for small groups or one-on-one instruction, this book offers successful math interventions and RTI connections. It helps teachers target math instruction for struggling students by diagnosing student weaknesses and misconceptions through formative assessments, providing specific, differentiated instruction, offering corrective feedback, and motivating students by using games.
Response to Intervention and Continuous School Improvement: Using Data, Vision, and Leadership to
Design, Implement, and Evaluate a Schoolwide Prevention System by Victoria L. Bernhardt
and Connie L. Hébert
SUMMARY: Describes how to get all staff working together to design, implement, and evaluate a schoolwide prevention system, and shows specific examples of how to do this.
Math Intervention: Building Number Power with Formative Assessments, Differentiation, and Games
(Grades PreK-2) by Jennifer Taylor-Cox
SUMMARY: Useful for small groups or one-on-one instruction, this book offers successful math interventions and RTI connections. It helps teachers target math instruction for struggling students by diagnosing student weaknesses and misconceptions through formative assessments, providing specific, differentiated instruction, offering corrective feedback, and motivating students by using games.
Reading Assessment In an RTI Framework by Katherine Dougherty Stahl and Michael C. McKenna
SUMMARY: Presents a practical model for conducting reading assessments for screening, diagnosis, and progress monitoring in each of the three tiers of response to intervention (RTI). K-8 teachers and school personnel are guided to use norm-referenced, informal, and curriculum-based measures to assess key components of reading development and make informed choices about instruction.
RTI in the Classroom: Guidelines and Recipes for Success by Rachel Brown-Chidsey, Louise Bronaugh,
and Kelly McGraw
SUMMARY: 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.
Response to Intervention: Principles and Strategies for Effective Practice (Second Edition) by Rachel
Brown-Chidsey and Mark. W. Steege
SUMMARY: Provides practitioners with a complete guide to implementing response to intervention (RTI) in schools. Implementation procedures are described in step-by-step detail.
RTI Toolkit: A Practical Guide for Schools by Jim Wright
SUMMARY: Written to provide educators with the necessary guidance and tools to implement Response to Intervention in a school setting.
Children and Adolescents With Emotional and BehavioralDisorders by Vance L. Austin and Daniel T.
Sciarra
SUMMARY: An introductory text thatdescribes the challenging world of emotional and behavioral disorders for atarget audience that includes nascent general and special education teachers.
Students With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders: An Introduction for Teachers and Other Helping
Professionals (Second Edition) by Douglas Cullinan
SUMMARY:Provides a broad coverage of the nature, causes, assessment approaches, and interventions with emotional and behavioral disorders. It presents readers withan exploration of the assumptions behind intervention practices and curricula.
Managing Classroom Behavior Using Positive BehaviorSupports by Terrance M. Scott, Cynthia M.
Anderson,and Peter Alter
SUMMARY: This text focuses on practical strategies with step-by-step application examples. A well-organized collection of tutorials, methods, and applications for teachers written in clear,down-to-earth language and supplemented with real-life examples.
Effective Assessment of Students: Determining Responsiveness to Instruction by Shireen Pavri
SUMMARY: Presents an overview of research-based assessment techniques for both general and special educators who work with students struggling with academic and behavioral difficulties. This book focuses on three core elements of the Response to Intervention approach: an emphasis on student outcomes, systematic and data-based decision making, and teamwork.
Behavior Management: A Practical Approach for Educators (Tenth Edition) by Thomas M. Shea and Anne
M. Bauer
SUMMARY: Successfully balances theory and practice to provide readers with a comprehensive manual for creating a positive, pro-social educational environment in which all children can truly learn and enjoy that learning experience. The authors are fully able to explain behavior management from four perspectives-behavioral, psychodynamic, biophysical, and environmental.
The Way to Work: How to Facilitate Work Experiences for Youth in Transition by Richard G. Luecking
SUMMARY: A practical guide, developed to help educators, transition specialists, and employment specialists facilitate satisfying work experiences and jobs for high school students and young adults with disabilities.
Think College! Postsecondary Education Options for Students With Intellectual Disabilities by Meg Grigal
and Debra Hart
SUMMARY: This book uncovers the big picture of postsecondary education (PSE) options and reveals how to support students with disabilities before, during, and after a successful transition to college.
Transition Planning for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Youth by Gary Greene
SUMMARY: To help readers apply best practices, this book gives them case studies, revealing interviews with transition specialists and other experts, proven tips and strategies for every part of the transition process, and photocopiable forms and tools.
The Job Developer’s Handbook: Practical Tactics for Customized Employment by Cary Griffin, David
Hammis, and Tammara Geary
SUMMARY: This forward-thinking guide walks employment specialists step by step through customized job development for people with disabilities, revealing the best ways to build a satisfying, meaningful job around a person’s preferences, skills, and goals. Internationally known for their innovative, proactive job development strategies, the authors motivate readers to expand the way they think about employment opportunities and develop creative solutions.
Launching Into Adulthood: An Integrated Response to Support Transition of Youth with Chronic Health
Conditions and Disabilities by Donald Lollar
SUMMARY: Don Lollar has collaborated with a multidisciplinary team of disability and policy experts, including center and institute directors, professors, researchers, clinicians, and students and families. Together, they make research-based recommendations that will streamline access to services, meet young people’s individual needs, and improve long-term outcomes.
Transition of Youth & Young Adults with Emotional or Behavioral Difficulties: An Evidence-Supported
Handbook by Hewitt B. Clark and Deanne K. Unruh
SUMMARY: This comprehensive professional handbook collects the best of our knowledge on supporting the transition to adulthood for young people with mental health issues.
Preparing Students with Disabilities for College Success: A Practical Guide to Transition Planning
by Stan F. Shaw, Joseph W. Madaus, and Lyman L. Dukes, III
SUMMARY: Balancing reliable research with practical guidance, this essential resource shows transition personnel, counselors, and educators how to help students find the right college and navigate the admissions process, teach students how to ask for what they need to succeed, determine student eligibility for services and accommodations, provide comprehensive academic and behavioral supports, implement school-wide academic and social supports, and work with families to foster effective, transition planning.
Social Skills and Adaptive Behavior in Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorders by Peter F. Gerhardt and
Daniel Crimmins
SUMMARY: Synthesizes findings from more than 20 top researchers in the field and includes commentary from individuals and families. Coordinated by the Organization of Autism Research, this book gives readers current evidence, best-practice recommendations, and future research directions for assessing social skills with evidence-based methods and tools, conducting interventions that really make a difference, promoting friendships and peer acceptance, increasing joint attention, implementing schoolwide positive behavior support, improving outcomes with Pivotal Response Treatment, strengthening children’s self-help skills, and providing effective support for families of children with autism
Person-Centered Planning Made Easy: The Picture Method by Steve Holburn, Anne Gordon, and Peter
M.Vietze
SUMMARY: A complete step-by-step guide to the easiest, most practical person-centered planning method available. Bringing professional services and interventions out of segregated settings and into natural environments, the research supported PICTURE method promotes individual choice, gets people out in the real world, makes evaluation part of intervention, and welcomes the involvement of others.
The New Transition Handbook: Strategies High School Teachers Use That Work! by Carolyn Hughes and
Erik W.Carter
SUMMARY: A thoroughly updated guide to helping students access the general curriculum, increase social acceptance and participation, set and reach individualized goals, strengthen positive behavior, prepare for postsecondary education, develop employment skills, access community resources, and learn critical functional skills.
Evaluation Toolkit (Second Edition) by Paula D. Kohler, June E. Gothberg, and Jennifer L.Coyle
Differentiated Instruction: A Guide for Elementary School Teachers by Amy Benjamin
SUMMARY: This book demonstrates how to make your classroom more responsive to the needs of individual students with a wide variety of learning styles, interests, goals, cultural backgrounds, and prior knowledge. Focusing on grades K through 6, it showcases classroom-tested activities and strategies.
Data Teams: Success Stories Volume 1 by Kristin Anderson
SUMMARY: Shares the experiences of vastly different schools and districts from all over the country, as they successfully implement the Data Teams process. These are stories from teachers and school and district leaders who tell of the struggles they faced, the steps they took, and the successes they celebrated. This book also guides readers to write their own "success stories" by developing plans to implement and sustain Data Teams in their own schools.
Leaders Make It Happen! An Administrator's Guide to Data Teams by Brian A. McNulty and Laura Besser
SUMMARY: All an administrator needs to start the Data Team process at his or her school or district. Data Teams impact curriculum, lesson design, assessment, and school improvement-areas where the principal and leadership team have tremendous influence and responsibility.
Rigorous Curriculum Design by Larry Ainsworth
SUMMARY: Presents a carefully sequenced, hands-on model that curriculum designers and educators in every school system can follow to create a progression of units of study that keeps standards, instruction, and assessment tightly focused and connected.