Resources
The Collaborative recommends the following resources to school administrators, general and special educators, advocates, and others who are committed to improving outcomes for students with disabilities.Books | DVDs/Videos
Books
![[The Tough Kid Book]](images/Tough_Kid.jpg)
The Tough Kid
Practical Classroom Management Strategies
G. Rhode, W. R. Jenson, K., and K. Reavis
Use the Tough Kid book to make the classroom a more pleasant environment for you and your students. Learn to enjoy teaching and Monday mornings again--turn tough kids into great kids. This resource contains a wealth of ready-to-use information and lists other commercially available, practical resources for teachers who want more.
Price: $25.49
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![[Lou Brown Unplugged]](images/Tough_Kid_Principal.jpg)
The Tough Kid Principal's Briefcase
A Practical Guide to Schoolwide Behavior Management and LegalIssues
W. Jenson, G. Rhode, C. Evans, D. P. Morgan
Invaluable for administrators who want to decrease inappropriate student behavior and support positive behavior. Learn how to use time-outs and other tactics as behavior management tools. Includes the Principal's 200 Club schoolwide positive behavior management system and an easy-to-understand legal primer.
Price: $52.95
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Ideas for Inclusion
The School Administrator's Guide
A. M. Beninghof and L. T. Singer
This resource provides administrators with numerous inclusion strategies in the areas of curriculum and instruction, family and community, student supports, planning processes, business management, leadership, assessment, and personnel.
- Includes helpful guidelines to consider when evaluating inclusionary practices
- Provides step-by-step instructions for executing desired changes
- Ensures that all students receive an effective and appropriate education
Price: $28.49
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Best Behavior
Building Positive Behavior Support in Schools
J. Sprague and A. Golly
This resource follows the positive behaviors support (PBS) approach developed at the University of Oregon and the national research center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS). Best Behavior addresses schoolwide, classroom, and individual student interventions as well as family collaboration. It is one of the few programs that offers support for all students in the school, some students with additional needs, and the few students who need the most intensive support. Intervention techniques are based on more than 30 years of rigorous research in school discipline from the fields of education, psychology, and criminology.
Price: $69.95
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DVDs/Videos
Collaborative members receive a 10% discount on the videos and DVDs below.
RTI: Choose your own response to intervention
RtI is not a law; RtI is a way forward. And it is time to act. For two years The Forum on Education has kept the RtI movement on its radar. We waited to act until we could find distinct yet complimentary approaches to Response to Intervention (RtI) and Early Intervening Services (EIS) that have demonstrated results in differing types of schools. After viewing you'll be better able
to create a response to intervention that fits your school. There is over 2 hours of footage and step-by- step instruction. Featuring National education consultant Dr. Alan Coulter. He offers ways for preventing chronic student and school failure.
“The DVD is a worthy product that will be very helpful to American schools. There is a massive amount of misinformation and “folk information” around that only serves to confuse. The Forum team has done an excellent job of capturing the essence of what makes RtI work. Compelling!” |
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James Tucker McKee Chair of Excellence in Learning University of Tennessee at Chattanooga |
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Principals, master teachers and consultants in Illinois and Michigan will demonstrate two approaches - the protocol and problem-solving approaches that meet the intent and spirit of IDEIA 2004. Coulter compares and contrasts the two approaches so teachers, principals and central office leaders construct their own approach based on RtI or EIS, that meets their school's context and needs; staff commitments; and starting point. One superintendent called RtI “an embedded school improvement model focused on prevention.”
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DVD (2 discs): $134.10
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Running time:
70 Minutes
Differentiation Live!
Blending UbD & Differentiated Instruction Principles for Teaching and Learning
This DVD documents teachers as they begin their differentiated instruction journey. The Forum on Education visited educators from elementary and middle school classrooms to demonstrate and describe ways they plan for instruction within an Understanding by Design mindset to ensure all children are engaged in meaningful, standards-based work. Each classroom segment examines instructional strategies purposefully designed to provide proven learning experiences based on students' readiness and learning profiles. With classroom footage and interviews, a thoughtful and realistic approach to differentiated curriculum, assessment and instruction is made reasonable and feasible. DVD includes concise digital guide. This DVD is a co-production with our long time production partner Elephant Rock Productions and the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community.
DVD: $119.00
Collaborative member price:
DVD: $134.10
VHS: $112.50
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The Power of 2, 2nd Ed.
Narrated by Marilyn Friend
Running time:
Video: Approx. 65 mins.
DVD: Approx. 65 mins. (+65 mins. of bonus material)
Over the past several years much has changed in schools. Federal education laws have raised student academic standards; professional accountability for student outcomes is a requirement—everyone counts; and access to the curriculum is the expectation for all students—it is no longer an option. As these changes have occurred, co-teaching has increased in importance. Its practice is now broader, but not necessarily deeper, and many questions concerning creating and sustaining co-teaching as a service delivery option still come up.
And so, it seemed time to re-visit the Power of 2. This is not a sequel, not really a re-make of its highly successful predecessor: It's an update and a new edition of the first Power of 2 video. It provides a comprehensive look at co-teaching as part of the foundation of an inclusive and collaborative school. Most of the core concepts are still valid and are still included here—for example, clear and detailed demonstrations of six co-teaching arrangements that make up the heart of the program. However, some of the lessons learned from those who now have considerable experience with co-teaching and the shift in the context in which school programs now operate are added, as are the suggestions made by professionals in the field who work with co-teaching on a daily basis. These changes in this program are still intended to assist educators—first-year teachers and those with extensive experience—to collaborate and share their knowledge and skills in order to help their students maximize their potential.
Our co-teaching project has an administrative component that is using the
"Administrative Interview" of the Power of Two in training sessions with principals.
This video presentation is helpful for our administrators in understanding their role
in putting collaboration and co-teaching into practice at their schools. Brad Reitz and
Charlene Green provide valuable information and suggestions on how to implement a
successful co-teaching program. Their discussions present ideas that promote positive
outcomes for all students, which is an underlying principle of our project.
Lynne Morris, Ph.D., Co-Director
Student Achievement in the Least Restrictive Environment Project
The Power of Two, Revised Edition has allowed us to bring quality examples of co-teaching
to the classroom level. Many school administrators use these videos in training the total
school staff while others use it for teaching content teams. I highly recommend them for
professional development.
Gina Smith, Director of Grade Level Services/Programs for Exceptional Children
Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, Charlotte, NC
DVD (2 discs): $149.00
VHS: $125.00
Collaborative member price:
DVD (2 discs): $134.10
VHS: $112.50
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The Art & Science of Wraparound
Narrated by Lucille Eber
Running time:
Video: 43 mins.
DVD: 43 mins.
Wraparound is a family-centered, strength-based philosophy of care used to guide service planning for students with or at-risk of Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities and their families. As a philosophy of care with a defined planning process, wraparound results in a uniquely designed individual plan for a child and family to achieve a set of outcomes that reflect family/youth voice and choice. Integrated through related service structures in schools (i.e., special education, early intervention, school-wide discipline planning, etc.), the wraparound approach can facilitate proactive partnerships among families, schools and other community representatives.
This video and manual provide:
- A Comprehensive Definition of Wraparound The Relationship Between Wraparound and PBIS
- Tips for Establishing a Team
- Guidelines for the Initial Team Meeting
- Successes and Challenges Encountered by Facilitators
- Wraparound Planning Indicator Worksheets
- A Sample Wraparound Implementation Survey
- Parents and Professionals Sharing Their Challenges and Successes
DVD: $79.00
Collaborative member price:
DVD: $71.10
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Creating a Unified System
Narrated by Wayne Sailor
This video illustrates how White Church Elementary School in Kansas City, Kansas created a unified system to support the learning needs of all students regardless of label or severity of need. Their implementation of the six principles of the School-wide Application Model (SAM), created by Wayne Sailor from the University of Kansas and Blair Roger of Oakland, California, has allowed them to create a learning environment where all students are honored and their parents engaged. All students receive the learning support they need; all staff subscribe to a data-driven, standards-based educational program; and, as a result, all students are successful. They are proud to report that they have met their schoolwide AYP for the past three years, but not only that, in 2004 90% of the students achieved proficiency in math and literacy, well above the state average! At White Church Elementary School you will see the following SAM Principles in action and how they are making a difference for the entire school community in terms of student achievement, policy, practice, and the professional development needed to continually improve.
The SAM principles frame the program. They are:
- All Instruction is Guided by General Education
- All School Resources are Configured to Benefit All Students
- Schools are Team Driven, Data-Driven, Problem Solving Organizations
- Schools Proactively Address Student Social Development and Citizenship
- Schools Have Open Boundaries in Relation to Their Family and Community
- Each School has District Support for Undertaking the Extensive Systems Change Activities
VHS: $120.00
Collaborative member price:
VHS: $108.00
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Lou Brown Unplugged
Stories of a Lifetime of Teaching and Advocating for Students with Disabilities and their Families
Lou Brown tells stories that communicate important lessons accrued from over forty years of working on behalf of individuals with disabilities in classrooms, workplaces and courtrooms. The stories will make you laugh, cry, and angry. Lou argues for the combination of integrated schooling, authentic assessment and instruction, and other rational instructional practices and individually meaningful experiences in real work settings..
- Disc One (82 mins.) features stories that focus upon the struggles, absurdities, barriers, and joys associated with attempting to arrange for students with disabilities to function in the same schools and classes in which they would function if not disabled with individually appropriate and professionally responsible supplementary aids and services.
- Disc Two (63 mins.) features stories that focus upon practices in which professionals engage that have important affects on the basic life qualities allowed students with disabilities. His thesis is that far too many of the instructional practices utilized are demeaning, counterproductive, inhibitory and/or otherwise harmful. A description of all of the stories told on the discs can be found in a print-friendly PDF file on disc two.
- Disc Three (151 mins.) features stories that focus upon options professionals can exercise that would prepare students with disabilities to function in the real world of work at the point of exit from school. Currently, the post school vocational outcomes of students with disabilities are blatantly unacceptable. If better outcomes are to be realized, better service delivery models, instructional practices and curricula must be generated.
The DVDs were recorded in front of a live studio audience of parents, teachers, school administrators, and job coaches.
We all need to validate our work on behalf of students with disabilities. Lou Brown
Unplugged speaks to my heart. There is a whole generation of educators who have
not had the pleasure of experiencing Lou Brown. What an opportunity.
~ Charlene Green, Associate Superintendent for Student Support Services,
Clark County School District, Las Vegas, Nevada
DVD (3 discs): $129.00
Collaborative member price:
DVD (3 discs): $116.10
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Note: To qualify for the discount on the dvds and/or videos, please include your Collaborative member password on the order form. If you need your password, please email the webmaster.
