Meeting the Needs of Students of ALL Abilities: How Leaders Go Beyond Inclusion

This book provides practical strategies for administrators and teachers (school leaders) to work as leaders (“stewards”) to establish and maintain schools that include all students without adding on expensive, reactive, and ineffective separate programs, classrooms, and schools. This inclusion encompasses students who suffer from prejudice, bias, racism, etc., in addition to disability. The strategies are put forth in four major sections of the book that illustrate how to: (1) shift from providing separate programs to a few students to providing excellent educational services for all students, (2) channel the standards movement into proactive teaching and assessment to ensure student success, (3) use funding and the law to support excellent services for all, and (4) view the process as a journey, not a destination.

Throughout the book are lists of steps and practical strategies along with overheads, handouts, and forms that can easily be copied for use in staff development, faculty meetings, parent organizations, or university classrooms to aid educators who wish to put the book’s ideas into practice in their own schools and districts