Product Description: Over the last decade, the educational context for students with disabilities has significantly changed primarily as a result of mandates contained in NCLB and IDEA. The purpose of this book is to summarize the research literature regarding how students might be provided classrooms and schools that are both inclusive and effective...read more

Product Description: Prevention is the key to a successful school behavior plan! This research-based guide offers strategies and plans for preventing problem behavior at both the classroom and school level. The book focuses on four essential areas—foundations, intervention, collaboration, and evaluation—and features: Information on prevention science and practice Reasons why conflict resolution, peer mediation, and bully-proofing are essential to prevention Effective practices for teaching social skills to young children Proven techniques for implementing schoolwide positive behavior support Ideas for home-school and community partnerships  Critical strategies for monitoring student progress Information on preschool behavior support and RTI...read more

Product Description: Boost academic achievement for all students in your inclusive classroom! As schools implement RTI in general education settings, educators need easy access to information about effective teaching and intervention tactics for diverse learners...read more

This practical reference was developed to meet the needs of critical care and emergency nurses, physicians, and pharmacists in administering complex drugs given by IV infusion. Presented in an easy-to-use handbook format, it contains information on how to dose and administer complex and commonly used critical care drugs. Each drug is listed with information about what its most common uses are, how to prepare the drug infusion for patient administration, the most common dosages, the most common warnings and adverse reactions, compatibility with other drug infusions, and general nursing considerations. One of its most unique features is the inclusion of calculation factors. Dosing charts allow the healthcare professional to quickly determine the appropriate dose in a matter of seconds.Drip Rate Calculation Charts and Dosing Charts allow the user to quickly see how to mix and prepare drugs that are usually needed by patients on an immediate, urgent basis.Covers 44 of the most common intravenous infusion critical care drugs.Calculation factors for each drug are unique, simplifying an otherwise complicated process and substantially reducing the chance of medication errors.Includes Nursing Considerations for each drug.This reference is not only useful for critical care nurses, but also general medicine or general surgical nurses, hospital pharmacists, physicians, cardiologists, anesthesiologists, and emergency room physicians.Blank pages in the back of the book allow readers to take notes for quick reference.New and updated drug facts, including uses, solution preparation, doses, adverse reactions, warnings, incompatibilities, compatibilities, and nursing considerationsComplete coverage of the following NEW drugs: Argatroban (Acova), Bivalirudin (Angiomax), Drotrecogin Alfa (Xigris), Infliximab (Remicade), Nesiritide (Natrecor), and Pantoprazole (Protonix)Includes a new quick reference drug compatibility chart for most of the critical care drugsNew coverage of antibiotic infusion ratesUpdated drug dosing chartsUpdated Drug Calculation Formula section

Product Description: A concise reference with essential protocols for successful early literacy coaching! This book highlights the expanding role of literacy coaches in implementing early and elementary literacy programs. The authors present user-friendly guidelines and evidence-based strategies for sustained professional development, protocols for classroom observations and teacher conferences, and vignettes offering solutions to common coaching challenges...read more

Improve reading achievement for students from diverse backgrounds with research-supported practices and culturally responsive interventions in phonemic awareness, phonics/decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Product Description: With a practical, research-based model, this resource offers proven instructional methods that can be used across content areas and grade levels for students with or without disabilities.

This step-by-step handbook guides beginning researchers through the stages of planning and implementing case studies. Starting with how to establish a rationale for conducting a systematic case study and identifying literature that informs the research effort, this indispensable resource shows students how to determine an appropriate research design and conduct informative interviews, observations and document analyses. It also describes how to derive meaning from data and how to communicate results. Finally, the authors delineate the ways to verify the results attained. Students and advisors can use these easy-to-follow steps to shape a thesis, dissertation, or independent project from conceptualization to completion. There are many concrete examples to illustrate key concepts, and questions, illustrations and activities to reinforce what has been learned.

Presents the key components of highly effective instruction and the accommodations and modifications that should be made for special-needs students.

A guide to the essentials of special education looks at various aspects of the field, from statistics and disability categories to appropriate learning environments.

Show readers how to recognize the cognitive, academic, physical, communicational, and behavioral characteristics of several forms of emotional disturbance and offers specific strategies for responding to such problems as tantrums, disruptiveness, inattention, and task avoidance.

Discover what assessment methods you should be using, and how, when, and where they should be administered to ensure appropriate services are selected for all exceptional students.