Instructional Consultation Teams: Collaborating for Change (Guilford School Practitioner)
"School reform has not done a good job in enhancing classroom teachers' ability to handle common learning and behavior problems. To address this deficiency, the authors not only propose the concept of a school-based Instructional Consultation Team, they provide detailed guidelines for creating and institutionalizing this approach. Their extensive experience in developing ICT's shines through on every page. The work serves to elevate consultation in schools to the level of a tool for fundamental systemic change. As such, it should help reduce the demand for special services, increase the efficacy of mainstreaming, and eliminate a host of preventable problems." --Howard Adelman, PhD, Professor of Psychology, UCLA"This book will be an essential resource for school teams who desire to engage in the process of changing practices in fundamental ways. Drs. Rosenfield and Gravois have met the goal of successfully bringing together information from the literatures on school change and school consultation in a way that will be very helpful to readers. They provide detailed, practical information on achieving systematic and lasting change in practice." --Janet L. Graden, PhD, Professor & Director, School Psychology Program, University of Cincinnati