Meeting the Needs of Students of ALL Abilities: How Leaders Go Beyond Inclusion
"This step-by-step handbook offers practical strategies…to providing excellent educational services for all students including those with special needs." (Exceptional Child Education ResourcesSummer 2001, Volume 33(2))Meeting the Needs of Students of All Abilitiesaddresses the key leadership questions we need to be asking today!While legislative issues address standards, assessments, and graduation requirements for all, this book brings us into the heart of the dialogue.  It redefines the purpose of assessment and provides learning models for initiating a rethinking of the classroom and the support structures." (Debra Jackson, Superintendent of Schools)"An important book for all teachers committed to teaching all children.  Most books on inclusion help administrators, teachers, parents, and students understand the letter of the law and the demands the legal system makes on institutions.Meeting the Needs of Students of ALL Abilitieshelps us to recognize the spirit of the law, and explains how to create educational environments for students that are academically appropriate, culturally sensitive, and compassionately caring.  It offers a well-developed philosophy of inclusive schooling accompanied by specific practical strategies for implementation. " (Gloria Ladson-Billings, Department of Curriculum and Instruction)