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This book contains resources and guiding documents to help teams understand whether or not a special education referral is an appropriate action for your student. This includes processes and materials for completing the ELL Critical Data Process for K-12 and preschool students. The result is a pictorial image, the matrix, that represents the discussions of the team. This helps the team to determine whether to implement interventions, add more interventions, or make a special education referral. Knowing the critical data to gather, the staff to involve, and having a process to follow increases the likelihood of appropriate intervention(s).
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This price of this book has been reduced to $19.95. The newer books have updated content in many areas, but this book still has the most data analysis content and the most examples for report writing. This book provides practitioners with tools and background information. It includes a chapter on data collection at the school and district level to help teams and districts better understand their challenges. It also provides examples of both data and report write-ups.
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This book guides educators through a process of collecting data, having critical conversations, and documenting their decisions in a matrix one data point at a time. The result is a pictorial image, the matrix, that represents the discussions of the team. This helps the team to determine whether to implement interventions, add more interventions, or make a special education referral. The discussions and work will help the team to identify the root cause of the presenting problem. The team can then design a more targeted intervention or create the groundwork for better analysis of the special education referral. And, if a special education evaluation is started, this process can lead to a more accurate special education evaluation. This book focuses on non-language learners.
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This book is a self-study or group study course for ELL teachers to learn more about special education. The hope of the authors is that this information will help ELL teachers in their day-to-day work with special education staff, leading to better results for our students. The course provides information on various topics, quizzes for knowledge, reflection on what was learned, reflection on what still needs to be learned, and case studies.
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Our perspective is created through our acculturation and the knowledge we gain in our lives. What if our perspective is leading to poor results? Perspective is not reality and this disconnect can lead to difficulties in solving problems. This book uses stories and reflections to explore this problem and propose solutions. These stories and reflections were written by successful educators on topics close to their hearts. The stories let the reader see another way to look at an issue and can be used for personal growth or for professional development purposes. This book also includes an appendix that focuses on belief systems issues and an appendix that focuses on a new way to examine problems in skills development that children may face.
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Sample report for integrating ELL Critical Data Process factors into special education evaluation reports. This is a companion workbook for the ELL Critical Data Process book.
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The process of evaluating a language learner for the possibility of special education eligibility provides many challenges. This book is the culmination of 30 years of working on increasing the likelihood of finding the students who truly have disabilities, versus the students whose struggles are primarily related to language acquisition. This book provides practical steps to achieve this. It also provides practical advice on how to help others, strangers to the situation, understand how the decision was made and what evidence was used. In the end, is the determinant factor language acquisition or language acquisition with a disability?