Students with Disabilities Can Meet Accountability Standards: A Roadmap for School Leaders - Hardcover

This is a good book for special educators, and a great book for general educators. -- John O'Dell, chair of educational administration and supervision, Lincoln Memorial University Educators have an overwhelming challenge to provide a superior academic experience for their students. This book identifies these challenges and offers practical solutions that will effect above average results. Students, O'Conner has your back! -- Marie S. Corrigan, founding director, Sophia Academy This excellent work of John O'Connor's invites teachers and other school leaders to reflect, grow, and learn from their practice. The application-based case studies at the end of each chapter are particularly insightful and user friendly. Combining stimulating ideas and practical suggestions, Students with Disabilities Can Meet Achievement Standards will ensure that your school is fully prepared today to confront the challenges of tomorrow. -- Gloria Talley, deputy superintendent of teaching and learning, DeKalb County Schools, Georgia

This book provides a road map for all school leaders as they attempt to improve the achievement of students with disabilities. In today's accountability system, school personnel are responsible for ensuring that all groups of students, including students with disabilities, show sufficient progress. If the disability subgroup fails to meet accountability standards, then the school (and the district) can be labeled as a "needs improvement" school. This book is designed for principals, assistant principals, general educators and special educators. It focuses on two main goals. First, it clearly describes the instructional components that must be implemented across the school to increase the achievement of students with disabilities. Second, it describes a step-by-step process that the school's leadership team must undertake to enable all teachers to provide those instructional components. This book provides a description of what instruction should look like in every classroom across the school for students with disabilities and how to make this happen.