Deborah Prothrow-Stith

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Equip and empower today's classroom teachers to ADAPT to the needs of all of their students. Using the research-validated ADAPT framework, Teaching Students With Special Needs in Inclusive Classrooms helps future teachers determine how, when, and with whom to use proven academic and behavioral interventions to obtain the best outcomes for students with disabilities. Through clear language and practical examples, authors Diane P. Bryant, Brian R. Bryant, and Deborah D. Smith show to create truly inclusive classrooms through evidence-based practices and hands-on strategies. This book will provide the skills and inspiration that teachers need to make a positive difference in the educational lives of struggling learners. The text is written to meet the needs of those majoring in general education, special education, and blended teacher education programs. SPECIAL FEATURES - The ADAPT method improves instructional decision-making by providing teachers with a research-validated problem-solving approach for recalling the steps in adapting instruction and behavioral interventions to promote access to the general education curriculum. - A Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework for teaching and learning is included in the UDL in Action feature that provides tools for proactive planning of curricula (goals, assessments, methods, and materials) that can be beneficial for all students. - Opening Challenge case studies encourage teachers to critically analyze specific teaching challenges at the elementary and secondary levels and give readers an opportunity to evaluate their knowledge of the subject matter with Reflective Questions. - Considering Diversity features examine issues from a cultural or linguistic perspective and demonstrate how to create a classroom environment and instruction that is inclusive of all students. - Instructional Strategies present research-based classroom activities with step-by-step instructions to teach students the skills they need to succeed. - Tech Notes provide readers with information on assistive and instructional technologies with examples from classrooms to show practical applications. - Working Together sections offer applicable advice on how an idea or concept can be taught using a collaborative approach that involves other school professionals and family members. This description comes from the publisher.

How violence is destroying our teenage population and a plan to begin solving the problem.

"Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice" is a groundbreaking book that offers parents and teachers a primer for understanding and preventing the increasing incidents of physical violence—hazing, brutality, fighting, weapons, murder—by young girls. Written by Drs. Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Howard R. Spivak—the renowned Harvard- and Tufts-based experts on preventing youth violence—this important book offers a plan to help our daughters become strong, confident, powerful, and independent young women without being violent.

Curriculum which increases the ability of children to promote peace, make positive decisions, and avoid risk-taking behaviors.

Publisher's description: Authors Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Howard R. Spivak-- two prominent Boston-area public health officials who played leading roles in that city's turnaround-- show that the key to Boston's success was creating an interdisciplinary citywide movement. The city's movement-- made up of educators, community leaders, police officers, emergency room workers, activist teens, teen and family member survivors of violence, and many others-- worked for more than ten years to implement multifaceted preventive programs that confronted each risk factor for youth violence, including Positive Role Models: Peer mentoring and teacher-training programs Healthy and Safe Communities: Youth centers, after-school programs, and other organized recreational activities Poverty: Economic stimulus policies to help reduce poverty in inner-city and rural areas Pro-Social Behaviors: Conflict resolution and violence prevention curricula in schools Domestic Violence: Home visitation programs and screening to protect kids from domestic violence Gun Buybacks: Reduction in the number of firearms on the streets.