For nearly three decades, this book has been the essential core introductory textbook on early childhood assessment. Now proudly published by Brookes, this bestselling text is in its sixth edition, updated to prepare early childhood educators and special educators for success in today’s diverse programs.

In Every Child Deserves a Special Education, the authors introduce five powerful mindframes that reshape the way we think about teaching, learning, and inclusion. These mindframes spark a cycle of reflection and growth, shifting not just what we do, but how we see our students, our classrooms, and our role as educators.

This groundbreaking, “next generation” approach to classroom assessment challenges educators to reflect on the connections between growth, mastery, and student self-efficacy and to prioritize the transferable skills of metacognition and self-regulation in their assessment design.

Every classroom is filled with amazing individuals who vary wildly in who they are as people. This diversity is an asset that educators can leverage when we ensure our instruction is tailored to the strengths and needs of each student. Supported by neurological and education research, Universal Design for Learning ensures all students succeed by enabling educators to remove barriers to learning.

Your Students, My Students, Our Students explores the hard truths of current special education practice and outlines five essential disruptions to the status quo. This book—written not for "special educators" or "general educators" but for all educators—addresses the challenges, maps out the solutions, and illustrate just what's possible when educators commit to the belief that every student belongs to all of us and all students deserve learning experiences that will equip them to live full and rewarding lives.

All students deserve research-based, systematic support and a team that is committed to their success. In this book, Lee Ann Jung lays out a growth planning process that integrates seamlessly with existing IEP and Response to Instruction and MTSS structures and is also suitable for any student who has individualized or personalized goals, whether or not that student qualifies for special education services.

Grounded in research-based and recommended practices, this textbook prepares teachers to assess young children in a variety of settings, including inclusive environments, blending early childhood and early childhood special education. Learn about assessment practices from observation to the complexities of referring children for special education or early intervention evaluation.

Standards, assessments, grading, and reporting provide the foundation for nearly every initiative in modern education reform. But what do these terms actually mean—and what changes in each area will bring about the improvements teachers and school leaders want to see? Here, Thomas R. Guskey and Lee Ann Jung collect the essential questions that stymie educators, and give each one a short, simple, jargon-free response.

How can you ensure that you are grading your exceptional students fairly? Teachers receive very little guidance for grading students with disabilities, English learners, and those receiving services through a response-to-intervention (RTI) process. This practitioner-friendly book provides teachers and administrators with an effective framework for assigning grades that are accurate, meaningful, and legally defensible. The authors include an easy-to-follow, five-step standards-based inclusive grading model.