By Mary Schillinger and Becky Wetzel

Introducing the first roadmap to guide you in launching or improving professional development around helping special education students achieve under your state's core standards!

With dozens of staff training agendas, activity handouts, adult learner keys and models for staff training, you get a blueprint to train your staff to:

• "Deconstruct" core standards and identify the essential learning targets
• Develop core-aligned IEP goals and monitor student progress
• Address student needs in a full continuum of placements --- from pullout settings to inclusive placements and co-teaching models at all grade levels

You'll ensure your students are prepared with the 21st century skills they will need when leaving school, regardless of their eligibility category or level of functioning, with guidance related to flipped classrooms, universal design for learning, project-based learning and more. The Guide also identifies core standards implications for school psychologists and speech/language specialists, plus includes numerous Implementation Checklists to pinpoint future staff training needs.