Lessons Learned from the Special Education Classroom: Creating Opportunities for All Students to Listen, Learn, and Lead, Paperback/Peg Grafwallner

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Description Lessons Learned from the Special Education Classroom offers practical techniques and research-based suggestions where all students, regardless of their abilities, are actively engaged in a vigorous, scaffolded, differentiated classroom taught by a compassionate, equitable teacher. With 25 years of classroom expertise, the author shares her down-to-earth suggestions for building classroom community and embracing all learners while offering concrete suggestions for creating respectful parent and student partnerships. At the end of each chapter, Peg outlines how to use the chapter in a professional book club, as a PLC resource, and as a Professional Development supplement. About the author Peg Grafwallner, M. Ed., is an Instructional Coach/Reading Specialist at a large urban school in Milwaukee, WI. Currently, Peg models, coaches, and assists teachers in creating comprehensive literacy lessons meant to enhance skill-building. As an educator and parent of both a gifted and talented child and a special needs child, Peg advocated for her children's education, explicitly supporting the needs of both children while also reinforcing the expectations of their teachers.