6 Ways Grief and Loss Affect Children

Learn six ways that grief can affect classroom behavior and academic performance, in this free download adapted from the practical guidebook The Grieving Student. Read More

Best Practices for Monitoring Progress of Students with IEPs

See nine best practices for monitoring student IEP progress, in this free download adapted from the new second edition of The IEP Checklist. Your one-stop guide to IEP development, the latest edition features new chapters on culturally responsive practices, designing behavior intervention plans, and more Read More

5 Characteristics of Effective Structured Literacy Teaching

What does one of the world’s most respected literacy experts have to say about the five characteristics of effective structured literacy instruction? Find out in this month’s free download, adapted from the third edition of the bestselling literacy textbook Speech to Print by Louisa Cook Moats. Read More

25 great insights on teaching and parenting learners with autism

This blog post shares the wisdom of Brookes authors Paula Kluth and Robert Naseef, through quotes from their popular guidebooks You’re Going to Love This Kid! and Autism in the Family. Read More

How PICCOLO™ can help you work more effectively with parents of young children

For professionals supporting parents of young children 1–3, learn how to assess parent-child interactions, identify important parenting behaviors, develop interventions to help parents build skills, and track your program’s outcomes using PICCOLO. Read More

The Role of Teacher Effectiveness in Children’s Reading Achievement

This chapter excerpt considers the knowledge and skills needed to be a successful teacher of reading as well as how schools of education might better prepare elementary-level educators to teach reading to children from a variety of backgrounds. Read More

Components of Effective Instruction for Reading

Excerpted from Effective Instruction for Middle School Students with Reading Difficulties, this chapter lays out the most important practices that educators should use in order to reach the struggling readers of their classroom. Read More

Classroom Hindsight: What 19 Education Experts Wish They’d Known Their First Year on the Job

Learn how to be a more effective educator through mistakes and missed opportunities experienced by a collection of Brookes authors. Read More

Toilet Training: Elimination Record

This chart from Steps to Independence, Fourth Edition is a helpful tool for toilet training Read More