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As a special educator, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the amount of information available. Below is a list of books you can request to borrow from the BTS office.
Please email your Service Delivery Manager (SDM) if you are interested in borrowing any of the books below!
The IEP from A to Z: Practical Strategies for Supporting Student Growth
This comprehensive guide focuses on creating effective IEPs that target behavior, critical thinking, communication (including non-verbal), social, play, and narrative skills. It also explores how to write meaningful goals and objectives that encourage generalization across settings—turning theory into classroom practice.
Phonics from A to Z: Lesson Plans and Strategies That Work
A must-have resource for teaching foundational reading skills, this book offers practical phonics lesson plans and proven instructional techniques. Perfect for early literacy instruction or intervention, it's your go-to for structured, evidence-based phonics teaching.
Comprehension: Strategies to Unlock Student Understanding
Dive into the essentials of reading comprehension with this guide designed to help educators teach students how to understand, analyze, and engage with text. Learn techniques that support diverse learners and help them become confident, strategic readers.
Essentials of Evidence-Based Academic Interventions
This essential text breaks down a wide range of research-supported strategies that can be used in real classrooms. It also helps educators identify different learning exceptionalities and match students with the most effective interventions for their unique needs.
Planning for Success: Tailoring Interventions for Unique Learners
This book provides a thoughtful framework for selecting and customizing academic interventions to meet the needs of individual learners. From planning to implementation, it guides educators in making informed, data-driven decisions that make a difference.
The Trauma-Sensitive Classroom: Creating Safe Spaces for Every Student
A valuable resource for any educator, this book sheds light on how trauma affects student behavior and learning. It offers tools and strategies to build supportive environments that benefit all learners—especially those who’ve experienced adversity.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
A groundbreaking read that explores how trauma is stored in the body and mind, and how this impacts students' behavior and emotional regulation. This book is a powerful tool for educators seeking to understand trauma responses and foster healing through informed support.
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SMART Goal Bank- Searchable goal bank with different trial and time frame combinations.
Khanmigo- AI for teachers! People who work in a public school can sign up for free with a school email. The site has the following services:
SMART Goal Writer- It does not write the goal for you but it helps you generate a plan of action to meet the goal. Eg. it breaks down the overall yearly goal into bi-weekly chunks.
IEP Assistant- It helps generate an outline that you can fill in
Text Leveler- It will adjust a text to the students reading level
Report Card/ Progress Monitoring Comments
Lesson Plan Creator
Booklet Generator
Text Chunker
Magic School AI- Similar to Khanmigo. It has a smart goal writer and other IEP tools.
IEP Goal Generator- Generates goals based on information you input and it breaks down the objectives. Here is an example: “By the end of the IEP cycle (specify date), [Student Name] will demonstrate improved phonics skills by accurately reading words containing blends, digraphs, clusters, and long vowels with 80% accuracy across 3 out of 4 consecutive bi-weekly assessments, as measured by teacher-created phonics probes and progress monitoring tools.”
*With all AI applications you can skip adding student information and instruct the AI to put brackets where the students name will go.
*The AI goal generators require some finessing and editing once the goal has been generated but it is typically minimal. For example, you typically need to enter the specific dates and progress monitoring tools. I also typically add in a “given access to blank, blank and blank” so the new goal would look like this:
“By March 2026, given access to specially designed, explicit phonics instruction, [Student Name] will demonstrate improved decoding skills by accurately reading words containing blends, digraphs, clusters, and long vowels with 80% accuracy across 3 out of 4 consecutive bi-weekly assessments, as measured by the special educator using a nonsense word fluency assessment.”
IEP goals can be thought of as a formula and it can be helpful to break it down step by step. This gives you an outline for what goals should look like.
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