The Best New Special Education Books To Read In 2025

The Principal’s Special Education Calendar is a pragmatic, “do-now” guide that addresses a building leader’s special education responsibilities over the course of the school year. Developed for novice and experienced principals, it also meets the needs of professors and aspiring principal candidates looking for a resource to bridge theoretical approaches with the practical aspects of the job. Based on quarterly marking periods for ease of planning and organization, this book provides a comprehensive guide for principals.

It includes real-life scenarios, legal red flags, must-have resources to illustrate, “Why this is important,” and key monthly tasks with concluding checklists that recap the top action items for follow-up – all in a conversational, easy-to-read format. With a focus on what information principals need to know, when to know it, and why, this book is the ultimate hands-on special education guide for principals everywhere to build compliance and fill in the gaps left bare in preparation programs.

This timely and innovative roadmap for parents, educators, and administrators highlights the importance of effective communication methodology, appropriate correspondence, and data collection recommendations. Effective communication is often missing from the IEP team’s conversation. Navigating Special Education provides a foundation for building proactive, positive partnerships that will lead to 21st century best practices for children.

The 5-C Model of Communication―Conversation, Collaboration, Cooperation, Compromise, and Consensus―presented in Navigating Special Education helps to forge trusted alliances between school districts and families. Navigating Special Education draws upon the authors’ 60-plus years of combined experience by using:. Anecdotal, evidence-based, real-life scenariosTemplates for letter writing and extensive data collectionA user-friendly appendix and glossary As stakeholders, wouldn’t you like to have successful meetings where everyone’s voice is heard, respected, and understood? After reading Navigating Special Education, families, educational professionals, college students, and special education organizations will be able to implement effective models of communication and build positive partnerships.

What is Special Education? and What should it mean for professionals and stakeholders in the lives of students with disabilities? Surthriving Special Education is a user manual and a survival guide for those who seek mastery in the profession of special education. Special education can be light hearted and sweet, but it can also be brutal. It is the branch of K-12 education that requires the most knowledge and training, so professionals need a means of making their way through the ups and downs of special education.

From IEP creation to understanding what you need to know as a case manager and the medical aspects of disabilities in school, this book will guide special educators in the practices and knowledge that you must have to do the work of special education at a high level all from the purview of a master special educator. This book will also serve as a birds eye view of special education for stakeholders in the lives of students with disabilities.