Susan’s Books

Neurodiversity in the Workplace: Maximizing Success Through Inclusive Dynamic Workplace Design

Neurodiversity in the Workplace, Maximizing Success through Inclusive Dynamic Workplace Design™ is a comprehensive leadership resource that provides actionable advice on everything from recruitment, management, talent development, and office design, equipping senior leaders with the tools they need to build innovative, productive teams that embrace different ways of thinking.

By positioning talent acquisition and retention through neurodiversity initiatives as a core business strategy, companies can address challenges that directly impact their bottom line in multiple ways. This book offers executive solutions to these costly challenges by providing leadership strategies that tap into an often overlooked talent pool to create an inclusive environment that retains valuable employees.

This book will help leaders understand neurodiversity and provide practical implementations for building and supporting a neurodiverse workforce. Discover the strategic advantage of neurodiversity in the workplace. Start your leadership journey with Neurodiversity in the Workplace, Maximizing Success through Inclusive Dynamic Workplace Design™.

Transforming Anger to Personal Power: An Anger Management Curriculum for Teens

This results-based resource provides professionals with eight highly-effective lesson plans for teaching anger management to teens. Each lesson can stand alone or be used as an eight week anger management program. Designed and tested for small group settings, the lessons work for classroom lessons. Originally, co-facilitated by a substance abuse professional and a seasoned special education teacher, the focus is to help young adults realize that they have the power to take control of their lives and emotions. This work addresses the impact substance abuse has on the brain and emotions. Many teens believe they were “born angry’ and cannot change. These lessons teach youth that they have the power to choose healthy responses to anger. Through engaging lessons, teens learn to, *use empowering language, *to take responsibility for their behavior, *and to understand the social, cultural, and personal influences that shape their thinking.

Best Practices in Co-teaching & Collaboration: The HOW of Co-teaching – Implementing the Models 

Struggling to implement co-teaching effectively? Best Practices in Co-Teaching and Collaboration provides clear, practical strategies to ensure special educators’ skills are respected and utilized while meeting all students’ needs. Whether you’re a beginner or experienced co-teacher, this book offers:

  • 25+ practical co-teaching implementations
  • Strategies to collaborate, even with limited planning time
  • Ways to maximize each educator’s expertise
  • Techniques for grouping, behavior management, and student engagement
  • Guidance for administrators and professional development

Learn how to co-teach successfully and build a thriving, collaborative classroom!

Paraprofessionals and Teachers Working Together 3rd Edition

Throw out the phrase, “Just a teacher’s aide” Improve paraprofessional/teacher relationships, define roles, manage behavior proactively, and effectively collaborate to increase student academic success. This book enables paraprofessionals and teachers to find solutions that work and it will show you the way, too! – Forms and checklists to assist paraprofessionals and teachers with defining roles, collecting data, collaborating on critical issues, and working effectively together.

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Special Needs in the General Classroom, 3rd Edition: 500+ Teaching Strategies for Differentiating Instruction

This fresh, new, updated 3rd Edition of the best-selling “Special Needs in the General Classroom, Strategies That Make It Work” is a strategy roadmap to help educators create a classroom environment where ALL students can maximize their potential while getting the best bang for their time. Discover effective tips and tricks for motivating and engaging students in the learning process and doubling their successes while working more efficiently.This update offers more teaching strategies, expanded research, and course work options for self-study, group-study, and textbook applications. We’ve even included a graduate credit option!Perfect for teachers who are having a hard time reaching all the different levels of learners in their classroom and need a systematic way to teach their content using differentiated instruction strategies, this edition of the book is very different for a couple of reasons.

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100+ Tech Ideas for Teaching English and Language Arts: Maximize iPad, Mobile, and Online Apps in Every Classroom

By integrating iPads® and other cutting edge technology into your classroom, you can draw your students deeper into the curriculum. Even if you have just one mobile device (iPod®, iPad®, Tablet, Smart Phone) in your classroom, discover how to provide fabulous learning opportunities for your students. Every single web site, app, and cross-platform innovation in this book has been researched, downloaded, and tested to save you time and energy. This book will help you stay current with the technology that is shaping the future of effective instruction to reach all students in the multi-ability English/Language Arts classroom.

Motivating Students To Choose Success: Proven Strategies to Lend a Helping Hand for Motivating Students

Give students the priceless gifts of empowerment, accountability, and motivationLearn how to give students the priceless gifts of empowerment, accountability, and the motivation to tackle any learning challenge and CHOOSE SUCCESS. Filled with practical strategies you can use today. Get the answers to these motivational questions, and more: ~ How do I motivate the unmotivated? ~ How can I empower students to reach their goals? ~ What are the best strategies to promote motivation? ~ How can I make homework fun? Teachers – Explore practical, researched based strategies and implement what you learn in your classes tomorrow!Parents – Discover how to motivate your child or teen to believe in themselves and choose strategies that work for how your child learns. Empower your children to reach their goals and make homework fun!

Free the Children!: Conflict Education for Strong, Peaceful Minds 

This book offers a unique approach to helping ourselves and our children break free from negative cultural and media conditioning that creates aggression and conflict. Covering pre-K through twelfth grade, it presents five essential components necessary for an effective conflict education curriculum that is developmentally appropriate, and explores key issues including raising a peaceful male child in a violent world; the effect of media violence on children; school bullies; dating violence; and empowering adolescent girls to refuse the role of the “victim”.

RTI Strategies for Secondary Teachers

Struggling to implement Response to Intervention (RTI) at the secondary level? RTI Strategies for Secondary Teachers provides practical, research-based interventions to support struggling students while keeping pace with curriculum demands. This book offers:

  • Tiered intervention strategies tailored for middle and high school classrooms
  • Effective ways to identify and support at-risk students
  • Classroom management techniques to enhance engagement and learning
  • Data-driven decision-making tools to track student progress
  • Collaboration tips for teachers, administrators, and support staff

Designed for busy educators, this resource helps you integrate RTI seamlessly into your teaching to boost student success!

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Use iPads and Other Cutting-Edge Technology to Strengthen Your Instruction

Your Guide to Finding and Using the Best Web Sites, Apps and Innovations in Your Classroom Even if you have just one mobile device (iPod®, iPad®, Tablet, Smart Phone) in your classroom, discover ways to provide fabulous learning opportunities for your students. This simple and easy guide provides valuable tips for finding, downloading and using the latest and best apps to compliment your curriculum. Every single web site, app and cross-platform innovation in this book has been researched, downloaded, and tested to save you time and energy. This book will help you stay current with the technology that is shaping the future of effective instruction to reach all students, including students with special needs, autism, learning disabilities as well as English language learners.

Please Help Me With My Homework

Doing homework has never been this much fun! If you are a parent or guardian, or a teacher or counselor that works with parents, this book will shed valuable light on the reasons why learning strategies that work for one student might not work for another. By developing an understanding of the many ways in which we learn, you and your child will take an important step toward creating an educational environment that can include everyone, regardless of the area in which his or her natural abilities may lie. Looking for answers? This book is a veritable goldmine of practical information, resources, and tools for the parents and caregivers of students of any age and is chock-full of illustrations, examples, and innovative techniques, including: Customizing learning activities according to multiple intelligences and the student’s personal learning style and establishing the ideal environment in which to focus on homework tasks. Simple exercises for fortifying the connection between mind and body and increasing mental alertness. A plethora of memorization techniques, based on the particular type of stimulus to which the student most responds.

Umm… Studying? What’s That?: Learning Strategies for the Overwhelmed and Confused College and High School Student

This book, co-written by a college student and an educational consultant, presents practical, research-based, study and test-taking strategies to teenagers from the perspective of a fellow teenager. Written for middle school through college age students, there is no other book or guide on the market that actually teaches adolescents “how” to learn and study using multiple intelligences, learning styles, and brain based strategies, as this book does.
Susan Fitzell
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