Learn how to serve students with significant disabilities while meeting the sometimes conflicting requirements of IDEA and NCLB. Striking a Balance delivers guidance to develop a plan that gives students access to standards-based academic content — and delivers test results that prove academic achievement.

Q&As explain legal mandates for access to the general education curriculum, testing and IEP development. Plus, you get professional development tools for administrators and pass-down resources for teachers:

• 11 Lesson Frameworks for adapting instructional content, delivery of instruction and the student response mode for elementary, middle and high school students
• Instructional techniques, adapted tools and technology ideas to actively involve the learner
• Checklists to help reduce the impact of barriers imposed by significant disabilities