Focus Moves: Seven Steps to Implementation Success

by Debra Em Wilson

With teachers and support staff feeling the need to collaborate but having little time to actually follow through, this book serves to provide steps to collaboration bliss so that special education support staff and general education teachers can embrace an “All Hands on Deck” philosophy.

Using S'cool Moves therapy-based activities helps bridge the special education and general education divide that often occurs in schools. A discussion of tiered interventions, dynamic systems approach, energy expenditure model, goal setting, collaborating with families, and practical strategies are included so readers can get up-to-speed quickly with current theory and school-based practice.

Based on twenty years as an educational consultant to schools, this book saves readers from reinventing the wheels by pulling together information gained from implementing S'cool Moves in schools across the United States. This book is designed as a manual for the S'cool Moves Focus Moves Super Kit but also provides valuable information for those who want to learn more about Dr. Wilson's collaboration research and strategies proven effective by occupational therapists and general education teachers who were interviewed for the largest school collaboration study done to date. If readers who don't have the Focus Moves Kit and wish to purchase the kit after reading the book, this can be done through www.schoolmoves.com.

119 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 19, 2017