Welcoming Children with Special Needs: Empowering Christian Special Education Through Purpose, Policies, and Procedures
Welcoming Children with Special Needs: Empowering Christian Special Education Through Purpose, Policies, and Procedures

Author: Quentin Kinnison PhD

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2014-10-06

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 149085259X

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The Christian school community has a unique impetus for impacting the lives of students with special needs. Doctors Lane and Kinnison present this groundbreaking guide for administrators to lay foundational components in order to develop a successful and sustainable special needs program in a Christian school. Kinnison outlines Gods purpose for bringing children with special needs into the world. Lane provides step-by-step guidelines for fostering an inclusive and sustainable school environment. This book seeks to support Christian school educators, parents of children with special needs, and disability ministries servants in their quests to transform an under-equipped, private educational institution into the indefatigable arms of Jesus that welcome. This book provides guidance to individuals who have and those who intend to develop a special needs program. Special education professors and researchers will find this text vital for working with pre-service Christian educators who wish to serve children with special needs. Christian schoolsespecially those that may have attempted and failed, or continue to struggle with developing their programswill find this text an oasis for frustrated spirits. The past applications of these principles have achieved remarkable success. Now, with this text, leaders and innovators have a succinct, well-ordered guide for expediting their successes.

Transforming Pastoral Leadership
Transforming Pastoral Leadership

Author: Quentin P. Kinnison

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1625647034

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For many congregations, change creates discomfort. Pastoral leaders are often expected to be experts who manage and control realities beyond their expertise, experience, and ability. That expectation, a product of modern approaches to leadership, views the pastor as responsible for maintaining the status quo. Transforming Pastoral Leadership responds to this context by challenging readers to rediscover key biblical themes around the shepherding metaphor as well as key theological themes steeped in our historical faith narratives. Readers are challenged to consider the origins of our dominant leadership practices and to reconsider how Christ's preeminence as the leader of his church requires us to reconstruct leadership practices that are faithful to his preeminence. To assist congregations, Transforming Pastoral Leadership suggests two processes that might help congregations discern God's missional promptings as they move forward into God's future and experience conflict as opportunities for transformation.

Vulnerable Communion
Vulnerable Communion

Author: Thomas E. Reynolds

Publisher: Brazos Press

Published: 2008-04

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1587431777

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A theologian and father of a child with disabilities reveals how disability highlights our common brokenness and need for grace.

Leading a Special Needs Ministry
Leading a Special Needs Ministry

Author: Amy Fenton Lee

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2016-09

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1433647125

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What do you need to lead a special needs ministry? Leading a Special Needs Ministry is a practical how-to guide for the family ministry team working to welcome one or 100 children with special needs.

G.U.I.D.E. Differentiated Instruction for Christian Educators
G.U.I.D.E. Differentiated Instruction for Christian Educators

Author: Beth Ackerman

Publisher:

Published: 2012-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781935986263

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1 Corinthians 9:21 states, "I have become all things to all people." That is what we have to do as teachers.... Teachers are challenged every day to educate students with vastly different learning capabilities, preferences, and interests. How does a teacher cater to all these unique learning needs while achieving school administrative goals and helping students pass standardized tests? The answer is differentiated instruction: adapting teaching methods to each individual student. GUIDE to Differentiated Instruction for Christian Educators addresses how the Great Commission and teaching are unified through differentiated instruction. Teachers need to reach all students, including the diverse and struggling learners. Beth Ackerman uses her experiences as a grade-school teacher, principal, professor, and associate dean to encourage teachers and provide strategies for implementing differentiated instruction in their classroom.

Disability and the Gospel
Disability and the Gospel

Author: Michael S. Beates

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2012-07-31

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1433530481

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Michael Beates's concern with disability issues began nearly 30 years ago when his eldest child was born with multiple profound disabilities. Now, as more families like Michael's are affected by a growing number of difficulties ranging from down syndrome to autism to food allergies, the need for church programs and personal paradigm shifts is greater than ever. Working through key Bible passages on brokenness and disability while answering hard questions, Michael offers here helpful principles for believers and their churches. He shows us how to embrace our own brokenness and then to embrace those who are more physically and visibly broken, bringing hope and vision to those of us who need it most.

Nothing About Us Without Us
Nothing About Us Without Us

Author: James I. Charlton

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1998-03-27

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 0520925440

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James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities. Nothing About Us Without Us is the first book in the literature on disability to provide a theoretical overview of disability oppression that shows its similarities to, and differences from, racism, sexism, and colonialism. Charlton's analysis is illuminated by interviews he conducted over a ten-year period with disability rights activists throughout the Third World, Europe, and the United States. Charlton finds an antidote for dependency and powerlessness in the resistance to disability oppression that is emerging worldwide. His interviews contain striking stories of self-reliance and empowerment evoking the new consciousness of disability rights activists. As a latecomer among the world's liberation movements, the disability rights movement will gain visibility and momentum from Charlton's elucidation of its history and its political philosophy of self-determination, which is captured in the title of his book. Nothing About Us Without Us expresses the conviction of people with disabilities that they know what is best for them. Charlton's combination of personal involvement and theoretical awareness assures greater understanding of the disability rights movement.

The Leader in Me
The Leader in Me

Author: Stephen R. Covey

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 147110446X

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Children in today's world are inundated with information about who to be, what to do and how to live. But what if there was a way to teach children how to manage priorities, focus on goals and be a positive influence on the world around them? The Leader in Meis that programme. It's based on a hugely successful initiative carried out at the A.B. Combs Elementary School in North Carolina. To hear the parents of A. B Combs talk about the school is to be amazed. In 1999, the school debuted a programme that taught The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peopleto a pilot group of students. The parents reported an incredible change in their children, who blossomed under the programme. By the end of the following year the average end-of-grade scores had leapt from 84 to 94. This book will launch the message onto a much larger platform. Stephen R. Covey takes the 7 Habits, that have already changed the lives of millions of people, and shows how children can use them as they develop. Those habits -- be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek to understand and then to be understood, synergize, and sharpen the saw -- are critical skills to learn at a young age and bring incredible results, proving that it's never too early to teach someone how to live well.