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publications
Books
A selection of Lee Ann's authored and coauthored books.
Every Child Deserves a Special Education
Lee Ann Jung, Lorraine Graham, Nancy Frey, Doug Fisher, & John Hattie
Every student deserves an education that is meaningful, memorable, and built for them. When we design learning with intentional, universal support, the impact extends beyond individual students—it transforms entire classrooms.
In Every Child Deserves a Special Education, the authors introduce five powerful mindframes that reshape the way we think about teaching, learning, and inclusion. These mindframes spark a cycle of reflection and growth, shifting not just what we do, but how we see our students, our classrooms, and our role as educators.
Assessment of Young Children 6th Edition
Lee Ann Jung & Gayle Mindes
For nearly three decades, this book has been the essential core introductory textbook on early childhood assessment. Now proudly published by Brookes, this bestselling text is in its sixth edition, updated to prepare early childhood educators and special educators for success in today’s diverse programs.
Every Child Deserves a Special Education
Lee Ann Jung, Lorraine Graham, Nancy Frey, Doug Fisher, & John Hattie
In Every Child Deserves a Special Education, the authors introduce five powerful mindframes that reshape the way we think about teaching, learning, and inclusion. These mindframes spark a cycle of reflection and growth, shifting not just what we do, but how we see our students, our classrooms, and our role as educators.
Assessing Students, Not Standards
Begin With What Matters Most
Lee Ann Jung
This groundbreaking, “next generation” approach to classroom assessment challenges educators to reflect on the connections between growth, mastery, and student self-efficacy and to prioritize the transferable skills of metacognition and self-regulation in their assessment design.
Seen, Heard, and Valued
Universal Design for Learning and Beyond
Lee Ann Jung
Every classroom is filled with amazing individuals who vary wildly in who they are as people. This diversity is an asset that educators can leverage when we ensure our instruction is tailored to the strengths and needs of each student. Supported by neurological and education research, Universal Design for Learning ensures all students succeed by enabling educators to remove barriers to learning.
Your Students, My Students, Our Students
Lee Ann Jung, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, & Julie Kroener
Your Students, My Students, Our Students explores the hard truths of current special education practice and outlines five essential disruptions to the status quo. This book—written not for "special educators" or "general educators" but for all educators—addresses the challenges, maps out the solutions, and illustrate just what's possible when educators commit to the belief that every student belongs to all of us and all students deserve learning experiences that will equip them to live full and rewarding lives.
From Goals to Growth: Intervention and Support in Every Classroom
Lee Ann Jung
All students deserve research-based, systematic support and a team that is committed to their success. In this book, Lee Ann Jung lays out a growth planning process that integrates seamlessly with existing IEP and Response to Instruction and MTSS structures and is also suitable for any student who has individualized or personalized goals, whether or not that student qualifies for special education services.
Assessing Young Children
Gayle Mindes & Lee Ann Jung
Grounded in research-based and recommended practices, this textbook prepares teachers to assess young children in a variety of settings, including inclusive environments, blending early childhood and early childhood special education. Learn about assessment practices from observation to the complexities of referring children for special education or early intervention evaluation.
Essential Questions About Standards, Assessments, Grading, and Reporting
Thomas Guskey & Lee Ann Jung
Standards, assessments, grading, and reporting provide the foundation for nearly every initiative in modern education reform. But what do these terms actually mean—and what changes in each area will bring about the improvements teachers and school leaders want to see? Here, Thomas R. Guskey and Lee Ann Jung collect the essential questions that stymie educators, and give each one a short, simple, jargon-free response.
Grading Exceptional and Struggling Learners
Lee Ann Jung & Thomas Guskey
How can you ensure that you are grading your exceptional students fairly? Teachers receive very little guidance for grading students with disabilities, English learners, and those receiving services through a response-to-intervention (RTI) process. This practitioner-friendly book provides teachers and administrators with an effective framework for assigning grades that are accurate, meaningful, and legally defensible. The authors include an easy-to-follow, five-step standards-based inclusive grading model.
publications
Articles
Selected journal articles. Feel free to download and share.
Educational Leadership
It's Time to Rip Off the Velcro! Rethinking Paraprofessional Support
When a paraprofessional shadows one student all day, good intentions can backfire. A fluid support model delivers better outcomes.
Lee Ann Jung
Educational Leadership
Thriving in the Zone of Productive Struggle
Teachers can remove obstacles to student learning without sacrificing challenge.
Lee Ann Jung
Educational Leadership
Connection Before Correction
Many challenging behaviors we see in classrooms happen because of intense emotions. Validating emotions is the first step to take.
Lee Ann Jung
Educational Leadership
Lesson Planning with Universal Design for Learning
Using UDL principles upfront means making fewer adaptations later—and reaching more students.
Lee Ann Jung
Educational Leadership
Getting More than "Entertrainment"
Leaving a keynote feeling inspired isn't the same as leaving with research-based, actionable information that can add to students' outcomes.
Lee Ann Jung
Educational Leadership
Does This Count?
We can fix gaming-for-grades school cultures by changing our understanding of formative classroom work.
Lee Ann Jung
Educational Leadership
There's More to Emotional Self-Regulation Than Meets the Eye
Teaching self-regulation skills to young students has to go beyond praise and censure.
Lee Ann Jung
Study Guide: ASCD
Study Guide for Your Students, My Students, OUR Students
This is the study guide that accompanies the book, Your Students, My Students OUR Students, published by ASCD.
ASCD
Educational Leadership
Teen Voices: What We Really Need from Schools
EL editors asked several teens across the country to tell us what they most need from schools.
Farah, Lewis, Jung, Lombardi, Hemmings, Moehlig, Varelas & Mac Baker
Educational Leadership
Please Stop Sacrificing Arts Classes for Skills Intervention!
For students with learning disabilities, art class is often the best part of the day. Why take it away from them?
Lee Ann Jung and Maisie Jung
Educational Leadership
Don't Forget About Me
Students with invisible disabilities often feel isolated in school. But they desperately want to belong.
Roberto d'Erizans, Lee Ann Jung, and Tamatha Bibbo
Kappan
Gearing up for FAST Grading and Reporting
It’s time for schools to move toward a grading system that is fair, accurate, specific, and timely.
Ken O'Connor, Lee Ann Jung, and Douglas Reeves
Educational Leadership
Scales of Progress
Goal attainment scaling, which tracks students' skill progression over time, offers an alternative to fixed methods of assessment.
Lee Ann Jung
Educational Leadership
Tear Down Your Behavior Chart!
Behavior charts and similar public shaming methods don't teach self-regulation. They mainly harm vulnerable learners.
Lee Ann Jung and Dominique Smith
Educational Leadership
In Supporting Students, Language Matters
What's the difference between accommodations and modifications, and why is the distinction important?
Lee Ann Jung
Educational Leadership
What's Worth Fighting Against in Grading?
Four common grading practices can hurt students and erode instructional culture.
Douglas Reeves, Lee Ann Jung and Ken O'Connor
Educational Leadership
How to Keep Mutiny from Sinking Your Change Effort
Adopting a norm of "disagree and commit" allows schools to pilot promising practices even if some faculty aren't supportive..
Lee Ann Jung
Educational Leadership
Grading: Why You Should Trust Your Judgment
Although computerized grading programs have advantages, teachers' judgment has been shown to be more reliable.
Tom Guskey and Lee Ann Jung
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Web-Based and Face-to-Face Teacher Coaching
In this study, the authors compared the effects of web-based versus face-to-face coaching of teachers of young children with autism spectrum disorders.
Lisa Ruble, John McGrew, Nancy Dalyrimple
Principal Leadership
Four Steps in Grading Reform
As standards- based curricula and assessments are implemented, grading practices must also change to be meaningful and fair.
Tom Guskey and Lee Ann Jung
The Clearing House
RTI and Mastery Learning: Tracing Roots and Seeking Common Ground
The roots of a response-to-intervention approach and mastery learning have much in common.
Tom Guskey and Lee Ann Jung
Principal Leadership
Fair and Accurate Grading for Exceptional Learners
This five-step model provides fair and accurate grades for students who have IEPs
Lee Ann Jung and Tom Guskey
Kappan
Grades That Mean Something
A group of teachers, school leaders, and education researchers create report cards that link course grades to progress on standards.
Tom Guskey, Gerry Swan, and Lee Ann Jung
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Examining the Quality of IEPs for Young Children with Autism
In this study researchers developed an IEP evaluation tool based on IDEA requirements and National Research Council recommendations for children with ASD.
Lisa Ruble, John McGrew, Nancy Dalrymple, and Lee Ann Jung
publications
Reproducibles
Feel free to download and share these resources.
How Ready Am I?
Rather than waiting for a student to show they're ready before reassessment, why not have them judge their readiness the first time?
Learning Plan
This form is designed for teams to develop personal goals, measures, and a plan of support with students.
Student Goal Setting Sheet
This graphic organizer is designed to help students set and monitor their own goals.
Overcoming Overwhelm
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This graphic organizer is designed for teachers to facilitate conversation and skill building around coping with feeling overwhelmed.
UDL Lesson Review
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This infographic-style worksheet is designed to help teachers workshop an upcoming lesson to identify and remove barriers.
Showing My Learning
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When students think about how they show their learning best, they build agency and metacognitive skills, and you learn more about options for expression to offer.
Student Conference Plan
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This graphic organizer is designed to help students set and monitor their own goals.
