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This checklist accompanies The Principal′s Guide to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and is designed to help teachers, adminstrators and support personnel adapt and structure all aspects of classroom life to better meet the needs of students with ADHD.

The sections are: Environmental Adaptions (changes in the physical setting that will increase the likelihood of learning); Educational Adaptions (modification of classroom procedures and expectations for the student); Instructional Adapotins (strategies to help the sudent move toward independent self-organization); Homework Adaptions (ways to ensure that independent practice will be productive and lead to the student′s learning); Behavioural Adaptions (methods to increase teh liklihhod of positive behaviors leading to increased learning); and Social Adaptions (modifications to help the student with ADHD relate more positively with peers).

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Elaine K. McEwan is an educational consultant with The McEwan-Adkins Group, offering professional development for educators to assist them in meeting the challenges of literacy learning in Grades Pre K-6. A former teacher, librarian, principal, and assistant superintendent for instruction in several suburban Chicago school districts, Elaine is the award-winning and best-selling author of more than three dozen books for educators. Her Corwin Press titles include Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools: Five Simple-to-Follow Strategies for Principals, Second Edition(2006), Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers: Using Cognitive Research to Boost K-8 Achievement(2004), Ten Traits of Highly Effective Principals: From Good to Great Performance (2003), Making Sense of Research: What's Good, What's Not, and How to Tell the Difference(2003), Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership, Second Edition(2003), Teach Them ALL to Read: Catching the Kids Who Fall through the Cracks(2002), and Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers: How to Hire, Mentor, and Coach Successful Teachers(2001). McEwan was honored by the Illinois Principals Association as an outstanding instructional leader, by the Illinois State Board of Education with an Award of Excellence in the Those Who Excel Program, and by the National Association of Elementary School Principals as the National Distinguished Principal from Illinois for 1991. She received her undergraduate degree in education from Wheaton College and advanced degrees in library science (MA) and educational administration (EdD) from Northern Illinois University.