Uniquely Us - Tales from a Resource Room - The Test 

An enthusiastic Resource Room teacher, she had developed unique ideas to motivate and teach elementary Special Needs students. But these approaches start to fall apart when she and her fourth graders confront the absurdity of a new statewide standardized test, with its rigid test-taking mandated procedures.

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From the Old West–themed classroom to a wild thunderstorm, soaked students, a power outage, and the ever-present threat of principal interference, each laugh-out-loud page presents Special Education as you’ve never witnessed before. Taken from real events and actual student comments, these amusing surprises depict one day in the life of a not quite idyllic Resource Room.

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Will it truly take all eternity to finish reading the directions? Will Annie’s family have to change their name to Oakley? Can the students discover the volume of the locked closet? The children’s distinct personalities and individual quirks throw a monkey wrench into the entire process, yet Mrs. Wright strives to get it right in the end.