The Center for School Success (CSS) helps students, teachers and parents understand and manage specific breakdowns in learning.

CSS services shift the focus from what individual students can’t do, to what they can do and provide strategies to promote self-advocacy and school success.

Center for School Success
79 East Wilder Road
West Lebanon, N.H. 03784
Ph: (603) 298-6700
Fax: (603) 298-6703


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Lending Library

Books by Mel Levine:

  • A Mind At aTime
  • Educational Care
  • Jarvis Clutch-Social Spy (2 copies)
  • Keeping A Head In School
  • The Memory Factory
  • The Myth of Laziness

Developing Minds-Video Series:

Video Library Overview

    • A Student Profile
    • Attention
    • Behavioral Complications
    • Developmental Variation and Learning Disorders
    • Feelings and Motivation
    • General Strategies for Teachers
    • Getting Organized/Work Habits
    • Higher Order Cognition
    • Introduction for Parents
    • Introduction for Teachers
    • Language
    • Mastering the Challenges of Reading
    • Memory
    • Neuromotor Function
    • Social Cognition
    • Spatial Ordering
    • Student Output
    • Temporal-Sequential Ordering
    • Thinking With Numbers
    • Understanding
    • Video Library Overview

 

Videos: All Kinds of Minds
All Kinds of Minds- Dr. Mel Levine
A Young Student’s Book about Learning Abilities and Learning Disorders
Read Verbatim by the Author

Keeping A Head in School- Dr. Mel Levine
A Student’s Book about Learning Abilities and Learning Disorders
Read Verbatim by the Author

Audio Cassette Series:
Reaching Minds- An audio cassette subscription series addressing learning differences in children
A Program from All Kinds of Minds- 2 sets of audio cassettes

Books by Various Authors: (listed alphabetically by author’s last name)
Scoring Rubrics in the Classroom
By: Judith Arter and Jay McTighe

In the Middle- Writing, Reading, and Learning with Adolescents
By: Nancie Atwell

What Kids Need to Succeed- Proven Practical Ways to Raise Good Kids
By: Peter L. Benson, Ph.D., Judy Galbraith, M.A., and Pamela Espeland

Strategies for Teaching Students with Learning and Behavior Problems
By: Candace S. Bos and Sharon Vaughn

Parenting the Child With Learning Disabilities
With articles by:  Robert Brooks, Ph.D, Doug Fuchs, Ph.D, Rick Lavoie, M.Ed., Mel Levine, M.D., Larry Silver, M.D.

Brain Gym
By: Paul E. Dennison, Ph.D and Gail E. Dennison

Take Back Your Kids-Confident Parenting in Turbulent Times
By: William J. Doherty, PH.D.

Raising a Son-Parents and the Making of a Healthy Man
By: Don Elium and Jeanne Elium

The Hurried Child-Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon
By: David Elkind

The Big Book of the Brain- All About the Body’s Control Center
By: John Fandon

Math Magic
By: Scott Flansburg

Learning to Learn- Strengthening Study Skills and Brain Power
By:  Gloria Frender

Strategies that Work- Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding
By: Gloria Frender

Bully Proofing Your School
A Comprehensive Approach for Elementary Schools
By: Carla Garrity, Kathryn Jens, William Porter, Nancy Sager and am Short-Camilli

Help For the Struggling Student
By: Mimi Gold

Four Square Writing Method for Grades 1-3
A Unique Approach to Teaching Basic Writing Skills
By: Judith S. and Evan Jay Gould

Four Square Writing Method for Grades 4-6
By: Judith S. and Evan Jay Gould

Four Square-The Total Writing Classroom for Grades 5-9
By: Judith S. and Evan Jay Gould

Build a Literate Classroom
By: Donald H. Graves

The Remedial Writing Teacher’s Handbook
By: Vicki Hackett and Paul Dalmos

Educating Oppositional and Defiant Children
By:  Philip S. Hall and Nancy D. Hall

How to be School Smart:  Super Study Skills
By:  Elizabeth James and Carol Barkin

School Family and Community Partnerships
Preparing Educators and Improving Schools
The Essential Conversation- What Parents and Teachers Can Learn From Each Other
By: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

High Interest Easy Reading for Junior and Senior High School Students
By: Dorothy Matthews

Learning to Listen: A Program to Improve Classroom Listening Skills in a Variety of Situations
Teacher’s Manual- 2 Copies
Student’s Book- 2 Copies
By: William F. McCart

The Art of Teaching Writing
By: Lucy McCormick Calkins

Professional Communities and the Work of High School Teaching
By:  Milbrey W. McLaughlin and Joan E. Talbert

Strategies for Success- Classroom Teaching Techniques for Students with Learning Problems
By: Lynn J. Meltzer, Bethany N. Roditi, Donna P. Haynes, Kathleen Rafter Biddle, Michelle Paster, and Susan E. Taber

Learning Outside the Lines
By:  Jonathan Mooney and David Cole

Positive Discipline A-Z-1001 Solutions to Everyday Parenting Problems
By: Jane Nelsen, Lynn Lott, and H. Stephen Glenn

ADHD- A Complete and Authoritative Guide
By: Michael I. Reiff, M.D

The Mind: 
By.Richard M. Restak, M.D.

What Smart Students Know
By: Adam Robinson

What Young Children Need to Succeed
Working Together to Build Assets from Birth to Age 11
By: Jolene L. Roehlkepartain and Nancy Leffert, Ph.D.

The Student Writer Activity Book
By: Bob Scrivens

The Art of Classroom Inquiry- A Handbook for Teacher-Researchers
By:  Ruth Shagoury Hubbard and Brenda Miller Power

Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading
Problems at Any Level                  
By: Sally Shaywitz, M.D.

Bully Proof – A Teacher’s Guide on Teasing and Bullying
For use with Fourth and Fifth Grade Students
By: Lisa Sjostrom and Nan Stein

How the Special Needs Brain Works
By: David A. Sousa

The LD Child and the ADHD Child:  Ways Parents and Professionals Can Help
By:  Suzanne H. Stevens

Your Child’s First School- A Handbook for Parents
By: Diana Townsend-Butterworth

The Paragraph Book:
By Dianne Tucker-LaPlount

About Dyslexia
By:  Priscilla Vail

A Language Yardstick:  Understanding and Assessment
By: Priscilla Vail

Emotions:  The On Off Switch for Learning
By: Priscilla Vail

Smart KidsWith School Problems:  Things to Know- Ways to Help
By: Priscilla Vail

Words Fail Me: How Language Works and What Happens When it doesn’t
By: Priscilla Vail

Teaching Exceptional, Diverse and At Risk Students n the General Education Classroom - By: Sharon Vaughn, Candace S. Bos and Jeanne Shay Schumm

How Do They Know They Know:  Evaluating Adult Learning
By Jane Vella, Paula Berardinelli and Jim Burrow
Parenting for Prevention- How to Raise a Child to Say No to Alcohol/Drugs
By: David J. Wilmes

Yardsticks:  Children in the Classroom ages 4-14.  A Resource for Parents and Teachers
By: Chip Wood

 

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At the Center for School Success (CSS) we believe that students need to know how they learn best; teachers need to know how to address the unique strengths and needs of all their students; and parents need to know how to support their children’s learning strengths and challenges.

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