Books published by SAGE Publications Inc

A resource to help ensure full participation, educational equity, and self-sufficiency for pupils with disabilities

Superintendents and board members are provided real-life vignettes highlighting challenges and successes, information on building relationships and managing conflict, and reflective practice questions and self-assessment.

This book offers clear steps and reproducible forms for using student-to-student interactions to help adolescents become more proficient writers.

The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the New Media Age identifies and documents the processes of teaching and learning via social networking in the new-media classroom.

Focusing on research-based, developmentally appropriate practices, this book shows teachers how to help young children reach standards through creative play activities that ignite their enthusiasm to learn.

Encouraging teachers to reflect on why they chose teaching as a profession, this edition includes suggestions for navigating school politics, job searching, and surviving a "testmania" culture.

With strategies for use before, during, and after reading, this resource shows how to develop successful readers through step-by-step, small-group reading instruction.

Based on sound psychological principles, this easy-to-read, jargon-free resource provides a systematic approach to helping students who have significant behavioral issues become positive, contributing learners.

An essential overview of legal issues related to technology, this resource provides case summaries and proactive strategies on privacy, security, copyright, appropriate online behavior, and more.

This revised new edition helps new and experienced special educators move confidently from preplanning to post planning for the school year.

Having Hard Conversations is designed to teach adults to talk to one another about difficult issues.

Data experts provide detailed guidelines on analyzing information from curriculum maps and assessments, making decisions based on data, and changing school culture to enhance learning outcomes.

This practical, step-by-step guide examines the stages of contemplating, planning, and implementing curriculum mapping initiatives that can improve student learning and create sustainable change.

From bestselling author Michael Fullan, and packed with practical insights, powerful observations, and critical analysis, this collection makes the widely discussed topic of school change accessible to all readers.

Organized by intelligence area, this resource provides more than 200 new and enhanced strategies to help teachers increase students' motivation and transform them into active learners.

The book discusses the challenges that teacher leaders face, such as deciding to accept a leadership role, building principal-teacher leader relationships, and working with peers.

With five new case studies, this revised edition shows principals and staff developers how to collaborate with teachers in fostering, developing, and supporting teacher leadership.

Written by a teacher for teachers, this engaging book provides more than 100 practical strategies for students with learning disabilities, along with guidance on accommodations and assessment.

This guide provides research, tools, and support for leading effective mathematics teaching and learning, observing and evaluating mathematics instruction, and promoting faculty growth.

Based on a balanced literacy approach, this practical guide supports principals and school leaders in improving literacy instruction and increasing achievement for K-12 students.

Illustrates strategies for managing behavioural challenges and helping young children learn positive behaviour, emotional skills, problem solving, and how to succeed in class and everyday life.

This updated edition supports the intrinsic value of the assistant principalship, provides improvement suggestions, offers recruitment ideas, and reframes the job within school leadership.

Be prepared to manage stressful situations before they happen. The second edition of this best-selling resource provides updated content and uncovers effective strategies for dispelling common sensitive situations.

This book provides students aged 11 to 18 the opportunity to recognize, manage, and express feelings associated with grief, loss and death.

This third edition of Tileston's classic methods text includes current examples and updated chapters on formative assessment, integrating technology, differentiated instruction, and fostering collaborative learning.

This resource will help teachers to improve the written and spoken English of English language learners, as well as their vocabulary

This teacher-friendly guide presents research-proven instructional techniques that empower students with disabilities to become their own advocates and use effective choice-making, problem-solving, and goal-setting skills.

This book offers numerous strategies and case studies that illustrate how to invest in teacher quality and improve learning environments through creative allocation of existing resources.

Offers clear guidelines aligned with the reauthorization of IDEA 2004 for assessing students' eligibility for special education services and for working with families and service providers.

This book illuminates many of the core values, beliefs, and principles that can guide, sustain, and inspire leaders during difficult times.