Books published by SAGE Publications Inc

For elections classes focused on political behavior, Flanigan and Zingale examine election results and survey data to explore the characteristics, choices, and changes in the American electorate.

Productivity and Publishing: Writing Processes for New Scholars & Researchers helps readers with academic writing and journal publishing by empowering them to find the writing process that works for them. Topics cover crucial issues in the writing process like writing a journal article, submitting work to journals, and setting realistic goals, with support and activities throughout.

Discover why 100,000+ teachers look to this ground-breaking text to put differentiated instruction immediately into practice. New edition includes new strategies and a Common Core lesson-planning template.

This updated edition includes a generous selection of user-friendly strategies that help teachers assess struggling learners, students with special needs, children who are performing at grade level, and advanced learners. Included are practical tools that improve student performance and help them take responsibility for their own learning.

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.

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.