Books published by SAGE Publications Inc

This groundbreaking book, based on research from an innovative mixed-methods study, provides a holistic approach to coaching that honors both mind and heart.

Through a reflective lens, this book equips teachers and support staff to help all students thrive by identifying and fostering each teacher's and child's individual differences and unique strengths.

Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy: An Integrative Approach by Elsie Jones-Smith is for the theories of counseling and psychotherapy course at both the undergraduate and graduate level. This Third Edition, offers an extensive array of theories that includes all the mainstream theories as well as such contemporary approaches as narrative, feminist, LGBT, and post-modern . It offers students an integrative framework with which to assess the various theories with respect to possible clinical application. In addition to listing and describing theories, this Third Edition takes it a step further by comparing and contrasting them, showing strengths and weaknesses, in a way to help students to apply them flexibly. Students will be challenged to understand what it is about their own personalities that will lead them to accept or reject various theoretical perspectives.

Based on the author¿s many years of consulting experience with teams in the public and private sectors, Creating Effective Teams: A Guide for Members and Leaders describes why teams are important, how they function, and what makes them productive. Susan A. Wheelan covers in depth the four stages of a team¿forming, storming, norming, and performing¿clearly illustrating the developmental nature of teams and describing what happens in each stage. Separate chapters are devoted to the responsibilities of team leaders and team members. Problems that occur frequently in groups are highlighted, followed by what-you-can-do sections that offer specific advice. Real-life examples and questionnaires are used throughout the book, giving readers the opportunity for self-evaluation.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this seventh edition explores the ethical challenges of leadership, helping the reader make ethical decisions, lead with integrity and create an ethical culture.

An R Companion for Applied Statistics I: Basic Bivariate Techniques breaks the language of the R software down into manageable chunks in order to help students learn how to use it. R is a powerful, flexible, and free tool. However, the flexibility¿which eventually becomes a great asset¿can make the initial learning curve appear steep. This book introduces a few key aspects of the R tool. As readers become comfortable with these aspects, they develop a foundation from which to more thoroughly explore R and the packages available for it. This introduction does not explain every possible way to analyze data or perform a specific type of analysis. Rather, it focuses on the analyses that are traditionally included in an undergraduate statistics course and provides one or two ways to run these analyses in R. Datasets and scripts to run the examples are provided on an accompanying website. The book has been designed to be an R companion to Warner¿s Applied Statistics I, Third Edition, and includes end-of-chapter instructions for replicating the examples from that book in R. However, this text can also be used as a stand-alone R guide, without reference to the Warner text.

Detailed plans for helping elementary students experience deep mathematical learning The 56 mathematical tasks in this guide will challenge your youngest students to do deep problem-based learning. These ready-to-implement tasks connect concepts, skills, and practices and encourage students to reason, problem-solve, discuss, explore, justify, monitor their own thinking, and connect the mathematics they know to new situations. In other words, these tasks allow students to truly do mathematics! Written with a strengths-based lens, this guide includes:¿ Complete task-based lessons, referencing mathematics standards and practices, vocabulary, and materials ¿ Downloadable planning tools, student resource pages, and thoughtful questions, and formative assessment prompts¿ Guidance on preparing, launching, facilitating, and reflecting on each task¿ Notes on access and equity, focusing on students¿ strengths, productive struggle, and distance or alternative learning environments.

Drawing on the expertise of major names in the field, this text provides comprehensive coverage of the key methods for analyzing, interpreting, and writing up qualitative research in a single volume.

What a year! Twelve months and counting since COVID expanded, stretched, and blurred the boundaries of teaching and learning, at least one thing has remained constant: our commitment as educators to move learning forward. It¿s just the context that keeps changing¿why Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Almarode, and Aleigha Henderson-Rosser have created a follow-up to The Distance Learning Playbook, their all-new Quick Guide to Simultaneous, Hybrid, and Blended Learning.First, to be clear: simultaneous learning must not be an additive, meaning we combine two entirely different approaches and double our workload. That¿s unsustainable! Instead, we must extract, integrate, and implement what works best from both distance learning and face-to-face learning environments. Then and only then¿Doug, Nancy, John, and Aleigha insist¿can we maximize the learning opportunities for all of our students.To that end, The Quick Guide to Simultaneous, Hybrid, and Blended Learning describes how to: Have clarity about the most important learning outcomes for our students. This will help us decide what is best done asynchronously and what is best done with our "Roomies" and "Zoomies." Capitalize on the potential of asynchronous learning and use that valuable time to preview and review. This way we can draw on evidence from these tasks to help us decide where to go next in our teaching and our students¿ learning. Utilize synchronous learning for collaborative learning and scaffolding of content, skills, and essential understandings. In doing so, we can collect additional evidence of students¿ learning so that we provide feedback that moves learning forward.  Establish norms for combining synchronous and face-to-face environments in simultaneous learning. Importantly, we have to set up the environment for our Roomies and Zoomies to learn together. Develop learning experiences and tasks that maximize learner engagement for all learners in all settings. Focus on acceleration and learning recovery. In other words, no more deficit thinking! Our students are where they are and there are specific things that we can do to ensure their learning. Implement the guide¿s many resources, strategies, and templates."None of us chose to be in a situation where some learners are physically in our classrooms, while others attend virtually and remotely," write Doug, Nancy, John, and Aleigha. "However, what we hope to convey is that we¿ve got this! While the context is different, the principles behind clarity, planning, high-yield strategies and interventions, student learning, and assessment hold steady." This is where The Quick Guide to Simultaneous, Hybrid, and Blended Learning will prove indispensable on this next leg of our journey.

"This book is an instructive call to action for all of us who need to be reminded of what hope enacted as classroom practice can look like."  ¿Cornelius MinorEvery classroom is shaped by the skills, languages, social and cultural identities, perspectives, and passions of the children within it. When you approach writing instruction with a deep understanding of children in your classroom, everything else¿assessment, planning, differentiated instruction, mentor and shared texts¿begins to fall into place. And you can teach writing with inclusion, equity, and agency at the forefront.  Authors Melanie Meehan and Kelsey Sorum show you how to adapt curriculum to meet the needs of the whole child. Each chapter offers intentional steps for responsive instruction across four domains: academic, linguistic, cultural, and social-emotional. Features include: Inspiration, classroom examples, and scaffolded tips for creating individualized resources Customizable information-gathering and planning tools, classroom charts, and writing samples Space for making notes and working through ideas Links to online content, including printable templates

Issues in Global Business is a single-volume reference that offers relevant perspectives and explains impacts of current events such as COVID-19, Brexit, and immigration across industries and regions.

The science of reading meets the art of teaching readers Do you have the knowledge and instructional ability to effectively teach foundational skills and to support students who shown signs of reading difficulties? It is a tall order and one that challenges many  primary grade teachers. How to Prevent Reading Difficulties, Grades PreK-3 builds on decades of evidence and years of experience to help teachers understand and apply the science reading to Tier 1 instruction. The book includes: ¿ step-by-step descriptions of techniques for effectively teaching phonological awareness, spelling, phonics, vocabulary, and comprehension¿ specific Tier 1 activities, routines, and frameworks that build and strengthen word recognition and language comprehension¿ links to videos demonstrations and online resources¿ clear, practical explanations of the science of reading to help teachers understand the fundamentals of the reading process, recognize how difficulties arise, and know how to address them

Illuminate your education path with uplifting lessons and mindful living practices.  It takes courage, positivity, and passion to thrive as a teacher. This vivid and inspirational guide offers educators practical wisdom and strategies to promote their wellbeing and balance.Carol Pelletier Radford shares 10 important lessons for a fulfilling and lifelong career in education. In each lesson, readers will find:·         Stories of resilience from classroom teachers ·         Self-care tips and assessments·         Reading Plans·         Podcasts with inspiring teachers and leaders

Teach your students to become decision makers who rely on their own mathematical thinking.Fluency in mathematics is more than adeptly using basic facts or implementing algorithms. Real fluency involves reasoning and creativity, and it varies by the situation at hand.Figuring Out Fluency in Mathematics Teaching and Learning offers educators the inspiration to develop a deeper understanding of procedural fluency, along with a plethora of pragmatic tools for shifting classrooms toward a fluency approach. In a friendly and accessible style, this hands-on guide empowers educators to support students in acquiring the repertoire of reasoning strategies necessary to becoming versatile and nimble mathematical thinkers. It includes:  "Seven Significant Strategies" to teach to students as they work toward procedural fluency.  Activities, fluency routines, and games that encourage learning the efficiency, flexibility, and accuracy essential to real fluency. Reflection questions, connections to mathematical standards, and techniques for assessing all components of fluency. Suggestions for engaging families in understanding and supporting fluency.Fluency is more than a toolbox of strategies to choose from; it¿s also a matter of equity and access for all learners. Give your students the knowledge and power to become confident mathematical thinkers.

Radically reimagine our ways of being, learning, and doingEducation can be transformed if we eradicate our fixation on big data like standardized test scores as the supreme measure of equity and learning. Instead of the focus being on "fixing" and "filling" academic gaps, we must envision and rebuild the system from the student up¿with classrooms, schools and systems built around students¿ brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellectual potential. Street data reminds us that what is measurable is not the same as what is valuable and that data can be humanizing, liberatory and healing.  By breaking down street data fundamentals: what it is, how to gather it, and how it can complement other forms of data to guide a school or district¿s equity journey, Safir and Dugan offer an actionable framework for school transformation. Written for educators and policymakers, this book· Offers fresh ideas and innovative tools to apply immediately· Provides an asset-based model to help educators look for what¿s right in our students and communities instead of seeking what¿s wrong· Explores a different application of data, from its capacity to help us diagnose root causes of inequity, to its potential to transform learning, and its power to reshape adult culture

Enhance your capacity for antiracist leadership! The COVID 19 pandemic has illuminated deep-seated structural inequities in our schools and across society.  More than ever, education leaders are being challenged to take action to disrupt the institutional racism that undergirds many of our longstanding policies and practices. Our students are challenging us to step up and be antiracists who commit to the uncompromising belief all children can learn and deserve an exceptional education. With over 10 years of experience leading the Institute for Courageous Principal Leadership, the authors guide leaders as they expand their racial consciousness through self-reflection. They also provide the tools needed to counter implicit bias and resistance. Grounded in research, but written in practitioner-friendly language, this book ·         Focuses on systemic leadership and institutional failures as the source of predictable student outcomes·         Leverages research and theory to create a process for principals to build racially equitable practices·         Navigates the politics of leadership without compromising student achievement

Understanding Racism systematically examines the theories and theorists that have contributed the most to our contemporary understanding of racism in its various forms¿making it easier for students to understand the multiple dynamics of how racism operates.

The Practice of Evaluation: Partnership Approaches for Community Change provides foundational content on evaluation concepts, approaches, and methods, as well as applied, practical examples, with an emphasis on the use of evaluation and partnership approaches to effect change.

Providing a thorough introduction to the field of Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS), this one-of-a-kind book shows how organizations can leverage HRIS to make better people decisions and manage talent more effectively.

The fourth edition remains the only introductory communication book to explore fundamental concepts, theories and skills aimed at helping readers apply the material to their personal and professional lives.

Like children themselves, development is dynamic. In Child and Adolescent Development: Lives in Context, author Tara Kuther grounds beginning students in key theories by framing the research in real-life contexts, including gender, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and more. Using highly relatable examples, vivid cross-cultural stories, and video case studies of real individuals, Kuther consistently asks: What do you think? What would you do? Students will walk away with an understanding of the book¿s three core themes - the centrality of context, the importance of research, and the applied value of developmental science - and understand it in a way that they can immediately apply to their own lives and careers.Child and Adolescent Development: Lives in Context, First Edition is a chronologically oriented textbook for the Child and Adolescence Development and covers infancy through adolescence.

This encyclopedia, featuring nearly 300 authoritative essays, will take an interdisciplinary approach to trans studies. Psychology, sociology, history, family studies, K-12 and higher education, law/political science, and medicine will be heavily emphasized.

With rapidly expanding attacks and evolving methods of attack, organizations are in a perpetual state of breach and must deal with this existential threat head-on. Cybersecurity Readiness is intended to help students and practitioners develop and enhance this capability, as individuals continue to be both the strongest and weakest links in a cyber defense system.

Cross-Cultural Management: An Introduction offers students a hands-on approach to cross-cultural management that they can apply to a wide variety of organizational contexts.

Revised and updated Fifth Edition of this popular critical exploration of the global and political economy. Adopted in sociology, politics, development and geography departments worldwide.

Media Literacy teaches students how to navigate through the overwhelming flood of information found in today's media-saturated world. Author W. James Potter presents examples and facts to help students understand how the media operate, how they attract attention, and how they influence the public.

Dynamics of News Reporting and Writing shows students how to approach their stories and think on their feet in the evolving media landscape, with foundational elements like lead writing, structure, and storytelling, as well as how to think critically and determine what matters in a story.

Leadership Case Studies in Education looks at leadership through the eyes of educators and examines how the major theories and models of leadership apply to education.

Data Science for Business with R focuses on the concepts foundational for students starting a business analytics or data science course. The book features running case using an airline business's customer survey dataset to illustrate how to turn data in business decisions. The text also features full integration of R and RStudio software.

Research Methods in the Social and Health Sciences gives students a thorough and thoughtful introduction to the entire research process from start to finish, covering qualitative and quantitative research throughout. It lays out each step, from the literature review to ethical research to individual methods and dissemination of research.