Books published by SAGE Publications Inc

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.

Grounded in psychology research but with a practical focus on organizational behavior issues, Group Dynamics for Teams helps readers understand and participate in teams more effectively in day-to-day work.

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.

In the Third Edition of Abnormal Psychology, author William J. Ray brings together current perspectives concerning the manner in which the human mind, behavior, and experience can be understood. In addition to the traditional psychological literature, The Third Edition draws from work in the cognitive and affective neurosciences, epidemiology, ethology, and genetics. Ray¿s focus is on a unification and integration of the biopsychosocial understandings of human behavior within a broader consideration of human culture, neuroscience, and language as it applies to abnormal psychology. With coverage of DSM-5, ICD, and RDoC, the fully revised Third Edition puts even greater emphasis on the range of human experiences and medical comorbidities.

This best-seller provides a comprehensive, insightful overview of key topics nonprofit leaders encounter daily. Worth covers both the governance and management of nonprofit organizations, helping readers understand what they are and how they work. The text balances research, theory, and practitioner literature with current cases and the latest data.

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.

Today¿s ever-evolving workplace requires managers to hone new skills so they can make informed decisions, manage diverse teams, and lead change.  Management Today: Best Practices for the Modern Workplace cuts through the noise by introducing students to evidence-based management theories, models, and strategies. Experiential activities, critical thinking questions, and self-assessments provide students with hands-on opportunities to practice essential management skills. Authors Terri A. Scandura and Kim Gower provide best practices and explore timely issues like emotional intelligence, cultural intelligence, and virtual teams.   Real-world cases explore good and bad examples of management, including the college admissions scandal, Theranos, and Walmart. In depth-coverage of big data, data analytics, and technology ensures students are ready to thrive in today¿s workplace.

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.

This is the only casebook on the market that contains the variety and quantity of cases that will help students master assessment and diagnosis with the DSM-5 and ICD. It is specifically positioned for disciplines that are grounded in a humanistic approach (counseling, social work, counseling psychology) and helps frame working with the medical model that is used in the DSM-5.

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.

Bestselling author Terri A. Scandura uses an evidence-based approach to equip students with the necessary skills to become effective leaders and managers.

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.

This award-winning text invites students to discover social psychology¿s relevance to their lives. Authors Thomas Heinzen and Wind Goodfriend capture student interest by weaving stories drawn from their own personal experiences with compelling examples from everyday life, all carefully placed in historical context. Social psychology is presented as an evolving, science-driven conversation; chapters build on core questions central to scientific inquiry, while a methods-in-context approach cultivates psychological literacy. The Second Edition has been thoroughly updated with new pop culture examples, additional diversity coverage, recent controversies related to the Zimbardo and Milgram studies, and over a hundred new citations from the latest research.

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.

This book introduces current perspectives on Rasch measurement theory with an emphasis on developing Rasch-based scales. Authors George Engelhard Jr and Jue Wang introduce Rasch measurement theory step by step, with chapters on scale construction, evaluation, maintenance, and use. Points are illustrated and techniques are demonstrated through an extended example: The Food Insecurity Experience (FIE) Scale.

This book presents methods for describing and analyzing dependency and irregularity in long time series. Irregularity refers to cycles that are similar in appearance, but unlike seasonal patterns more familiar to social scientists, repeated over a time scale that is not fixed. Until now, the application of these methods has mainly involved analysis of dynamical systems outside of the social sciences, but this volume makes it possible for social scientists to explore and document fractal patterns in dynamical social systems.

A revised and comprehensive new edition providing current information on every facet of special education law for special education teachers and administrators.

Improve outcomes for students in poverty by understanding their developing brainsEconomic hardship is changing our students¿ brain structures at a genetic level, producing psychological, behavioral, and cognitive issues that dramatically impact learning, behavior, physical health, and emotional stability. But there is hope.This groundbreaking book by one of the nation¿s top experts in brain science and resilience offers solutions that will change minds, attitudes, and behaviors. Learn about how problems develop between people of different races, how the brain develops in persistent poverty, and how it might react to solutions. Inside, you will find real-life applications on topics including: ?       The lack of culturally competent instruction and its impact on students of color?       Poverty¿s effect on language development and how it can be positively influenced?       The importance of readingHow to counteract the effects of the widespread stress in lower SES environments

IR: Seeking Security, Prosperity, and Quality of Life in a Changing World invites students into the debates in world politics and supports them as they engage with ideas and events by providing a clear introduction to not just what happens, but why and how it happens. Assuming no prior knowledge about international relations, award-winning teachers and scholars James M. Scott, Ralph G. Carter, and A. Cooper Drury meet students where they are and provide them with a framework to make sense of the complicated events and interactions of world politics. The latest edition is thoroughly updated to provide insights into recent world developments.