Books published by SAGE Publications Inc

Bestselling authors Robert N. Lussier and John R. Hendon explore the important strategic function HR plays in today's organization, helping the reader develop the skills they need to recruit, select, train, and develop talent.

This third edition helps the reader understand the essential role managers play in optimizing organizational performance.

Comprehensive edited IR reader introducing students to critical scholarship and debates in the field, helping them engage critically.

Already Ready For What Will Come - SEL For A Culture Of CareIs your school prepared to care for all of the students, staff, and families in your community? Sadly, your school might be the only point of care for many students. Be already ready--Establish a compassionate cultural foundation for strong relationships and holistic skills to weather stress, trauma, and promote well-being for your entire school population by leaning into this approach to leadership and social emotional learning. Readers will find:? Practical strategies & activities ? An implementation framework for every grade? Deeper understanding of trauma, ACEs, and mental health concerns? Best and not-so-great practices? Case studies and vignettes

Designed for everyone involved in the educational system¿including district administrators, teachers, students, parents, and the business community¿this book provides a practical plan with steps to harmonize whole-school health, including sustainable growth in student character development, improvement of organizational health, and reduction of violence and other threats to education. A blueprint of applicable resources is provided, including: ·         15 easy-to-follow guidelines for successfully implementing social-emotional learning practices·         A spotlight on issues such as empathy, identity formation, self-control, and conflict resolution·         Dozens of real-world stories from educators·         Anecdotal and data-driven results from successful implementation

Practical resources for building cohesive governance teamsAs a supplement to the best-selling The Governance Core, this practical guide will help trustees and superintendents adopt a governance mindset and partnership that creates coherence throughout the district. With a systems thinking approach, the authors provide readers with the strategies and tools needed to build cohesive teams and engage in deeper learning and decision making. The Taking Action Guide for the Governance Core offers readers:  ¿ a deeper understanding of core governance and how to build it¿ a 100-day plan to help new trustees get started¿ protocols and sample agendas for focusing on strategy and systems during open board meetings

Nurture the talents of all learnersAre you cultivating the real-world creative problem-solving skills today¿s diverse learners need for future success? Or have we leaned so far into test preparation that we¿ve left no room for developing our students¿ unique talents, leaving them disengaged and unmotivated?With the new brain-based Talent-Targeted Teaching and Learning model described in this book, you can focus instead on developing all students¿ metacognitive, creative problem-solving, and leadership skills alongside the required content standards. Teach to Develop Talent applies the psychology of motivation, engagement, and achievement to practical, culturally responsive strategies educators can use to equitably identify and develop students¿ cognitive and social-emotional skills, including curiosity, creativity, perseverance, reasoning, persistence, empathy, and more.With this book, you can: Identify and develop all learners¿ aptitudes for innovation in STEM and humanities Transform any curriculum or standards into long-term aims for talent development Support and assess student progress with dozens of customizable checklists, templates, rubrics, and surveys Challenge and engage all learners, especially diverse gifted studentsIdeal for implementation in virtual or traditional learning environments, you will ensure your students¿ long-range and multi-faceted success with this hands-on guide.

Using strengths-based approaches to support development in mathematics It¿s time to re-imagine what¿s possible and celebrate the brilliance multilingual learners bring to today¿s classrooms. Innovative teaching strategies can position these learners as leaders in mathematics. Yet, as the number of multilingual learners in North American schools grows, many teachers have not had opportunities to gain the competencies required to teach these learners effectively, especially in disciplines such as mathematics. Multilingual learners¿historically called English Language Learners¿are expected to interpret the meaning of problems, analyze, make conjectures, evaluate their progress, and discuss and understand their own approaches and the approaches of their peers in mathematics classrooms. Thus, language plays a vital role in mathematics learning, and demonstrating these competencies in a second (or third) language is a challenging endeavor.Based on best practices and the authors¿ years of research, this guide offers practical approaches that equip grades K-8 teachers to draw on the strengths of multilingual learners, partner with their families, and position these learners for success. Readers will find: ¿ A focus on multilingual students as leaders¿ A strength-based approach that draws on students¿ life experiences and cultural backgrounds¿ An emphasis on maintaining high expectations for learners¿ capacity for mastering rigorous content¿ Strategies for representing concepts in different formats ¿ Stop and Think questions throughout and reflection questions at the end of each chapter¿ Try It! Implementation activities, student work examples, and classroom transcripts

Be the caring and positive force that girls needSocial media, friendships, dating culture, academic pressures, bullying, self-concept, fear of failure¿ These are just a few of the complex challenges facing adolescent girls. In a world that is changing rapidly, it can be difficult to know how to foster effective communication and provide authentic support for the girls that we teach, parent, mentor, and coach.   The newly updated edition of Girls Without Limits offers relevant insights and concrete strategies that will help you: ¿ Understand the unique challenges girls face, including relationship troubles, social and academic pressures, disrespect and harassment, body image, academic and career choices, and becoming leaders ¿ Teach girls the skills they need to safely and confidently navigate social media and other evolving technologies¿ Empower girls with the skills they need to establish healthy and supportive relationships, build a strong sense of self, and develop the confidence they need to confront negative societal expectations and make healthy, positive decisions

The ideal primer for students and researchers across the social sciences who wish to master the necessary maths in order to pursue studies involving advanced statistical methods

Enhance teachers¿ expertise ¿ in every term, every school year.Teachers and school leaders have ambitious goals, but improvement work in busy schools is hard. Eminently practical and field tested around the globe, the evidence-informed process outlined in this book will provide you with a framework for robust, sustainable and powerful professional learning. No matter your years of experience or level of expertise, Teaching Sprints will support you to enhance your expertise in a way that is sustainable on the ground. In Teaching Sprints, readers will find:·         three big ideas about practice improvement ·         a detailed description of a simple improvement process·         advice on how to establish a routine for continual improvement

Multiple Regression: A Practical Introduction is a text for an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate course in statistics for social science and related fields. Drawing on decades of teaching this material, the authors present the ideas in an approachable and nontechnical manner, with no expectation that readers have more than a standard introductory statistics course as background. The book includes many interesting example analyses and interpretations, along with exercises.

This comprehensive text introduces regression, the general linear model, structural equation modeling, the hierarchical linear model, growth curve models, panel data, and event history models, and includes discussion of published implementations of each technique showing how it was used to address substantive and interesting research questions. It takes a step-by-step approach in the presentation of each topic, using mathematical derivations where necessary, but primarily emphasizing how the methods involved can be implemented, are used in addressing representative substantive problems than span a number of disciplines, and can be interpreted in words. The book demonstrates the analyses in STATA and SAS.

In Great Teaching by Design, the authors explore what future and new teachers need to know and should know about teaching in today's classrooms.

Correlation matrices (along with their unstandardized counterparts, covariance matrices) underlie the majority the statistical methods that researchers use today. A correlation matrix is more than a matrix filled with correlation coefficients. The value of one correlation in the matrix puts constraints on the values of the others, and the multivariate implications of this statement is a major theme of the volume. Alexandria Hadd and Joseph Lee Rodgers cover many features of correlations matrices including statistical hypothesis tests, their role in factor analysis and structural equation modeling, and graphical approaches. They illustrate the discussion with a wide range of lively examples.

While some qualitative methods texts touch upon online communities as a potential data source, show how to conduct interviews and focus groups online, or select recording devices and analysis software, no book to date has guided readers in the creation of a comprehensive digital workflow for their research. By working through each chapter in this book, readers will be able to generate a unique digital workflow for designing and implementing their research.

Leading for All is a practical guide that provides a clear pathway for educators to develop a more inclusive school community from start to finish. The authors share lessons learned from years building district schools where all students are served in their neighborhood school and in classrooms with their general education peers.Features include: Three focus areas to guide change: Creating Inclusive Cultures, Improving Instructional Practices, and Increasing Student Voice 7 Components of Inclusive and Equitable Learning Communities Supporting resources for promoting inclusion throughout the school day, including co-curricular activities and transportation Stories of real students and teachers and the actions that impacted their success

Sociology of Sexualities takes a sociological approach to the study of sexualities involving an exploration of sexuality as a social construction.

Updates to this new edition include: more coverage of regression assumptions and model fit; additional material on residual analysis; more examples of transformations; and the inclusion of the measures of tolerance and VIF within the discussion about collinearity.

Provides a basic introduction to the critical thinking skills employed within the intelligence community.

By studying how the individual constructs his or her view of social diversity and how she or he is defined and influenced by social diversity, the authors present all that psychology has to offer on this critically important topic.

Bestselling author John W. Creswell draws on years of teaching, writing, and conducting his own projects to offer effective techniques and procedures with many applied examples from research design, qualitative inquiry, and mixed methods.

A revised and updated edition of this accessible yet provocative survey of contemporary social and sociological theories.

This book will spur you to demand that student achievement programs "show the evidence!" of genuine school and student improvement.

Putting forth a reciprocal theory of violence and nonviolence, this book addresses virtually all forms of violence, from verbal abuse to genocide, and treats all of these expressions of violence as interpersonal, institutional, and structural phenomena.

Drawing on fundamental ideas about the relationship of citizens to the public sphere, Richard C Box presents a model of `citizen governance'. Recognizing the challenges in the community governance setting, he advocates rethinking the structure of local government and the roles of citizens, elected officials and public professionals.

This lively and well-written book will provoke management scholars, students, executive consultants and especially team members themselves to consider how the discipline of teamwork affects them and what they ought to do about it.

''''This groundbreaking work offers practical applications to explore multiple intelligences in the classroom using the unique metaphor of the rainbow to elaborate on Gardner's original seven intelligences.