Books published by SAGE Publications Inc

Establish a school change culture where desired outcomes are actually achieved Change in schools is hard, but often essential. Are you prepared to lead colleagues through the shifts required by unprecedented, complex change? Shifting offers an integrated tapestry of wisdom and support for educational changemakers intent on meaningful collaboration in a positive, engaged workplace. Change leaders learn to ·         Shift the emphasis in the change process from procedure to the people implementing change·         Move from an environment of "command and control" to one of leaders creating other leaders·         Reframe change as an essential shift in school culture rather than a series of episodic events

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out.In this easy-to-use but comprehensive guide to Guided Writing, teachers will learn what it is, how to prepare before, during and after a Guided Writing session, and how to assess it. In this On-Your-Feet Guide, teachers will find: Lesson outline included with "What the teacher says/does" and "What the student does" displayed side-by-side. An If-Then chart that helps teachers troubleshoot common problems. Both the why and the how of assessing students included. On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate "cheat sheet" to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher.Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.Use the On-Your-Feet Guides When you know the "what" but need help with the "how" As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book To learn how to implement foundational practices When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren¿t sure how to do it yourself

Conducting Online Research on Amazon Mechanical Turk and Beyond, by Leib Litman and Jonathan Robinson, provides researchers with step-by-step technical information on this important research platform. The book gives a broad view of the MTurk ecosystem and customs, hones in on common researcher pitfalls, and provides detailed data on sampling, ethics, and experimentation.

Insights, ideas, and inspiration to keep student learning at the center of instructional coachingStudent-Centered Coaching is an evidence-based model of professional learning that focuses on student outcomes. Grounded in the latest research and over ten years of field experience, The Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching introduces the philosophy and core practices for Student-Centered Coaching. Designed to accompany other books on Student-Centered Coaching, the authors provide a clear vision for how coaching can promote both teacher and student learning. Readers will find An emphasis on how coaching can be asset-based and focused on equity Current research in adult learning and professional development Examples of how to integrate curriculum into coaching cycles Anecdotes that illustrate what Student-Centered Coaching looks like across grade levels and content areas

In these games, the prize is success in school¿and life.When students improve their skills of self-regulation, social communication, and perspective-taking they become better prepared to challenge themselves academically, take on tough tasks, and collaborate with teachers and classmates to achieve real, lasting school success. The design of each game keeps kids engaged and motivated, while educators benefit from clear, thorough explanations that unpack the complexities of social learning. Other behind-the-scenes features include: Evidence-based, teacher-tested lessons Anecdotes and real-world examples Links to relevant research Expansion ideas for applying learned skills to broader situations Templates and reproducibles for easy implementation

Your take-action guide to gender equity First, just to be clear: Leading While Female is not a book about how to get a leadership job. Nor is it about fixing or transforming women into male managers or mindsets. Instead, Arriaga, Stanley, and Lindsey¿s bigger ambition is to help both women and men educational leaders confront and close the gender equity gap¿a gap that currently denies highly qualified women and women of color opportunities to better serve our millions of public school students. Designed as both a personal and group discussion guide for taking action, Leading While Female draws on the research of feminism, intersectionality, educational leadership, and Cultural Proficiency to help us all: Better understand the impact of faux narratives that foster lack of confidence among girls and women Utilize the Tools of Cultural Proficiency to examine barriers to overcome and support functions to locate for your own career planning Learn from the stories of women leaders who have confronted and overcome barriers to career development, including women of color who were targets of implicit bias Explore and expand the roles and opportunities for our male colleagues to serve as allies, advocates, and mentors. If we look at the data, we can safely say women are doing the work of classroom teaching while disproportionately, men are making administrative and leadership decisions. Here at last is a resource for the breaking down the barriers and leading the way for future generations of women leaders.

The future of our schools depends on leaders who can foster every day heroism in others. This doesn¿t require supernatural powers. It requires a willingness to be intentional in building heroes in our communities who are ready to take on the demands of the future.   You Don¿t Need Superpowers to Be a Kid¿s Hero will help you create the climate that produces these heroes. It includes:· Training ideas for leadership teams· Instruments for gauging progress· Practical steps for building courage into practices· Practical strategies to help navigate the complexities of creating an extraordinary school· Hero building stories from the field

Are you ready to plan your best lessons ever?Planning Powerful Instruction is your go-to guide for transforming student outcomes through stellar instructional planning. Its seven-step framework¿the EMPOWER model¿gives you techniques proven to help students develop true insight and understanding. Yoüll have at your fingertips: the real reasons why students engage¿and what you must do to ensure they do a framework to help you create, plan, and teach the most effective units and lessons in any subject area more than 50 actionable strategies to incorporate right away suggestions for tailoring units for a wide range of learners downloadable, ready-to-go tools for planning and teaching

Exploring the inter-relatedness of the key components that impact any international marketing venture - markets, the 4P's, culture, language, political, legal economic systems, and infrastructure -- this book nurtures an understanding of the synergies between international marketing and international business.

A theoretical and empirical toolkit for analysing and understanding media and mediated images - from branding and PR, to tweets and selfies. It explores a range of approaches to visual analysis, while also providing a hands-on guide to applying methods to your own work.

A clear student introduction to the basics of psychological testing, psychometrics and statistics. Supported by both lecturer and student online material.

Using substantive research stories to illustrate the presentation of research methods in each chapter, this volume systematically presents the entire research process and its major variants within a unifying conceptual framework and highlights the relevance and challenge of research ethics in each chapter.

A thorough guide to creating and implementing a workable safety and security plan for your school.

Linking theory with practice, Organizational Communication explores the field historically, conceptually, and practically, guiding students in how they can critically assess their relationships to work, consumption and organizations.

This book goes beyond mixed methods research design and data collection to provide a pragmatic discussion of the challenges of effectively integrating data to encourage a more comprehensive and rigorous level of analysis.

This book will help researchers to maximize the impact and highlight the innovation of their research by showing them how to get the most out of social media when evaluating, presenting and disseminating their work.

Skills in caring for people with dementia are increasingly demanded of all health care practitioners as the numbers of diagnosed increase. This text presents the latest research into improving dementia care for both non-expert students and junior staff as well as more senior managers.

The most informed, practical, and succinct guide to digital technology for journalists. Journalism Next, Third Edition, is a forward-thinking, accessible text that prepares today's journalists for tomorrow's media landscape transformations.

Addresses a broad range of Google tools that encourage communicating and collaborating, creating, sharing and publishing, researching and evaluating. This edition includes teacher vignettes, classroom projects and an accompanying website featuring screencast tutorials that will walk readers through various projects in step by step videos.

From Staff Room to Classroom offers district-level leaders, staff developers, and instructional coaches sure-fire tools and strategies for delivering professional learning that answers the question, "How can I use this in my classroom?"

Lays out the actors involved-interest groups, public officials, legislators, and the public-and shines a light on how these groups, who each have their own goals, are able to bargain and barter their way to a resolution.

With new coverage of digital research tools and social media, as well as that of areas such as autoethnography, visual and feminist ethnography, this important introduction continues to provide readers with the perfect mix of theory and practical advice to ensure their research is carefully thought through, replicable, and ethically sound

This book helps nursing students recognise why they need to know about psychology, how it can affect and influence their individual nursing practice as well as the role it plays in health and illness.

Now in its second edition, this textbook continues to provide all the information nursing and healthcare students need to know about 'what is legal' and 'how to decide what is right' in order to practice safely and ethically.

Approaching the subject from a focussed international and pluralist perspective, this book provides advanced-level treatment of all the core areas to give postgraduate students a wide-ranging and dynamic introduction

With new chapters on ethnicity and immigration, and with material supported by 30 new case studies, this up to date resource provides students with an engaging - and international - introduction to the subject

This book teaches the fundamental factors that drive U.S election outcomes through the experiences of 150 campaign managers, and assesses the current state of modern political campaign management.

An introduction to self-reflexive practice, this book - a collage of different voices and perspectives - in underpinned by the idea of living your life as inquiry