Books published by SAGE Publications Inc

Using lively examples and friendly tips gleaned from his own and other researchers' experiences, and a warm, reflective writing style, Harry F Wolcott offers readers suggestions for writing up qualitative research.

Offering a set of practical instructional strategies, this second edition of the bestseller helps elementary and middle school educators integrate approaches for strengthening reading skills with procedures for Response to Intervention (RTI).

Learn about the reach, private and public, of friendship and the effect it has on our identity and life satisfaction

With sample social network maps and steps for developing your own, this resource shows leaders how to navigate task, friendship, power, and culture networks to promote school goals.

This in-depth and engaging book examines the theory, policy and practice required to care for key vulnerable groups within society.

Brings together the core business and management topics impacting on the strategy and operation of social enterprise organizations

This book provides a timely guide to qualitative methodologies that investigate processes of personal, generational and historical change, and will be an essential book for anyone wishing to develop research projects on these topics.

A Guide to Using Technology in Research provides a wealth of advice, explanation, instruction, self-help tips and examples, making this a helpful resource for anyone using technology in conducting their research.

A critical examination of `right' radicalism: from Nietzsche and nihilism to a comparative analysis of recent nationalist conservatism in Europe.

This insightful resource shows superintendents and principals how to develop the communication and strong collaboration that are essential for mutually supportive professional relationships.

This indispensable guide demonstrates how to turn students into investigators of history, rather than memorizers and regurgitators of dates and disconnected facts.

A comprehensive text that allows headteachers and school mamangers to monitor teacher quality

A brief, practical how-to guide to developing a learning culture in not-for-profit organizations.

This user-friendly handbook focuses on five facets essential to successful organizations-mission, strategy, organizational structure, people, and leadership-to help principals become proactive, effective school leaders.

Aligning leadership with current research on human intelligence, this book provides school leaders with insight into understanding how attentive leadership significantly impacts growth and achievement in school communities.

Sample units demonstrate how to use the Parallel Curriculum Model to design high-quality curriculum in language arts. Each unit includes instructions, assessments, and skills/standards.

A challenging book that will help students on counselling courses think about different approaches to race and diversity

This teacher-friendly book presents a step-by-step approach for implementing the Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) approach in diverse classrooms. Based on educational theory, brain research, and data analysis, EDI helps teachers deliver effective lessons that can significantly improve achievement all grade levels.

This comprehensive, practical book provides user-friendly tools for creating transition plans to help students with disabilities successfully put their goals into action and navigate postsecondary environments.

Insightful, relevant and comprehensive, this book explains how offender rehabilitation has developed historically and in recent years.

From highly renowned authors whose writing style is a proven success, ensuring theoretical content is combined with extensive case examples.

This book offers a comprehensive overview and steps for conducting classroom research. It shows teachers how to use the research to assess and adapt literacy teaching.

Offering a child-centered approach for teaching 8- to 12-year-olds, this detailed resource discusses child development, instruction and assessment, and professional growth and advocacy.

Written by a highly experienced editor in academic publishing, this book contains just what students and academics need to know to get their work into print, with lots of practical advice and examples.

Combines theoretical sophistication with empirical detail to provide an essential overview of the content of contemporary political geography. A unique overview of the incorporation of socio-cultural theory into the discipline.

A comprehensive account of power and organizations, unlocking power as the central relation of modern organizations and society. The authors present an excellent synthesis of organization, social and political theory to offer an overview of power and organizations that is historically informed, addresses current issues and is comprehensive in scope.

Ideas, strategies, and words of wisdom gleaned from practical experience to help prepare you for anything a new school leader might encounter.

This easy-to-read resource describes several popular approaches to coaching, including literacy coaching, cognitive coaching, instructional coaching, content-focused coaching, and classroom-management coaching, and features contributions from leaders in each field.

Description of 29 group work practice techniques which have applicability in clinical, support, and organizational groups.

Accessible, lively and rich with the latest research ideas this textbook introduces students to the core theories, approaches, and findings that are the necessary foundations for developing an understanding of evolutionary psychology