Books published by SAGE Publications Inc

Prompts crisis intervention team members to reevaluate their beliefs and practices, and offers illustrative vignettes, helpful tips, and discussion questions to guide reflection and action.

Use these step-by-step strategies to develop and implement a proven program that links to districtwide goals and results in highly qualified teachers and increased student achievement.

Learn to define a quality program, analyze what is and is not working, and avoid "test score fatigue" with a user-friendly, three-part framework for school improvement.

Offers teachers engaging ways to weave real-life financial issues and personal money management into NCTM standards-based secondary mathematics lessons while meeting equity and accountability requirements.

Presenting seven keys to leadership-control, caring, change, charisma, communication, curriculum, and courage-this manual provides strategies to initiate, stabilize, and sustain effective practices.

Provides a guide to the concept mapping methodology and strategies behind using it for a range of social scientists - including students, researchers, and practitioners. This work pays attention to the issues facing the facilitator of a concept mapping project; and includes chapters on using concept mapping in planning and evaluation.

School leaders will find practical strategies, models, and tools to lead a beginning team step-by-step through the lesson study cycle.

Offers an approach to counseling that incorporates concepts and techniques from eastern and western perspectives. This book identifies commonalities rather than the differences between them. It compares the underlying cultural assumptions of western counseling with those of the Chinese perspectives, specifically Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism.

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The authors help educators identify gifted and talented students, present effective instructional approaches such as enrichment and acceleration, and review characteristics related to exceptional students.

Covering the entire fundraising process, this comprehensive text offers a wealth of practical strategies for pursuing "big time" grants and gifts for America's public schools.

Improve the work habits and study skills of students with learning disabilities and/or ADHD, and advance their performance in reading, writing, and mathematics with the highly effective methods in this guide.

This valuable resource offers teachers practical classroom management tips and provides highly effective instruction methods to foster independence in students with visual and hearing impairments.

Learn about assistive technologies, helpful adjustments to school and classroom environments, and effective instructional modifications specifically designed to support students with medical, physical, and multiple disabilities.

Including a pretest, posttest, and key vocabulary terms, this helpful guide presents the key components of highly effective instruction and the accommodations to be made for students with special needs.

Discover what assessment methods you should be using, and how, when, and where they should be administered to ensure appropriate services are selected for all exceptional students.

This resource reviews the most influential laws affecting special education services and includes assessments to help readers evaluate their understanding of current legal practices.

Ready-to-use activities tied to content and standards help educators create arts-rich schools that welcome families and community members, promote diversity, and engage parents in their children's education.

This valuable resource provides more than 50 practical, step-by-step activities and strategies for helping groups collaborate to build consensus and accomplish their goals.

This hands-on guidebook highlights the research that supports environmental print (EP) instruction in Grades PreK-3 and provides a wealth of activities for jump-starting the literacy process.

Identify learners' unique reading styles and use differentiated, research-based strategies to help both fluent and low-performing readers succeed while meeting NCLB and Title I requirements.

This resource offers counseling strategies to promote adolescents' overlooked strengths and create healthy alternatives to problem behaviors such as bullying, drug use, violence, and promiscuity.

A sociologically grounded analysis of women working in traditionally male dominant justice occupations of law, policing, and corrections. It presents not only an advancement of research on women in these fields, but also a reconsideration of changes in justice organizations and occupations and their impact on women's justice work roles.

This lighthearted collection offers clever ways to add humor, levity, and a little perspective to the challenges of classroom management.

This guide offers preschool and kindergarten teachers practical strategies for delivering developmentally appropriate curriculum, facilitating and scaffolding learning, modeling social skills, questioning for understanding, involving parents, and more!

Through nearly 300 research-based teacher perspectives on informal, teacher-to-teacher collaboration, school leaders will learn how teachers can promote professional growth in each other.

This practical, user-friendly resource provides a step-by-step process for restructuring blocks of learning time to improve student-teacher relationships and promote more positive learning experiences.

From easy-to-implement techniques to templates for planning lengthy curriculum units, this comprehensive resource offers K-12 teachers ready-to-use strategies that honor students' diverse learning styles.

This essential guide for new and veteran school leaders explores 15 vital topics, strategies, and examples for achieving successful school leadership through effective management.

Using a simple-to-follow matrix aligned with NCTM standards, this essential handbook for Grades PreK-5 provides detailed guidance and ready-to-use sample activities, problems, assessments, and more.