Books published by SAGE Publications Inc

The authors offer higher-level thinking and reading strategies that promote achievement for all students, with resources to build collaborative literacy, stimulate creativity, develop richer comprehension, and more.

Combining brain research, teaching strategies, and sample lessons, this innovative guide is ideal for preservice and inservice teacher training and professional development.

Why do some educators have the ability to inspire an audience? Learn the attitudes, behaviors, and skills that will make you a more dynamic communicator and leader.

This new edition of the bestseller features more voices from first-year teachers and provides strategies for developing a first-year induction plan to help teachers become first-rate educators.

Demonstrates how to translate each step of the Japanese lesson study process to the US schools' educational environment. Offering specific strategies that have been tested and successfully used with ethnically diverse students, this book incorporates a culturally responsive approach to curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

This resource provides a user-friendly process for creating a curriculum year overview that meets standards. Includes developed curriculum maps, blank templates, and more!

Updated Edition of BestsellerImplement the best research-based practices through classroom activities, reading materials, training, and leadership.

Assuming an orientation that expects and detects group pitfalls as they arise, this book is designed to provide a map of the group pitfall terrain, and demonstrate how people working well together can use the struggle against such pitfalls to improve their groups.

Interprets consciousness as a property that can also be possessed by creatures lacking a language faculty and comprises all of the following: awareness of the surrounding world; awareness of the self as an entity; and awareness of such things as thoughts and feelings.

This practical guide gives teachers simple strategies for organizing their classrooms and pacing their day to ensure that learners with special needs experience success.

Find case stories from up-to-date research, reflection activities, structured research and interview activities for developing collaboration skills.

This how-to guide includes all the necessary information and materials for implementing family nights that increase parental involvement and improve academic achievement.

Develop a successful communication strategy that reaches all members of the school community so that everything else has a chance to work as planned.

Provides school leaders with a step-by-step process for planning, setting ground rules, considering traditional meeting alternatives, making good decisions, and developing action plans.

Offers an examination of historical trends that have helped shape schools and education in the United States. This book places an emphasis on contemporary history, most notably post-WWII issues such as the role of technology, the standards movement, affirmative action, bilingual education, undocumented immigrants, school choice, and more.

This review of existing teacher compensation models provides school administrators with a research-based approach for developing a compensation system that attracts and retains high-quality teachers.

This practical and timely text coaches school principals on how to achieve effective supervision that centralizes student learning and encourages teachers' uniquely effective instructional styles.

Based on IRA and NCTE standards, these classroom-tested reading activities will benefit all students in Grades 6-12, including gifted, special education, and ELL students.

This step-by-step guide provides educators with the tools they need to help students think more critically and write with more fully developed ideas.

Suitable for those who wish to understand and review the importance of gender within their research studies. This book outlines the practical and philosophical issues of gender in qualitative research. It features examples taken from women and men's studies as well as from feminist and other gender studies.

Confronts the post-positivist theories of strategic choice and politics, and reasserts the validity of positivist and functional organization theory. This volume demonstrates the serious flaws, at both theoretical and empirical levels, in the political and strategic choice accounts of organization.

Argues that the sex/gender distinction is invalid and must be transcended. This book attempts to comprehensively reorientate the field and redefine the terrain. To this end, the work of Foucault, Connell, Goffman, Garfinkel, Butler, Freud, Derrida, Saussure, Lacquer and Kessler and McKenna is woven into a set of arguments.

This groundbreaking text demonstrates how to build collaborative environments that both help schools achieve national standards, and also help the school community realize high academic standards.

This practical guide explains how to form productive groups and assess individual student performance in group work.

Blaydes provides teachers with nuggets of wit and wisdom in the form of quotes that will motivate and inspire every educator!

Discover the excellent writing your students can produce when provided with a rubric and challenged to do their best.

One in ten persons living in the United States was born in another country, and in many areas this percentage is much higher. This title provides information about views of disability in other cultures and ways in which rehabilitation professionals may improve services for persons from other cultures.

This book presents an overview of the economic, political and social forces that shaped contemporary employment relations practices in the United States.

This book provides one of the clearest treatments of correlations and regression of any statistics book I have seen... Bobko has achieved his objective of making the topics of correlation and regression accessible to students... For someone looking for a very clearly written treatment of app