Books published by SAGE Publications Inc

This book provides an introduction to teaching reading and spelling using phonics, offers practical examples and activities, and includes a CD-ROM with reproducibles and INSET materials.

A do-it-yourself speaking coach, mentor, and image consultant rolled into one, this humorous book shows how to get your point across and win your audience.

Updated Edition of Bestseller!Marlowe and Page bring together constructivist theory with step-by-step guidance and ready-to-use checklists to make constructivist learning a reality in your classroom.

Most books on leadership and organizational change focus on descriptive theory and research, simplistic and questionable gimmicks, or on biographical sketches of successful leaders whose character students are encouraged to emulate. Business students find the first kind of book boring.

Conflicts are more effectively managed if people understand the layers meaning in their conflicts and collaborate based on those meanings. In this book, author Peter M. Kellett analyzes and interprets real-life conflict stories as a way to create opportunities for more productive ways to navigate and resolve conflict.

In this highly readable book the authors respond to those participants in the their leadership seminars who want practical ideas for improving their leadership. They provide a range of instructional and learning materials which can be used as a personal guide to the reader, and as tools for training.

Based on more than 200 interviews, this practical guidebook provides strategies for solving staff problems, preventing conflicts, and enriching school climates.

Set even your underachieving students on the road to academic success! The Study Max program provides teachers with a proven, effective method for improving students' study skills.

A primer of what is truly important for today's school leaders, this survival guide is made up of 25 fundamental insights and baseline beliefs that never change.

Meta-analysis is arguably the most important methodological innovation in the social and behavioral sciences in the last 25 years. Developed to offer researchers an informative account of which methods are most useful in integrating research findings across studies, this book enables reader to apply, as well as understand, meta-analytic methods.

Filled with rich narrative and designed for educators working with troubling students each day, this insightful, practical guide leads you in developing helpful, trusting student-teacher relationships.

This book will help educators to understand the how and why behind people's decisions, and to use this information to change attitudes and influence the behaviour of teachers, school staff, parents, and other members of their community.

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A fun and functional guide for school leaders who want to encourage and inspire student achievement, this book offers 101 "stunts" to copy, accompanied by case studies that will make the stunts come to life. This book is a great reference and a kick-start for teachers looking for creative ways to be a part of the achievement process.

In this resource with a built-in facilitator's guide, Jaksec digs deeply into the problem of parental aggression, specifying strategies for a broad audience of educators using the effective RAID approach.

Qualitative Market Research follows through a complete research project from the perspective of both user and practitioner. In this respect, it can be used as both a continuous teaching text and training manual, or individual sections may be consulted to enhance knowledge of `best practices' and improve productivity in any specific research application.

This concise handbook offers over 100 ready-to-use performance lists, holistic rubrics, and analytic rubrics appropriate for K-12 science classroom programs.

Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) has become a foundation for concepts in Organizational Studies. This book deals with OCB. It is suitable for teachers, scholars, and graduate students interested in OCB.

A practical introduction to multi-level modelling, this title offers an introduction to HLM and illustrations of how to use this technique to build models for hierarchical and longitudinal data.

Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations is about exemplary leadership as found in both corporate and nonprofit organizations. The authors look at nonprofit organizations both to understand and appreciate their complexities, and to reach conclusions about the nature of leadership in any context, including for-profit and governmental entities.

Providing students with a system for thinking about crime, this book shows how crime draws from the larger ecosystem, how offenders forage for targets and how they depend on one another. It considers how crime feeds off legal activities and shows how crime ecology can help shut off crime opportunities and reduce crime in local areas.

The perfect accompaniment to existing textbooks for courses on human resource management.

The goal of this book is to help students and practitioners see difficult moments as learning experiences and to empower them to be imaginative, creative and flexible counsellors. It uses illustrations, humour and a common sense approach, making it stand out from the competition.

Examines the work of feminist theorists who have challenged traditional communication theory, contributing to the development of feminist communication theory by identifying its important contours, shortcomings, and promise. This book argues that feminist communication theory must address theories of gender, communication, and social change.

Written by leading academics in organization theory, this book contains definitions of all the key terms a student studying organization theory needs to understand, along with discussions of each area and further reading.

The essential guide for all who wish to understand better the debates, or who seek a practical and up-to-date guide to contemporary thought and practice.

Follows the stories about good practice, to reflect on the lessons learned, and to feel uplifted by social work's potential for positive change and social justice. This book includes case examples from a wide range of service user groups, including people with mental health problems, disabilities, parenting difficulties, and those living in care.

Aimed at readers with minimal experience in computer programming, this book provides a theoretical and methodological rationale for using ABM in the social sciences. It concludes with practical advice about how to design and create ABM, a discussion of validation procedures, and some guidelines about publishing articles based on ABM.