Books published by SAGE Publications Inc

Guiding readers through each stage in the design and implementation of service operations, this book combines examples that are easy to relate to with theory. It contains chapters that include: Chapter objectives; Short cases; Student exercises; Chapter summaries; Further reading section; and A glossary of key terms.

Combining professional learning communities and action research, this step-by-step guide provides coaches, workshop leaders, and staff developers with strategies, activities, and tools to develop inquiry-oriented PLCs.

Helps students lead with their strengths and gain a better understanding of concepts. This edition demonstrates how to optimize learning by using strategies that address students' social//emotional, cognitive, and physical learning needs. It also offers research on memory, graphic organizers, and charts to help implement differentiated strategies.

Focuses specifically on solving the distressing problems raised by attention seeking behaviour, both in classrooms and in pre-school settings. This book can help practitioners meet the requirements of 'Every Child Matters'. It includes chapters containing practical points, case study materials, and updated references.

Brings to the non-specialist not only the crucial issues of entrepreneurship, but also bridges the gap between business knowledge and expert knowledge from other disciplines.

Major developments in neuroscience and brain scanning in recent years have led to a huge interest in so-called 'brain-based learning' approaches. This book presents a jargon-free overview of the main findings, helps teachers to understand more about how children learn, and provides strategies for helping them to do so more effectively.

This easy-to-use guide gives teachers everything they need to work with pupils on the autistic spectrum, including advice on technology, different interventions available, and working with parents - something all teachers find challenging.

Provides 40 research-based, illustrated lessons and demonstrates how to design units that help students apply analytical, creative, and practical thinking skills to solve problems and make decisions.

A unique approach to studying police forces around the globe.

The act of deliberation is the act of reflecting carefully on a matter and weighing the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions to a problem. This book takes a different approach to the field of political communication by viewing the concepts and research in the context of deliberative democratic theory.

The author provides teacher-friendly tools, insights, sample lessons, and strategies for delivering quality, standards-based science curriculum and instruction that ensures student achievement.

Counters the claim that media violence leads to widespread social aggression. This title argues that there are, indeed, media effects that derive from media violence, pornography, and other kinds of visual, cyberspace, and print based messages.

Best-selling authors, Brock and Grady, turn their expert attention to administrator burnout and how to overcome it, including practical information on stress triggers and response mechanisms.

This second edition helps educators build a successful reading culture by developing community collaborations that include parents, university partnerships, and libraries.

Offers sample lesson plans that promote performance-based learning throughout the content areas, plus rubrics, updated research, projects, and an expanded discussion of cooperative learning teams.

A guide to managing contemporary careers. Although grounded in theory, it provides an extensive set of exercises and activities that can guide career management over the lifespan.

Illustrates what effective leadership looks like, how to cultivate it and sustain it, and how to center leadership preparation curriculum on effective leadership so that a higher percentage of future school leaders remain in education.

Addresses a range of aspects of assessment, learning and teaching in post-compulsory education including. This book shows how to provide a supportive learning environment including online learning. It shows how to design and manage formative assessment and feedback; and, how to support diverse students.

Reviews the use of ICT as a tool for management systems and shows how ICT can be used to support different groups of children. This practical manual is the second part of a 2-volume set that together makes up a detailed 2-year training programme for primary ICT and E-learning co-ordinators.

Offers advice on one of the most difficult aspects of teaching children and young adults with autism - understanding and managing their often challenging behaviour. This work also explores issues surrounding behaviour support; supplies INSET materials for developing practice in behaviour management; and contains self-audit tools for practitioners.

A postgraduate study guide covering the process of accessing, undertaking and completing doctoral research.

This innovative resource presents program planning tools that can be customized for local school and district needs in planning effective interventions to benefit struggling students.

Demonstrates practical ways to integrate assessments and instruction, and offers specific multiple assessment formats illustrated with rich examples, dialogues, scenarios, checklists, and student samples.

Gives an account of the theoretical changes in communication studies from the early theories of development communication through to the contemporary critiques of globalization. This book examines two main currents of thought.

Offers an overview of qualitative research based on interpreting stories. Designed to improve research practice, this title provides detailed discussions of four analytic methods: thematic analysis, structural analysis, dialogic/performance analysis, and visual narrative analysis. It also presents arguments about validation in case-based research.

Early years and primary settings are increasingly required to identify and challenge their gifted pupils. This book, by a hugely popular author, explains how to do just that and provides lots of activities and guidance.

This insightful first volume in The Soul of Educational Leadership series offers educational leaders key concepts and strategies for framing discussions about equity and the achievement gap.

Defines this growing area of conflict resolution and distinguishes conflict coaching as a stand-alone resolution technique.

An activity-based teacher's guide to fostering positive group interaction through imagined experience and discussion for children aged 9 to 14. It invites pupils to engage in discussion, debate and negotiation to solve problems and meet challenges. It focuses on the promotion of tolerance, empathy and co-operation.