Bücher veröffentlicht von SAGE Publications Inc

This insightful guide offers straightforward explanations of the past, present, and future of professional development programs.

Leadership and the Force of Love discusses the overwhelming impact of leading with love and affirms that if you can't love, you can't lead.

This invaluable guidebook contains a rich list of resources, sample surveys, and easy-to-apply advice.

As educators we often take ourselves a bit too seriously, so veteran educator and illustrator Aaron Bacall offers a little perspective with these lighthearted cartoons.

This first-of-its-kind work addresses the needs of students, instructors, and practitioners, helping new, experienced, and prospective assistant principals develop the skills they need most.

This book provides research-based literature focused on high school level educational reform-an area not adequately addressed by the current literature on school reform.

This handy guide presents a series of scenarios that encapsulate the inevitable legal, philosophical, and common sense challenges teachers face every day.

This practical, easy-to-implement guide was developed by surveying student teachers, substitute teachers, returning teachers, emergency credential teachers, and teacher educators.

This how-to guide and practical workbook will help planners and participants develop an exemplary mentoring program or upgrade an existing one.

This illustrated guide provides teachers with easily referenced tools for any situation and skill level, including skill development categories and icons showing which abilities are needed for each activity.

Based on an established program, this is the definitive book on peer evaluation for administrators!

Julie Wofford Anderson, teacher and educational consultant, uses her years on the front lines to answer the most commonly asked real-life questions of preservice, as well as first and second-year teachers.

Highlights easy-to-implement and unique ideas to supplement student learning-an enjoyable alternative to the typical drill and practice worksheets.

Real-life examples show how schools have achieved improved education through a five-step process-without new monies!

Help students with a wide range of abilities develop a desire to learn and to express themselves well in writing with this easy-to-use workbook.

This book provides guidance, tips, and suggestions for planning professional events that will result in substantial learning for participants. Written for professionals with all levels of experience, it is based on the authors' experiences with designing and conducting meetings.

This unique book focuses on the interaction of learning disabilities and emotional disorders, fostering an understanding of how learning problems affect emotional well-being, and vice versa.

All the basics of geometry in a motivating new format, from Ptolemy to Napoleon, from the Arbelos to the billiard table!

Number Theory, Geometry, Topology, Binary and Exponential Arithmetic, and much, much more!

This is an easy-to-follow guide to demonstrate a better way of learning how to use the Internet. It shows all educators how to master and pass on information management skills through a five-stage process.

Make developing a portfolio manageable and rewarding with this step-by-step process.

Provides information designed to help teachers understand how portfolios can aid their efforts in student assessment. This title provides a rationale for the use of portfolios as an assessment tool. It includes guidelines with specific examples by grade and subject, and discusses the use of technology for portfolio development.

This is a practical collection of innovative ideas, games, and creative management strategies for surviving indoor recess.

With in-depth explanations, this comprehensive resource provides guidelines for conducting sound evaluations of educational staff that affect tenure, dismissal, promotion, and staff development.

This step-by-step guide shows how to create a positive public perception of your school - even if you have no background in public relations. Through real-life scenarios, you'll learn valuable and easy strategies to create goodwill for your school.

Managing and Measuring Social Enterprises explores how the perfomance agenda has impacted on public policy and management. Rob Paton examines what has happened when performance improvement techniques originating in the private sector are applied to public and nonprofit organizations.

This accomplished book provides a peerless account of the French tradition. It provides an overview of French social theory; divides French social theory into three coherent cycles: positivist, anthropological and Marxist; and situates the discussions of individuals and schools in the relevant social and political contexts.

Latent class analysis is a powerful tool for analyzing the structure of relationships among categorically scored variables. It enables researchers to explore the suitability of combining two or more categorical variables into typologies or scales. It also provides a method for testing hypotheses regarding the latent structure among categorical variables.