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Bouncing Back!
Written for principals, administrators, and educators, this book identifies seven habits of highly effective education leaders, and offers strategies and guidelines for establishing them. Major points are illustrated with case studies reflecting the experiences of elementary, middle, and high school educators. Checklists, feedback inventories, and other forms are supplied. The authors teach elementary education and educational leadership at the University of Alabama. There is no index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Achievement Now!
This research-based book provides details on how educators can dramatically increase student achievement. It offers numerous experience-based ideas and strategies which can be applied to any school or district.This book will help you: - establish a results-oriented focus on the curriculum - increase time-on-task and academic rigor for ALL students - provide a supportive accountability system for all staff members - identify and eliminate educational practices that lower student achievement - introduce an achievement audit process that will increase student performance in any school or district
Teacher Retention
This book is for you if you are: challenged by the number of teacher vacancies at the start of your school year, finding that your most promising teachers are resigning before they complete their first few years on the job, or no longer willing to accept that your veteran teachers are just marking time until their retirement. Best-selling author India Podsen shows you how to uncover and analyze retention risks at your school; implement induction programs to help novices master the realities of full-time teaching; engage your experienced teachers in the retention process; and apply the Professional Educator Career Framework, consisting of Four Career Stages: teacher inductee, teacher specialist, teacher leader, and teacher steward. This book provides school leaders with practical suggestions and easy-to-use tools such as checklists and action plans, sample meeting programs and agendas, evaluation templates, benchmarks and standards, and all designed to help you deal successfully with teacher shortages and related problems.
Building an Organizational Coaching Culture
Building an Organizational Coaching Culture is a comprehensive collection of expert pieces examining the models, methods and approaches to establish a sustainable coaching culture in organizations. The different perspectives highlight how coaching skills can be used to positively influence workforces in the areas of critical thinking, communication, creativity and collaboration, and how they can have a direct impact on performance and productivity. Contributors from a range of professional contexts include theoretical grounding and application to practice across topics including talent management, implementing coaching programs, developing leadership qualities, using positive psychology, self-evaluations, and standards and ethics. This is a great resource for both students and professionals wanting to engage more with coaching cultures.
Feeling Great
Educator's spend so much time taking care of others that we sometimes forget to take care of ourselves! This book will help teachers, principals, professors, and all educators find time in our busy schedules to focus on our physical self. You will learn how to make time for exercise in your hectic daily schedule, learn how to feel your best every day, eat right even when on the go, keep your fitness momentum going all year, and turn your daily routines into healthy habits.
Dealing With Difficult Teachers
This book shows you how to handle staff members who: - gossip in the teacher's lounge. - consistently say "it won't work" when any new idea is suggested. - send an excessive number of student to your office for disciplinary reasons. - undermine your efforts toward school improvement. - negatively influence other staff members. This book provides tips and strategies to help school leaders improve, neutralize, or eliminate resistant and negative teachers.
Resilient School Leaders
Resilient School Leaders answers a fundamental question: "How can leaders move ahead in the face of adversity?" Every education leader faces difficult situations and seemingly impossible odds. Where do they find the confidence and energy to keep working for what they believe in, despite setbacks and opposition? Drawing on current research in a variety of disciplines, including performance psychology, physiology, and education, Jerry L. Patterson and Paul Kelleher first outline the three sources of resilience capacity: personal values, efficacy, and energy. Then they share the personal insights of 25 highly regarded educational leaders, including Gene Carter, Roland Barth, and Michael Fullan....
Handbook on Educational Specialist Evaluation
Easy-to-use, authoritative, and flexible, the tools in this book and CD-ROM have been developed over the last 15 years and have been field tested in over 500 schools. These tools will empower you to do your evaluations based on current thinking and best practices.
Teach Me How to Pray
This book will provide you training that will enable you to expand your current prayer plan, regardless of what you are currently doing. If you are not on a prayer plan, then it is time to assist you in getting on a plan. If you are on a prayer plan we want to help you better manage your current plan so you can improve the quality of your prayers before God. Minister Jamal El-Amin wants to help you get on your path to establishing a firm and solid prayer foundation whether you are at church, at home, at work or all alone. Too often we do not pray simply because we do not feel self confident before God when we do pray. One of our primary goals is to give you the tools to help you become a better prayer by adding components to your current prayer plan.
The Confrontational Parent
This research-based book offers tips and techniques to help school leaders interact successfully with confrontational or aggressive parents.
