Motivating & Inspiring Teachers The Educational Leader's Guide for Building Staff Morale

Like the best-selling first edition, this book is filled with strategies to motivate your staff and maintain a high level of energy at your school. This guide will help all educators approach work every day in an enthusiastic, focused, and positive state of mind. This book will help you:-Motivate your faculty with the Friday Focus--a staff memo that works!-Understand the power of praise and how to best utilize it every day-Make sure staff meetings, teacher evaluation, and daily activities raise the energy level in your school-Maximize the holidays, open house nights, and other special events the make your staff feel special

About the AuthorsPrefaceIntroductionIntroduction to the Second EditionPart 1 The Role of the Leader1 Why It All Works2 Understanding Staff Dynamics3 Teacher Leaders4 Raise the Praise, Minimize the Criticize5 One for All and All for One—Building A Shared VisionPart 2 Communication—It's What You Say and How You Say It6 Perception—It's What You Say and How They Took It7 The Friday Focus—A Staff Memo That Works!8 Sharpening Your Focus9 Making a Difference Each Day10 Showing Off Your SchoolPart 3 Supervision, Evaluation, and Morale Improvement?11 Leadership by Walking Around12 The Evaluation Process—Turning Painful into PositivePart 4 Meetings, Meetings, Meetings...You Mean These Can be Fun?13 The Monthly Staff Meeting: From Drab to Dynamite14 Small-Group Meetings15 Opportunities for RenewalPart 5 Special Is as Special Does16 Building and Enhancing Your Morale17 Feeling Better Through Fitness and Wellness: Opportunities for Improvement!18 Making Everybody Feel Like Somebody19 New Is Not Just Different, It Should Be Better!Part 6 Focusing Outside the Staff to Affect Staff Morale20 Feeling at Home While at Work: Enhancing the Physical Plant21 The Student-Teacher LinkParting ThoughtsReferences