Motivating & Inspiring Teachers: The Educational Leader's Guide for Building Staff Morale
By Todd Whitaker, Indiana State University
Beth Whitaker, Indiana State University
Dale Lumpa, Principal, Hay Elementary School

For principals, teachers, team leaders, and all other educators, this book is filled with strategies to motivate and stimulate all those involved in education. Included in this book are simple suggestions which you can integrate into your current daily routines. This book will show you how to:
- insert key phrases and specific actions into your day-to-day conversations, staff meetings, and written memos to stimulate peak effectiveness.
- hire new staff and plan orientation & induction meetings to cultivate and retain loyal and motivated staff members.
- use the "gift of time" to stimulate and reward.
- get amazing results by not taking credit for them
- motivate yourself each and every day. 2000.

CONTENTS

Part I: The Role of the Leader
-Why It all Works
-Understanding Staff Dynamics
-Building a Shared Vision
Part II: Communication - Its What You Say and How You Say It
-Perception - Its What You Say and How They Took It
-The Friday Focus - A Staff Memo that Works
Part III: Supervision, Evaluation, and Morale Improvement?
-Leadership by Walking Around
-The Formal Evaluation Process - Turning Painful Into Positive
Part IV. Meetings, Meetings, Meetings . . . You Mean These Can be Fun?
-The Monthly Staff Meeting - From Drab to Dynamite
-Making Small Group Meetings Meaningful Opportunities for Renewal
Part V. Special Is As Special Does
-Making Everybody Feel Like Somebody
Part VI. Focusing Outside the Staff
-Feeling at Home While At Work - Enhancing the Physical Plant
-The Student-Teacher Link

Publisher:

• Eye On Education

• 6 Depot Way West

• Larchmont, NY 10538

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• Phone (914) 833-0551

• website - www.eyeoneducation.com