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A growing teacher attrition rate, combined with fewer teachers entering the profession, has created a teacher shortage in many schools. In Building Your Building, authors Jasmine K. Kullar and Scott A. Cunningham detail how school administrators can overcome these challenges to ensure they proactively hire (and keep) great teachers. Within this practical guide, you will find best practices for recruiting and retaining teachers, from interviewing candidates and mentoring new teachers to providing meaningful recognition and more.
This book will help you improve the teacher hiring process and beyond to increase teacher recruitment and retention:
Learn how to hire the best teachers with practical recruitment and interviewing techniques as well as included teacher-screening interview questions.Discover why recognition is important to retaining teachers and how to recognize teachers for their accomplishments.Review the most effective ways to support new teachers.Understand why and how to set up teacher mentoring programs.Recognize why adult learning and continued professional development for teachers contributes to teacher success.Contents:Introduction: Million-Dollar DecisionsChapter 1: Features of Effective TeachersChapter 2: Hiring PracticesChapter 3: Supporting New TeachersChapter 4: Mentoring New TeachersChapter 5: Recognizing TeachersChapter 6: Implementing Professional DevelopmentAfterwordReferences and Resources
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The success of a school greatly depends on the ability of its leaders to communicate effectively. In Connecting Through Leadership, author Jasmine K. Kullar details how to verbally and nonverbally inspire, motivate, and connect with every member of a school community, from teachers to students to parents. The book includes questions for reflection and concludes with a five-month communication challenge designed to help leaders put what they learned into action.
Use this resource as your action plan for developing strong communication skills:
Learn how to become a charismatic presenter and promote student engagement with effective communication skills.Gain strategies for having tough conversations central to teacher leadership.Discover how to communicate effectively through written and oral communication.Review the ways in which body language can impact your message.Understand how body language affects communication and other intrapersonal skills.Analyze your communication strengths and weaknesses to create personal improvement goals and build your school leadership abilities.Contents:About the AuthorIntroductionChapter 1: Communicating Through PresentationsChapter 2: Communicating Through MeetingsChapter 3: Communicating Through Tough ConversationsChapter 4: Communicating Through WritingChapter 5: Communicating Through Body LanguageAfterwordReferences and ResourcesIndex
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Get motivated by this collection of voices from women in leadership and their allies. Janel Keating and Jasmine K. Kullar gather a wide variety of educational leaders to focus on effective leadership practices as they relate to women, the roadblocks and complications women face in professional advancement, and strategies for lifting off the sticky floor and breaking the glass ceiling.
Aspiring educational leaders and current leaders seeking professional growth will:Gain insight into the unique challenges faced by women in education as well as strategies for overcoming themFocus on the importance of mentoring and building up the next generation of female leadersObtain tools to better advocate and self-market for the next career moveReceive compassionate advice on implementing self-care strategies to avoid teacher burnoutCultivate confidence in women’s leadership and advance successful schoolsContents:ForewordIntroductionChapter 1: Cultivating the Leadership of ConfidenceChapter 2: Facing ChangeChapter 3: Leading With Compassion and InsightChapter 4: Looking out the Window and in the MirrorChapter 5: Rising Through the RanksChapter 6: Braving Difficult ConversationsChapter 7: Seeking Mentorship and Sharing Your ExpertiseChapter 8: Preparing for PromotionChapter 9: Taking Care of YourselfChapter 10 Learning From Women Leaders
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Educators’ daily stressors can easily accumulate without intentional wellness actions in place. Designed as both a plan book and journal, this companion resource to Educator Wellness: A Guide for Sustaining Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Social Well-Being offers inspirational, practical weekly routines and reflections for teachers committed to improving their wellness practices throughout the school year.
Use this plan book and journal to:Commit to practices that encourage well-being in each of the four dimensions: physical, mental, emotional, and socialOrganize your thoughts, collect data on your current habits, and reflect on areas to improve with 46 field-tested toolsMonitor your progress on each month’s wellness goal and set intentions to encourage long-term maintenance of positive habitsContents:Part 1: About This Plan Book and JournalPart 2: Summer—A Season of RenewalPart 3: Fall—A Season of OpportunityPart 4: Winter—A Season of PerseverancePart 5: Spring—A Season of TransitionAppendix: Journal ToolsReferences and ResourcesIndex
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Teacher leaders play an integral role in the success of the professional learning community (PLC) process, which cannot be executed successfully without leadership skills. Learn ten key leadership skills to help develop teacher leaders, enabling them to impart PLC knowledge in a way that influences their collaborative teams to advance student achievement and contribute to lifelong learning.
This book helps K–12 principals and teacher leaders: Learn ten essential teacher leadership skills and how to develop themUse case scenarios and other activities to develop and strengthen leadership skillsUnderstand shared or collaborative leadership and its importance to a successful PLCExamine what might be holding teacher leaders back from fulfilling their potentialDraw on chapter-ending reflections and next steps to help move forwardContents:IntroductionPart 1Chapter 1: Why Principals Need Teacher LeadersChapter 2: Overcoming Barriers to Teacher LeadershipChapter 3: How to Select Teacher LeadersPart 2Chapter 4: Developing Self-Confidence SkillsChapter 5: Developing Courage SkillsChapter 6: Developing Conflict Resolution SkillsChapter 7: Developing Lifelong Learning SkillsChapter 8: Developing Emotional Intelligence SkillsChapter 9: Developing Change Leadership SkillsChapter 10: Developing Innovation SkillsChapter 11: Developing Decision-Making SkillsChapter 12: Developing Problem-Solving SkillsChapter 13: Developing Communication SkillsEpilogueReferences and ResourcesIndex