ABSTRACT
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |65 pages
The Role of the Leader
chapter |10 pages
Why It All Works
chapter |12 pages
Understanding Staff Dynamics
chapter |15 pages
Teacher Leaders
chapter |11 pages
Raise the Praise, Minimize the Criticize
chapter |13 pages
One for All and All for One–Building A Shared Vision
part |66 pages
Communication–It's what you Say and How you Say It
chapter |10 pages
Perception–It's what you Say and How They Took It
chapter |16 pages
The Friday Focus–A Staff Memo That Works!
chapter |9 pages
Sharpening your Focus
chapter |18 pages
Making a Difference Each Day
chapter |10 pages
Showing Off your School
part |21 pages
Supervision, Evaluation, and Morale Improvement?
chapter |11 pages
Leadership by Walking Around
chapter |7 pages
The Evaluation Process–Turning Painful into Positive
part |35 pages
Meetings, Meetings, Meetings…You Mean these Can be Fun?
chapter |11 pages
The Monthly Staff Meeting From Drab to Dynamite
chapter |12 pages
Small-Group Meetings
chapter |9 pages
Opportunities for Renewal
part |35 pages
Special Is as Special Does
chapter |5 pages
Building and Enhancing your Morale
chapter |8 pages
Making Everybody Feel Like Somebody
chapter |7 pages
New Is Not Just Different, It Should Be Better!
part |24 pages
Focusing Outside the Staff to Affect Staff Morale