Developing Highly Qualified Teachers; A Handbook for School Leaders by Glatthorn, A.A., Jones, B.K. & Bullock, A.A.

144 Pages - Item #:1006-005	ISBN 0-76194638-1
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The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) establishes a clear demand for highly qualified teachers but does little to help educators define "highly qualified" or instruct them on developing those teachers. This handbook clearly explains the concept of highly qualified teachers, as required by NCLB. It then explains how to recruit, develop, and retain highly qualified teachers.

Developing Highly Qualified Teachers is divided into four distinct sections:

• The Foundations: Addressing NCLB guidelines for developing highly qualified teachers, developing a sense of ownership of the highly qualified concept, and recruiting and selecting staff
• The General Strategies: Developing a differentiated system of supervision, and implementing a quality staff development program
• The Specific Approaches: Developing a quality induction program for new teachers, working with marginal staff, fully developing highly qualified teachers, teaming, mentoring, and curriculum development
• The Results: Retaining quality teachers and developing the faculty as a cohesive community

These practices-research based and field tested over many years-will help accomplish the type of faculty improvement and reform that NCLB demands and the adequate yearly progress that students, parents, and faculty deserve.

Best Practices for Teacher Leadership by Stone, R. & Cuper, P.

192 Pages - Item #: 1006-006	ISBN: 1-41291580-5
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Praise for Randi Stone’s Best Practice collections:

"Will live up to its title and become a favored reference for any teacher, whether in a primary or public, rural or urban, or preschool through high school setting." -Wisconsin Bookwatch, July 2004

"A priceless tool not only for teachers but also for mentors and administrators." -Danny McPherson, Principal West Columbus High School, Cerra Gordo, NC

"Just what the teacher ordered." -CHOICE, November 2002

"Offers practical, down-to-earth advice." -Letitia Abram, Media Specialist Canal Winchester High School, OH

Join award-winning teacher leaders as they discuss their best ideas for today’s professional learning communities!

Best Practices for Teacher Leadership chronicles the many and varied ways in which award-winning teachers create professional learning communities through collaborations with colleagues, mentees, faculty groups, learners, families, and neighborhoods.

Join them as they share their best ideas for achieving excellence in education through staff development, hands-on learning, new technologies, mentoring, parent involvement, and more.

The Professional Growth Plan: A School Leader's Guide to the Process by Holloway McCormick, J.

251 Pages - Item #: 1006-007	ISBN: 1-57517501-0
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Author Jodi Peine (Holloway McCormick) offers practical, step-by-step guidance to administrators and staff developers for designing, implementing, and sustaining a professional growth plan. In The Professional Growth Plan: A School Leader's Guide to the Process, she defines and explains the roles and responsibilities of administrators and teaching staff, demonstrating how participants in the process can set their own goals and develop their own action plans. This resource breaks the professional growth plan process into manageable sections with reproducible for the school leader and participant to use at every step.

Mentoring Novice Teachers: Fostering a Dialogue Process by Pitton, D.E.

184 Pages - Item #: 1006-008	ISBN: 1-14129-3671-3
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"Mentoring Novice Teachers is thorough, comprehensive, and well thought out. The author provides an important addition to the growing number of publications about mentoring. Its focus is on the content of mentor training and development. Content is conveyed in a constructivist mode through group dialogue, while at the same time allowing for individual reflection."

-Hal Portner, Author, Mentoring New Teachers

Deepen mentors’ awareness of effective practices for guiding novice teachers to success!

How do we educate mentors so they are able to successfully work with novice teachers? Mentoring Novice Teachers examines roles in mentoring relationships, presents strategies that foster trust and open communication, and offers practical ideas for addressing the specific needs of novice teachers.

This excellent, updated resource focuses on building the knowledge and skills mentors need to effectively support and guide new teachers as well as better understand the mentoring process. Reflections, discussion prompts, and role-plays are incorporated throughout to increase mentors’ awareness and promote positive and effective interactions between mentors and beginning teachers.

This second edition includes:

• Specific guidelines for facilitating a mentor training workshop
• Expanded coverage of mentoring strategies and processes
• Updated research about effective mentoring and communication
• A stronger focus on mentoring individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences

This unique book blends theory and practice in a format that meets the needs of mentors and facilitates a powerful means of support for novice teachers.

More Than 50 Ways to Build Team Consensus by Williams, R.B.

296 Pages - Item #: 1006-009	ISBN: 1-4129-3711-6
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"As a single source of ideas for facilitators and school leaders, this book is excellent. The author very thoroughly covers the material, and the procedures are easy to follow." -Stephen H. Laub, Principal Rolla Junior High School, MO

Foster committed, participative teamwork in any environment!

Today’s workplace is increasingly shifting from top-down, authoritative leadership to engendering participation from all the stakeholders in a team. In response to this ever-growing trend, R. Bruce Williams provides group facilitators with insights and research about teams working together to reach consensus and accomplish their goals. This revised edition presents current brain research and its implications for team leaders and members, and explores the growing importance of participative processes in collaborative working environments.

In a user-friendly format, Williams offers more than 50 practical, step-by-step activities and strategies for immediate implementation, with real-life examples to assist in the consensus-building process. The activities address the four main components of full consensus:

• Creating a purposeful vision
• Effecting participative processes
• Fostering individual commitment
• Building strong collaborative teams

Use this valuable "road map" to set the stage for establishing consensus and effecting successful collaborative teamwork!

How to Recognize and Reward Employees: 150 Ways to Inspire Peak Performance 2nd Ed. by Donna Deeprose

129 Pages - Item #: 207-001	ISBN: 0-8144-7331-8
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It's not just the money or benefits you offer that recruit, retain, and inspire talented employees. It's the total rewards package. Now in a completely revised second edition, How to Recognize and Reward Employees gives you exciting and practical ways to get the most from your people.

Updated and expanded, this edition features all new examples, as well as exercises, case studies, self-tests, lists, and worksheets to help you implement simple and effective reward programs.

Whether you work for a large or small organization, you'll find out the best ways to:

• Improve employee morale, productivity, and quality of work;
• Inspire high and low performers, as well as teams, to do their best possible job;
• Select the right reward for the achievement and avoid rewards that don't work;
• Make recognition and rewards systems fair.

This quick and helpful guide offers 150 types of rewards for a multitude of situations, showing you how to spur top performers to new heights of creativity, motivate average performers to achieve personal bests, and help solve performance problems of less than stellar employees. You'll learn methods for creating specific criteria for rewards that will help guide your people toward achievement, use your recognition and rewards system to inspire values-based behavior and loyalty to the organization, and consistently figure out what rewards will mean the most to each individual employee.

This book contains information on both formal rewards systems and more informal types of recognition, as well as team rewards, options for shoe-string budgets, ways to emphasize corporate values, and much more. Thorough and up-to-date, this is an essential resource for every organization.