Motivating & Inspiring Teachers: The Educational Leader's Guide for Building Staff Morale [Paperback]

Todd Whitaker (Author), Beth Whitaker (Author), Dale Lumpa (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1596671033 | ISBN-13: 978-1596671034 | Publication Date: December 11, 2008 | Edition: 2

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
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The second edition includes even more tools and resources for improving and sustaining morale. The four new chapters include:
-Teacher Leaders
-Sharpening your Focus
-Showing Off Your School
-Feeling Better through Fitness and Wellness

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Eye on Education; 2 edition (December 11, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596671033
• ISBN-13: 978-1596671034
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #107,343 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

One of the nationÂ’s leading authorities on motivation, teacher leadership, and principal effectiveness, Todd Whitaker is a former middle and high school teacher and principal, now a professor at Indiana State University.

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practial Ideas You Can Use, April 2, 2001

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This review is from: MOTIVATING AND INSPIRING TEACHERS:: The Educational Leader's Guide for Building Staff Morale (Paperback)

For principals, teachers, team leaders, and all other educators, this book will help revitalize and re-energize your school. It 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.

Author Todd Whitaker, a former middle and high school principal, is currently Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Indiana State University. He is the author of Dealing with Difficult Teachers and co-author of Dealing with Difficult Parents (and with Parents in Difficult Situations). He has keynoted state, national, and international conferences and is a highly sought presenter for teachers and principals. Dr. Beth Whitaker, currently an Assistant Professor at Indiana State University was the principal at an elementary school which received the National Blue Ribbon Award for School Excellence. With her husband, Todd, she is co-editor of Contemporary Education. Dr. Dale Lumpa, currently an elementary school principal, serves as on the board of directors of the Colorado Principal's Center and is an adjunct professor for the University of Phoenix.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FULL OF IDEAS & VERY USABLE, May 20, 2001

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This review is from: MOTIVATING AND INSPIRING TEACHERS:: The Educational Leader's Guide for Building Staff Morale (Paperback)

This book is full of ideas that I have either currently implemented into my administrative plan or will implement next year. Many of these ideas were simple, easy-to-use, common sense ideas that I wish I would have found earlier in my administrative career. The bottom line is that if you don't have motivated teachers, you most likely don't have a "good" school - this book will help you motivate your teachers and create a positive environment.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have for educational leaders everywhere, July 11, 2009

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This review is from: Motivating & Inspiring Teachers: The Educational Leader's Guide for Building Staff Morale (Paperback)

Now in an updated second edition with four new chapters ("Teaching Leaders", "Sharpening Your Focus", "Showing Off Your School" and "Feeling Better Through Fitness and Wellness"), Motivating & Inspiring Teachers: The Education Leader's Guide for Building Staff Morale is a guide written by experts, for professionals, to share tools and resources ideal for boosting and maintaining staff morale. From how to find above-average teachers for one's staff, to getting teachers involved, to building a shared vision, being judicious about one's use of criticism, and nonverbal factors that can affect one's communication, Motivating & Inspiring Teachers is a solid, down-to-earth guide offering invaluable advice in plain terms. "Schools can access technology, billboards, newspapers, welcome packets, and many other avenues to communicate to parents and the community. Asking parents, visiting with local businesses, and reading advertisements in newspapers are a few ways to get ideas for showing off your school. Seeing how businesses in the private sector advertise can be very informative because their financial success depends on 'showing off their businesses.'" A must-have for educational leaders everywhere.