Start your teaching journey with your best foot forwardWithin your classroom walls, seeds of curiosity, creativity, and resilience are sown, and your impact will ripple far beyond and into the future with each lesson you teach and every heart you touch. As you embark on your teaching journey, let this book be your guide.Written by experienced teachers and mentors, Navigating the First Years provides new teachers with tried-and-true strateg...

Be the best mentor for early career teachersMentors are critical to the success of new and aspiring teachers. In a time when so many teachers are leaving the profession within the first few years of their career, empowering mentorship can make a world of difference—not only for teacher retention, but instructional quality and positive student outcomes.Written for any mentor who is new to the role or wants to reinforce or build upon their existing s...

The solution for preparing excellent school leaders is right in front of you.The best way to prepare aspiring leaders for principalship is to offer hands-on opportunities to develop the skills they’ll need when they’re in charge. Being a principal calls for originality, innovation, and the ability to work under pressure. Yet so few assistant principals and other aspiring leaders actually get to develop these competencies in meaningful ways that prepare the...

Are you a K–8 principal ready to implement the PLC at Work™ process? Two experienced practitioners show you how to explore the critical components needed to lay the foundation of a PLC, including how to develop a structure that supports collaborative teams, how to focus on effective monitoring strategies, how to reflect on your communication effectiveness, and more.

Science has discovered many things about people in the workplace; how output can be increased, happiness improved, patterns of communication optimized. But these research insights rarely make it outside the lab. This book bridges that gap.Organizational Psychologist Samual Page artfully weaves psychological research together with practical application. He marries the science of leadership with its implementation. This book is written for the entrepreneur, the CEO, the executive, an...

The time of exclusive top-down leadership is over! Only teachers can transform education from inside the classroom, and this book defines best practices of collaborative teacher leadership. Specific techniques, supporting research, expert insight, and real classroom stories illustrate how to work together for student learning, create a guaranteed and viable curriculum, and use data to inform instruction.

The teamwork troubleshooter we all need! Turn your team into a cohesive unit.“This timely book provides readers with a new way of thinking about work and survival strategies for those who find themselves on bad teams. Readers who are looking for a playbook that can help them to understand and develop soft skills needed for teamwork will be eager to have a copy nearby.”—BooklistWhy do some team members not get along? What is the best way to get new teams and ...

The ability to interview people and select and hire the right candidate is crucial for anyone who wants to advance their career.Written by Mo Shapiro, a leading expert on interviewingas both a coach and a practitioner, this book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to know to in order create a brilliant team.The highly motivational 'in a week' structure of the book provides seven straightforward chapters explaining the key points, and at the end there are option...

Get answers to the most common question posed by educators seeking to build and sustain a PLC: Where do we begin? Access a solid conceptual framework and concrete illustrations of how schools operate when they are functioning as PLCs. Two case studies examine schools that have made the transformation, showcasing district- and curriculum-level efforts to focus on student learning.

Clinical nurse managers face myriad challenges, including administrative, clinical, and interpersonal issues. This concise, practical resource offers wise guidance for nurses working in this complex, fast-paced role. Addressing common complaints and anxieties, it offers quick access to insights, proven strategies, and tools for effectively coping with such situations as institutional change, a multigenerational and multicultural workforce, resistance to change, and toxic behaviors....

Science has discovered many things about people in the workplace; how output can be increased, happiness improved, patterns of communication optimized. But these research insights rarely make it outside the lab. This book bridges that gap.Organizational Psychologist Felicia Page artfully weaves psychological research together with practical application. She marries the science of leadership with its implementation. This book is written for the entrepreneur, the CEO, the executive, ...

"Hord is the originator of the triple-headed concept of professional learning communities. Sommers is an experienced administrator and past president of the National Staff Development Council. With the authors′ extensive backgrounds in educational evaluation and the implementation of school change and development, they are uniquely equipped to delineate and defend a particular vision of professional learning communities that has educational depth, professional richness, and moral integ...