Improving Teacher Morale and Motivation discusses a key issue for school leaders: motivating teachers to improve learning for students. Immense and unprecedented changes in education—primarily with the pandemic and "great resignation"—have affected all areas of teaching and learning, including teacher morale and motivation. This engaging book takes an in-depth focus on student learning as it relates to teacher motivation, providing specific examples of how to motivate teachers during challenging times. Specific tools, templates, and strategies are incorporated throughout the book to help leaders understand and act on issues of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, collaboration and trust, growth mindset, effective feedback, and more. Further, this text incorporates a broader look at how school leaders can shape their school and make it a place where teachers want to work, where they are committed to the success of students, and where they see themselves remaining well into the future. This timely book is appropriate for all school leaders, including teacher-leaders and district leaders.

This book provides the busiest leaders with an accessible set of tools that can immediately be deployed to positively impact their school. Authors Ronald Williamson and Barbara R. Blackburn explore the COMPASS model—

Culture; 

Ownership and Shared Vision; 

Managing Data; 

Professional Development; 

Advocacy; 

Shared Accountability; and 

Structures to Sustain Success

—as an overall framework for school improvement. Chapters include in-depth discussions of easy-to-implement, 

useful strategies for improvement and address the most common concerns facing today’s school leaders. 

Supplemented with templates, charts, and other adaptable tools for ongoing, practical use, 7 Strategies for Improving Your School is your key guide to school improvement.

Learn how to adapt leadership and keep motivation alive in a remote learning setting or hybrid school. In this essential book, bestselling authors Ronald Williamson and Barbara R. Blackburn share frameworks and tools you can use to immediately make a difference in your school. You’ll learn how to:

• Navigate the change process in remote learning
• Maintain a collaborative remote learning school
• Address equity issues in remote instruction
• Communicate effectively across online platforms
• Provide essential professional development remotely

You will gain practical strategies and tips you can implement immediately to help your school and community flourish in a remote learning environment.

Raise the level of rigor in your school and dramatically improve student learning with the tools in this book. Each illuminating exercise is tailored to educators looking to spread the word on rigor and beat the obstacles to achieving it schoolwide. Formatted for duplication and repeated use, these tools are perfect for those who currently hold a leadership position, who aspire to a leadership role, and for those who simply are leaders within their schools or departments.

Sample tools include:

• Assess where you are now
• Recognize the right people
• Evaluate and adjust curriculum
• Design an advocacy plan
• Ensure accountability with parents
• Use your school's schedule to increase rigor
• And more!
• Apply the courage of principals and the energy of teacher leaders as you work to provide every student with a rigorous education. This toolkit will take you through each step of the way to improved rigor and achievement.

Review from Middleweb (1st Edition)

In today’s educational climate, advocacy is a critical part of any teacher or leader’s job. Advocacy from A to Z unpacks the difficult task of understanding the movers and shakers—including teachers, parents, the union, legislatures, and policy makers—that impact your school, affect your students, and shape policy. 

Organized into 26 chapters—one for each letter of the alphabet—this book provides school-based examples and specific strategies needed to be a successful advocate for education. 

Advocacy begins at the local level, and the newest book in the A to Z series helps educational leaders navigate, plan, and shape their message to the right people at the right time. 

Now you can find your voice and become an active advocate to help your students succeed. 

(As a bonus, Barbara wrote this book with her Dad!!)

Like the other books in the A-Z series, this book provides practical tools and activities that can be used immediately to improve your practice. This guide offers specific strategies that will help you become a more effective principal. There are 26 chapters in this book, one for each letter of the alphabet. 

Topics include motivating teachers, hiring and firing teachers, observations and evaluations, using social media, connecting with parents and families, scheduling, and leading for the future.

Review from Middleweb

2nd Review from Middleweb