10 Traits Of Highly Successful Schools

Increase your own effectiveness with the help of the built-in facilitator's guide, ideas, reflections, behaviors, habits, and inspiring stories.

What are parents to do? How can you be sure that your children are being well educated? Elaine McEwan knows schools. As a parent, teacher, principal, and administrator she experienced all sides of education. Now she writes and speaks nationwide to administrators who want to improve their schools' academic performance. Here she gives parents the tools they need to ensure that their children will recieve good--quality schooling.

Featuring helpful tools, authentic examples, teacher reflections, and more, this resource identifies the critical attributes of schools that enable all students to attain academic excellence.

Featuring vignettes, graphic organizers, instructional strategies, up-to-date research, and more, this updated bestseller helps educators understand the most effective ways to teach all students to read.

In this book, award-winning educator Cathie West teaches readers how to confidently prepare for and respond to the challenges that come with being a school leader. Derived from professional experience and extensive research, the strategies can be put to work exactly as described or adapted to fit the unique situations that educators face in their schools. With more than thirty years of experience as a school principal, West provides tips for teacher leaders striving to expand their skills, brand new administrators looking for guidance, and experienced principals confronting the unfamiliar or looking for fresh problem-solving ideas.

This user-friendly resource for administrators and teachers explores the ten characteristics that lead to success in the classroom, increased school morale, satisfied parents and eager, high-achieving students.

If you have ever wondered how efficient you are as a leader at school, then this book is just for you. Leadership draws a blank if it's not effective and being efficient can be practised. In fact, leadership is not confined to the single chair on the top of the chain, it is a characteristic required at all levels. Young or old, as you may be, a Principal, a teacher or aspiring to be the Head of School, the difference between the ordinary and a leader is the way you think and act, the roles you adopt and the way you treat your team. It is not about what you have, it is all about what you do with what you have. To yourself, you may be anyone, but to the world, you always have to be the hero. But how do you get there? What if you were told that it only needs the Chanakya in you to discover the leader in you and train your mind and heart? Don't believe it. Try going through the 104 traits, carefully picked and documented for you to imbibe and groom along, towards becoming the leader people would love to follow and get inspired by!