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Author Whitaker, Todd

Title Invest in Your Best 9 Strategies to Grow, Support, and Celebrate Your Most Valuable Teachers
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (223 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Meet the Authors -- Support Material -- Introduction -- The Best Teachers -- Defining the Best -- The Structure of the Book -- Simple Story -- The Cost of Not Investing -- Your Investment Strategy -- Maximizing Your Investment -- Profiting the Whole System -- The Bottom Line -- Initial Deposits -- Chapter 1: Making a Blue Ocean Shift -- Toilet Paper, Value-Cost, and Teachers' Time -- The Costs Associated With Ignoring Time Factors -- Investment #1: Make Use of T.I.M.E. -- Target Their Pain Points
Inventory Their Passions -- Make It Easy (When You Can) -- Examine the Calendar -- Maximizing Your Investment: Interview Students -- Question #1: Who Are Our Best Teachers in This School? -- Question #2: Why Are These Teachers Better Than the Others? -- Question #3: What Do They Need to Keep Being the Best or to Even Get Better? -- How T.I.M.E. Profits the Whole System -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 2: Prioritizing Appreciation -- Where Are the Perks? -- The Costs Associated With Burdening Our Best -- Opportunities Disguised As Rewards: Know the Difference -- Requests That Burden
Investment #2: Frame Appreciation With the 4Ws -- Framing Appreciation -- Who -- Accounting for the Messenger -- When -- Knowing That Timing Matters -- Where -- Considering Your Public and Private Settings -- What -- Describing the Details -- Maximizing Your Investment: Understand Love Languages -- How the 4Ws Profits the Whole System -- Making Every Week Teacher Appreciation Week -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 3: Going Beyond Business Cards -- A Hashtag That Works -- The Costs Associated With Inconsistent and Intermittent Digital Media Presence -- Investment #3: Brand Using the S.P.A. Treatment
Stories + Priorities = Attraction -- Stories -- Priorities -- Attraction -- Maximizing Your Investment: Build an Army of Branders -- How the S.P.A. Treatment Profits the Whole System -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 4: Tailoring Professional Learning -- Samantha and the Smartboard -- The Costs Associated With One-Size-Fits-All Professional Learning -- Investment #4: Assess Using the Professional Learning Matrix -- Professional Learning Matrix -- Teacher Development -- Maximizing Your Investment: Avoid The Iceberg Effect -- How the Professional Learning Matrix Profits the Whole System
The Bottom Line -- Chapter 5: Looking Outside School Walls -- Professional Learning -- For Us, By Us -- The Cost Associated With Limited Opportunities -- Investment #5: Get S.E.T. for Success -- Send -- Send Your Best Teachers to the Far Reaches of the Earth -- Earn -- Allow Your Best Teachers to Earn Status Through Unique Certificates, Credentials, and Credits -- Take Charge -- Elevate Your Best Teachers' Status With Programs That Empower Them to Take Charge When They Return Home -- Maximizing Your Investment: Retain Talented Teachers -- How S.E.T. Profits the Whole System -- The Bottom Line
Summary In this powerful book from bestselling authors Todd Whitaker, Connie Hamilton, T.J. Vari, and Joseph Jones, you'll learn why it's crucial to recognize your best teachers, going beyond superficial gestures of appreciation and investing in them in deeper ways
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Chapter 6: Learning and Growing Through Peer Observations
Subject Teacher morale.
Teacher turnover.
Teachers -- Job satisfaction.
Teacher-administrator relationships.
Teacher-administrator relationships
Teacher morale
Teacher turnover
Teachers -- Job satisfaction
Form Electronic book
Author Hamilton, Connie
Jones, Joseph
Vari, T. J
ISBN 9781003811251
1003811256