Motivating & Inspiring Teachers: The Educational Leader's Guide for Building Staff Morale
By Todd Whitaker, Beth Whitaker, Dale Lumpa

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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

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.