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Building Your Building
Ensure you hire—and retain—great teachers with the support of this practical book from Jasmine K. Kullar and Scott A. Cunningham. Learn techniques for teacher recruitment and retention that will draw effective teachers to your school and reduce teacher turnover.
Benefits
- Learn how to hire the best teachers with practical recruitment and interviewing techniques as well as included teacher-screening interview questions.
- Discover why recognition is important to retaining teachers and how to recognize teachers for their accomplishments.
- Review the most effective ways to support new teachers.
- Understand why and how to set up teacher mentoring programs.
- Recognize why adult learning and continued professional development for teachers contributes to teacher success.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Million-Dollar Decisions
Part I: Hiring Great Teachers
Chapter 1: Features of Effective Teachers
Chapter 2: Hiring Practices
Part II: Keeping Great Teachers
Chapter 3: Supporting New Teachers
Chapter 4: Mentoring New Teachers
Chapter 5: Recognizing Teachers
Chapter 6: Implementing Professional Development
Afterword
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
- School Marketing Template
- Hiring Needs Checklist
- Résumé and Application Checklist
- Sample Interview Questions
- Interview Question Bank
- Interview Recording Form
- Interview Panel Commitment Form
- Sample Questions for Reference Checks
Chapter 3
- Ten Team-Building Activities
- Sample Faculty Handbook Table of Contents
- Advice to New Teachers
- Websites for New Teachers
- Minor Versus Major Infractions
- Classroom Management: Tips for New Teachers
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
- Recognition Survey
- Self-Reflection of Current Recognition Practices
- Bank of Simple Recognition Notes
- Faculty and Staff Recognition Tracker
- Yearlong Recognition Program, Month-by-Month Example
- Appreciation Days List Template
Chapter 6
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
BOOKS
- Boogren, T. H. (2015). Supporting Beginning Teachers. Bloomington, IN: Marzano Resources.
- Conzemius, A. E., & O’Neill, J. (2014). The Handbook for SMART School Teams: Revitalizing Best Practices for Collaboration (2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., Many, T. W., & Mattos, M. (2016). Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (3rd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., & Fullan, M. (2013). Cultures Built to Last: Systemic PLCs at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., & Marzano, R. J. (2011). Leaders of Learning: How District, School, and Classroom Leaders Improve Student Achievement. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Eaker, R., & Keating, J. (2015). Kid by Kid, Skill by Skill: Teaching in a Professional Learning Community at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Erkens, C., & Twadell, E. (2012). Leading by Design: An Action Framework for PLC at Work Leaders. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Ferriter, W. M., Graham, P., & Wight, M. (2013). Making Teamwork Meaningful: Leading Process-Driven Collaboration in a PLC at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Kanold, T. D. (2011). The Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
WEBSITES
- Education World
- Educator’s Reference Desk
- Kahoot!
- National Education Association, “For New Teachers”
- PBS LearningMedia Indiana
- RecruitLoop
- Rideau Recognition
- Snowfly
- Survey Monkey
- Teacher’s Corner
- Teachers Net
- Teacher Planet
- U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching
- U.S. Department of Education, “Survival Guide for New Teachers”
- We Are Teachers
