This book helps you sharpen your ability to hire better teachers for your school, improve the ones who are already there, and keep your best and brightest on board.

Learn how to turn your school board members into heroes by helping them make smart, worthwhile decisions that they will deserve to brag about. In this much-needed book, Ryan Donlan and Todd Whitaker offer practical strategies to help superintendents develop better working relationships with their boards. You‘ll discover how to: reconnect board members to the real purpose of education, despite their agendas work with your board more effectively during meetings and at times in between guide board members into more productive roles when they overreach beyond policymaking connect and...

Over 600 insightful, witty nuggets to motivate and inspire you... and everyone else at your school. Teachers--display these quotes in your classrooms!Administrators--insert them into your faculty memos and share them at staff meetings!Why is this book unique?- it includes over 100 original quotes from internationally acclaimed speaker and educator Todd Whitaker- it features real quotes from real students which echo wit and wisdom for educators- each quote has a direct connection to your life as an educatorExample quote from this book . . ."Great teachers have high expectations for their...