Over 400 schools throughout the world have adopted Invitational Education to foster innovative thinking, sustained positive action, and the creation of socially and emotionally safe schools. As educators are now involved in an epic rethinking of what they do and how they do it, "Developing Inviting Schools" provides a dependable guide…

While there are already loads of books about how to deal with stress and take care of your health, at last here's one that takes into account a teacher's heavy workload and busy lifestyle. The author, an experienced teacher himself, avoids the blithe simplicity of typical "self-help" books to give you factual evidence, realistic steps, and…

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: (1) Motivate your faculty with the Friday Focus; (2)…

Provides advice on minimizing classroom alienation (powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness, isolation, and self-estrangement) through specific classroom strategies. Concludes that student alienation effects learning as well as evaluation. A conscious effort to increase student integration improves teaching, student learning, and the…

Given the outside pressures of layoffs, inflation, and public criticism, many teachers are turning to the specifics of teaching for release. Talking with one's students, developing humor in the classroom, experimenting with a slower pace of life, and thinking about self-sufficiency can lead to renewed energy and interest. (Author/SJL)

To live more comfortably with emotionally disturbed students, teachers must learn to manage discomfort with their behavior. (Author)

A teacher shares his method of reducing the negative feelings teachers sometimes get and of saving time and energy. At the end of each day, he spends 10 or 15 minutes analyzing and evaluating his lessons of the day. Ten tips are included. (MT)

This article gives first-year teachers advice on topics ranging from dealing with pupils' behavior to giving oneself a pat on the back every day. (MT)

Suggests that exercise, diet, voice lessons, or a new look might do more for teaching effectiveness than graduate courses in education. (CM)

Points out that fulfilling role-related needs can eliminate or reduce burnout, stress, and apathy. Provides a list of needs and ways of satisfying these needs. (PD)

Suggests that building unity and pride through activities, social events, and professionalism will prevent destructive conflicts among the staff members of student publications. (JL)

Recounts how awareness of the fact that she could retire if she wanted to changed the way a teacher taught and thought, and allowed her to relax. (JL)

Discusses the value of computer-related work by English teachers as demonstrations of professional development for tenure, promotion, or merit. (JL)

Reinforcement of appropriate student behavior in order to create peer role models is an effective disciplinary technique for physical education classes. (LH)

Discusses Plato's beauty as simple, organic unity sensed intuitively and reliably by those experienced in their field. Supports the argument that English teachers are capable of assessing student writing abilities when given opportunities to exercise their professional abilities. Concludes that reliable assessment comes from experienced teachers,…