Inspiring Professional Growth : Empowering Strategies to Lead, Motivate, and Engage Early Childhood Teachers

You've probably seen it: frustration builds, teacher turnover rises, staff meetings become insufferable, indifference breeds throughout the school. The solution? Exploring new ways to engage and motivate teachers. When your staff feels supported and empowered to grow and develop their skills, your program and the children will thrive. Implementing key conceptscollaboration, individualized professional-development plans, and team goalscan completely revolutionize your program. In this follow-up to her bookInspiring Early Childhood Leadership,author Susan MacDonald, MEd, addresses the need for offering nurturing, encouraging, and empowering professional development. Featuring easy-to-use tips, research-based strategies, leadership vignettes, and interactive and reflective exercises,Inspiring Professional Growthprovides leaderswith a framework to create a system that supports teachers throughout their careers.Learn how to:Acquire new leadership skillsGain confidence in your leadership roleEstablish a growth cultureWork with and nurture even challenging staff membersCultivate collaboration and collective goal settingFacilitate meaningful professional developmentInspiring Professional Growthwill guide you to experience firsthand the many benefits, from better child outcomes to increased teacher retention, of creating a nurturing and empowering workplace.