Books written by Todd Whitaker

50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior: Simple Solutions to Complex Challenges

With this book, you can begin to introduce a host of new strategies into your teaching practice today! Companion Study Guide Available
Dealing with Difficult Parents

in their children«s education, but to identify ways in which they are different ... This knowledge will lead us to a better understanding of how to deal ...
A School Leader's Guide to Dealing with Difficult Parents

In Dealing with Difficult Parents (Whitaker, 2002), there is a great deal of information on the factors that affect today«s parents and cause such a ...
Dealing with Difficult Teachers

The reason we should not want to constantly deal with parents who are right is ... That«s whywe chose education¦because we want to be on the side of right.
Study Guide to Dealing with Difficult Parents

This Study Guide provides a variety of thought-provoking questions and activities to help you implement the concepts in the bestselling book, Dealing with Difficult Parents, 2nd Edition.
Study Guide, Seven Simple Secrets: What the BEST Teachers Know and Do!

This Study Guide provides thought-provoking questions and easy-to-implement activities to help you apply the concepts in the bestselling book, Seven Simple Secrets, 2nd Edition.
Dealing with Difficult Parents

In this updated second edition of the bestselling Dealing with Difficult Parents, award-winning educators Todd Whitaker and Douglas J. Fiore help you develop a repertoire of tools and skills for comfortable and effective interaction with ...
Quick Answers for Busy Teachers: Solutions to 60 Common Challenges

This book helps teachers avoid some of the frustration by providing solutions for the sixty most common challenges teachers face.
What Great Principals Do Differently: Twenty Things That Matter Most

This essential third edition features helpful new strategies for recruiting talent through better interview and reference questions, as well as tips for retaining talent.
What Great Teachers Do Differently: Nineteen Things That Matter Most

This essential third edition features new sections on why it’s about more than relationships, how to focus on a consistent, engaging learning environment, and the importance of choosing the right mode—business, parent, child—to ...
Essential Truths for Teachers

With the inspiring anecdotes and insights in this book, you’ll be reminded of your greater purpose – making a difference in students’ lives.
Seven Simple Secrets: What the BEST Teachers Know and Do!

In this bestselling book, internationally-acclaimed authors Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker reveal the seven simple secrets of effective teaching that can be applied in any classroom.
Study Guide: What Great Principals Do Differently: Eighteen Things That Matter Most

Designed to be used by facilitators and participants in seminars, book study groups, or other professional development events, this book guides critical thinking, collaboration, and professional growth based on the concepts in Todd Whitaker ...
Dealing with Difficult Parents: (and with Parents in Difficult Situations)

Let's instead focus on better ways to deal with the anger itself . As Stephen Covey says in describing an important habit of interpersonal effectiveness , “ Seek first to understand , then to be understood ” ( Covey , 1990 , p . 255 ) .
Essential Truths for Teachers

With the inspiring anecdotes and insights in this book, you'll be reminded of your greater purpose--making a difference in students' lives"--
A School Leader's Guide to Dealing with Difficult Parents

This may not even make sense at first glance, but one of my mantras as a principal was that I would rather deal with a teacher who is wrong rather than deal with a parent who is right. My mantra was not about an isolated situation.
Seven Simple Secrets: What the Best Teachers Know and Do

Youcan deal withdisciplinechallenges inaproactivemanner or ina reactive manner. If you deal with them in a proactive manner, by nipping them in the budbeforethey escalate intoreal problems, yourapproaches willbeeffec- tive.
Shifting the Monkey: The Art of Protecting Good People From Liars, Criers, and Other Slackers

The result ofthe leader's inactionis thata lotof good people end upwith Fear Monkeys on their backs, and both morale and output will suffer. To avoid the Avoidance Monkey Deal with problems now. Nip them in the bud while theyare still ...
The Ten-Minute Inservice: 40 Quick Training Sessions that Build Teacher Effectiveness

So what's the big deal? Students are aggravating at times. They try our patience, and yes, they push our buttons—BINGO! Students should never even know that their teachers have buttons.
Quick Answers for Busy Teachers: Solutions to 60 Common Challenges

Knowing this will help you deal with the situation more mindfully and effectively, and less emotionally. TRY THIS The following are several ways to deal appropriately 3 3GC01 10/30/2014 8:28:20 Page 3.