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Title: If You Don't Feed the Teachers They Eat the Students: Guide to Success for Administrators and Teachers by Neila A. Connors ISBN: 0-86530-457-2 Publisher: Incentive Pubns Pub. Date: March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: absolutely wonderful
Comment: This book was definitely not only my style of philosophy but also writing. For a quick read for an aspiring administrator it was great. Could be a pick-me-up for an experienced administrator. Simplistic but great. I have shared exerpts with staff and students.
Rating: 4
Summary: Connors Satifies
Comment: Fashioned literally as a menu for administrative success, Neila Connors' If you Don't Feed the Teachers They Eat the Students, is a straight talking street smart triumph that is a must for the library of every school administrator. It offers many clever and strategic yet practical suggestions that can be implemented immediately by administrators at all levels. In the savory first chapter entitled, "Whetting your Appetite-the Menu Please" Connors promises a book steeped in practical experience and not research, a promise she keeps throughout. Nevertheless, it should come as no surprise that many of her suggestions parallel current educational research, especially with regard to building relationships with staff members and effecting positive changes in organizations.
Connors organizes the eight-chapter book to mirror the cooking and eating of a fine meal. From Chapter 3-"Creating the Ambiance-Preparing to Dine" to Chapter 8-"The Check, Please!" Connors' clever design is sure to ring true with those who enjoy both their meals and their reading material presented in tidy scrumptious portions. For example Chapter 4 discusses "Passing the P's", which, instead of asking for round green vegetables, provides a list of important attributes of successful administrators, all of which begin with the letter "P". The chapter goes on to describe each item in detail, but articulating these thoughts by a listing of "P" words is convenient and, dare I say, tasteful.
Connors really gets cooking in the third chapter, where she sets the tone for the remainder of the book by articulating what seems to be her core belief. "The quality of employees will be directly proportional to the quality of life you maintain for them," is the quote from Charles E. Bryan that begins the chapter, which Connors follows it up with passionate and detailed suggestions about how to set up and maintain a quality environment in a school. Along with trumpeting administrators' needs for a belief in yourself, your potential, and your ability, she describes the obstacles that often get in the way. Most comical is her discussion of the attributes of the "Climate Controllers" who exist in every school. Her descriptions of Climate Busters, Climate Manipulators, Climate Cruisers, and Climate Improvers, are sure to bring smiles to the faces of even the most jaded administrators. Ending the chapter is a list of ten strategies that contribute to a healthy and happy climate, a list that could easily go on a poster or in a picture frame and remain on an administrator's desk for the remainder of her career.
While this book never claims to be something it is not, the large numbers of lists make it read much more like a reference book than a narrative. For those readers who prefer a cleverly worded vignette to help articulate a point, this book will fall short. However, if you're interrupted and put the book down, it doesn't take long to refocus when you start reading again. This may indeed be the book's most endearing feature for those administrators who try to read this book during the course of a normal school day.
Even those serious readers who sour on its campy organizational theme will certainly agree that Connors' book is filled with enough excellent tidbits to make it reasonably satisfying. In fact, every administrator will find something usable in it that has the potential to make an immediate impact. An appetizing and quick read, this book is probably best used as a reference manual or for an occasional administrative literary snack. If a research article is the entrée, this is certainly a most satisfying and memorable dessert.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the Most Important Elements of Leadership in Schools
Comment: There are many things Educational Leaders are unable to do because Education is so commonly plagued by inadequate funding. However, one thing that too many educational leaders can do, and too often fail to do, is to affirm their teachers. Affirmation and recognition don't require more money. With an ongoing mindfulness of "taking care of, and honoring teachers" a school leader can do tremendous things for morale and ultimately for student success.
Studies of the reasons school leaders lose their jobs often point out that there are too many of them who are not present to their teachers,, who fail to include them in decision-making, who don't know even know their teachers names, and who far too often, treat their teachers as insignificant.
While there is a lot of paperwork and other distractions n educational administration, the highest priority of a leader has to be the students and the teachers who work directly with those students! Teachers, by and large, are highly devoted individuals with a special calling in life. Yet, teachers are human too. They have the need to be respected, listened to, acknowledged and celebrated. This is where too many school leaders fall short.
In, If You Don't Feed the Teachers, They Will Eat the Students, author Neila A. Connors, points out some simple and valuable ideas for letting teachers know that they are valued and appreciated. Humorous in tone, Connors illustrates a very clear plan for continuously addressing the affirmation of teachers.
While educational leaders must continue to advance the salaries, working conditions and status of teachers in this country, they also need to pay more attention to the basic human needs of these vitally important people who most directly serve the kids -- the only reason school administrators have a job in the first place.
Basic? Yes. Usual? No! Read -- If You Don't Feed the Teachers, They Will Eat the Students. High marks for Neila Connors!
Daniel J. Maloney
Saint Paul, Minnesota USA
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Title: If You're Riding a Horse and It dies, Get off by Char Forsten, Jim Grant ISBN: 1884548253 Publisher: Crystal Springs Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: What Principals Do When No One is Looking by Jim Grant ISBN: 1884548199 Publisher: Crystal Springs Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: What Teachers Do When No One Is Looking by Jim Grant, Irv Richardson, Patrick Belfiori ISBN: 1884548172 Publisher: Crystal Springs Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: What School Secretaries Do When No One is Looking by Irv Richardson, Jim Grant ISBN: 1884548237 Publisher: Crystal Springs Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Testing Miss Malarkey by Judy Finchler, Kevin O'Malley ISBN: 0802776248 Publisher: Walker & Co Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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