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Elaine K McEwan

Use Assertive Intervention techniques to help difficult teachers become positive and energetic professionals!

How to Deal With Teachers Who are Angry, Troubled, Exhausted, or Just Plain Confused is an indispensable handbook for educators hoping to manage, shape, and improve teacher behaviors with the ultimate goal of improving student achievement and performance. This resource offers case studies from principals who have successfully managed dysfunctional and low-performing teachers, scripts for achieving effective communication, and a culture-builder's toolkit with exercises and assessments.

In this research-based text, best-selling author Elaine McEwan introduces a new approach-Assertive Intervention-for dealing with a principal's most pressing challenge: How to manage difficult teachers effectively while empowering them as professionals. Assertive Intervention strategies show administrators, staff developers and mentors how to:

• Confront difficult teachers with calm and confidence
• Conduct an Assertive Intervention meeting
• Energize and motivate teachers
• Significantly improve interactions with troubled teachers
• Build a positive school culture
• This invaluable tool provides practical tools that can be put into practice immediately, and can be used with classroom teachers across all levels.

Author

Elaine K. McEwan is a partner and educational consultant with The McEwan-Adkins Group, offering workshops in instructional leadership, team building, and raising reading achievement, K-12. A former teacher, librarian, principal, and assistant superintendent for instruction in a suburban Chicago school district, she is the author of more than thirty-five books for parents and educators. Her Corwin Press titles include Leading Your Team to Excellence: Making Quality Decisions (1997), Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership (1998), The Principal's Guide to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (1998), How to Deal with Parents Who Are Angry, Troubled, Afraid, or Just Plain Crazy (1998), The Principal's Guide to Raising Reading Achievement (1998), Counseling Tips for Elementary School Principals (1999) with Jeffrey A. Kottler, Managing Unmanageable Students: Practical Solutions for Educators (2000) with Mary Damer, The Principal's Guide to Raising Math Achievement (2000), Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools: Five Simple-to-Follow Strategies for Principals (2001), Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers: How to Hire, Mentor, and Coach Successful Teachers (2001), Teach Them ALL to Read: Catching the Kids Who Fall through the Cracks (2002), 7 Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership, 2nd Edition (2003), Making Sense of Research: What's Good, What's Not, and How to Tell the Difference (2003) with Patrick J. McEwan, Ten Traits of Highly Effective Principals: From Good to Great Performance (2003), and Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers: Using Cognitive Research to Boost K-8 Achievement (2004). Elaine was honored by the Illinois Principals Association as an outstanding instructional leader, by the Illinois State Board of Education with an Award of Excellence in the Those Who Excel Program, and by the National Association of Elementary School Principals as the National Distinguished Principal from Illinois for 1991. She received her undergraduate degree in education from Wheaton College and advanced degrees in library science (M.A.) and educational administration (Ed.D.) from Northern Illinois University. She lives with her husband and business partner E. Raymond Adkins in Oro Valley, Arizona.

Audience

Educators/Principals