ISBN: 0-9840794-3-2

Authors: Janet Pilcher and Robin Largue

A New Book By Studer Group Brings The "Best Practices" From Healthcare to Education ... And Students Are The Biggest Winners of All.

Great teachers make great schools. They are the ones who work tirelessly to help students learn, grow and achieve, the ones who make sure parents are satisfied with their children's learning experience, and the ones who never give up.

But what role do great school and district leaders play? Quite simply, they create the conditions that foster and nourish a school full of great teachers.

As a new leader, or a seasoned one, your mission is to hire only the best teachers you can to support everyone under your directorship to consistently turn in a performance that has a profound impact on students. That's where this new book comes in. How To Lead Teachers to Become Great, by Janet Pilcher and Robin Largue, helps education leaders create great places for teachers to teach, students to learn, and places for parents to send their children. The book is structured around five Evidence-Based Classroom Learning Principles-and 14 Tactics that fall underneath them-which result in improved learning results, improved parental satisfaction and improved teacher performance. It will:

• Help school leaders recruit and retain highly effective teachers
• Provide techniques for dealing with low performing teachers
• Help leaders create a results-driven culture
• Guide teachers on what they can expect from leaders
• Focus teachers on what students are learning rather than what they, themselves, are teaching

Ultimately, every idea in How to Lead Teachers to Become Great is aimed at helping students achieve outstanding results-which is, after all, the goal of everyone involved. The co-authors, Janet Pilcher and Robin Largue have spent their professional lives being teachers and leaders, working with other teachers and leaders to achieve outstanding student achievement results. Janet started her education career as a high school mathematics teacher and Robin began as a high school history teacher. Robin continued in the K12 environment by becoming the second female to lead a high school in Escambia County School District, Florida. In 2001 she took an educational leadership faculty position at the University of West Florida. Janet Pilcher completed her doctoral degree in measurement and evaluation. She served as the associate dean of the University Of West Florida for seven years until she was selected to become the dean of an expanded College of Professional Studies.

Testimonials

• "I believe teachers and school administrators will find this book very useful. It's packed with clear and informative strategies on how to improve practice to increase student learning. It will also be very helpful to administrators in identifying and retaining strong teachers who are effective in improving student performance."
  Dr. Catherine Emihovich, Dean, University of Florida

• "Teaching is the final common pathway of efforts to improve student achievement. Leaders who want to help teachers improve instruction will find Janet Pilcher and Robin Largue have provided a rich menu of intuitively appealing ideas and practices. What the authors offer is grounded on their extensive professional experiences and connected to solid scholarship. Those aspiring to be an "instructional leader" will benefit from this book."
  Ronald Gallimore, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, UCLA

• "I speak to thousands of teachers every year and reinforce that it is what the teacher knows and can do that is the most important factor in student achievement. Janet and Robin capture this very significant point as they provide some essential tactics for school leaders to follow so that teachers can teach and students can learn."
  Dr. Harry Wong Author of the bestselling book in education, The First Days of School