Product Description

This sourcebook overflows with strategies and activities for infusing enthusiasm, focus, and productivity into faculty meetings, setting a model for school wide engagement, and building team relationships that can transform school culture.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #163330 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
"Sheila and John Eller have used their experiences in educational institutions to frame their suggestions in ways that are easy to relate to our own uses. One of the strengths of the book is the manner in which the authors examine each meeting aspect, described how problems might hamper the effectiveness of a meeting and them provide numerous approaches to positively impact a meeting. The book is filled with fun and engaging activities. It is very easy to read and see the applicability of the content. I recommend this book to anyone who plans meetings." (NACADA Journal, Spring 2007 )

"The helpful suggestions and creative approaches will help school administrators create an atmosphere conducive to productive relationships that can transform a school's culture." (Curriculum Connections, Fall 2006 )

About the Author

John Eller has had a variety of experiences in working with adults over the years he has been in education. His experiences include working with educational leaders at Virginia Tech University; developing teacher leaders in a master's program; serving as the executive director of Minnesota ASCD; working as a principal’s training center director; a position as an assistant superintendent for curriculum, learning, and staff development; and several principal positions in a variety of settings. In addition to the work he does in training and supporting facilitators, Eller also does work in the areas of dealing with difficult people; building professional learning communities; employee evaluation; conferencing skills; coaching skills; strategic planning strategies; school improvement planning and implementation; differentiated instruction; leadership for differentiation; employee recruitment, selection, and induction; supervisory skills; and effective teaching strategies.

Eller has authored books on substitute teaching, wrote The Training Video Series for the Professional School Bus Driver, The Principals’ Guide to Custodial Supervision, and contributes articles for the publication Superintendents Only. He wrote Effective Group Facilitation in Education: How to Energize Meetings and Manage Difficult Groups, and coauthored So Now You’re the Superintendent, the best-selling Energizing Staff Meetings, and Creative Strategies to Improve School Culture, all through Corwin Press. He has his PhD in educational leadership and policy studies from Loyola University-Chicago and his MS in educational leadership from the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

Sheila Eller has worked in a multitude of educational settings during her career. In addition to her current position as a principal in the Fairfax County Virginia Public Schools, she has served as a middle school principal in the Moundsview Minnesota School District, as a principal in other schools in Minnesota and Illinois, as a university professor, as a special education teacher, a Title I math teacher, and a self-contained classroom teacher in Grades 1-4. Eller has also been a member of the executive board of Minnesota ASCD and has been a regional president of the Minnesota Association of Elementary School Principals.

Eller is a regular presenter at the ASCD National Conventions, sharing her expertise on the topic of effective staff meetings and multiage instruction. While she served as a professor at National-Louis University in Evanston, Illinois, she worked on the development team for a classroom mathematics series that was adopted by several districts in the region. Her classroom and instructional techniques were featured on a video that was produced as a complement to this series. She works with educators in developing energized staff meetings, school improvement initiatives, multiage teaching strategies, employee supervision, and other teaching and learning content areas. In addition to Working With and Evaluating Difficult School Employees, Eller coauthored the best-selling Energizing Staff Meetings and the book Creative Strategies to Improve School Climate through Corwin Press. She has advanced coursework in educational administration and supervision from St. Cloud State University, her master’s degree from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, and a bachelor's degree from Iowa State University.

Customer Reviews

Very good resource to use !
I found "Energizing Staff Meetings" to be a very helpful resource as I planned my faculty August workshops this year. The book is full of ideas on creative ways to start meetings, how to refocus during a long meeting, how to bring in music, problem solving and a host of other ideas to make staff meetings productive and fun.