Cultivating and Keeping Committed Special Education Teachers or Creating Modern Capitalism

Cultivating and Keeping Committed Special Education Teachers: What Principals and District Leaders Can Do

Author: Bonnie S Billingsley

Improve teacher retention by understanding and supporting the work of special education teachers!

Are you concerned about special education teacher attrition? Do you wonder about how to meet the demand for highly qualified special educators? This book highlights the problems that drive many special educators out of teaching and outlines practical recommendations that leaders can use to increase retention. Drawing on field experience as well as research findings, Billingsley provides a comprehensive framework for supporting special educators.

Cultivating and Keeping Committed Special Education Teachers provides effective ways to:

• Recruit and hire qualified special educators
• Provide responsive induction programs for new teachers
• Design effective professional development opportunities
• Create inclusive and collaborative schools
• Provide reasonable work assignments and reduce paperwork
• Promote wellness by reducing stress

This book emphasizes the important role that principals play in supporting special educators and how they can make a difference in what special educators accomplish in their schools. Numerous assessments, tools, and resources are included to help leaders, mentors, and teachers improve the conditions of special education teaching.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
1	Introduction : a leader's framework for teacher retention	3
2	Why special educators leave and why it matters	14
3	Recruiting and hiring highly qualified special educators	33
4	Supporting new special educators through responsive induction	61
5	Designing effective professional development	95
6	Creating inclusive and collaborative schools	117
7	Designing reasonable work assignments	133
8	Promoting wellness by reducing stress	155
9	Strategic planning for teacher quality and retention	173
A	Principal support questionnaire	191
B	Teacher concerns inventory	194
C	Teacher exit interview	199
D	Teacher follow-up exit questionnaire	201
E	Teacher workforce survey	204
F	Conducting focus group interviews	207

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Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions

Author: Thomas K McCraw

What explains the national economic success of the United States, Britain, Germany, and Japan? What can be learned from the long-term championship performances of leading business firms in each country? How important were specific innovations by individual entrepreneurs? And in the end, what is the true nature of capitalist development?

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Thomas K. McCraw and his coauthors present penetrating answers to these questions. Creating Modern Capitalism is the first book to explain for a broad audience the interconnections among technological innovation, management science, the power of entrepreneurship, and national economic growth. The authors approach each question from a comparative framework and with a unique triple focus on national economic systems, particular companies, and individual business leaders.

Above all, the book focuses on how specific entrepreneurs influenced the economic success of their countries: Josiah Wedgwood and Henry Royce in Britain; August Thyssen and Georg von Siemens in Germany; Henry Ford, Alfred Sloan, and the two Thomas J. Watsons in the United States; Sakichi Toyoda, Masatoshi Ito, and Toshifumi Suzuki in Japan.

The product of a three-year collaborative effort at the Harvard Business School, the book combines cutting-edge scholarship with a finely tuned sense of the art of management. It will engage general readers as well as those with a special interest in entrepreneurship and the evolution of national business systems.