Communicate & Motivate : The School Leader's Guide to Effective Communication

Develop the skills you need to communicate effectively and in ways that motivate your faculty towards success. Written especially for principals and other administrators, this book will empower you to communicate well as you work to promote a student-centered environment best suited to schoolwide achievement. Learn to approach one-on-one communication with confidence, with tips on:Making time for courageous conversationsChoosing words carefullyImproving parent/teacher communication from the inside-outUsing online communicationAnd more!Filled with real-world examples, Communicate and Motivate provides a humorous, insightful look into the conversations that happen within a school every day. Arneson offers targeted strategies for ensuring the best outcome - for you and your colleagues.

Mourning the Dreams is an accessible and moving account of parents experiences of grief and recovery after losing an infant during pregnancy, childbirth, or within the first month of life. Drawing from the sociology of emotions, health research and psychology, her own experience, and a range of qualitative methods, Claudia Malacrida finds that bereaved parents not only grieve their child and its unrealized potential, but often find their personal experiences are at odds with social forces and prevailing assumptions about the nature of their loss and how they should react to is. She explores the meanings parents create as they face denial, silence, and other reactions from friends, family, communities, coworkers, the medical community, and even within spousal relationships. She also describes the courage and creativity of parents who create and negotiate meanings that help them grieve, recover, and manage relationships.