The Solution-Focused Educator: Breakthrough Strategies for Teachers and School A

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The Solution Focused Educator examines the causal effects of stress and its impact on the mindset of educators. By examining the reactions to stress, Franklin provides strategies for improving your approach to the classroom. It is a valuable resource, not just for changing school culture; but changing the mindset of the individual educator.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description

The Solution Focused Educator is intended for classroom teachers and school based administrators at all levels. The content serves as a roadmap for how educators can reframe their mindset to tackle the current challenges in schools. Examples are given throughout the book to demonstrate how you can reduce stress by learning new mental strategies that shift problem solving away from needing others to change.The goal is for teachers and school leaders to better understand how to reshape their preconditioned responses to challenges by closing the gap that exists between the experiences they have on the job and their reactive nature to them. The book captures a unique twist under the topic of motivation and how to reframe one's attitude towards the typical discomforts faced by today's educator. The writing aims to establish a deeper understanding about the intimate relationship between problem identification and the anxiety that ensues within this psychological dyad. Utilizing the shape of a triangle, the author consistently makes the mindset concepts easy to understand. He utilizes this shape as a strong representational pattern that clearly illustrates how educators can, mentally, diagram problematic issues, outline their emotional reactions to them, and create a new attitude of solvability.

Author Biography

Todd Franklin is currently a principal at Forestville Elementary School in Great Falls, Virginia. Prior to his principalship, Todd served as an administrator at the middle school level and in the central office, as a special projects administrator, for the Fairfax County Public School system.

Table of Contents

ForewordTodd WhitakerPrefaceAcknowledgmentsSection I: Understanding Your Current Mindset Before Generating SolutionsThe Me-Self AssessmentChapter 1: School Mindset: The Brain and The TriangleChapter 2: Professional Happiness-Anticipation is the KeyChapter 3: Emotional Pressurization and Your School MindsetChapter 4: Adopting a Different View for School Before SeptemberChapter 5: Achieving that Balance in Schools--Listen to Your Self-TalkSection II. Action Steps for Tackling the Compressed MindsetChapter 6: Reset Your Bar of Contentment at the Beginning of SchoolChapter 7: Winning with Whys: Getting to tnhe Root of Your School StressChapter 8: Focusing vs. Fixating in SchoolsChapter 9: Remove Your School Sandbags and Become Your Own InnovatorSection III: Real World Application for the Solution Focused EducatorChapter 10: Meetings at SchoolChapter 11: Grading and ReportingChapter 12: School Climate and Personalized Professional DevelopmentChapter 13: Strategies for Conflict Resolution Teacher-Teacher-PrincipalSection IV: Personal Growth for The Solution Focused EducatorChapter 14: Social Networking, Learned Shifting: Millennials and BeyondChapter 15: Is Teaching the Profession for You?Chapter 16: Resiliency: Don't Let You Beat You and the Roles We Play at SchoolChapter 17: Backwards Design and Winning DifferentlyAppendix A: Playbook of Professional Development Exercises for School StaffBibliographyAbout the Author

Review

Todd Franklin's book, The Solution-Focused Educator, is an enlightening sourcebook for teachers and administrators who want to further develop a growth mindset that leverages these new skills and attitude to best serve their students, colleagues and parents.  Referring to a number of experts in the field of human motivation and mindset innovation, Todd brings educators through a step-by-step guide for reframing their own mindsets for the better.  In plain language, Todd utilizes personal development triangles to provide educators with tangible, real-world solutions to everyday experiences in a school setting.  He shows teachers and school leaders how to re-assess their own habitual tendencies to problem solving and reshape those thought patterns for a more solution focused approach, in their quest to be most successful, in their work in all of our schools. -- Pat Murphy, EdD, superintendent, Arlington Public Schools, 2015 Superintendent of the Year, Virginia Association of School SuperintendentsIn life, there are things you cannot change. But one thing you have complete control over is your attitude. Todd Franklin's new book The Solution-Focused Educator gives insight and concrete ways to govern your attitude. By using a personal development model, which Todd created, you will increase your opportunities for greater satisfaction on the job, with your family and your friends. -- Arlene Randall, principal, Fairfax County Public Schools, VirginiaWe live in a society where the force of rapid innovation demands a reconceptualization of the purpose and function of public education, and as the role of the teacher evolves to meet this need, the challenge of shifting fixed mindsets looms. Most educators don't disagree with the "what" and "why" of this change, but many struggle to actualize the "how" in light of all that they are expected to do and accomplish. By building on principles of brain and behavioral sciences, author Todd Franklin in The Solution-Focused Educator presents an actionable strategy for negotiating the emotional conflicts that can stifle and suppress. Through several case studies, teachers and those who support them are invited to connect with their array of daily demands through a lens of empowerment, where harnessing emotional responses to stimulants creates the conditions necessary for growth. This text offers a metacognitive routine that, through practice, can lead to the "how" that is necessary for education practices to meet the task of the 21st century. -- Christie Day, educational specialist, Learning Innovations, former middle school teacher, Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia

Long Description

The Solution Focused Educator is intended for classroom teachers and school based administrators at all levels. The content serves as a roadmap for how educators can reframe their mindset to tackle the current challenges in schools. Examples are given throughout the book to demonstrate how you can reduce stress by learning new mental strategies that shift problem solving away from needing others to change. The goal is for teachers and school leaders to better understand how to reshape their preconditioned responses to challenges by closing the gap that exists between the experiences they have on the job and their reactive nature to them. The book captures a unique twist under the topic of motivation and how to reframe one's attitude towards the typical discomforts faced by today's educator. The writing aims to establish a deeper understanding about the intimate relationship between problem identification and the anxiety that ensues within this psychological dyad. Utilizing the shape of a triangle, the author consistently makes the mindset concepts easy to understand. He utilizes this shape as a strong representational pattern that clearly illustrates how educators can, mentally, diagram problematic issues, outline their emotional reactions to them, and create a new attitude of solvability.

Review Quote

Todd Franklin's book, The Solution-Focused Educator, is an enlightening sourcebook for teachers and administrators who want to further develop a growth mindset that leverages these new skills and attitude to best serve their students, colleagues and parents. Referring to a number of experts in the field of human motivation and mindset innovation, Todd brings educators through a step-by-step guide for reframing their own mindsets for the better. In plain language, Todd utilizes personal development triangles to provide educators with tangible, real-world solutions to everyday experiences in a school setting. He shows teachers and school leaders how to re-assess their own habitual tendencies to problem solving and reshape those thought patterns for a more solution focused approach, in their quest to be most successful, in their work in all of our schools.

Details ISBN1475837801 Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Year 2018 ISBN-10 1475837801 ISBN-13 9781475837803 Format Paperback Author Todd Elliott Franklin Subtitle Breakthrough Strategies for Teachers and School Administrators to Reframe Their Mindsets Country of Publication United States Pages 180 Publication Date 2018-03-01 DEWEY 371.1 Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Place of Publication Lanham, MD Short Title The Solution-Focused Educator Language English UK Release Date 2018-03-01 NZ Release Date 2018-03-01 US Release Date 2018-03-01 Illustrations Text Boxes; Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; Black & White Illustrations Alternative 9781475837797 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2018-03-14 We've got this

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