Find out how to keep your best teachers on staff, and make sure your new teachers stay motivated beyond their first years on the job. In this book, leading educational consultant Franklin Schargel offers 162 easy-to-apply tips and strategies for principals and administrators looking to hire quality teachers, raise faculty job satisfaction, and hold onto their most effective staff members.

Sample Keys include:

• Put people before paper
• Be a boss, without being bossy
• Support the risk-takers
• Know your limitations
• You are who you hire
• The most important quality of new teachers

Realistic and highly practical, these insights will help you attain the skills and confidence to hire, train, and retain the very best teachers. In 162 Keys for School Success, Schargel outlines what research has shown must be done, along with what can be done immediately to improve teacher quality and turn around even our lowest-performing schools.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
A Word To the Wise Educator
Rationale for Writing The Book
Be The Best
1. Shared Leadership
2. Placing Blame
3. Establish a Mentoring Network
4. Reconsider Retention
And 62 More Keys!
Hire The Best
67. I Hire Only the Best
68. Recruiting the Best
69. You Are Who You Hire
70. The S.T.A.R. Interview Technique
And 34 More Keys!
Train, Inspire, and Retain The Best
105. The Best Principal I Ever Worked For
106. Teaching Is a Calling
107. Instill Pride
108. Work Is a Four-Letter Word
Snd 54 More Keys!
A Few Final Words
References