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Slides from Keynote presentation. So far so good. I have asked the site to e-mail me whenever the page is edited, but that may happen to often! we can use our discussion tab as a place to communicate and we can just keep adding stuff! :)

1.) Teacher morale is “the professional interest & enthusiasm that a person displays towards the achievement of an individual and group goals in a given job situation” (Bentley & Rempel 1980).

2.) The research states over and over again, “It’s the teacher.” 1. Give a child four straight years with effective teachers, and you could close the achievement gap. (Eric Hanushek)

SURVEY: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/teachermoraleuvaplc

2. An average child in an ineffective school with an ineffective teacher could plummet to the 3rd percentile in academic performance in two years. In contrast, take the same student and put him or her in an ineffective school, but with an effective teacher, and in two years, the student could be at the 63rd percentile in academic performance. Keep the child with an effective teacher in the same school, and performance will increase by 12 points each year. (Robert Marzano)

3. Research says that a child will normally maturate by 6 percentiles every year. Given the scenario of a child being with an ineffective teacher, it may be better for this child to not even be in school, and to have been allowed to grow through normal maturation!

3.) If a school is to have a powerful ethos, it is the teachers who must communicate it, embody it and transmit it!

4.) ENVIRONMENT: Improve entry: Repaint, Organize display cases, Add plants, Improve lighting, Student posters, Celebrate successes. Hallways: Clubs adopt a hallway, Decorate for Spirit Week. Saturday work days to aid in landscaping design and maintenance. Office staff is congenial and welcoming to all visitors and staff by providing checklist. RESEARCH: When a healthy school environment exists and teacher morale is high, "teachers feel good about each other and, at the same time, feel a sense of accomplishment from their jobs" (Hoy and Miskel 1987).

5.) ADMINISTRATION: Administrators take a class for a day or substitute Provide healthy snacks and treats to teachers Jean passes Free School Spiritwear Comp time for hall duty or tardy table duty RESEARCH: Principals can strengthen teacher morale by actively standing behind teachers. Effective principals serve as guardians of teachers' instructional time, "assist teachers with student discipline matters, allow teachers to develop discipline codes, and support teachers' authority in enforcing policy" (Blase and Kirby 1992).

6.) PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT: Student incentives for parents to attend school events. Automated phone calls to invite parents to school events. Parents donate supplies. School events to promote parent involvement such as local Bingo Night, Family Fitness Events or Spring Fling. RESEARCH: Studies state that "teachers in any school setting who receive a great deal of parental support are more satisfied than teachers who do not." (National Center for Education Statistics).

7.) EFFICACY: Students write letters to teachers thanking them for helping them grow and achieve. Celebrating teacher successes: in newsletter, on bulletin boards, on website, and school TV stations. RESEARCH: Teachers' perceptions of students and student learning can also affect their morale. In a cross-cultural study of teacher enthusiasm and discouragement that included teachers from the U.S. and six other nations, "Teachers clearly identified students as the primary and central factor that has an impact on both their professional enthusiasm and discouragement.... Teachers almost universally treasure student responsiveness and enthusiasm as a vital factor in their own enthusiasm, and conversely list low motivation in students as a discourager" (Stenlund 1995).

8.) STRESS: Permit teachers to participate in gym classes during planning bells: Workout Wednesdays. Reduce duplicative reporting and paperwork! 30 minute chair massages.
 * RESEARCH: I FOUND THIS, we have to cite it if we use it, I have included the source**


 * Research has shown that along with serviceman, social workers and linguists, teachers have**
 * surfaced at the start of the new millennium as the most afflicted with rising stress. Most alarming is**
 * that 30% of all novice teachers are leaving the profession. Annual teacher turnover is higher when compared with turnover of all other occupations. A report in June 2002 issue of the National Association of Secondary School Principals showed that annual turnover of professions other than teaching averaged 11 percent while annual turnover for the teaching profession was 15.7 percent.**


 * SOURCE: Joseph, Russell. Stress Free Teaching, A Practical Guide to Tackling Stress in Teaching, Lecturing and Tutoring. London: Kogan Page Limited, 2000.**

45 day plan: Teachers take survey. Evaluate survey results and identify areas of concern. Select strategies based on areas of concern and proceed accordingly. Follow-up survey. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/moralefollowup