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Art of Leadership: Managing Early Childhood Organizations
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This 370-page resource is a practical, hands-on real-world guide for child care administrators. Included are 93 articles written by 63 recognized experts on child care administration as well as ideas from over 200 of our nation's most successful, professional directors. This is a must-have resource for effective management of early childhood programs.
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Foreword
Leadership
Chapter 1 - Leading an Organization
Are You An Effective Leader?
Being a Boss
Growing a Vision: Growing Your Staff
Are You Truly Professional?
Chapter 2 Developing Your Skills
When You Are the New Director Finding Your Way with Staff
Power Lines The Use and Abuse of Power in Child Care Programming
Enjoying the Good Lice: Managing Crises
How Are You Doing? A Center Director Self-Review Tool
Building and Rebuilding Your Credibility
A Directors Lot Is Not a Happy One
Chapter 3 Advocating for Children and Families
Advocacy is Everybodys Business
Cutting Through the Red Tape Strategies for Dealing with Bureaucrats
Mentoring Advocates in the Context of Early Childhood Education
Organizational Management
Chapter 4 Getting Organized
How to Prepare a Business Plan
Getting Organized: 50 Ideas for More Effective Use of Your Time
And Away We Grow! A Five Phase Model for Growing a Child Care Business
Hide It in Plain Sight
Transforming Your Computer From Paperweight to Management Tool
Chapter 5 Legal Issues
Bettering Your Odds of Not Getting Sued
Who Can You Trust? Protecting Your Organization from Internal Fraud
Teacher Aides and Other Dangerous Instruments Lessons in Legal Self-Defense by James Strickland and Mark Levbarg
Risky Business
Chapter 6 Structuring the Organization
Are You Running a Center or Building an Organization?
The Four Challenges to Succeeding in a Family Business
Making the Partnership Stronger Working with a Board of Directors
Nine Question for the Dedicated Board Member
To Profit or Not to Profit: That is the Tough Question
Financial Management
Chapter 7 Managing Money
Five Fundamentals of Financial Health
Travel Tips for Your Budget Trip
Preparing and Using Monthly Financial Reports
Guidelines for Fine Tuning Your Salary Schedule
Cost Benefit Analysis: Tools for Decision Making
Chapter 8 Raising Money
Where the Bucks Are: Sources for Funds to Grow Your Child Care Business
Developing a Proposal: When Opportunity Knocks, Will You Be Prepared?
Fishing for Dollars in Philanthropic Waters
Keys to Success in Raising Funds
State-of-the-Art Thinking on Parent Fee Policies
Nine Steps to Headache-Free Collections
Personnel Management
Chapter 9 Personnel Policies
An Ounce of Prevention: How to Write an Employee Handbook
Developing Your Employee Handbook: Job Descriptions
Developing Your Employee Handbook: Leave Policies
Developing Your Employee Handbook: Grievance Procedure
Chapter 10 Recruiting and Selecting Staff
Selection Interviews: Avoiding the Pitfalls
Observing Teaching Candidates in Action
Substitutes Were the Real Thing!
Hiring the Right Person
Hiring and Retaining Male Staff
Chapter 11 Supervising and Developing Staff
Orienting Staff Right From the Beginning
Self-Motivation: Motivation at Its Best
Creating Environments Where Teachers, Like Children, Learn Through Play
When Friction Flares Dealing with Staff Conflict
Creative Staff Training Is Key to Quality
What Do Teachers Need Most From Their Directors?
Chapter 12 Developing Your Team
The Art of Building (and Re-building) Staff Unity
Step-by-Step Guide to Team Building
Planning Staff Meetings
Mentoring Teachers . . . A Partnership in Learning
Chapter 13 Appraising Staff
Monitoring, Measuring, and Evaluating Teacher Performance
Guidelines for Effective Use of Feedback
Managing Teacher Performance While Walking Around
Assessing Staff Problems: Key to Effective Staff Development
Evaluating Staff Performance: A Valuable Training Tool
Program Development
Chapter 14 Evaluating Your Program
Program Evaluation: How to Ask the Right Questions
Looking at the Quality of Early Childhood Programs
Do You Have a Healthy Organization?
Out of the Box Ideas for Evaluation
Planning for Portfolios
Program Evaluation
Accreditation Strategies, Benefits, and Practical Tips
Chapter 15 Shaping Your Curriculum
What Should Young Children Be Learning?
Curriculum That Matters
Brain Research and Its Implications for Early Childhood Programs
Opening Doors to Activities That Include ALL Children
Children Need Rich Language Experiences
Playing the Day Away
Priorities for Health and Safety in Child Care
Food As Shared Living-and-Learning
Chapter 16 Working With Parents
Places for Childhoods Include Parents, Too
Making the Most of Parent Conferences
Grandparents as Parents Understanding the Issues
Working With Angry Parents Taking a Customer Service Approach
Dialog to Understanding Across Cultures
Community Relations
Chapter 17 Marketing Your Program
Marketing Strategies That Work in Child Care
Who Cares? Eight Principles for Dealing with Customers
Compete or Die!
Community Marketing Made Easy
Chapter 18 Community Outreach
Courting the Media with Special Events
When Shaming Fingers Point: Dealing with Negative Publicity
Putting All the Players on the Same Page: Accessing Resources for the Child and Family
The Art of Power Networking
Bringing Diversity Into Your Center
Resources for Directors
ISBN: 0-942702-24-8
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