Resources recommended by Liaisons

MaryBeth Strautz, NESS Liaison for Dillard High, recommends Your First Year As a High School Teacher, by Rominger & Laughrea to all of her New Educators. She explains that it is the one book that specifically addresses the reality and needs of new high school teachers.

Letitia Ingram-Phillips, Liaison at Rock Island Elementary, provides each of her New Educators with a set of You Can Handle Them All: Quick Action Card Deck by Robert DeBruyn. Each card in the deck describes strategies for dealing with a specific set of classroom behaviors – what works and what doesn’t.

Jeanne Kraus, Margate Elementary’s NESS Liaison, enthusiastically recommends Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers by Elaine McKewan to all the potential Instructional Coaches she trained in the summer. There is no doubt that in time their copies will be as dog-eared and worn as her own.

Source: Joy Rabin, HRD Program Facilitator