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How to Deal With Parents Who Are Angry, Troubled, Afraid, or Just Plain Crazy

How to Deal With Parents Who Are Angry, Troubled, Afraid, or Just Plain Crazy

by ElaineK.McEwan-Adkins (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

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Synopsis

A practical, quick-read resource to help school principals and teachers at any level gain the skills needed to deal with disgruntled and unhappy parents. Readers will learn what the concerns of parents are, how they can defuse anger and actually solve the most common school problems.

Special features of this book include The Healthy School Checklist and an annotated list of resources, sample policies, documents, and letters.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 104
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Corwin
Published: 01 May 1998
ISBN 10: 0803965257
ISBN 13: 9780803965256

Media Reviews
Here are tips for dealing with parents diplomatically, and for acquiring the skills to disarm emotionally charged behavior. The book features over two dozen strategies for defusing angry parents, 50 practical ways to build parental support, along with annotated resources to help administrators deal with parents. * The High School Magazine, National Association of Secondary School Principals *
Author Bio
Elaine K. McEwan is an educational consultant with The McEwan-Adkins Group, offering professional development for educators to assist them in meeting the challenges of literacy learning in Grades Pre K-6. A former teacher, librarian, principal, and assistant superintendent for instruction in several suburban Chicago school districts, Elaine is the award-winning and best-selling author of more than three dozen books for educators. Her Corwin Press titles include Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools: Five Simple-to-Follow Strategies for Principals, Second Edition (2006), Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers: Using Cognitive Research to Boost K-8 Achievement (2004), Ten Traits of Highly Effective Principals: From Good to Great Performance (2003), Making Sense of Research: What's Good, What's Not, and How to Tell the Difference (2003), Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership, Second Edition (2003), Teach Them ALL to Read: Catching the Kids Who Fall through the Cracks (2002), and Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers: How to Hire, Mentor, and Coach Successful Teachers (2001). McEwan was honored by the Illinois Principals Association as an outstanding instructional leader, by the Illinois State Board of Education with an Award of Excellence in the Those Who Excel Program, and by the National Association of Elementary School Principals as the National Distinguished Principal from Illinois for 1991. She received her undergraduate degree in education from Wheaton College and advanced degrees in library science (MA) and educational administration (EdD) from Northern Illinois University. McEwan lives with her husband and business partner, E. Raymond Adkins, in Oro Valley, Arizona. Between them, Elaine and Ray have five children, fifteen grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.