Here's a remarkable sourcebook that places at your fingertips 236 tested model letters-- virtually every work-related letter you'll ever need-- to parents, students, faculty, and community leaders. Each letter is ideal for its particular purpose and each is ready to use at once or quickly adapt, saving you hours of valuable time and effort.

You will find letters covering every conceivable aspect of your job-- everything from recommending a student to responding to criticism, from expressing appreciation or sympathy to replying to a request...applying for a position...opposing a decision...or making a complaint.

For ease of use, all 236 letters are conveniently organized into 10 fast-access sections:

Effective recommendations: 20 recommendation letters (positive and negative) for school and college entrance, awards, special programs, jobs, and more

Dealing with illness and death: 22 letters of sympathy, condolence, and understanding for everything from the illness of a teacher to the death of a student's parent

Dealing with student behavior: 21 letters addressing good and bad student behavior-- covering various infractions, warnings, suspension, and expulsion.

Meaningful evaluations: 22 positive and negative evaluations of students, teachers, administrators, programs, events, schools, texts and learning materials.

Writing for the community: 21 letters supporting or opposing proposed legislation, policies, or decisions; responding to criticism; replying to invitations or requests.

Handling complaints: 24 letters to get results from your complaints about services, delays, defects, and decisions-- and to answer complaints from others

Dealing with themedia: 21 letters involving the media, both or and con-- from requests for coverage or TV time to responses to negative articles and guidelines for media on campus.

Handling job-related issues: 20 letters related to your job and the hobs of others, from announcing your availability for a position to notification of retirement.

Expressing thanks & appreciation: 31 letters that show appreciation for awards, gifts, support, volunteer, help, and acts of generosity and kindness.

Special letters for everyday events: 34 letters that deal in a special way with day-to-day happenings: acceptances, confirmations, explanations, apologies, requests, and more.

The Educator's Lifetime Encyclopedia of Letters virtually writes your toughest letters for you! It is a resource every educator can use and refer to again and again, for letters that are ready-to-go "as is" or easy to adapt for nearly any specific work-related purpose.

This unique portfolio puts at your fingertips 158 model speeches covering virtually every topic a school administrator must address. Included are speeches for holidays, speeches for celebrations, speeches for parent/teacher meetings, plus eulogies, testimonials, introductions and much more. Each speech feature special data as to its topic, audience, time of presentation, pitfalls to avoid, as well as suggestions for movements or gestures and strategies for getting maximum audience involvement.

OUTLINE OF CONTENTS

• Part I: Effective Model Speeches For All Occasions
• 1. Icebreakers and anecdotes that are dignified -- yet funny
• 2. Introductions and transitions you can use when serving as MC
• 3. A variety of speeches for opening or closing a program
• 4. Speeches that aid in effective school-- community communications
• 5. Speeches to use when addressing your fellow educators
• 6. Speeches that will help you motivate and inspire any audience
• 7. Dynamic speeches for retirements and testimonials
• 8. Dignified and meaningful eulogies and testimonials
• 9. Speeches for special occasions -- from a find-raising kick-off to a graduating class address
• 10. Lively holiday speeches for use throughout the school year
• Part II: An Administrator's Blueprint for Preparing and Delivering a Speech
• 11. A step-by-step guide for preparing and delivering a speech from scratch, all based on practical experience
• 12. An administrator's Survival Guide for Avoiding the pitfalls of public speaking