How to Retain Special Education Teachers

Do you have the desire to build relationships with the special education teachers in your school or district but constantly feel weighed down by compliance issues? Special education teachers are leaving the field at alarming rates, and positive change through transformational leadership practices can help administrators build confidence and self-efficacy as leaders of special education programs and strengthen special education teachers’ commitment to remain in the field.

In a book that guides an affective journey using John C. Maxwell’s teachings, Natasha Veale, a former special education teacher, professor of special education, and certified Maxwell Leadership consultant, demonstrates how to address administrators’ belief in their ability to become influential special education leaders and connect with their special education teachers, even without a background in special education. This book is ideal for pre-service and in-service assistant principals and principals, special education administrators, and general and special education teachers. Embedded school administrators’ anecdotes reveal experiences, challenges, and desires to build an emotionally supportive environment for their special education teachers. Practical advice and tips are offered to help administrators positively influence, individually consider, intellectually stimulate, and inspirationally motivate their special education teachers.

In How to Retain Special Education Teachers: A Transformational Leadership Guide for School Administrators, you learn how to:

Support special education teacher workload
Build self-efficacy as a leader of special education
Build relationships with special education teachers
Strengthen Principal Preparation Programs

This is a critically important book that should be read by every school administrator and by every College of Education faculty member involved in any area of special education.

Perfect for courses such as: Principal Leadership for Special Education; Special Education Administration; Educational Leadership; Developing Teachers; Strategic Human Capital Leadership; Leading Change in Education; and Foundations in Education

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

Part One

Chapter One
Special Education Leadership and the School Administrator

Chapter Two
Special Education Teacher Working Conditions

Chapter Three
Transformational Leadership and Special Education

Part Two

Chapter Four
Challenges with Influencing Special Education Teachers

Chapter Five
Challenges with Intellectually Stimulating Special Education Teachers

Chapter Six
Challenges with Individually Considering Special Education Teachers

Chapter Seven
Challenges with Motivating Special Education Teachers

Part Three

Chapter Eight
Building Self-efficacy as Leaders in Special Education

Chapter Nine
Building Relationships with Special Education Teachers

Chapter Ten
Supporting Special Education Teacher Workload

Chapter Eleven
Strengthening Principal Preparation Programs

Chapter Twelve
A way forward: Transformational Leadership and Special Education Teacher Retention

About the Author

Index

NOTE: Table of Contents subject to change up until publication date.

Natasha W. Veale

Dr. Natasha Veale is a certified special education teacher, teacher educator, college administrator, and special education leadership consultant. Dr. Veale has worked in the special education field since 2000. Driven by a passion for helping educators and leaders succeed, Dr. Veale earned a Ph.D. in Special Education Leadership to develop, support, and advocate for special education teachers and an Ed.D. in Organizational Change and Administration to develop, support, and advocate for school administrators.

After teaching students with high-incidence and low-incidence disabilities in inclusion, resource, and separate settings for nearly a decade, Dr. Veale was led to prepare and train preservice and in-service special education teachers and general education teachers on how to teach and serve students with disabilities. While doing so, Dr. Veale serves as the Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Education, Special Education Program Coordinator, and Professor of Special Education at Greensboro College in North Carolina.

Dr. Veale is also a certified John C. Maxwell Leadership consultant, coach, and trainer. John C. Maxwell is a world-renowned leadership expert with over 100 published personal and leadership development books. Dr. Maxwell's mentorship and over 20 years of special education leadership experience led her to support building-level school administrators in their leadership journey to become special education leaders in their schools. For more information, visit http://vealeleadershipconsulting.com.

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