Creating a Love and Logic School Culture

Book excerpt: Jim Fay pours into this book wisdom gained through more than 55 years' experience as a teacher, principal, consultant, and parent. His experience includes both inner-city and suburban schools.Not only does he provide a step by step handbook for creating a Love and Logic school culture, he offers real world, practical examples and dialogs that demonstrate how a principal deals with the challenges of creating meaningful change. Innovation does not happen while a school staff is mired in dealing with a multitude of brush fires and distractions resulting from ineffective discipline policies and poor staff and student moral. A Love and Logic school culture creates and environment in which true and meaningful educational innovation can flourish and succeed. This is a book to keep on the corner of your desk. It will always be a quick reference about what to do and how to say it.