Trust Matters (PDF)

Make your school soar by escalating trust between teachers,
students, and families

Trust is an essential element in all healthy relationships, and
the relationships that exist in your school are no different. How
can your school leaders or teachers cultivate trust? How can your
institution maintain trust once it is established? These are the
questions addressed and answered in Trust Matters: Leadership
for Successful Schools, 2nd Edition. The book delves into the
helpful research that has been conducted on the topic of trust in
school. Although rich with research data, Trust Matters also
contains practical advice and strategies ready to be implemented.
This second edition expands upon the role of trust between teachers
and students, teachers and administrators, and schools and
families.

Trust Matters: Leadership for Successful Schools also
covers a range of sub-topics relevant to trust in school. All
chapters in the text have questions for reflection and discussion.
Engaging chapters such as "Teachers Trust One Another" and
"Fostering Trust with Students" have thought-provoking
trust-building questions and activities you can use in the
classroom or in faculty meetings. This valuable resource:

* Examines ways to cultivate trust

* Shares techniques and practices that help maintain trust

* Advises leaders of ways to include families in the school's
circle of trust

* Addresses the by-products of betrayed trust and how to restore
it

With suspicion being the new norm within schools today, Trust
Matters is the book your school needs to help it rise above. It
shows just how much trust matters in all school
relationships--administrator to teacher; teacher to student;
school to family--and in all successful institutions.