Solution-Focused Strategies for K–12 Leaders

Improving School Climate, Teacher Confidence, and Student Wellness

Marcella D. Stark, Linda Metcalf

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040364970
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Behavioural Management

Solution-Focused Strategies for K–12 Leaders provides K–12 principals, administrators, and district-level professionals with powerful, flexible strategies to build and sustain a school climate in which teachers and students co-construct solutions together. School leaders today face an intimidating variety of challenges, from teacher shortages and administrative overload to political battles and complex family relationships. Driven by the evidence-based Solution-Focused approach, this book will support practitioners in empowering students based on their personal hopes, strengths, and motivations instead of focusing on deficits and punishment. Intuitive instructions, real-world vignettes, and additional online resources further bring the book's tenets to life. With foundations in therapy, positive psychology, and school counseling, these broadly applicable response-to-intervention techniques will help education leaders to improve climate, develop teacher–student relationships, refine trauma-informed practices, manage conflicts with parents, and more.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• 1 Introduction to the Solution-Focused Approach in Schools
• 2 Facilitating Solution-Focused Meetings
• 3 Solution-Focused Strategies for Managing Conflict with Parents
• 4 Solution-Focused Teacher Supervision
• 5 A Solution-Focused Approach to Trauma-Informed Practices
• 6 Lessening Frequent Flyer Student Returns and Student Discipline Referrals
• 7 Working with Students in Crisis
• 8 Successful Students with Autism and Intellectual Disabilities
• 9 Involving Students and Families in Solution Building
• 10 Exemplar: Strategies to Get Started in Your School