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Thank you for this! We have all survived workplaces that do not remotely strive to reflect the principles they espouse.

An important point to mention is that many daycare teachers have spent entire careers in a climate of punishment/reward (and this ethic is reflected in their gold sticker chart classrooms) and it is very difficult to encourage them toward self-reflective behavior.

With no intention of being vulgar, I strongly recommend Stanford University professor of management Robert I. Sutton's excellent book "The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One that Isn't". This is an accomplished book with real solutions.

This message didn't feel so new to me, until I realized that, even though Alfie Kahn and others have been giving us
reasons to believe that motivation is
intrinsic, and that our efforts to tie it
to salaries defeats our efforts to achieve quality, our field is really dominated by the belief that we are not "professional" unless highly paid. That belief is not a part of the paradigm of professionalism. It blinds us to seeing and expressing to others the intrinsic value of our work. It takes our focus off-center.
Of course, we need more resources in our programs for children to enable us to achieve quality; we need more planning time, we need
the low ratios that make quality possible. But we don't need high salaries to respect our own work.

Its sounds very helpfull but since i'm from canada would the tips and advice be the same as the USA in regards to marketing and managing money?

Thanks
Carole