More often, successful and qualified teachers choose to leave the field for various reasons-retirement, personal matters, or burnout. Surviving Internal Politics Within the School: Practical Strategies for Teachers provides advice on surviving the common and problematic situations occurring within the school system. It offers suggestions on how to deal with issues from the administrator's office to the teacher's lounge and from upset parents to jealous colleagues. Based on the authors' 75 years of combined experience, this how-to-guide should be of interest to new and veteran teachers.

"Aimed at beginning teachers or those new to their district or building, this text offers practical advice for dealing with school politics." - Reference and Research Book News

"The book provides a plethora of practical, down-to-earth advice for teachers who have the misfortune to be working in a professionally negative environment... The authors make an excellent case throughout the book for teachers to be conscious of their own principles and ethics. They stress the importance of being reflective and acting from an ethical foundation. Johns, McGrath, and Mathur have much experience from which to draw in their attempts to advise new teachers" - Teachers College Record