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This book focuses on the skills, training, values, and assumptions that principals and assistant principals employ as leaders and reformers. This text views administrators more broadly as transformational leaders who include the entire school community in reform. Scenarios and activities are used to provide a bridge from learning the theory of school administration to the practical problem solving in which school leaders engage.
Since new role changes resulting from school reform agendas can place a school administrator at any career stage in uncharted territory, a career-long mentoring approach is recommended. The first chapters of this book introduce the concept of mentoring and the socialization framework consisting of characteristics, stages, methods, and goals. Subsequent chapters discuss mentoring and socialization of administrative interns, assistant principals, new principals and mid-career administrators. The final chapter discusses the organizational planning, selection, training, matching, and evaluation aspects of implementing mentor programs. (Contains 175 references.) (LH)
Daniel Meadows was born in 1779 in North Carolina. He married Ann Thompson in 1801 in Wilkes Co., Georgia. They moved to Grantville, Coweta Co., Georgia, where he died in 1875.
The undervalued force behind the Highwaymen phenomenon A long-awaited testament to the life and work of Alfred Hair, the driving force of the Florida Highwaymen, this book introduces a charismatic personality whose energy and creativity were foundational to the success of his fellow African American artists during the era of Jim Crow segregation. Shot and killed in a barfight at the age of 29, Hair lived his short life fully, with a zest and intensity that informed his art. In high school he made canvas frames in the Fort Pierce studio of A. E. Backus, the painter who inspired the style of the Highwaymen, and soon became the artist's protégé. By the time Hair graduated in 1961, he was pain...