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This book proves that great things can happen when school leaders refuse to settle for business-as-usual. You can achieve success for your schools and students if you steer clear of the familiar and the comfortable. With over 34 years of experience in educational leadership, Nelson Beaudoin was Maine’s 2000 NASSP Principal of The Year. His book demonstrates how to generate school-wide enthusiasm for replacing timeworn routines and procedures, give students a voice and personalize the learning process, initiate innovative programs and practices, implement comprehensive school reform, nurture and inspire your faculty,and have fun at work and let your humanity show.
Filled with "Survival Tips" to help school leaders triumph over ethical and moral dilemmas. Each chapter is organized in a practical way: When Do I Begin? What Should I Do? How Should I Do It?
Tales from a Teacher's Heart is a video series that tells heartwarming stories about students, schools, and teachers like you. From the lives of our authors, these true stories celebrate and explore all the ways teachers make a difference. Topics include: - the first year of teaching - teachers supporting teachers - connecting with students - and more. The Tales from a Teacher's Heart: Study Guide includes text versions of the tales, discussion questions, strategies, applications, and musings on what it means to be a teacher. Use this book for professional development, self-reflection, starting and closing meetings, and study groups.
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
For a newly appointed principal or assistant principal, this book describes the skills and talents necessary to meet the demands on today’s school leaders. It provides step-by-step details about what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. Each chapter includes Survival Tips (practical, savvy advice), "When Do I Begin?" (to help principals plan and schedule), practical advice based on the realities of school leadership, and more.
This book provides tools and technqiues to bring order and control to your personal and professional life. This book is very practical and easy to implement. You will be able to put this material into practice immediately.
This book describes the practices of principals who develop and maintain purposeful learning communities. It applies and extends nine of the leadership responsibilities identified in research conducted by Marzano, Waters, and McNulty in School Leadership That Works.
First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
This practical guide explains the skills needed by teacher leaders and suggests ways principals can provide opportunities for teachers to learn these skills. It shows practicing and aspiring principals: ∙who to involve in decision making ... and when ∙how to anticipate and solve problems which might arise from the distribution of power and authority ∙other tools to build teacher leadership.
With real stories from real schools, this book offers an alternative vision of school improvement. Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach, author Nelson Beaudoin presents practical strategies which put students first. The real-life examples in A School For Each Student place students at the center of the equation and treat them as individuals who are born to learn. Written as a resource for professional development, this book study tool provides a refreshing look at the possibilities of student and educators. Also featured are the 12 R’s, which include being Reflective, Rigorous, Respectful, Responsive, Resilient, and more.