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Your First Year as Principal
As you sit at your desk behind the door ominously marked "Principal's Office", you are suddenly struck with a feeling of terror: What have you got yourself into? Being a principal and essentially being the leader of a school is a difficult job filled with responsibility and stress. This book will help to make the first year easier, providing you with all the information you did not learn in school. In this new, extensively researched book, first-year principals will learn how to deal with teachers, step out from behind the previous principal's shadow, make changes without changing too much too soon, deal with parents and students, become accustomed to the workload, and much more. Additionall...
Transforming School Leadership and Management to Support Student Learning and Development
This comprehensive field guide will be an essential resource for every school leader charged with fostering the healthy development and academic success of students.
Dynamic Instructional Leadership to Support Student Learning and Development
With its comprehensive framework, this guide offers instruction that will help all children grow and develop along the pathways that support success both in school and in life.
The War Against Excellence
Here, veteran teacher Cheri Pierson Yecke details the chronological history of the middle school movement in the U. S. by tracing its evolution from academically-oriented junior high schools to the dissolution of academics in the middle schools of the late 1980s and beyond. In this book, evidence is presented to show how leaders of this movement designed to use the middle school as a vehicle to promote non-academic goals, contrary to the desires of parents and the community. Favored instructional practices--such as the elimination of ability grouping and the rise in cooperative learning and peer tutoring--have produced coerced egalitarianism, where education performance is equalized by bring...
Swimming with Sharks and Dolphins
In any profession, the analogy of sharks and dolphins swimming in the same waters is a metaphor to describe the challenges of leadership
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The Other Side of the Desk
The Other Side of the Desk explores the world of the principal with stories that capture readers' attention and moves them through the daily life of a school leader. Humorous and heart-wrenching memories fill each page as the author retells the stories that challenged her and affected her daily life as the principal of an elementary campus. Tareilo's experiences as a principal ranged from dealing with difficult teachers and parents to stories that will touch the lives of any educator. She reveals the working world of the principal in a clear, and sometimes frank, language with the intent to bolster and support newly positioned principals and reignite the leadership fire for those with many years of experience. From beginning to end, The Other Side of the Desk invites readers into a leadership experience that will have them laughing, crying, and believing that they too can make a difference in the lives of children.
