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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Marjorie Munroe,Nancy Love,Mel Blitzer
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781426927997
For school principals, there are many different routes to success, and there just as many ways to measure that success in a school. Principals introduces five high school principals with their own stories to tell about success and the challenges of managing mandated change. These personal portraits illustrate the myriad ways administrators respond to change and manage transitions. Created by the PULSE Institute of Calgary, Alberta, Principals shares the vignettes of five different principals in five situationsthe Impresario, the Sherpa, the Coach, the Rescuer, and the Gardener. They hail from varied settings ranging from a large suburban combined junior and senior Catholic school to a high school in a small remote community. This study shows how each principal successfully responded to change at the jurisdictional level around accountability in schools. Principals serves to incite dialogue regarding how to respond to mandated change and how other principals facing the same issues can apply these lessons in their own work and to their own realities.
Author : David R. Schumaker,William A. Sommers
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0803967691
This book is for administrators, aspiring administrators, and those who are interested in how schools operate on a day-to-day basis. Many principals will recognize the stressors that are described and that typify a shared-leadership school. Chapter 1 focuses on communication as the foundational skill for all principals, a skill that entails as much listening as it does speaking. Chapter 2 emphasizes the need for principals to trust themselves and to trust others, both of which are important in a job that tends to isolate. The next two chapters focus on the need to be receptive to change and the need for principals to recognize that the classroom is not the only place to learn and that all of a school's resources should be used to provide a practical, real-life learning environment. Chapter 5 examines the need to be prepared for large-scale changes, whereas chapter 6 provides advice on mediating the inevitable conflicts that visit all schools. The last few chapters discuss the importance of exercising the power of the principal's office; how to assess students, staff, and schools; and the need to maintain balance in one's life. A final section offers anecdotes and tips for thriving in the difficult job that is called the principalship. (Contains 59 references and an index.) (RJM)
Author : Allen Menlo,LeVerne Collet
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789462099593
This study surveyed principals and teachers in ten countries to compare principal and teacher attitudes toward the involvement of teachers in several change and development responsibilities. The participating countries were: Australia, Canada, China, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, South Africa, and United States. Each country administered mirror versions of a questionnaire to samples of at least 50 principals and at least 100 teachers. The questionnaires listed twenty items describing change responsibilities in which teachers might become involved. For each item, both principals and teachers assigned two teacher involvement ratings: their personal preference, and their estimate of the preference of their role counterpart. These involvement ratings produced four dependent variables: Principal Preferences, Principal Estimates, Teacher Preferences, and Teacher Estimates. For each variable, item responses were clustered to form index sub-scores that measured attitudes toward five education domains: Administration and Coordination, Human Relations, Teacher Support, Classroom Learning, and Evaluation. Systematic planned comparisons were conducted to determine the most important principal-teacher issues within and between countries, and how issues change across index domains. Typical results indicate low awareness of each other’s aspirations and expectations. The first and last chapters of this book discuss the potential of teacher leaders to become agents of change within their own schools. Several social-psychological competencies are then described for these teachers in their work.
Author : Karl Solie,Leah Lynch,Charles Ragan
Publisher : Cisco Press
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1587050722
bull; Gain CCIE lab exam experience with volume 2 of the best-selling CCIE Practical Studies. bull; Experience putting concepts into practice with lab scenarios that guide you in applying what you know onto real networks. bull; Learn how to build a practice lab for your CCIE lab exam preparation. bull; Use detailed labs and configuration exercises to learn technologies needed to succeed on the exam.
Author : Linda Darling-Hammond,Debra Meyerson,Michelle LaPointe,Margaret T. Orr
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780470407684
Preparing Principals for a Changing World provides a hands-on resource for creating and implementing effective policies and programs for developing expert school leaders. Written by acclaimed author and educator Linda Darling-Hammond and experts Debra Meyerson, Michelle LaPointe, and Margaret Terry Orr, this important book examines the characteristics of successful educational leadership programs and offers concrete recommendations to improve programs nationwide. In a study funded by the Wallace Foundation, Darling-Hammond and the team examined eight exemplary principal development programs, as well as state policies and principals' experiences across the country. Using the data from the study, they reveal how successful programs are structured, the skills and knowledge participants gain, and what they are able to do in practice as school leaders as a result. What do these exemplary programs have in common? Aggressive recruitment; close ties with schools in the community; on-the-ground training under the wing of expert principals, and a strong emphasis on the cutting-edge theories of instructional and transformational leadership. In addition to highlighting the programs' similarities, the study also explains the differences among the programs and sheds light on the effectiveness of approaches and models from different states and contexts?East, West, North, and South; urban and rural; pre-service and in-service. The authors analyze program outcomes for principals and their schools, including illustrative case studies and educators' voices on the influence of programs' strategies for recruitment, internships, mentoring, and coursework. The ideas and suggestions outlined in Preparing Principals for a Changing World are presented with the goal of increasing the number of highly qualified, thoughtful, and innovative educational leaders.
Author : Ellen B. Goldring,Sharon F. Rallis
Publisher : Corwin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993-07-27
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015033083711
Recognizing the forces that are changing the school context and placing new demands on principals, this useful guide defines the leadership qualities needed when taking a school through a period of change. The authors define new roles for the principal of a dynamic school - balancing conflicting interests, building bridges, for example - and provide their vision of the principal's role in the future.
Author : National Association of Secondary School Principals (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : High school principals
ISBN : PSU:000048979344
Author : Robert E. White,Karyn Cooper
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400712751
Contributors to this volume examine structures and processes that school boards have in place directly relating to the process of principal or vice-principal succession. As well, they consider the effect that these structures and processes have upon staff and administrators themselves. These contributors investigate policies, procedures and practices that school boards employ in terms of leadership succession, and explore implications of these constructs for the sustainability of school improvement. This volume presents an overview of the process of principal or vice-principal succession, descriptions of school district practices surrounding this process and discussions regarding how succession procedures affect individuals and groups of individuals. This volume also highlights those board policies that incorporate practices used to develop models that support and allow administrators to succeed. It articulates how school leaders and staff members deal with change and improvement efforts in successive schools, as well as how board policies and practices support principals and vice-principals at any stage in the succession process. This volume is useful as a reference guide relating to transfer and rotation procedures in school systems across the nation.
Author : Clive A. J. Dimmock,Tom A. O'Donoghue
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415138994
This book offers insights into the ways in which six principals go about leading the change process in their schools, and looks for ways of understanding why and how principals behave and think in the way that they do.
Author : Karen Seashore Louis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134232093
Improving education is a key priority for governments around the world. While many suggestions on how best to achieve this are currently under debate, years of academic research have already revealed more about how to encourage change than is sometimes assumed. This volume brings together for the first time some of the most significant work of Karen Seashore Louis, one of the foremost thinkers and researchers in the field. Organizing for School Change presents a unique variety of research-based results from studies conducted over the past twenty-five years. What emerges is not an idealistic plan, but a realistic picture of what needs to be done if schools are to be made better. Drawing on a wide and comprehensive list of sources, the ideas brought together in this collection will prove invaluable and insightful reading, stimulating both newcomers and veterans of the field to consider educational research in new ways.
Author : Christopher Day,Kenneth Leithwood
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402055164
This book contributes significantly to our understanding of successful school leaders by describing similarities and differences in the work of such leaders in countries ranging from England to Australia, the United States to Norway, and Sweden to Hong Kong. Bringing together case study research, the book helps explain what all successful principals do and the ways in which context shapes some of their work.
Author : Larry W. Hughes
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 0136295851
Unlike other books on the subject, this exploration of the principal asleader -- rather than as manager -- offers avariety of perspectives by well-known education authorities. It explores the dimensions of school leadership both in theory and in practice and demonstrates how principals can substantially improve instruction. Discusses the nature of leadership and new challenges that must be faced; the effective use of computers as a management and instructional tool; and how principals can help improve instruction -- based on their own behavior, the climate of the school, and the improvement of instructional practice. Covers a multitude ofissues -- e.g., the decentralization of decision-making to school sites, restructuring the curriculum to become more responsive to children's needs, the implications that demographic shifts have on school programming, human resource development, and the legal and ethical framework surrounding the issues. Includes a case study or application in each chapter. For those preparing to be school executives.
Author : H. Richard Milner IV,Kofi Lomotey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136206009
This volume brings together leading scholars in urban education to focus on inner city matters, specifically as they relate to educational research, theory, policy, and practice. Each chapter provides perspectives on the history and evolving nature of urban education, the current education landscape, and helps chart an all-important direction for future work and needs. The Handbook addresses seven areas that capture the breadth and depth of available knowledge in urban education: (1) Psychology, Health and Human Development, (2) Sociological Perspectives, (3) Families and Communities, (4) Teacher Education and Special Education, (5) Leadership, Administration and Leaders, (6) Curriculum & Instruction, and (7) Policy and Reform.
Author : Jeffrey Glanz
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483363776
Set the tone for success and harness the power of school culture to boost achievement with this user-friendly, one-stop resource.
