The latest leadership textbook from respected author team Kaplan and Owings explores how principals can effectively build a culture around student achievement. Introduction to the Principalship helps aspiring principals understand how to develop a vision for improvement, make decisions and manage conflict, build teachers' capacity, communicate, monitor the organization's performance, and create a school climate of mutual respect. This important book provides readers with various leadership concepts to inform their practice, as well as the cognitive and practical tools to evaluate and prioritize what leadership actions to take. Each chapter offers opportunities for readers to create personal meaning and explore new ways of doing leadership to advance a positive, person-focused environment. Providing both the theoretical framework and skills for effective practice, Introduction to the Principalship addresses the issues most urgent and relevant for educational leadership graduate students learning how to build a school culture that promotes every student's success.
Special Features:
* Learning Objectives-chapter openers introduce the topic and initiate student thinking.
* Reflections and Relevance -interactive exercises, role plays, class activities, and assignments help readers think about content in personally meaningful ways, facilitate understanding of chapter content, and help transfer leadership thinking to action in their own schools.
* ISLLC Standards-each chapter is aligned to the 2015 Interstate School Leadership Licensure Standards.
* Companion Website-includes links to supplemental material, additional readings, and PowerPoints for instructors.
- ISBN10 1336196580
- ISBN13 9781336196582
- Publish Date 1 January 2015
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Taylor and Francis
- Format eBook
- Pages 346
- Language English