The principal's companion : strategies and hints to make the job easier / Pam Robbins, Harvey B. Alvy ; foreword by Kent Peterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robbins, Pamela.

Contributor:

Alvy, Harvey B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School principals--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

School principals.

United States.

Educational leadership--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Educational leadership.

School management and organization--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

School management and organization.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xxii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, [2003]

Summary:

New Edition of Best Seller!

Foreword by Kent D. Peterson

In this new edition, the authors offer essential material on creating a learning community within your school, dealing with personal and professional issues, and more.

Contents:

Part I The Principal's Role 1

1. Leader as Learner 3

Principal as Lifelong Learner

Learning in Many Contexts

Schoolhouse as a Powerful Context for Learning

When Old and New Ideas Converge: The Value of Repertoire

2. Leader as Manager 10

Good Leadership Requires Effective Management

Management Responsibilities and Strategies Including Crisis Management Planning

A Final Observation Regarding School Management

3. Leader as Shaper of School Culture 27

Core Beliefs and Values Are the Heart of Culture

The Physical Environment Reflects Core Values

Rituals Display Core Values and Call Attention to What Is Important

Celebrations Call Attention to What Is Important

How People Spend Time Reflects Core Values

Norms Are the Unwritten Rules of Culture

Stories Communicate and Reinforce Cultural Values

Transforming or Shaping a Culture

Part II Critical Skills for Effective Leadership 43

4. The Art of Human Relations: Getting the Job Done 45

Task and Relationship Behaviors

Differentiated Support

Mind Styles

Recommendations for Skillful Human Relations

The Role of Emotions in the Organization

5. Managing Time 53

Brevity, Fragmentation, and Variety

Time Study Strategy

Techniques for Time Management

Managing Bifocally

6. Effectively Working With the Central Office: Forging Success Through Cooperation 59

Caught in the Middle

How Is the School District Governed?

Communication Between the School and the Central Office

Management Tips for Working With the Central Office

Management and Restructuring

Maintaining a Strong Relationship Between the Central Office and the School

Part III Honoring the School's Mission 67

7. Understanding, Planning, and Implementing Change 69

Change Brings Loss and Resistance

Influencing Individuals and the Institution

Building Trust for Successful Change

Conflict Can Contribute to Positive Change

Strategies to Promote Trust

Assumptions About Change

Three Phases of Change

A Look at Change From the Individual's Perspective

Stages of Concern

8. Building a Vision and a Mission Together 83

Why Have a School Vision?

School Activities That Highlight the Mission

Joint Administrative and Faculty Mission Statement

Mission-Building Activity

Developing Yearly Goals to Accomplish the Mission

Part IV Working Together to Build a Learning Organization 97

9. Enhancing Teacher Growth Through Supervision and Evaluation Practices Designed to Promote Student Learning 99

Issues and Dilemmas

Essential Ingredients for Successful Supervision

Effective Instructional Strategies

Brain-Compatible Teaching Practices

Increasing Teacher and Administrative Reflection Through Clinical Supervision

Tips for Conferencing and Observing

Final Thoughts on Supervision and Evaluation

10. Maximizing Feedback About Teaching: Differentiated Professional Growth Options 125

The Situation: Moving Toward Collaborative Feedback

Differentiated Professional Growth Options: How the System Works

Sources of Feedback: Categories and Approaches

Self-Assessment: Establishing Benchmarks of Progress

Individual Reflection and Institutional Renewal

11. Building a Collaborative School 134

Portrait of a Collaborative School

An Image of Reality

The Case for Collaboration

Moving Toward Collaboration

Necessary Conditions for a Collaborative School

The Principal and Collaboration

12. Asking the Right Questions About Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment, or Getting to Know the C.I.A. 148

Keeping the Curriculum Relevant

Asking the Right Questions

Continuing the Curriculum Discussion

13. What Principals Need to Know About Technology / D. D. Dawson 163

Technology Standards for School Administrators

Developing Administrative Capacity Through Technology

The Internet

Technology in the Classroom

14. Fueling the Learning Organization Through Staff Development 180

Why Staff Development?

Staff Development Defined

Creating an Atmosphere for Staff Development to Thrive: Some Guidelines

Planning a Peer-Coaching Program

Facilitating the Individual's Staff Development Experience

Part V Keeping the Pipes From Leaking: Adding Meaning to Traditional Practice 191

15. Faculty Meetings: A Tool for Capacity Building 193

Faculty Meetings as Learning Opportunities

The School Mission and Faculty Meetings

Increasing the Teachers' Roles in Faculty Meetings

Some Successful Faculty Meeting Strategies

16. First Days of School 203

Logistical Concerns

Beginning-of-the-Year Faculty Meetings Set a Tone

Departmental and Grade-Level Meetings

Orienting Teachers New to the School

Teacher Time in the Classroom

Welcoming Students and Parents

Be Out There on the First Days of School

17. Tips: Ideas That Work and Align With the School's Mission 213

Organizing Your Time

Making Record Keeping Easier

Additional Helpful Ideas to Stay On Task

Interviewing Teacher Candidates

Retaining New Faculty

Providing Experiences to Celebrate the School's Culture

Practical Guidelines for Preparing Printed Materials for Internal and External School Community Members

Using Tips in Your Setting

Part VI Understanding Your Constituencies 225

18. Working With Parents and Partnering With the Greater Community 227

Effectively Communicating With Parents

Building Bridges With the Parent Community

Comparing Parent Roles: Elementary Versus High School

Additional Ways to Bring Parents and Community Members Into School

Broadening School Support

Reaching Out and Working With the Media

Community-Based Organizations

Seeking School Support Through Educational Grants

19. Those Wonderful Kids 246

The Challenge of Excellence and Equality

Those Kids and Their Stories

The Right to Be a Child and to Make Mistakes

Maximizing Opportunities for Students With Disabilities

Structuring Student Success

Discipline Guidelines

Effective Classroom Management: Handling Disciplinary Problems

Reducing Bullying Behavior

Student and Teacher Resiliency

Collecting Information About Students: Comparing the Elementary and Secondary School Models

Final Thoughts on "Those Kids"

Part VII Professional and Personal Issues 267

20. The Newcomer to the Principalship 269

Problems That Challenge New Principals

A Profile of the New Principal

Helping Prospective and New Principals Make the Grade

Practical Suggestions for Newcomers

Final Reflections on the Newcomer Experience

21. Taking Care of Yourself 280

The Selfish Nature of Martyrdom

Taking Control of Your Schedule to Care for Yourself

A Personal Mission Statement

Gaining Perspective by Spending Time With Students

Body and Mind, Healthy and Ill Together

Maintaining Institutional and Individual Balance

22. Keeping the Professional Candle Lit 287

Institutionalizing Professional Growth Activities

Reflection as a Tool

A Principal's Portfolio

Other Growth Opportunities

23. Reflections on the Principalship 293

Serving the School Community

The Good School

Take Time to Smell the Roses.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-307) and index.

ISBN:

0761945148

0761945156

OCLC:

50554466