Becoming a school principal : learning to lead, leading to learn / Sarah E. Fiarman ; foreword by Richard F. Elmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fiarman, Sarah E. (Sarah Edith), author.

Contributor:

Elmore, Richard F.

Kathryn Faul and Joseph A. Wallace Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School principals--United States.

School principals.

School principals--In-service training.

United States.

School principals--In-service training--United States.

Educational leadership--United States.

Educational leadership.

School management and organization--United States.

School management and organization.

Physical Description:

xii, 231 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard Education Press, [2015]

Summary:

In Becoming a School Principal, Sarah E. Fiarman describes her first few years as a school principal committed to enacting a powerful vision of leading and learning. Drawing thoughtfully on the literature of school reform and change leadership, Fiarman engages readers in a lively, frank, and revealing conversation about building the vision and capacity to provide effective instruction for all students and the intensely personal process of learning to lead. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Entering the Role 15

Chapter 2 Getting Traction with Improvement 31

Chapter 3 Pointing to the Data 57

Chapter 4 Developing Teacher Leadership 71

Chapter 5 Resistance and Work Avoidance 95

Chapter 6 Building Trust 113

Chapter 7 How to Listen, When to Speak 129

Chapter 8 Naming and Addressing Racial Bias 153

Chapter 9 Supervision and Evaluation 181

Chapter 10 Permission to Be a Learner 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Kathryn Faul and Joseph A. Wallace Fund.

ISBN:

9781612508467

1612508464

9781612508474

1612508472

OCLC:

912357010

Publisher Number:

99967282161