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Steps to Success: What Successful Principals Do Everyday

Autor Angus S. Mungal, PhD, Richard D. Sorenson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 ian 2020
Steps to Success: What Successful Principals Do Every Day is purposefully written for practicing and aspiring public and private school administrators who desire - on a daily basis - to gain relevant skills, specialized knowledge, and overall expertise associated with being a successful school principal. The text is organized into brief, single-topic-focused chapters and is intended to serve as an "essential necessity" providing current and prospective principal readership with relevant and practical applications as related to key daily "steps" a school administrator must master to ensure leadership success. Additionally, the text chapters reveal how successful principals must daily focus on quality, learn from others, make appropriate and effective decisions, solve problems, establish goals, develop highly competent teams, focus on students and instruction, inspire excellence, lead openly, honestly, and with transparency, and boost academic achievement. The book is designed and written to best ensure principals serve as visionary leaders who possess great ideas and who are honest, moral, ethical, and act legally in all actions.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781475853384
ISBN-10: 1475853386
Pagini: 154
Ilustrații: 7 tables; 2 textboxes
Dimensiuni: 153 x 224 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Tables

Introduction

Chapter 1. Daily Step #1 - Embrace the Day - Embrace the Leadership Role

Where Have You Been; Where Are You Going?

Yes, It's a Journey!

Who Are You? Who Do You Want to Be? Where Do You Want to Go?

Take Time to Think and Reflect

Mastering a Set of Essential Leadership Skills to Embrace Daily Challenges

Embrace Involved Service

Involved Service Defined

Initiating Successful Involved Service

Essential Elements of Involved Service

Factors Resulting from Involved Service

Final Thoughts

Discussion Questions

Case Study Application - Chasing Lions: Embracing Involved Service

Application Questions

Chapter 2. Daily Step #2 - Be Organized and Prepared

Getting Organized and Staying Organized - A Daily Process

Why Being Organized Matters: Examining the Daily Benefits

The Top-10 Daily Habits and Routines Essential to Becoming an Organized Principal

A Dozen Daily Principal Leadership Practices

Areas of Relevant Leadership Preparedness

Successful Principal Preparedness Attributes

Behaviors of the Organized and Prepared Principal: A Leadership Assessment

Final Thoughts

Discussion Questions

Case Study Application - Prepared and Organized: One Principal's Journey

Application Questions

Chapter 3. Daily Step #3 - Lead, Delegate, but Never Dump!

What Kind of Leader Do You Want to Be?

The Situational Principal

Shared Leadership

Supporting Novice Faculty

Investing in New and Experienced Faculty

In with the New, Out with the Old: A Principal Conundrum?

Delegating: A Mentoring Act, Not a Dumping Act

Connecting to Students

From New Principals to Successful Principals

Encouragement, Inspiration, and Motivation

Trust but Verify

Final Thoughts

Discussion Questions

Case Study Application - "And I Wanted to Be a School Principal!"

Application Questions

Chapter 4. Daily Step #4 - Anticipate, Adjust, and Learn

Anticipating the Work Day and Work Week

Checking the Pulse

Mindfulness

Culture, Goals, and Honesty: Principal Guides to Better Anticipating, Adjusting, and Learning

Adjusting for Everyday Events

Handling Crises

Mindful of "Top-Down" Dictates and Demands: Principals on the "Frontline"

Understanding Similar Events May Have Different Outcomes

Final Thoughts

Discussion Questions

Case Study Application - Strangers, A True Story of Principal Leadership: Anticipating, Adapting, and Learning!

Principled Leadership Actions

Application Questions

Afterthought

Chapter 5. Daily Step #5 - Recognize, Understand, and Embrace Diversity

What Do You Bring to the Table?

Unconscious or Implicit Bias

Successful Principals and Implicit Bias

Addressing Bias

The Principalship and Marginalized Groups

Communication: A Key to a Successful Principalship

Juan's Story: "Yo Hablo Español?"

Take Time to Think and Reflect

Successful Principals Encourage Alternative Views and Embrace Opposing Views

Never "No" but "Let's Arrange to Meet"

Successful Principals Embrace Diverse Personalities and Perspectives

How to Work with Difficult Teachers

Final Thoughts

Discussion Questions

Case Study Application - What Are You Doing or What Should You Be Doing?

Application Questions

Chapter 6. Daily Step #6 - Meet, Greet, and Engage in Good Humor

Do This First, Every Day - Smile!

Do This Next, Every Day - Meet and Greet!

The People-Centered Principal

People Skills: An Essential Leadership Element - What Principals Must Do Daily to Lead and Succeed

The Good Humor Man (Woman) Sells More Than Ice Cream!

Final Thoughts

Discussion Questions

Case Study Application - Test Your People Skills

Scoring Interpretations

Chapter 7. Daily Step #7 - Build Capacity

Building Capacity in Education

Capacity Defined

Car Analogy #1

Successful Principals Build Capacity for Everyone's Achievement, Everyday

The How, and By What Means?

Car Analogy #2

The Top 10 - 11 Capacity Building Tools

Capacity-Building and Sustainability

Final Thoughts

Discussion Questions

Case Study Application - Canadian Geese: An Educational Leadership Allegory

Application Questions

Chapter 8. Daily Step #8 - Self-Reflect, Understand the Power and Problems with Social Networking, Protect Against Cyber-Bullying, and Establish Professional Networking

Being There

Confidence vs. Ego

Self-Reflection

Tomorrow is Another Day

Equality and Equity

In the Era of Social Media and Social Networking

Social Networking and Cyber-Bullying

Bullying and Cyber-Bullying Prevention

Informal and Formal Networks

Social Movements and Critical Thinking

Alternative Teachers with Alternative Training

Leadership in a Changing World

Final Thoughts

Discussion Questions

Case Study Application - Cyber-Stalked

The Rub: Therein Lies the Trip!

Application Questions

References

Index

About the Authors

Recenzii

Mungal and Sorenson have explored 8 Daily Steps that successful school administrators must consider to grow as instructional leaders. Steps to Success: What Successful Principals Do Every Day is a must read for any current and aspiring school administrator. The authors have navigated the murky waters of how successful school principals maneuver the challenges faced every day.
A useful text for aspiring principals. It provides a roadmap for the dilemmas and challenges that lay ahead for someone who wants to make a difference as a school leader.
Through this book, Mungal and Sorenson have taken us into the day-to-day experiences of successful school principals. By delving into the work of those on the front lines and unearthing the connective threads between educational leadership and school success, they have provided us with a practical guide to what great principals actually do. This book serves not only as an excellent guide for the novice school leader, but also as a powerful reminder for experienced educators of how we translate vision into action.
Drs. Mungal and Sorenson have distinguished themselves as outstanding professors of educational leadership. Their collaborative effort is informed by many years of experience and research. This highly engaging read artfully conveys practical recommendations to aspiring and current principals. From the vantage point of a former campus administrator and superintendent, I would add this one to your must read list!