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Principal
Leadership Resources
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Schools Try to Turn Teachers into Leaders
Louisville Courier-Journal, Nov 17, 2000
- Principals'
Workshops Overhauled
Education Week, Nov 15, 2000
NASSP retools to emphasize instructional leadership.
- Principals
Try New Styles As Instructional Leaders
Education Week, Nov. 1, 2000
In the past decade, the push to raise academic standards and achievement
has placed extraordinary demands on principals. Yet surprisingly little
is understood about how principals manage this leadership for instruction.
Includes: "Telling It Like It Is," an informal survey of principals.
- The
Principal Shortage -- Why Doesn't Anybody Want the Job?
Education World, Oct. 31, 2000.
Principals share their thoughts about why our nation is on the brink
of a severe principal shortage and share their ideas for alleviating
that shortage.
- Portrait
of the 'Super Principal'
Harvard Education Letter,September/October 2000.
After a tumultuous decade of reform, principals work longer hours, have
more stress, and get less thanks. Is there any way to make this job
more attractive?
- Leadership
for Student Learning: Reinventing the Principalship
Institute for Educational Leadership, Oct. 2000. Report of a task force
chaired by Joseph Murphy and Paul Schwarz.
The core mission of the principalship must be redefined as leadership
for student learning. Includes guidelines for communities that wish
to start conversations on reinventing the principalship.
- Nonprofit
Group Aims to Groom a New Breed of Leaders
Education Week, Sep. 20, 2000
A nonprofit organization, "New Leaders for New Schools," seeks
funds for a program to put first-class principals in urban schools.
- Focus
on Leadership and Administration
R & D Alert, Fall 2000. WestEd.
Stories include "What It Takes to Become an Effective Leader,"
and "Leadership in Support of Standards-Based Instruction,"
and profiles of leadership institutes in California and Washington State.
- Special
Issue on Principal Leadership and Professional Development
The Journal of Staff Development. National Staff Development Council,
Fall 2000.
Includes articles on the professional development needs of today's principal
and descriptions of three promising leadership development programs.
- The
Contemporary Principal: New Skills for a New Age
Education Update, May 2000. Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development.
What is the proper work for principals in today's schools?
- What's
Worth Fighting For in the Principalship
Michael Fullan, 1997. Teachers College Press.
A respected guide that offers principals practical guidelines for empowering
themselves and their schools. A companion volume to "What's Work
Fighting For in Your School?"
- Leadership
in Education
Education Week 1999-2000
Long-running series includes special reports on women leaders, policy
and leadership, new thinking about what makes a leader, and the tough
job of assistant principals.
- Essential
Leadership in the School Change Process
Horace, Vol. 13, No. 4, March, 1997. Coalition of Essential Schools.
Includes several sidebar articles, including "How Leaders Can Help
a Group Construct New Learning," and "What Should School Change
Leaders Know and Be Able to Do?"
- The
Principal's Center at Harvard University.
Cutting-edge training for contemporary principals
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