Principal Leadership Resources

• 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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