Impact : how assistant principals can be high performing leaders / Christopher Colwell.

This book will examine how it is that some assistant principals achieve significance far beyond their job title. What are the behaviors, attributes, and skill sets that educational leaders are able to harness and use with great effect from the position of the assistant principal? What unique challen...

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Main Author: Colwell, Christopher (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • I: The Principal Partner
  • Chapter One: Building a Principal-Assistant Principal Partnership Team
  • Chapter Two: Managing Change in the Principalship
  • Chapter Three: Finding and Keeping Your Unique Leadership Voice
  • II: The Faculty Partner
  • Chapter Four: Expert Power versus Position Power
  • Chapter Five: Building Faculty Trust and Commitment
  • Chapter Six: The Teachers Union: Opportunity or Adversity?
  • III: The Assistant Principal as Instructional Leader
  • Chapter Seven: Leading from the Middle
  • Chapter Eight: Leading Up: Building Commitment and Support from Your Superiors
  • Chapter Nine: The 50 Percent Rule
  • IV: The Assistant Principal and Daily Operations
  • Chapter Ten: Managing Student Conduct versus Leading Students
  • Chapter Eleven: Partnerships
  • Chapter Twelve: Policies, Procedures, and the Law
  • Chapter Thirteen: The Assistant Principal and School Levels
  • Chapter Fourteen: Pursuing the Principalship
  • Appendix: Professional Organizations
  • Bibliography
  • About the Author.