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The Changing Landscape of School Leadership

Recalibrating the School Principalship

von: M. Scott Norton
36,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	31.12.2015
ISBN/EAN:	9781475822489
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	170

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Titelbeschreibung

The primary focus of the book is to emphasize the major changes in the leadership responsibilities of the school principal and to underscore the necessity for them to gain new knowledge and skills in order to direct their leadership toward meeting the new changes in school-community goals and objectives. M. Scott Norton emphasizes the fact that contemporary issues and problems must be viewed as symptoms of change. The symptoms represent administrative tasks that must be attacked by implementing the primary reason that the school principal is hired, that of leading on-going change. The leader’s responsibility focuses on school purposes as set forth in a viable school mission statement. The school’s mission statement, that all too often is set forth as a public relations perspective, must instead set forth answers to questions such as, “What is our purpose?” “Why does our school exist?” “What is our reason for being here?” “How do we meet the on-going changes that face us educationally?” The leadership of the school principal “attacks” the symptoms of change by collaborating with the school’s faculty to set forth a mission to which all members can commit. Collaboration infers a unification of members’ commitments toward the primary purposes of the school. Collaboration and opportunities to confer on an on-going basis are established. Although the school principal’s hands are often tied by such factors as lack of resources, underfunded/unfunded mandates, inability to hire and retain highly qualified personnel and constantly changing program requirements related to student testing and teacher performance evaluation, this book places emphasis on the principal’s need to become a visionary change agent in order to “attack” the ever changing symptoms of educational change.

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Foreword Preface Chapter 1: What’s Happened in the Responsibilities of School Principals in the Ten Years from 2004 to 2015 The Focus of Chapter 1 Living the School’s Vision Meeting the Challenges of On-going Change Pre-quiz Discussion of the Answers for the Pre-quiz Status of Today’s School Principal: Retaining Principals on the Job Student Attitudes and Behaviors Student Achievement and Accountability Inclusion-Meeting the Needs of All Students Effective Time Management and Effective Administration The Inadequacy of Preparation Programs for School Leaders Distributive Leadership Models for Meeting Program Changes Snapshot #1-Using Teacher Talent for Resolving School Problems Unfunded and Underfunded Mandates Job Complexity-Job Stress—Job Satisfaction Summary Discussion Questions Case Studies References Chapter 2: Recalibrating the Principalship as a Leader of Change What Does a Viable Mission Statement Look LIke? Examples of School Mission Statements The Characteristics of Visionary Leaders The Internal and External Environments in Which the School is Embedded The Specific Benefits of Developing and Implementing the School’s Vision Statement A Mission Statement Quiz (MSQ) Discussion of the Mission Statement Quiz Scoring the MSQ Development of the School’s Mission Improvement Guide Tying the School’s Mission Statement and the Improvement Guide School Board Policy: Guiding School Improvement Practices Local School Improvement Standards Examples of Mission Improvement Guides Summary Discussion Questions Case Studies References Chapter 3: Guiding the Role Changes for the Work of the School Principal Want Major Changes and Improvements? Then we must pay for them Involvement of Educators in Politics is to be Avoided. Or is It? Recalibrating the Position Description of the School Principal The Primary Contents of a Principal’s Position Analysis Leadership for School Program Improvement Implications for the Recalibration of the School Principalship The School and Power Structure Analysis Using an Issue Analysis Approach Being the Catalyst for Developing a Learning Culture in the School How to Know a Learning Leader When You See One The Learning Leadership Quiz (LLQ) Discussion of the LLQ The School Principal as the Primary Source for Providing Faculty Growth and Development Establishing a Mentoring Program The Benefits of a Mentoring for Both the Protégé and Mentor Qualities of an Effective Mentor Establishing an Effective Mentor Training Program Summary Discussion Questions Case Studies References Chapter 4: Preparation and Licensing of School Principals: Reversing the Downhill Trend Snapshot #1-Football Practices On-line: Just Kidding The History of Preparation Programs for School Principals: Help Wanted! New Procedures for Recruiting and Selecting School Leaders A Model for Principal Preparation Improvement Programs Clarification of the Preparation Model A New Look at Financing Education in America The Bachelor’s Degree Does Deserve Priority Attention The Master’s Degree Program for Potential Administrator Candidates The Continuous Improvement Program within the Administrator Academy Examples of Administrator Academy Programs Checking Your Progress Polices, Administrative Regulations and School Rules The NEPN/NSBA Policy Codification System The Davies/Brickell Codification System Summary Discussion Questions Case Studies References Chapter 5: Major Issues/Tasks, Challenges, Issues and Leadership Strategies for Attacking Them Demands for Accountability and Leadership strategies Leadership in Action Lightbulb Experience #1-Let’s Just Wait and See Attacking External Mandates and Other Program Requirements Snapshot #5.1-Let’s Just Wait and See Improving School Climate: A Key for Student Academic Success Establishing a Balanced Work-life for School Principals Parent Involvement and Support: Now It’s Controversial Teacher Personnel Issues/Problems: On the Attack Hiring High Quality Teachers The Troubled and/or Marginal Teacher Problem Collegiality /Collaboration Time for Improving School Programs Collaboration and Special Project Teams Students with Special Needs: Inclusion Dealing with the School Principal’s Increasing Work Load A Procedure for Analyzing Just How Your Time is Being Spent Summary Discussion Questions Case Studies References About the Author

Autorenportrait

M. Scott Norton has served as a classroom teacher, coordinator of curriculum, associate superintendent and superintendent of schools. He served as professor and vice-chairman of the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and as professor and chairman of the Department of Educational Administration and Policy Studies at Arizona State University.