Creating a Successful Leadership Style

In addition, Mr. Thelen created a file of materials for each course and made it accessible to all staff members. Every lesson he ...

anecdote illustrates the earning of this trust in the school leader’s most important role, that of instructional leader. However ...

A few hours before this industry show, the interim acting principal received a call from one of the best fashion design teachers ...

Regents Examinations, standardized tests used in middle and high schools. Often, this issue takes the form of answer sheets for ...

as did others along the way. By doing, the principal demonstrated what needed to be done. Before the next testing, Ms. Rivera ma ...

posters for display around the school. Items were included in the weekly bulletin. The revised Student Handbook already included ...

role model for all things great and small. In many ways, most of this book is about role modeling, especially in the myriad inte ...

11 This chapter was originally entitled “Be Nonconfrontational,” but that moniker made it sound like one should be wimpy and avo ...

12 Chapter 2 elevators. Students use them during change of period, when they only stop at designated floors (1, 5, and 9) to spe ...

Don’t Exacerbate; Defuse 13 Hold the elevator open until the student produces the pass for inspec- tion. Simply say that none o ...

suspension, or a rude remark. By the time the parent reaches the office of the administrator, she will be quite angry, feel she ...

Having reached some sort of agreement with the parent, the truly com- petent administrator asks a potentially dangerous question ...

Not every parent will leave the school office satisfied. Sometimes, the parent will storm out. Mr. Pfizer, the middle school pri ...

The chancellor’s directive took the decision out of the school’s hands. According to the directive, the school could make no exc ...

All the actions described above, from the items in the parent newslet- ter to the lesson taught to the student verification form ...

Principal Valletta did this every morning for the first three or four weeks of school. There were many unexpected repercussions. ...

The causes of this are myriad: poverty, abuse, societal failure, parental incompetence, and, yes, the failure of the school. No ...

students under his wing, work with them, and make them aware of what is needed for success in the real world. Other such student ...

their own children. Sometimes, in doing so, an error is made. That’s why the principal is available to correct such errors. But, ...

the only appeal would be to the superintendent. Problems that should have been resolved at the school level are now at the distr ...