Creating a Successful Leadership Style

follow the instructions they were given. Writing is one of the most dif- ficult skills to learn, and Mr. Puce was the department ...

hardworking and competent, and who teach their students valuable skills about their subject matter, about succeeding in the real ...

feel it is sometimes necessary to assert authority, especially to make an important point. They are wrong. Unless one is engagin ...

27 English teachers learn that the best lessons require students to read, write, speak, and listen. A good English teacher tries ...

not their native language, have difficulty expressing themselves. In general, humanities teachers listen better than math or sci ...

Mr. Pfizer understood this and knew it was the school’s responsibility to provide alternatives. Most students liked being in the ...

The New York City licensing exam that existed in the not-so-distant past tested that candidates were proficient in written and s ...

Houston. The teacher was smiling and seemed quite happy. She ex- plained that she was feeling much better (she had been battling ...

feelings: “Yes, it is a bad situation. Yes, I understand that it detracts from the ambience of our school. Yes, I will continue ...

Angeles, had ten such chairpersons, most of whom were “subject area supervisors.” That is, they headed academic departments, han ...

engage in a vocal disagreement over some issue; nor was it unusual for a chairperson to disagree with the principal. Less than o ...

The camaraderie of these meetings carried over to the creation of an annual holiday party at the principal’s condo and to an ann ...

basic agreement; however, to run a school in the modern world is to be a politician, with all this word implies. Ms. Hildebrand’ ...

37 Chapter Four Give the Credit; Take the Blame Let’s begin with two basics. First, school leadership is not about earning perso ...

The assistant principal of a particular grade or subject area initiated strat- egies that led to excellent statistics on the req ...

When it was sent to the superintendent, and subsequently included in the Student Handbook, in the Teacher Handbook, and on a pos ...

He had already generated a list of the students who owed books from the previous school year. In essence, he wanted to withhold ...

One reason for unreturned books, at least on the high school level, was the significant number of program changes that took plac ...

Part of a principal’s job was to prepare the assistant principal for this process and the superintendent’s visit. This was not a ...

its teachers. Who could have thought that he would not think the same of the superintendent? However, by taking the blame, the p ...