Creating a Successful Leadership Style

Use Your Desk and Office Arrangement to Improve Time Management It is easy to simply use what one inherits. A new assistant pri ...

nature go into the long-term pile. Whenever there is time during the day, the principal has easy access to all current projects ...

others attending). If she writes the meeting summaries, she can keep them short and factual and avoid including details of any d ...

Develop Techniques to Limit Individual Conferences Most of the school leader’s formal conferences will be individual con- fere ...

hearing is open-ended, lacking the framework of a class period. With the agreement of the parties involved, schedule such hearin ...

69 Chapter Six Let Your People Fly On a side wall in Ms. Valletta’s office is a display of cartoons and sayings collected over s ...

If a school leader allows others to write meeting minutes, he will run into two problems. First, some people will write detailed ...

One caution: Some staff members in administrative or semi- administrative roles sometimes like to use or abuse their power. The ...

The space renters, knowing they had a great deal, could also be gen- erous. Manhattan High School’s gym was rented to an organiz ...

rimand from the superintendent and was expecting to receive an official written one. While awaiting this reprimand, Ms. Valletta ...

the auditorium for their monthly delegate assembly meetings. Under the new rental procedures, this was all done through the prin ...

When he began teaching in the early 1970s, the district’s instructional method was the developmental lesson. Briefly stated, the ...

developmental lesson. Great! The students are not seeing this in every class, so it may be working very well. As long as the les ...

One time, he and several other colleagues who were teaching Mac- beth asked if they could arrange for an after-school (for the j ...

Unofficially, the bureaucrats knew that anytime students left a school, anything could happen, and so they made the clerical asp ...

her parents contacted, Mr. Chen would have to call the superintendent and law enforcement would have to be involved. About thirt ...

When letting people fly, always remember, in the end, you are responsible for what they do or do not do. Be prepared to “take th ...

81 Chapter Seven Be Aware of Workplace Issues Teachers legitimately complain that it doesn’t take long for a school leader to fo ...

the upcoming year or semester. Every teacher is entitled to at least some of his requests. The commentary that follows is based ...

Priority for assignment to a single room should be given to teachers with a full teaching program. Teachers with a reduced numbe ...