Creating a Successful Leadership Style

maintained many ties with her former colleagues and used these ties to help the school find supporters in the business community ...

he devoted a great deal of time to the improvement of teaching and learning through informal observations. As a result, students ...

time. They are also experts at developing staff, particularly new teachers. Because they save time spent on administrivia, they ...

boxing gloves would be hanging up ready for use. The threat was enough to ensure compliance. Many years later as an educator, Mr ...

involving such laws and regulations and provide trustworthy advice on the other 1 percent. An example concerns all the laws and ...

What are your strengths as a school leader? A school leader must have self-awareness to make better use of his talents and the t ...

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131 Chapter Ten Monitor the Communication The original title of this chapter was “Control the Communication,” but that sounded a ...

use of adjectives and compound and complex sentences. So, he should try to write like Hemingway. Keep sentences short and simple ...

and really did not belong in an official bulletin. These items she returned to the staff members with reasons for their “rejecti ...

three-ring binder, revised sections could be added and the old material discarded; new sections easily could be added. Over time ...

Serving as a chaperone for the senior prom was seen as a type of re- ward for past service, for one was able to attend a fancy d ...

all entry chaperones were also looking for students who might be trying to bring contraband items, alcoholic beverages, into the ...

more businesses and corporations are seeking to work with schools as a community service activity. Finding corporate partners he ...

He should ask to be sent copies of all such communications. There are two exceptions to this advice. First, a school leader shou ...

is rewritten? A staff member might say to himself, “Why did I bother? He’ll only rewrite it anyway.” Principal Pfizer used what ...

how their particular publication was a representation of their school to the outside world. They were helped because her school ...

of their high school experience five years from now, ten, fifteen, twenty?” In other words, the advisor impressed on students th ...

acts as a counter to the bad news that often makes its way into the general media. It is a useful addition to the school’s PR pa ...

The only real downside to this principle is the amount of time you must devote to it. As you might guess, writing the summary of ...