Creating a Successful Leadership Style

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145 In all books such as this, there is a tendency to stress the work of the teaching staff and administration. This ignores a g ...

programming. One teacher was titled the college counselor, nominally responsible for helping students with the college applicati ...

Counselors would always respond to teachers who referred students. Understanding the confidentially issues involved, this could ...

target the parents of incoming students. The counselor for this class would make a presentation on how parents could help studen ...

have an aura of confidentiality. Mr. Thelen made use of alternatives. He observed whole-class counseling sessions. Not having be ...

muster. Another is the payroll secretary, for without him teachers will not be properly paid, move up salary steps, or have the ...

was not unusual for Mr. Chen’s secretary to return from lunch with the comment, “I know something you don’t know.” If he didn’t ...

Mr. Chen did not consider paraprofessionals to be indispensable mem- bers of his staff. He did not use regular school funds to p ...

switchboard; handling busing arrangements for students; delivering sup- plies to classrooms and offices; handling the duplicatio ...

principal, Steve, and the principal met to set up a procedure for supply requests. The staff member would fill out a request for ...

the drab green walls into explosions of color and creativity. All of this made the cafeteria a safer and more pleasant place for ...

jurisdictional switch, these two lists did not mesh. Anytime an ambulance was called to the school, the SSAs reported this as an ...

SSAs, one to be at the door and the other to patrol the rented sections of the building. This ensures safety for the renters, pr ...

The officer could be given the phone to speak directly with the parent. Rather than have the police wait outside the school to a ...

159 When Rudolph Giuliani was mayor of New York City, he started a pro- gram to reduce “quality-of-life” crimes. He used the pol ...

guidance office suite was nearby. Ms. Lavender, assistant principal of guidance, smelled the residual smoke and came to investig ...

with ninth-year Global Studies led to a Lascaux-like timeline mural of pre- history and early civilizations displayed outside th ...

Today, many businesses and schools use automated response systems. This saves the institution time training staff, but it does s ...

Ms. Valletta in Manhattan High School had two experiences with entry procedures that illustrate the sometimes conflicting attitu ...