The Principal: Leadership for a Global Society

by Bruce M. Whitehead, Floyd A. Boschee, Robert H. Decker

Overview

The path to becoming a leader for your students, faculty, and community begins here.

The Principal: Leadership for a Global Society is the core textbook for aspiring and practicing K-12 school principals. Taking a practical and research-grounded approach, this inspiring text prepares school leaders to successfully face the challenges that they will deal with on a day-to-day basis and throughout their careers. From curriculum development to staff development to policy and discipline, it addresses the most up-to-date practices in developing leadership skills. The book provides a wide array of pedagogical features to help practicing and aspiring school principals improve programs, create a safer and more enriching environment for students and faculty; meet school, district, community, state, and national ideologies and standards; and much more. After reading The Principal, the educational leaders of tomorrow will be equipped with innovative, practical, and successful leadership concepts and ideas that will help them make a powerful impact on not just those who walk through the school doors, but the community as well.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781483305752
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/17/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	520
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Bruce M. Whitehead is a NAESP Nationally Distinguished Principal and has served for over thirty years as a principal for School District # 4 in Missoula, Montana. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor for the University of Montana. His career includes appointments to numerous national and international committees as well as becoming President of the Montana Association of Elementary School Principals and the Montana State Reading Association. He also served as Chairman of Montana’s first Governor’s Task Force on Technology as well as being an NCATE Advisor. As a co-author of 10 books and numerous articles in the field of education, Dr. Whitehead is a recipient of the University of Montana’s highest honor, The Montana Distinguished Alumni Award. Additional honors include: The International Reading Association’s Presidential Service Award, NASA Explorer Schools Leadership Award, National Milken Foundation’s Outstanding Educator Award, John F. Kennedy Center’s Award for Arts in Education, Outstanding Contributions to Saudi Arabian Education, and Japan’s International Soroban Institute Award.

Dr. Floyd Boschee has an extensive background in teaching and educational administration. He served as a teacher, coach, and school administrator in the public schools and as a professor and chairman of departments of education at the collegiate level. Dr. Boschee is professor emeritus in the Division of Educational Administration, School of Education, at the University of South Dakota and a former school board member of the Vermillion School District, Vermillion, South Dakota. During his tenure as a university professor, he consulted with school districts on reorganization; published numerous articles in major educational journals; and conducted workshops on curriculum development and implementation, the teaching and learning process, and school administrator evaluations. He is the author or coauthor of 13 books in the fields of school administration and curriculum and instruction.

Table of Contents

Preface
Part I: Foundations of Principal Leadership
1. Nature of Leadership: Challenge of the Times
2. Metaphorical History of the Principalship: A Perspective of the Past
3. Theory: A Cornerstone of Leadership
4. Principals and Political Issues
Part II: Process of Leadership for the Principal
5. The Wisdom of Planning
6. The Principal′s Role in Curriculum Development and Implementation
7. Implementing Change
8. Developing Systemic Leadership
Part III: Forces of Leadership
9. Managing Schools
10. Leadership and Supervision
11. Discipline: A Principal′s Challenge
12. Improving Teacher Evaluation
Part IV: The Principal and Current Trends
13. Leadership and Public Relations
14. Practical Applications of Leadership
15. Current Trends in Leadership
16. Principal Alerts: Issues in School Leadership
Index
About the Authors