Richard D. Sorenson

Essentials for New Principals

Seven Steps to Becoming Successful, Key Expectations and Skills

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Produktbeschreibung

Essentials for New Principals: Seven Steps to Becoming Successful - Key Expectations and Skills is written for new and aspiring principals who desire to gain specialized skills, knowledge, and expertise associated with the incorporation of seven essential steps all related to the advancement of key expectations and critical skills by means of academically-sound and research-based leadership processes thus, ensuring leadership success.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9781475871906
• ISBN-10: 1475871902
• Artikelnr.: 68172799

Autorenporträt

Dr. Richard Sorenson is professor emeritus at The University of Texas at El Paso where he served as department chairperson and director of the Principal Preparation Program. During his career he has taught school-based budgeting, school personnel, educational law, and numerous other administrative leadership courses.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1The New Principal: The Administrative Role - Then and Now
The New Principal of YesteryearThe New Principal - Yesterday and Today: Has
Anything Changed but the Date on the Calendar?New Principal Expectations,
Skill Sets, and Attributes: A Tale of Then and NowThe Attributes: A Brief
IntroductionFinal ThoughtsDiscussion QuestionsCase Study Application: How
Are Our New School Leaders Doing, Liz?Application QuestionsChapter 2Step #1
- Advance Critical New Principal Skills: Develop a Plan for Success
Developing a Plan of Action for SuccessCritical Leader Skills Identified:
What's a New Principal to Do?Practical Perspectives for New Principals:
Skills AcquisitionHow to Gain the Required New Principal Leadership
SkillsKeys to Personal Growth and DevelopmentDelving into the Research
LiteratureExamining the Research Literature Requires a Systematic and
Logical ApproachPresenting at Conferences: A Method of Advancing Self and
Promoting FacultyWriting for Publication: Express Expertise and Inform
OthersOvercoming IsolationFinal ThoughtsDiscussion QuestionsCase Study
Application: We Need to Set a Few Things Straight!Application
QuestionsChapter 3Step #2 - The Leadership Absolutes Vital to Confidently
Experiencing Todays Principalship, Part 1: How to Identify, Acknowledge,
and Incorporate the Seven Absolutes Essential to New Principal Success
Recognize and Know the AbsolutesThe New Principalship: Seven Leadership
AbsolutesAbsolute #1: The New Principal Serving as Lead LearnerAbsolute #2:
The New Principal Directing as Instructional LeaderSpecial Education and
the Inclusive SchoolProgram Supervision and EvaluationIt's a Wild New World
Out There and Adaptation is EssentialAbsolute #3: The New Principal
Surrounding Self with a "Forward-Thinking," "Can-Do," and
"Ready-To-Get-It-Done" Leadership TeamAbsolute #4: The New Principal
Supervising School PersonnelLeading Personnel is Hard WorkStress Makes for
Hard Work and By-the-Way, Who Needs It?Interacting with the BestInteracting
with Those in Need of AssistanceSupervision of Marginal TeachersEngaging
with Teacher ResistersManaging Personnel and Adverse CircumstancesAbsolute
#5: The New Principal Managing School OperationsAbsolute #6: The New
Principal Ensuring a Safe and Secure Learning CommunityAbsolute #7: The New
Principal Enduring Emergent ForcesA Point to PonderFinal ThoughtsDiscussion
QuestionsCase Study Application: Is the Challenge an Opportunity or is the
Opportunity a Challenge?
Application QuestionsChapter 4Step #2 - The Leadership Absolutes Vital to
Confidently Experiencing Todays Principalship, Part 2: Absolute #7 - How to
Successfully Endure, Transcend, and Survive the Seven Emergent Forces
Challenging the New Principal Role
The Emergent Forces: What Are They? Who Are They? Why Are They?Seven
Emerging Forces1. Pandemic After-Effects2. Teacher Shortages, Quiet
Quitting, and the Great Resignation3. Activist Parents4. Incivility, the
Lack of Public Decorum, and Survival TacticsNew Principal Survival Guide
for Success5. Technology Redefined: The Age of Digital Leading, Teaching
and Learning - Innovative Today, Obsolete Tomorrow!6. Social Media
Effects7. Controversial IssuesRacism and White Superiority in SchoolsWhat's
a New Principal to Do?Now is the Time!Final ThoughtsDiscussion
QuestionsCase Study Application:Standing Firm and Facing the Force of the
Emerging Winds
Chapter 5Step #3 - Learn the Ropes: New Principal Expectations, Position
Responsibilities, and Skill Sets to Positively Influence New Principal
Leadership
New Principal Expectations: An In-Depth Description and ExaminationPosition
Responsibilities for the New PrincipalThe Difference: Expectations vs.
ResponsibilitiesWhat Set of Skills Positively Influence New Principal
Leadership?Seven Key Skills to Positively Influence New Principal
Leadership The Makings of an Outstanding New PrincipalFinal
ThoughtsDiscussion QuestionsCase Study Application: I'm Overwhelmed - The
Expectations are Crushing, and the Responsibilities are
Inundating!Application QuestionsChapter 6Step #4 - Acknowledge and
Understand School Norms, Traditions, and Customs: What New Principals Must
Know to Survive
What are Norms, Traditions, and Customs from a New Principal Perspective?
Each Term Defined, Described, and ExemplifiedWhat a New Principal Must Know
and UnderstandWhich Norms, Traditions, or Customs are Institutionally
Perpetual? Should They Be Changed?How a Can New Principal Make Changes?How
School Norms, Traditions, and Customs Can Dictate a School's Climate and
CultureHow to Change and Improve Culture and ClimateHow a New Principal Can
Survive the Changing of Norms, Traditions, and CustomsChanging Norms,
Traditions, and Customs by Changing Climate and Culture: Seven Survival
TacticsCareer Longevity: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow!Final ThoughtsDiscussion
QuestionsCase Study Application: That Nest of Hornets is the Reason the
Stinging is so Incessant!Application QuestionsChapter 7Step #5 - Recognize
and Value Essential Characteristics of the Learning Community: Factors New
Principals Must Know and Understand
What is a Learning Community?Who Makes Up the Membership of a Learning
Community? Roles and ResponsibilitiesPosition Responsibilities for the New
Principal: A Learning Community MemberPosition Importance is Relative: It
All Depends on Who You Ask!What are Essential Characteristics of a Learning
Community? How Do Certain Crucial and Fundamental Factors Impact a New
Principal's Relationship with a Learning Community?Developing a Rapport and
Establishing a Relationship within a Learning CommunityFive Key Tenets
Central to a New Principal Establishing an Effective Learning Community and
Building a Great Personal and Professional First ImpressionHow New
Principals Fail but SucceedRemember This and Not That!Final
ThoughtsDiscussion QuestionsCase Study Application: He Doesn't Have Enough
Sense to Come in Out of the Rain! Or, How Not to Build a Relationship with
the Learning CommunityApplication QuestionsChapter 8Step #6 - Appreciate
and Incorporate Policies, Regulations, and Procedures: New Principal Legal
Responsibilities
Why All the Legalese?New Principal Legal ResponsibilitiesSchool Board
PoliciesWhat are School Board Policies?School Board Policies and New
Principal ResponsibilitiesAdministrative RegulationsCampus ProceduresFinal
ThoughtsDiscussion QuestionsCase Study Application: Yes, I Heard What He
Said. But He Said He Followed School Board Policy!Application
QuestionsChapter 9Step #7 - Enhance Personal Attributes Critical to a New
Principal's Success: The Leadership Protocol
DirectionsScoringScoring InterpretationsFinal ThoughtsEpilogue: Be Aware,
Be Prepared, Never Despair, and Let Your Light ShineReferences
Index
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