Richard D. Sorenson

Essentials for New Principals (eBook, PDF)

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 presents seven new principal steps revealing how first-year principals can develop into a successful school leaders. Moreover, essential leadership skills and key expectations are advanced to aid new principals.

Each of the seven steps are identified, clarified, exemplified, and amplified in what serves as a most informative, instructive, and compelling text.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216271390
• Artikelnr.: 74626517

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
1. The New Principal of Yesteryear
2. The New Principal - Yesterday and Today: Has Anything Changed but the Date
on the Calendar?
3. New Principal Expectations, Skill Sets, and Attributes: A Tale of Then and
Now
* The Attributes: A Brief Introduction
4. Final Thoughts
5. Discussion Questions
6. Case Study Application: How Are Our New School Leaders Doing, Liz?
* Application Questions
Chapter 2Step #1 - Advance Critical New Principal Skills: Develop a Plan
for Success
7. Developing a Plan of Action for Success
8. Critical Leader Skills Identified: What's a New Principal to Do?
9. Practical Perspectives for New Principals: Skills Acquisition
* How to Gain the Required New Principal Leadership Skills
10. Keys to Personal Growth and Development
11. Delving into the Research Literature
* Examining the Research Literature Requires a Systematic and Logical
Approach
12. Presenting at Conferences: A Method of Advancing Self and Promoting Faculty
13. Writing for Publication: Express Expertise and Inform Others
14. Overcoming Isolation
15. Final Thoughts
16. Discussion Questions
17. Case Study Application: We Need to Set a Few Things Straight!
* Application Questions
Chapter 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
18. Recognize and Know the Absolutes
19. The New Principalship: Seven Leadership Absolutes
20. Absolute #1: The New Principal Serving as Lead Learner
21. Absolute #2: The New Principal Directing as Instructional Leader
* Special Education and the Inclusive School
* Program Supervision and Evaluation
* It's a Wild New World Out There and Adaptation is Essential
22. Absolute #3: The New Principal Surrounding Self with a "Forward-Thinking,"
"Can-Do," and "Ready-To-Get-It-Done" Leadership Team
23. Absolute #4: The New Principal Supervising School Personnel
* Leading Personnel is Hard Work
* Stress Makes for Hard Work and By-the-Way, Who Needs It?
* Interacting with the Best
* Interacting with Those in Need of Assistance
* Supervision of Marginal Teachers
* Engaging with Teacher Resisters
* Managing Personnel and Adverse Circumstances
24. Absolute #5: The New Principal Managing School Operations
25. Absolute #6: The New Principal Ensuring a Safe and Secure Learning
Community
26. Absolute #7: The New Principal Enduring Emergent Forces
* A Point to Ponder
27. Final Thoughts
28. Discussion Questions
29. Case Study Application:
Is the Challenge an Opportunity or is the Opportunity a Challenge?
* Application Questions
Chapter 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
30. The Emergent Forces: What Are They? Who Are They? Why Are They?
31. Seven Emerging Forces
32. 1. Pandemic After-Effects
33. 2. Teacher Shortages, Quiet Quitting, and the Great Resignation
34. 3. Activist Parents
35. 4. Incivility, the Lack of Public Decorum, and Survival Tactics
* New Principal Survival Guide for Success
36. 5. Technology Redefined: The Age of Digital Leading, Teaching and Learning
- Innovative Today, Obsolete Tomorrow!
37. 6. Social Media Effects
38. 7. Controversial Issues
* Racism and White Superiority in Schools
* What's a New Principal to Do?
* Now is the Time!
39. Final Thoughts
40. Discussion Questions
41. Case 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
42. New Principal Expectations: An In-Depth Description and Examination
43. Position Responsibilities for the New Principal
* The Difference: Expectations vs. Responsibilities
44. What Set of Skills Positively Influence New Principal Leadership?
* Seven Key Skills to Positively Influence New Principal Leadership
45. The Makings of an Outstanding New Principal
46. Final Thoughts
47. Discussion Questions
48. Case Study Application: I'm Overwhelmed - The Expectations are Crushing,
and the Responsibilities are Inundating!
* Application Questions
Chapter 6Step #4 - Acknowledge and Understand School Norms, Traditions, and
Customs: What New Principals Must Know to Survive
49. What are Norms, Traditions, and Customs from a New Principal Perspective?
Each Term Defined, Described, and Exemplified
* What a New Principal Must Know and Understand
50. Which Norms, Traditions, or Customs are Institutionally Perpetual? Should
They Be Changed?
* How a Can New Principal Make Changes?
51. How School Norms, Traditions, and Customs Can Dictate a School's Climate
and Culture
* How to Change and Improve Culture and Climate
52. How a New Principal Can Survive the Changing of Norms, Traditions, and
Customs
* Changing Norms, Traditions, and Customs by Changing Climate and
Culture: Seven Survival Tactics
53. Career Longevity: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow!
54. Final Thoughts
55. Discussion Questions
56. Case Study Application: That Nest of Hornets is the Reason the Stinging is
so Incessant!
* Application Questions
Chapter 7Step #5 - Recognize and Value Essential Characteristics of the
Learning Community: Factors New Principals Must Know and Understand
57. What is a Learning Community?
* Who Makes Up the Membership of a Learning Community? Roles and
Responsibilities
* Position Responsibilities for the New Principal: A Learning Community
Member
* Position Importance is Relative: It All Depends on Who You Ask!
58. 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?
59. Developing a Rapport and Establishing a Relationship within a Learning
Community
60. Five Key Tenets Central to a New Principal Establishing an Effective
Learning Community and Building a Great Personal and Professional First
Impression
* How New Principals Fail but Succeed
* Remember This and Not That!
61. Final Thoughts
62. Discussion Questions
63. Case 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 Community
* Application Questions
Chapter 8Step #6 - Appreciate and Incorporate Policies, Regulations, and
Procedures: New Principal Legal Responsibilities
64. Why All the Legalese?
65. New Principal Legal Responsibilities
66. School Board Policies
* What are School Board Policies?
* School Board Policies and New Principal Responsibilities
67. Administrative Regulations
68. Campus Procedures
69. Final Thoughts
70. Discussion Questions
71. Case Study Application: Yes, I Heard What He Said. But He Said He Followed
School Board Policy!
* Application Questions
Chapter 9Step #7 - Enhance Personal Attributes Critical to a New
Principal's Success: The Leadership Protocol
* Directions
* Scoring
* Scoring Interpretations
* Final Thoughts
* Epilogue: Be Aware, Be Prepared, Never Despair, and Let Your Light
Shine
References
Index
About the Author