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The book urges the principals, closest to teaching and learning to have the courage to take charge. It offers strategies and approaches that will not only enable them to survive but to thrive as well.
List of contents
PREFACE
ACKNOLWEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: Voices From the Field: Superintendents, Principals, and Teachers
CHAPTER 2: Surviving: Becoming an Effective and Resilient Leader
CHAPTER 3: Collaborating: Role of Central Office
CHAPTER 4: Thriving: Critical Tasks and Needed Changes
CHAPTER 5: Educating: Building a Social, Emotional, and Academic School Environment
APPENDIX A: Principals' Questionnaire
APPENDIX B: Superintendent's Questionnaire
APPENDIX C: Teacher's Questionnaire
APPENDIX D: Principal's Survey
APPENDIX E: Classroom Climate Survey
APPENDIX F: High School Schedule 60 Minute Classes
APPENDIX G: High School Student Schedule and No Substitute Policy
APPENDIX H: Praise Page
About the author
John T. Fitzsimons, with fifty years of experience as a pubic educator has served as a teacher, principal, and school superintendent, in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York. He holds a Ph.D. in Language and Literacy from Fordham University and has recently served on the New York City’s District 3 Community Board of Education as an appointee of the Manhattan Borough President.
Summary
The book urges the principals, closest to teaching and learning to have the courage to take charge. It offers strategies and approaches that will not only enable them to survive but to thrive as well.
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The principal’s role is highly complex, stressful and demanding. Dr. Fitzsimons’s book, Facing the Challenges: How Principals Can Survive and Thrive in Today’s Schools, helps new and veteran administrators cut through the noise and focus on the essential elements of leadership so necessary in today’s world. In this book, principals will find tools and suggestions to focus their energy on what is truly important in the role. This is particularly valuable in this era when principals are called upon to do much more than simply educate students. Fitzsimons’s voice of reason and practical experience gives readers tools and strategies they can implement immediately to affect positive change in their schools.
