Leadership Through Mentoring - The Key to Improving the Confidence and Skill of Principals

Leadership through Mentoring shows how effectiveness, vision, and engagement can be grown through intentional, supportive guidance and wise counsel, leading to longer and more successful principal tenures and significant improvements in school performance.

List of contents

Introduction: Why Mentoring?
Chapter One: Definition of Mentoring
Chapter Two: Trust, Communication, and Relationship Building
Chapter Three: The Job is Overwhelming
Chapter Four: The Mentor Pathway
Chapter Five: The Vermont Principals' Association Initiative
Chapter Six: The Massachusetts School Administrators Association Initiative
Chapter Seven: Lessons from the 2020 Massachusetts Mentor Survey
Chapter Eight: Making Sense of Mentor Voices from Vermont and Massachusetts
Chapter Nine: Common Challenges of First Year Principals
Chapter Ten: First Year Challenges and the Mentoring Process
Chapter Eleven: The Importance of Trust in Principals
Chapter Twelve: About the NASSP and the Learning Policy Institute Research

About the author

By Phyllis A. Gimbel and Peter Gow - With Samson Goldstein

Product details

• Authors: Phyllis A. Gimbel, Phyllis A. Gow Gimbel, Gimbel Phyllis A., Peter Gow, Gow Peter
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.06.2021
• EAN: 9781475853438
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-5343-8
• No. of pages: 108
• Assisted by: Samson Goldstein
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Professional Development, EDUCATION / Leadership, Organization & management of education, teacher training, Educational strategies & policy, Educational administration & organization