Essentials for New Principals - Seven Steps to Becoming Successful, Key Expectations and Skills

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.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1The New Principal: The Administrative Role - Then and Now

• The New Principal of Yesteryear
• The 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 Now
  • The Attributes: A Brief Introduction
• Final Thoughts
• Discussion Questions
• 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
  
  • Developing a Plan of Action for Success
  • Critical Leader Skills Identified: What's a New Principal to Do?
  • Practical Perspectives for New Principals: Skills Acquisition
    • How to Gain the Required New Principal Leadership Skills
  • Keys to Personal Growth and Development
    • Delving into the Research Literature
      • Examining the Research Literature Requires a Systematic and Logical Approach
    • Presenting at Conferences: A Method of Advancing Self and Promoting Faculty
    • Writing for Publication: Express Expertise and Inform Others
    • Overcoming Isolation
    • Final Thoughts
    • Discussion Questions
    • 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
      
      • Recognize and Know the Absolutes
      • The New Principalship: Seven Leadership Absolutes
        • Absolute #1: The New Principal Serving as Lead Learner
        • 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
        • Absolute #3: The New Principal Surrounding Self with a "Forward-Thinking," "Can-Do," and "Ready-To-Get-It-Done" Leadership Team
        • 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
        • Absolute #5: The New Principal Managing School Operations
        • Absolute #6: The New Principal Ensuring a Safe and Secure Learning Community
        • Absolute #7: The New Principal Enduring Emergent Forces
          • A Point to Ponder
        • Final Thoughts
        • Discussion Questions
        • 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
        
        • The Emergent Forces: What Are They? Who Are They? Why Are They?
        • Seven Emerging Forces
          • 1. Pandemic After-Effects
          • 2. Teacher Shortages, Quiet Quitting, and the Great Resignation
          • 3. Activist Parents
          • 4. Incivility, the Lack of Public Decorum, and Survival Tactics
            • New Principal Survival Guide for Success
          • 5. Technology Redefined: The Age of Digital Leading, Teaching and Learning - Innovative Today, Obsolete Tomorrow!
          • 6. Social Media Effects
          • 7. Controversial Issues
            • Racism and White Superiority in Schools
            • What's a New Principal to Do?
            • Now is the Time!
          • Final Thoughts
          • Discussion Questions
          • 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
          
          • New Principal Expectations: An In-Depth Description and Examination
          • Position Responsibilities for the New Principal
            • The Difference: Expectations vs. Responsibilities
          • What Set of Skills Positively Influence New Principal Leadership?
            • Seven Key Skills to Positively Influence New Principal Leadership
          • The Makings of an Outstanding New Principal
          • Final Thoughts
          • Discussion Questions
          • 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
            
            • 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
            • Which 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 Culture
              • How to Change and Improve Culture and Climate
            • 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
            • Career Longevity: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow!
            • Final Thoughts
            • Discussion Questions
            • 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
              
              • 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!
              • 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 Community
              • 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!
              • Final Thoughts
              • Discussion Questions
              • 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
                
                • Why All the Legalese?
                • New Principal Legal Responsibilities
                • School Board Policies
                  • What are School Board Policies?
                  • School Board Policies and New Principal Responsibilities
                • Administrative Regulations
                • Campus Procedures
                • Final Thoughts
                • Discussion Questions
                • 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
                  
                  
                  

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Product details

• Authors: Richard D. Sorenson, Sorenson Richard D.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2023
• EAN: 9781475871890
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-7189-0
• No. of pages: 170
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Professional Development, EDUCATION / Leadership, Organization & management of education, teacher training, Educational strategies & policy, Educational administration & organization, Administration;Career Advice;Education;Principal;Skills