Michael Fullan 
The Principal [EPUB ebook] 
Three Keys to Maximizing Impact

The author of Six Secrets of Change describes how and why
the principal’s role must change to maximize student
achievement

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Principals are often called the second most crucial in-school
influencers (after teachers) of student learning. But what should
the principal do in order to maximize student achievement? One of
the best-known leadership authors in education, Fullan explains why
the answer lies neither in micro-managing instruction nor in
autonomous entrepreneurialism. He shows systematically how the
principal’s role should change, demonstrating how it can be done in
short order, at scale.

* Reveals the three key roles that administrators must play in
today’s schools

* Explains how to choose the right versus wrong drivers of school
success

* Filled with ‘action items’ to help implement Fullan’s program
effectively

* Includes strategies that have been successfully field-tested in
schools across the United States and Canada

Tabla de materias

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

About the Author xv

CHAPTER ONE: Outmoded 1

Gasp! 6

Leading Learning 8

Maximizing Impact 9

This Watershed Moment 10

The Chapters That Follow 13

Still Worth a Struggle 14

CHAPTER TWO: Vices and Virtues 17

Panic Time? 21

Four Wrong Choices for Driving Policy 22

Too Broad, Too Narrow: The Transformative Versus Instructional Leader 38

Principal Autonomy and Micromanaging:

Other Roadside Attractions 42

Time to Retune 46

CHAPTER THREE: The First Key–Leading Learning 51

What Key Research Tells Us 56

Professional Capital–a Framework for Leading Learning 67

Foster and Integrate 86

The More Powerful Way 88

CHAPTER FOUR: The Second Key–Being a District and System Player 93

Looking Out to Improve Within 98

Intradistrict Development 100

Beyond the District 107

Not You Alone 115

CHAPTER FIVE: The Third Key–Becoming a Change Agent 119

Change Agency 124

Distorted Mirrors 135

CHAPTER SIX: The Future Is Now 141

The Unplanned Digital Revolution 145

Planned Change: Common Core State Standards 154

Time to Change Careers? Or to Change Gears? 157

A Final Word 160

References 161

Index 169

Sobre el autor

Michael Fullan, Order of Canada, is a professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He consults with leaders of education systems worldwide and is the award-winning author of more than thirty books, including Leading in a Culture of Change, The Six Secrets of Change, and Change Leader. To learn more, visit www.michaelfullan.ca.