The path to becoming a leader for your students, faculty, and community begins here.
The Principal: Leadership for a Global Society is the core textbook for aspiring and practicing K-12 school principals. Taking a practical and research-grounded approach, this inspiring text prepares school leaders to successfully face the challenges that they will deal with on a day-to-day basis and throughout their careers. From curriculum development to staff development to policy and discipline, it addresses the most up-to-date practices in developing leadership skills. The book provides a wide array of pedagogical features to help practicing and aspiring school principals improve programs, create a safer and more enriching environment for students and faculty; meet school, district, community, state, and national ideologies and standards; and much more. After reading
The Principal, the educational leaders of tomorrow will be equipped with innovative, practical, and successful leadership concepts and ideas that will help them make a powerful impact on not just those who walk through the school doors, but the community as well.
Table of Content
Preface
Part I: Foundations of Principal Leadership
1. Nature of Leadership: Challenge of the Times
2. Metaphorical History of the Principalship: A Perspective of the Past
3. Theory: A Cornerstone of Leadership
4. Principals and Political Issues
Part II: Process of Leadership for the Principal
5. The Wisdom of Planning
6. The Principal′s Role in Curriculum Development and Implementation
7. Implementing Change
8. Developing Systemic Leadership
Part III: Forces of Leadership
9. Managing Schools
10. Leadership and Supervision
11. Discipline: A Principal′s Challenge
12. Improving Teacher Evaluation
Part IV: The Principal and Current Trends
13. Leadership and Public Relations
14. Practical Applications of Leadership
15. Current Trends in Leadership
16. Principal Alerts: Issues in School Leadership
Index
About the Authors
About the author
Dr. Floyd Boschee has an extensive background in teaching and educational administration. He served as a teacher, coach, and school administrator in the public schools and as a professor and chairman of departments of education at the collegiate level. Dr. Boschee is professor emeritus in the Division of Educational Administration, School of Education, at the University of South Dakota and a former school board member of the Vermillion School District, Vermillion, South Dakota. During his tenure as a university professor, he consulted with school districts on reorganization; published numerous articles in major educational journals; and conducted workshops on curriculum development and implementation, the teaching and learning process, and school administrator evaluations. He is the author or coauthor of 13 books in the fields of school administration and curriculum and instruction.
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