David Robinson 
The Principal’S Principles [EPUB ebook] 
A Hundred Lessons in School Leadership

Education is a right for all young people in the world, yet quality and relevant education is still elusive. Schools are searching for the perfect recipe for success in a rapidly changing world. Principals are at the focal point of educational delivery, which makes leading schools throughout the world one of the most stressful and challenging occupations. It is a profession that requires many different life, leadership, and management skills. Working with people is, at best, filled with drama, and in addition, principals lead schools crowded with impressionable and volatile children or teenagers with all their changing hormones, peer pressure, the stresses of society, and the challenges emanating from their complex family structures. Teachers are facing huge challenges in the classroom that force heads of schools to give more supportive and constructive leadership. Creating the perfect balance between discipline, compassion, maintaining academic standards, and a relevant academic path for students, all while leading a motivated and skilled staff of teachers is a mammoth task for any individual. This book is a guide to the challenges facing a principal and the skills needed to navigate a school to success.

Over de auteur

David Robinson graduated at the University of Witwatersrand with a BA degree and a postgraduate higher diploma in education at the same university in 1977. He commenced teaching in 1978 at Greenside High School and completed an honours degree at the University of South Africa. In 1985 he was promoted to head of department at Roosevelt High School and then principal in 1996. In 2000 he moved to Bryanston High, where he was principal until 2012 when he retired.