Description
Book SynopsisThe second edition of this textbook from respected author team Kaplan and Owings explores how principals can effectively build a culture around student achievement. Introduction to the Principalship, a second edition closely aligned with NELP (2018) standards, helps aspiring principals understand how to develop a vision for improvement, make decisions and manage conflict, build teachers' capacity, communicate, monitor the organization's performance, and create a school climate of mutual respect. This important book provides readers with various leadership concepts to inform their practice, as well as the cognitive and practical tools to evaluate and prioritize what leadership actions to take. Each chapter offers opportunities for readers to create personal meaning and explore new ways of doing leadership to advance a positive, person-focused environment. Providing both the theoretical framework and skills for effective practice, Introduction to the Principalship addr
Table of Contents
About the Authors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Leading an Organization
Chapter 2: Principal Leadership for a Student-Centered Learning Environment
Chapter 3: Developing Your Philosophies of Education and School Leadership
Chapter 4: Understanding and Leveraging Your School Culture
Chapter 5: Initiating and Sustaining Change
Chapter 6: Building Ethical Behaviors and Relational Trust
Chapter 7: Building Teacher Capacity
Chapter 8: Conflict Management, Decision Making, and Problem Solving
Chapter 9: Enacting Data-Informed Accountability
Chapter 10: Building Your Capacity for the Principalship
