Ten Traits of Highly Effective Principals: From Good to Great Performance » (1st Edition)

Elaine K. McEwan is a partner and educational consultant with The McEwan-Adkins Group, offering workshops in instructional leadership, team building, and raising reading achievement. A former teacher, librarian, principal, and assistant superintendent for instruction in a suburban Chicago school district, McEwan is the author of more than thirty-five books for parents and educators. Her Corwin Press titles include Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools: Five Simple-to-Follow Strategies for Principals, Second Edition (2006), Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers: Using Cognitive Research to Boost K-8 Achievement (2004), Ten Traits of Highly Effective Principals: From Good to Great Performance (2003), Making Sense of Research: What's Good, What's Not, and How to Tell the Difference (2003), Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership, Second Edition (2003), Teach Them ALL to Read: Catching the Kids Who Fall through the Cracks (2002), and Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers: How to Hire, Mentor, and Coach Successful Teachers (2001). She has an advanced degree in educational administration from Northern Illinois University.

With one chapter for each trait ("The Communicator," "The Envisioner," "The Culture Builder," "The Change Master," etc.), educational consultant and former suburban Chicago public school principal McEwan describes the behaviors and habits she believes will help school principals do their jobs properly. Each chapter presents vignettes of principal (and principle trait) "exemplars," followed by descriptions of behavior "benchmarks" and a number of related tips and aphorisms. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR