Authors: Elizabeth Hebert, Richard H. Ackerman
ISBN-13: 9780807746967, ISBN-10: 0807746967
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Date Published: March 2006
Edition: 1st Edition
Elizabeth Hebert uses her 21 years of experience as an elementary school principal to offer inspiration and guidance to aspiring and practicing administrators. Using real-life stories from her career, this book examines the responsibilities, demands, and challenges principals manage on a daily basis; demonstrates how qualities of leadership mature over time and the conditions that both nurture and suppress it; and provides a heartfelt and compelling rationale for becoming (and staying!) a school principal. New and veteran administrators will recognize the authentic school scenarios and appreciate the sincere voice of the author as she passes on valuable lessons learned.
1 | Imagine being a principal | 1 |
2 | Leading a school and managing a school : what's the difference? | 13 |
3 | Creating traditions : how a school gains an identity | 25 |
4 | Rugtime for teachers : reinventing the faculty meeting and mentoring good ideas | 39 |
5 | Hire teachers as if your professional life depends on it : it does | 53 |
6 | "He stole my snow" : moral dimensions of leadership on the playground | 79 |
7 | "Who'd you get?" : the yearly ritual of classroom placement | 91 |
8 | Administrative aloneness : the darker side of the principalship | 115 |
9 | Imagine not being a principal : passing the baton | 129 |