"Creating a Successful Leadership Style" gives practical applications supported by real experiences. It presents the actual situations a principal or assistant principal faces on a day-to-day basis and provides strategies to address them. These strategies derive from a leadership style that is people oriented and designed to elicit positive…

For nearly 40 years, AACRAO has published the Self-Assessment, and this 185-page update will provide a cost effective and simple way to evaluate your office operations by stimulating thought, encouraging self-reflection, and evaluating policies and procedures. The Assessment is arranged by topical area with chapters addressing most basic registrar…

How does an assistant principal complete the large number of managerial duties and, at the same time, serve as a credible instructional leader? This book provides practical recommendations for successfully filling the dual role as manager and instructional leader, building effective relationships, using power appropriately, and productively…

You know how important principals are in advancing student achievement and school success, but it's not been exactly clear which components of the principal's job are the highest priority... until now. Following on the results-based approach from the ASCD best-seller "Qualities of Effective Teachers", James Stronge and his coauthors…

This book illustrates how the ideal of servant leadership can be applied in your school today. With real-life scenarios, discussions, and self assessments, this book gives practical suggestions to help you develop into a caring and effective servant leader. There are 52 scenarios in this book, focusing on situations as varied as: (1) Dealing with…

"Educational Leadership" is a major research book on contemporary leadership challenges for educational leaders. In this groundbreaking new work, educational leaders in schools, including teachers, are provided with ways of analysing and resolving common but complex leadership challenges. Ethical tensions inherent in these challenges are…

British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer (BCCAT) has designed "The Articulation Committee Companion" to serve as both an introductory resource for new articulation committee members and as an ongoing reference for committees. The "Companion" includes a brief overview of the province's articulation committees and…

Each of the guidelines pertains to a specific function of the principal in collective bargaining as the process is generally practiced throughout the country. Included is a listing of the advantages and disadvantages of the principal's participation. (Author/IRT)

Offers six guidelines for the building principal to follow in evaluating teachers. The guidelines include keeping evaluation criteria in mind when hiring teachers, focusing on evaluation during inservice training, establishing a regular pattern of classroom visits, and providing teachers with opportunities for self-evaluation. (IRT)

Offers 10 steps to follow in becoming a successful principal that are especially aimed at those new to their positions. (WD)

Schools are managed with the wrong organizational model in mind. They are unique and cannot be governed by conventional management theory. This article describes schools as loosely coupled systems and describes what school administrators should be doing to be effective in such a situation. (Author/WD)

Offers guidelines for secondary school administrators who need to evaluate reading instruction or to choose among alternative reading programs. (Author/WD)

Provides ten areas in which principals can work to help prevent teacher "burnout." (IRT)

Outlines procedures involved in the formative evaluation of training materials in a draft stage before they are produced in their final form. The project manager's role is described, guidelines for conducting the tests and determining revisions are given, and worksheets to use in the process are provided. (LRW)

A public school district superintendent presents recommendations for success: use the initial interview to establish partnership with the school board, learn everything about the district, streamline and generate communications, appreciate and provide clear expectations for staff, have clear direction and goals, understand that democratic…