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Facilitator's Guide to What Every Principal Should Know About Leadership

By: Jeffrey Glanz

The complete guide to training new and aspiring principals in effective leadership practice!

This user-friendly guide, designed around the author's seven-book collection on leadership, provides educational leaders, staff developers, and educational administration professors with a comprehensive staff development or principal training curriculum centered on instructional leadership, cultural leadership, ethical and spiritual leadership, school-community leadership, collaborative leadership, operational leadership, and strategic leadership. The guide also features best practices, discussion questions, activities, reproducibles, and sample workshop or class agendas.

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412941365
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2006
Page Count: 192
Publication date: April 28, 2006

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The complete guide to training new and aspiring principals in effective leadership practice!

This user-friendly guide, designed around What Every Principal Should Know About Leadership: The 7-Book Collection, empowers new and veteran principals, leadership staff developers, and educational administration professors with all the tools for leading a workshop, study group, or course curriculum. All seven books are aligned with Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) standards, and the Facilitator's Guide masterfully presents the key points from the entire collection to foster insightful discussion, reflection, growth, and application.

Its modular format enables users to quickly build a comprehensive session or class that focuses on one, some, or all areas of leadership covered in the following seven books in the collection:

What Every Principal Should Know About Instructional Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Cultural Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Ethical and Spiritual Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About School-Community Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Collaborative Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Operational Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Strategic Leadership

Each section of the guide covers the key points of one book in detail and features an overview of the leadership area, best practices, culminating activities, discussion questions, and reproducible tools and templates. In addition, the guide provides sample half-day and full-day workshop agendas along with a workshop evaluation form.

The Facilitator's Guide to What Every Principal Should Know About Leadership is full of resources, tools, ideas, and handouts that help ensure a flawless professional development session or principal training course.
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Key features

· Hands-on professional development activities for meetings, small groups, and information events
· Sample ½ day, full day, and 2-day workshop agendas
· Resources and tools

Author(s)

Jeffrey Glanz

Jeffrey Glanz currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Institute for University-School Partnership, Director of the Masters Program and the Raine and Stanley Silverstein Chair in Professional Ethics and Values at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University. Prior to coming to YU, Dr. Glanz served as Dean of Graduate Programs and Chair of the Department of Education at Wagner College in Staten Island, New York. He also coordinated the educational leadership program that led to New York State certification as a principal and assistant principal. Prior to arriving at Wagner, he served as executive assistant to the president of Kean University in Union, New Jersey. Dr. Glanz held faculty status as a tenured professor in the Department of Instruction and Educational Leadership at Kean University’s College of Education. He was named Graduate Teacher of the Year in 1999 by the Student Graduate Association and was also that year’s recipient of the Presidential Award for Outstanding Scholarship. He served as a teacher and assistant principal in the New York City public schools. He has conducted numerous workshops and seminars internationally. Dr. Glanz has authored, coauthored, and co-edited 20 books and has many peer-reviewed article publications.

Table of Contents

About the Author

Introduction

Organization of the Facilitator's Guide

How to Use the Guide

Overview of the Principalship: Discussion Questions

K-W-L Activity

Interview Questions

Part I: Book One: What Every Principal Should Know About Instructional Leadership

Overview of Instructional Leadership

Best Practices in Teaching

Best Practices in Curriculum

Best Practices in Supervision and Professional Development

Best Practices in Promoting Student Achievement

Culminating Activity

Instructional Leadership Reproducibles

Part II: Book Two: What Every Principal Should Know About Cultural Leadership

Overview of Cultural Leadership

Best Practices in Sustaining Positive Organizational Climate and Culture

Best Practices in Visionary Leadership

Best Practices in Promoting Cultural Diversity Leadership

Best Practices in Fostering Organization Self-Renewal Leadership

Culminating Activity

Cultural Leadership Reproducibles

Part III: Book Three: What Every Principal Should Know About Ethical and Spiritual Leadership

Overview of Ethical and Spiritual Leadership

Best Practices in Leading Ethically, With Moral Purpose, and With an Awareness of the Spiritual

Best Practices for Leading With Soul and Conviction

Best Practices for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas

Culminating Activity

Ethical and Spiritual Leadership Reproducibles

Part IV: Book Four: What Every Principal Should Know About School-Community Leadership

Overview of School-Community Leadership

Best Practices in Reaching Out to Parents

Best Practices in Building Community Alliances

Best Practices to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap

Culminating Activity

School-Community Leadership Reproducibles

Part V: Book Five: What Every Principal Should Know About Collaborative Leadership

Overview of Collaborative Leadership

Best Practices in Team Building

Best Practices in Action Research

Best Practices in Shared Decision Making

Best Practices in Team Building

Culminating Activity

Collaborative Leadership Reproducibles

Part VI: Book Six: What Every Principal Should Know About Operational Leadership

Overview of Operational Leadership

Best Practices in Getting Organized

Best Practices in Managing Facilities

Best Practice in School Finance and Handling the Budget

Best Practices in Human Resources Management

Best Practices in Communicating Effectively

Best Practices in Personal Management

Culminating Activity

Operational Leadership Reproducibles

Part VII: Book Seven: What Every Principal Should Know About Strategic Leadership

Overview of Strategic Leadership

Best Practices in Planning Strategically

Best Practices in Data-Driven Decision Making

Best Practices in Transformational Leadership

Culminating Activity

Strategic Leadership Reproducibles

Sample Workshop Agendas

Half-Day Workshop Agendas

One-Day Workshop Agendas

Workshop Evaluation Form

References

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