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"This much-needed handbook is an excellent resource for principals and assistant principals as they face the challenges of school improvement together. The exercises focus school leaders on building their collective strengths, expanding their learning opportunities, providing schools with strong succession plans, and enabling leadership teams to address differences while building the capacity for effective teamwork."
—Sandra J. Stein, Chief Executive Officer
NYC Leadership Academy
Nurture the development of future school leaders through effective principal-assistant principal partnerships!
Assistant principals represent the next generation of school principals, so it is critical that schools and districts address the professional development of these key administrators. In this essential resource, Gary Bloom and Martin L. Krovetz demonstrate how principals and assistant principals can use their collaborative relationships to prepare assistant principals for future leadership roles.
This resource views the partnership between principals and assistant principals as a coaching-based relationship that benefits students and schools. Through this apprenticeship approach, assistant principals receive the mentoring and support they need to become tomorrow's school leaders, and principals benefit from a more effective leadership team. The authors offer discussion questions, activities for the assistant principal, and shared activities that help principals and their assistants to:
Develop a shared vision for their relationship and their school
Design a plan for communication and professional development
Build assistants' skills in school management, instructional leadership, and personnel management
Addressing a critical yet frequently neglected topic, Powerful Partnerships helps principals mentor assistant principals, promote their professional development, and prepare them for challenging new positions in the future!
Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
Part 1. Building a Powerful Partnership
1. A Coaching-Based Relationship
2. Building and Communicating a Shared Vision
3. You Need to Meet
4. The Leader-Follower Relationship
5. Building an Apprenticeship Plan
Part 2. The Managerial Basics
1. Time Management
2. Delegation
3. Student Discipline
4. Student Activities
5. Site Budget Management
6. Enrollment Projections
7. Building the Master Schedule
Part 3. Working With People
1. School Culture and Climate
2. Recognition
3. Classified Staff
4. Difficult Conversations
5. Effective Meetings
6. Decision Making and Problem Solving
7. Communications and Public Information
8. Community Engagement
9. Dealing With Difficult Parents
Part 4. Instructional Leadership
1. Professional Reading
2. Supervising and Supporting Teachers
3. Classroom Walkthroughs
4. Professional Learning Communities
5. Using Student Data to Improve Teaching and Learning
6. School Planning Processes
7. Professional Development Planning
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
