Full Description
Leadership Through Mentoring: The Key to Improving the Principals Confidence and Skill lays out the case for the development of robust mentorship programs to support new school leaders. With principal turnover at an all-time high, it is urgent that schools and districts find ways to help newly appointed leaders grow into effective supervisors, managers, and strategic thinkers who can also find personal and professional satisfaction in their careers. Using examples from several established and successful state programs, Leadership Through Mentoring shows how new school leaders' effectiveness, vision, and engagement can be grown through intentionally designed and executed programs that offer supportive guidance and wise counsel from experienced leaders. Thoughtfully created and appropriately resourced, such programs can pave the way to longer and more successful principal tenures, which research shows lead directly to significant improvements in schools' cultures, educational efficacy, and teacher and student performance. This is a book for leaders and governing bodies in all kinds of schools.
Contents
Introduction: Why Mentoring?
Chapter One: Definition of Mentoring
Chapter Two: Trust, Communication, and Relationship Building
Chapter Three: The Job is Overwhelming
Chapter Four: The Mentor Pathway
Chapter Five: The Vermont Principals' Association Initiative
Chapter Six: The Massachusetts School Administrators Association Initiative
Chapter Seven: Lessons from the 2020 Massachusetts Mentor Survey
Chapter Eight: Making Sense of Mentor Voices from Vermont and Massachusetts
Chapter Nine: Common Challenges of First Year Principals
Chapter Ten: First Year Challenges and the Mentoring Process
Chapter Eleven: The Importance of Trust in Principals
Chapter Twelve: About the NASSP and the Learning Policy Institute Research
