Full Description
Creating an Award-Winning School: Outside the Box Thinking for Inside-the- School Success, is the result of collaboration between the authors and practicing and retired administrators.The book is written for new and experienced school administrators, college level instructors, and leaders in the private sector. The authors designed the Principals' Professional Pyramid to serve as the foundation for the book. Creating the Pyramid and adapting the steps from the study of Steven Covey's Principle-Centered Leadership, the authors arranged the tasks of administration into five major steps. The steps are ONESELF, OTHERS, ORGANIZATION, and OPERATIONS and OUTREACH. The authors developed these steps because they felt that a principal should begin with ONESELF before dealing successfully with OTHERS. Once organization is implemented, then the principal can deal with the continued OPERATIONS of all the school. OUTREACH into a professional network is a necessity for the success of a building leader.Embedded in the book are suggestions of Outside the Box Thinking or practical ideas to enhance the day-to-day operations of the building leader. Field techniques, forms, charts, diagrams, and reflections offered by the authors. These have been used to support the topics and enhance the content for the reader.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Principals' Professional Pyramid
CHAPTER 1. ONESELF - Developing Personal Traits and Strengths for Inside the School Success
CHAPTER 2. OTHERS - Developing Effective People Skills for Inside the School Success
CHAPTER 3. ORGANIZATION - Developing Systems and Schedules for Inside the School Success
CHAPTER 4. OPERATIONS - Developing the Processes that Operate Your School for Inside-the-School Success
CHAPTER 5. OUTREACH - Developing outside networks and gaining effective practices for Inside-the-School Success
APPENDIX A
A1 My Compliments to YouA2 Positive Referral Form A3 Committee Evaluation of School-Community ProgramAPPENDIX B
B1 Beginning of School ChecklistB2 Facilities ChecklistB3 Faculty Meeting Sample AgendaB4 Administrative Responsibilities ChartB5 Discipline Consequences GridB6 Classroom Discipline Plan K-8B7 Classroom Management Plan AssessmentB8 Discipline Incident ReportB9 Principals Good News Calls B10 Guidelines for Creating a Master ScheduleB11 Teaching Assignment SheetB12 Committee Evaluation FormAPPENDIX C
C1 Reference Check FormC2 Interview Questionnaire for TeachersC3 Professional Development RecordC4 Teacher Evaluation ChartC5 End of Year Check Out ListAPPENDIX D
Elementary School mission Statement and BeliefsGuidance Overview and AlignmentPrincipals' ResponsibilitiesAdministrative GoalsAdministrative Responsibilities ChartGuidance Counselor Responsibilities ENDNOTES
REFERENCE LIST
CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
