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 You
A2 Positive Referral Form
A3 Committee Evaluation of School-Community Program
APPENDIX B
B1 Beginning of School Checklist
B2 Facilities Checklist
B3 Faculty Meeting Sample Agenda
B4 Administrative Responsibilities Chart
B5 Discipline Consequences Grid
B6 Classroom Discipline Plan K-8
B7 Classroom Management Plan Assessment
B8 Discipline Incident Report
B9 Principals Good News Calls
B10 Guidelines for Creating a Master Schedule
B11 Teaching Assignment Sheet
B12 Committee Evaluation Form
APPENDIX C
C1 Reference Check Form
C2 Interview Questionnaire for Teachers
C3 Professional Development Record
C4 Teacher Evaluation Chart
C5 End of Year Check Out List
APPENDIX D
Elementary School mission Statement and Beliefs
Guidance Overview and Alignment
Principals' Responsibilities
Administrative Goals
Administrative Responsibilities Chart
Guidance Counselor Responsibilities
ENDNOTES
REFERENCE LIST
CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
