Full Description
Every year, an average of 20% of schools replace their principals. This book will inform and enhance the process of recruiting new personnel with its insights and practical suggestions for a successful search. This book also offers current thinking and research to help school boards and policy makers retain the professional leaders they have. This book is a must-read for principals and board members alike. While the departure of ineffective principals can be beneficial for schools, frequent turnover negatively impacts students' achievements. Today, when effective and powerful educational leadership is critical for quality teaching and student achievement, the numbers of principal candidates are diminishing and of incumbents waning. This book explores the central issues of principal development, appointment, and retention policies and practices. Its chapters ask what school boards, policymakers, and principals can do to ensure accountability, transparency, responsiveness, stability, equity, and inclusiveness to assure the longevity of school leaders within the system. Principal Recruitment and Retention presents the research findings of seventeen international scholars in the field over ten chapters. These scholars survey their respective situations from their home countries of United States of America, New Zealand, Israel and Turkey. The problems are similar; the solutions will be edifying.
Contents
Series Editor's Introduction
Editor's Introduction
Chapter 1: A Systematic Review of the Literature on Principal Recruitment: Best Practices - Dustin Miller & Belinda Gimbert- The Ohio State University
Chapter 2: Principal Recruitment in New Zealand: The Role of Boards of Trustees - Gülay Erin Dalgıç, University of Auckland
Chapter 3: Towards a Solution to Solve the Shortage of Principals In Israel by Recruiting Anglo Former Principals - Michael Reichel, Michlalah Jerusalem College, Israel
Chapter 4: Strengthening Educational Leadership Preparation Programs to Better Prepare Principals to Aid Retention - Kathleen M. W. Cunningham, Henry Tran, Suzy Hardie, Rinice K. Sauls, & Tammy S. Taylor - University of South Carolina
Chapter 5: We're Hiring, But Will They Come? The Challenges of Recruiting Racially Diverse Principal Candidates in Rural Schools - Simone Gause, University of South Carolina; Henry Tran, University of South Carolina; & David Buckman, Augusta University
Chapter 6: Retaining Principals: What Works Most Effectively? - Belinda Gimbert & Dustin Miller - The Ohio State University
Chapter 7: Who Wants to be a Principal? Recruiting Instructional Leaders - Haim Shaked, Hemdat College of Education, Sdot Negev, Israel Chapter 8: Challenges Facing Principals: Voices from the Field - David Scanga & Renee Sedlack, Saint Leo University
Chapter 9: Initiatives to Support Principals from their Preparation Program to On-the-Job Mentoring to Proficiency during Induction in the Early Years of their Careers - Shmuel Shenhav, Michlalah Jerusalem College
Chapter 10: A Proposal to Enhance Retention of School Principals in Türkiye - Pinar Ayyildiz, Ankara Medipol University & Köksal Banoğlu, Turkish Ministry of National Education
About the Editor & Contributors
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