Full Description
Doing the Right Thing Sometimes Difficult, But Always Correct contains fourteen scenarios and solutions. The scenarios are real-life situations the author had to deal with as a principal and superintendent. Doing the right thing is sometimes challenging, but always correct. Each unique scenario is followed by questions that the reader or small groups should consider in a college/university graduate leadership course. These challenging scenarios will require discussions that will differ among each group member or individual and be shared by each group or individual.
The solution section describes what the author did with each scenario and identifies the applicable Professional Standards for Educational Leaders for that scenario. In the author's nine years of teaching at the University of Northern Iowa, coordinating the superintendent preparation program, and teaching in the principal's licensure program, he found that just teaching theory and concepts needed to be combined with real-world experiences to mean something to future leaders.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part One - Scenarios
Scenario #1 - Loaded Gun in Elementary School
Scenario #2 - Drum Line
Scenario #3 - Motorcycle Ride
Scenario #4 - Arena Conferences - Missing Teacher
Scenario #5 - Newspaper Conflict
Scenario #6 - Parent Demand
Scenario #7 - Marching Band Sousaphones
Scenario #8 - Closing an Elementary School
Scenario #9 - Receptionist and Maintenance Assistant
Scenario #10 - Flag Girls
Scenario #11 - Bus Driver
Scenario #12 - Superintendent's Daughter
Scenario #13 - Assistant Superintendent
Scenario #14 - Principal Issues
Scenario #15 - Bananas
Scenario # 16 - Affair
Scenario #17 - Politics
Part Two - Scenario Solutions
Solution #1 - Loaded Gun in Elementary School
Solution #2 - Drum Line
Solution #3 - Motorcycle Ride
Solution #4 - Arena Conferences - Missing Teacher
Solution #5 - Newspaper Conflict
Solution #6 - Parent Demand
Solution #7 - Marching Band Sousaphones
Solution #8 - Closing an Elementary School
Solution #9 - Receptionist and Maintenance Assistant
Solution #10 - Flag Girls
Solution #11 - Bus Driver
Solution #12 - Superintendent's Daughter Solution
Solution #13 - Assistant Superintendent
Solution #14 - Principal Issues
Solution #15 - Bananas
Solution #16 - Affair
Solution #17 - Politics
Appendix
About the Author
