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Essentials for New Principals: Seven Steps to Becoming Successful - Key Expectations and Skills presents seven new principal steps revealing how first-year principals can develop into a successful school leaders. Moreover, essential leadership skills and key expectations are advanced to aid new principals.
Each of the seven steps are identified, clarified, exemplified, and amplified in what serves as a most informative, instructive, and compelling text.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1The New Principal: The Administrative Role - Then and Now
The New Principal of Yesteryear
The New Principal - Yesterday and Today: Has Anything Changed but the Date on the Calendar?
New Principal Expectations, Skill Sets, and Attributes: A Tale of Then and Now
The Attributes: A Brief Introduction
Final Thoughts
Discussion Questions
Case Study Application: How Are Our New School Leaders Doing, Liz?
Application Questions
Chapter 2Step #1 - Advance Critical New Principal Skills: Develop a Plan for Success
Developing a Plan of Action for Success
Critical Leader Skills Identified: What's a New Principal to Do?
Practical Perspectives for New Principals: Skills Acquisition
How to Gain the Required New Principal Leadership Skills
Keys to Personal Growth and Development
Delving into the Research Literature
Examining the Research Literature Requires a Systematic and Logical Approach
Presenting at Conferences: A Method of Advancing Self and Promoting Faculty
Writing for Publication: Express Expertise and Inform Others
Overcoming Isolation
Final Thoughts
Discussion Questions
Case Study Application: We Need to Set a Few Things Straight!
Application Questions
Chapter 3Step #2 - The Leadership Absolutes Vital to Confidently Experiencing Todays Principalship, Part 1: How to Identify, Acknowledge, and Incorporate the Seven Absolutes Essential to New Principal Success
Recognize and Know the Absolutes
The New Principalship: Seven Leadership Absolutes
Absolute #1: The New Principal Serving as Lead Learner
Absolute #2: The New Principal Directing as Instructional Leader
Special Education and the Inclusive School
Program Supervision and Evaluation
It's a Wild New World Out There and Adaptation is Essential
Absolute #3: The New Principal Surrounding Self with a "Forward-Thinking," "Can-Do," and "Ready-To-Get-It-Done" Leadership Team
Absolute #4: The New Principal Supervising School Personnel
Leading Personnel is Hard Work
Stress Makes for Hard Work and By-the-Way, Who Needs It?
Interacting with the Best
Interacting with Those in Need of Assistance
Supervision of Marginal Teachers
Engaging with Teacher Resisters
Managing Personnel and Adverse Circumstances
Absolute #5: The New Principal Managing School Operations
Absolute #6: The New Principal Ensuring a Safe and Secure Learning Community
Absolute #7: The New Principal Enduring Emergent Forces
A Point to Ponder
Final Thoughts
Discussion Questions
Case Study Application:
Is the Challenge an Opportunity or is the Opportunity a Challenge?
Application Questions
Chapter 4Step #2 - The Leadership Absolutes Vital to Confidently Experiencing Todays Principalship, Part 2: Absolute #7 - How to Successfully Endure, Transcend, and Survive the Seven Emergent Forces Challenging the New Principal Role
The Emergent Forces: What Are They? Who Are They? Why Are They?
Seven Emerging Forces
1. Pandemic After-Effects
2. Teacher Shortages, Quiet Quitting, and the Great Resignation
3. Activist Parents
4. Incivility, the Lack of Public Decorum, and Survival Tactics
New Principal Survival Guide for Success
5. Technology Redefined: The Age of Digital Leading, Teaching and Learning - Innovative Today, Obsolete Tomorrow!
6. Social Media Effects
7. Controversial Issues
Racism and White Superiority in Schools
What's a New Principal to Do?
Now is the Time!
Final Thoughts
Discussion Questions
Case Study Application:
Standing Firm and Facing the Force of the Emerging Winds
Chapter 5Step #3 - Learn the Ropes: New Principal Expectations, Position Responsibilities, and Skill Sets to Positively Influence New Principal Leadership
New Principal Expectations: An In-Depth Description and Examination
Position Responsibilities for the New Principal
The Difference: Expectations vs. Responsibilities
What Set of Skills Positively Influence New Principal Leadership?
Seven Key Skills to Positively Influence New Principal Leadership
The Makings of an Outstanding New Principal
Final Thoughts
Discussion Questions
Case Study Application: I'm Overwhelmed - The Expectations are Crushing, and the Responsibilities are Inundating!
Application Questions
Chapter 6Step #4 - Acknowledge and Understand School Norms, Traditions, and Customs: What New Principals Must Know to Survive
What are Norms, Traditions, and Customs from a New Principal Perspective? Each Term Defined, Described, and Exemplified
What a New Principal Must Know and Understand
Which Norms, Traditions, or Customs are Institutionally Perpetual? Should They Be Changed?
How a Can New Principal Make Changes?
How School Norms, Traditions, and Customs Can Dictate a School's Climate and Culture
How to Change and Improve Culture and Climate
How a New Principal Can Survive the Changing of Norms, Traditions, and Customs
Changing Norms, Traditions, and Customs by Changing Climate and Culture: Seven Survival Tactics
Career Longevity: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow!
Final Thoughts
Discussion Questions
Case Study Application: That Nest of Hornets is the Reason the Stinging is so Incessant!
Application Questions
Chapter 7Step #5 - Recognize and Value Essential Characteristics of the Learning Community: Factors New Principals Must Know and Understand
What is a Learning Community?
Who Makes Up the Membership of a Learning Community? Roles and Responsibilities
Position Responsibilities for the New Principal: A Learning Community Member
Position Importance is Relative: It All Depends on Who You Ask!
What are Essential Characteristics of a Learning Community?
How Do Certain Crucial and Fundamental Factors Impact a New Principal's Relationship with a Learning Community?
Developing a Rapport and Establishing a Relationship within a Learning Community
Five Key Tenets Central to a New Principal Establishing an Effective Learning Community and Building a Great Personal and Professional First Impression
How New Principals Fail but Succeed
Remember This and Not That!
Final Thoughts
Discussion Questions
Case Study Application: He Doesn't Have Enough Sense to Come in Out of the Rain! Or, How Not to Build a Relationship with the Learning Community
Application Questions
Chapter 8Step #6 - Appreciate and Incorporate Policies, Regulations, and Procedures: New Principal Legal Responsibilities
Why All the Legalese?
New Principal Legal Responsibilities
School Board Policies
What are School Board Policies?
School Board Policies and New Principal Responsibilities
Administrative Regulations
Campus Procedures
Final Thoughts
Discussion Questions
Case Study Application: Yes, I Heard What He Said. But He Said He Followed School Board Policy!
Application Questions
Chapter 9Step #7 - Enhance Personal Attributes Critical to a New Principal's Success: The Leadership Protocol
Directions
Scoring
Scoring Interpretations
Final Thoughts
Epilogue: Be Aware, Be Prepared, Never Despair, and Let Your Light Shine
References
Index
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