The primary focus of the book is to emphasize the major changes in
the leadership responsibilities of the school principal and to
underscore the necessity for them to gain new knowledge and skills
in order to direct their leadership toward meeting the new changes
in school-community goals and objectives. M. Scott Norton
emphasizes the fact that contemporary issues and problems must be
viewed as symptoms of change. The symptoms represent administrative
tasks that must be attacked by implementing the primary reason that
the school principal is hired, that of leading on-going change. The
leader's responsibility focuses on school purposes as set forth in
a viable school mission statement. The school's mission statement,
that all too often is set forth as a public relations perspective,
must instead set forth answers to questions such as, "What is our
purpose?" "Why does our school exist?" "What is our reason for
being here?" "How do we meet the on-going changes that face us
educationally?" The leadership of the school principal "attacks"
the symptoms of change by collaborating with the school's faculty
to set forth a mission to which all members can commit.
Collaboration infers a unification of members' commitments toward
the primary purposes of the school. Collaboration and opportunities
to confer on an on-going basis are established. Although the school
principal's hands are often tied by such factors as lack of
resources, underfunded/unfunded mandates, inability to hire and
retain highly qualified personnel and constantly changing program
requirements related to student testing and teacher performance
evaluation, this book places emphasis on the principal's need to
become a visionary change agent in order to "attack" the ever
changing symptoms of educational change.
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