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Learn how to incorporate block scheduling and gain educational benefits?fewer discipline referrals, better student attendance, enhanced staff-student relationships, and more students on the honor roll!
A guide on the side to help you excel in all areas of the principalship This new edition of a bestseller serves as a personal mentor for principals, providing the practical resources and tools to help inservice and aspiring administrators manage the challenges of leading a learning organization and facilitating school improvement. Educational leadership consultant Pam Robbins and experienced principal Harvey B. Alvy guide school leaders on such critical areas as leadership skills, developing vision and a mission, teacher evaluation and supervision, curriculum, technology use, and conducting faculty meetings. This book provides: Research-based strategies for succeeding with issues deemed critical to the principalship by practicing principals An interactive format with reflective questions at the end of each chapter A matrix that aligns practices with ISLLC standards The Principal's Companion is the principal's ideal accompaniment for creating an environment that supports teachers' efforts to bring about successful student performance.
Learn how to incorporate block scheduling and gain educational benefits?fewer discipline referrals, better student attendance, enhanced staff-student relationships, and more students on the honor roll!
Provides a variety of critical documents, including daily attendance and lesson planning pages, grade books, seating charges, substitute teacher plans, and more. Shrink-wrapped, 3-hole punched, with 20 preprinted section dividers. Ready to assemble in a 3-ring binder (not included).
Foreword by Roland S. Barth "An encyclopedic compilation of insights on the major issues confronting school principals. Suggestions are concrete, sensible, and approachable." Here's the essential information you need to succeed - whether you're starting your first principalship or moving to a new post. You'll find out how to sharpen your crucial problem-solving skills. Make good decisions quickly, without second-guessing yourself. Develop a proactive approach and address small concerns before they become big problems. Alvy and Robbins offer you ideas, strategies, and words of wisdom gleaned from practical experience to help you prepare for anything a school leader might encounter. You'll learn how to
Let teachers, students, and your school community see you on the campus, not just in your office. Focus on the real center of your school - the classrooms - and visit each class regularly. Make sure you ask the right questions of your staff, your students, and the community. Be observant, and do what you can to learn every day - especially from your mistakes. The authors suggest expanding your expertise by forging relationships with experts you can call on for advice. Join or start a network with other principals. Cultivate a core group you can count on for a second opinion, as a sounding-board, or for emotional support. The authors bring considerable expertise to this book. Alvy, after serving a school principal for more than a decade, recently began a new position as principal at Singapore American School. Robbins has worked with school principals for twenty-six years, designing and delivering training for principals' academies, among other things. Who benefits from your excellence as a school leader? You, your staff, parents, and the community - but most of all, your students
How to accelerate analysis into action Using data for school improvement is a key goal of Race to the Top, therefore now is the time to make data-driven school improvement a priority. However, many educators are drowning in data. Boost your professional learning community's ability to translate data into action with this newest book from Robert T. Hess and Pam Robbins. The Data Toolkit provides ten easy-to-use tools that don't require statistical expertise, can be implemented in a timely manner, and facilitate problem-solving at classroom, school, and district levels. These proven methods help educators: - Frame the questions - Drive the conversation - Engage in productive reflection - Uncover understandings - Create a data-driven plan - Achieve and monitor results Written in an educator-friendly format each chapter contains instructions on using the tool, a sample scenario, and examples-practical tools that will help your PLC be the best it can be. Also included are case studies that show how data teams, PLCs, and individual teachers have used the book's methods in their own settings. The culminating school improvement mapping tool guides the team through designing an action plan focused on increasing student learning and achievement outcomes.
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