The Principal: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact
Author(s): Michael Fullan
The author of Six Secrets of Change describes how and why the principal's role must change to maximize student achievement Principals are often called the second most crucial in-school influencers (after teachers) of student learning. But what should the principal do in order to maximize student achievement? One of the best-known leadership authors in education, Fullan explains why the answer lies neither in micro-managing instruction nor in autonomous entrepreneurialism. He shows systematically how the principal's role should change, demonstrating how it can be done in short order, at scale. Reveals the three key roles that administrators must play in today's schools Explains how to choose the right versus wrong drivers of school success Filled with "action items" to help implement Fullan's program effectively Includes strategies that have been successfully field-tested in schools across the United States and Canada
General Information
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- : John Wiley & Sons Inc
- : John Wiley & Sons Inc
- : 31 January 2014
- : 250mm X 150mm
- : United States
- : 01 February 2014
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Michael Fullan
- : Hardback
- : 371.2011
- : 192
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Preface Acknowledgments About the Author CHAPTER ONE: Outmoded Gasp! Leading Learning Maximizing Impact This Watershed Moment The Chapters That Follow Still Worth a Struggle CHAPTER TWO: Vices and Virtues Panic Time? Four Wrong Choices for Driving Policy Too Broad, Too Narrow: The Transformative Versus Instructional Leader Principal Autonomy and Micromanaging: Other Roadside Attractions Time to Retune CHAPTER THREE: The First Key--Leading Learning What Key Research Tells Us Professional Capital--a Framework for Leading Learning Foster and Integrate The More Powerful Way CHAPTER FOUR: The Second Key--Being a District and System Player Looking Out to Improve Within Intradistrict Development Beyond the District Not You Alone CHAPTER FIVE: The Third Key--Becoming a Change Agent Change Agency Distorted Mirrors CHAPTER SIX: The Future Is Now The Unplanned Digital Revolution Planned Change: Common Core State Standards Time to Change Careers? Or to Change Gears? References Index