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ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD Impact How Assistant Principals Can Be High Performing Leaders 2015 Edition by Christopher Colwell
Far too little attention has been paid to the role that assistant principals have in the development of high performing schools. Impact provides specific, practical, and replicable leadership strategies for today's assistant principal. Impact describes how to build meaningful principal/assistant principal leadership teams. The opportunities that assistant principals have to be the instructional leader of the school and the voice of the faculty, and the principal; in other words, how to "lead from the middle" are examined.Impact is a practitioner's guide for the assistant principal striving to be a school leader. Target audiences include teachers wishing to become assistant principals, current assistant principals looking to excel and lead careers of significance, colleges of education working with graduate students who are being trained in P-12 school administration, and sitting school principals looking to expand the often under-utilized, potential of the assistant principal.This book examines the art and science of the assistant principal as a school leader; as a leader who impacts the lives of teachers and students. Great assistant principals matter. Table of contents :- Foreword by Ron PinnellAcknowledgments Preface Chapter 1 - Building a Principal-Assistant Principal Partnership Team School Leadership as a Collective ProcessSchool Leadership as the Development of Personal QualitiesBuilding the Principal-Assistant Principal TeamKeys to Building a High Performing Principal-Assistant Principal Leadership TeamThe Power of "WE"The Power of CommunicationThe Power of MistakesPrincipal-Assistant Principal Relationship TrapsThe Loyalty TrapThe Good Cop-Bad Cop Trap The Principal as Leader-Assistant Principal as Manager TrapChapter 2 - Managing Change in the Principalship Principal ExpectationsBe a PartnerBe a Teacher Be a Listener Be a LearnerAssistant Principal ExpectationsBe a PartnerBe a MentorChapter 3 - Finding and Keeping Your Unique Leadership Voice Position Power and Leadership Voice Advanced Degrees and Lifelong LearningThe Principal and Leadership VoiceStandards of Evidence and Leadership Voice Keeping Your Leadership Voice Chapter 4 Expert Power v. Position Power Position Power and School SafetyPosition Power and Routine Management Tasks The Entitlement TrapThe Assistant Principal and Expert PowerThe Assistant Principal and Charismatic PowerChapter 5 - Building Faculty Trust and CommitmentBuilding Faculty PartnershipsMaking Faculty Issues the Principal's SolutionMaking Faculty Issues Assistant Principal's IssuesMaking Consistency, Transparency, and Trust the Hallmark of Faculty InteractionDestroying Faculty TrustThe Inconsistency TrapThe Isolation TrapThe Ignorance TrapChapter 6 - The Teacher's Union: Opportunity or AdversityFaculty TrapsTrap 1: The Chip on the ShoulderTrap 2: Whose Side Am I On?Trap 3: I Think I Know the ContractTrap 4: It's Just About the MoneyResponding to Contract Violation InquiriesSalary, Working Conditions, and Job Satisfaction Teaching, Learning, Student Achievement and Job Satisfaction Union-Administration Action PlanChapter 7 Leading from the Middle Leading From the Middle - Closer to the ActionLeading From the Middle - Delegation as OpportunityLeading From the Middle - the Eyes and Ears of the PrincipalLeading from the Middle is Trust in the MiddleLeading from the Middle is Communication, Consistency, and Transparency from the MiddleCommunication and ConfidentialityChapter 8 Leading Up - Building Commitment and Support From Your SuperiorsLeadership OrientationLeading Up - Strategies That Impact Lead Up By Modeling Lead up from the Foundation You are Given Lead Up Through Teacher Evaluations Lead Up By NetworkingBuilding Formal NetworksBuilding Informal NetworksThe Assistant Principal NetworkThe Interdisciplinary Network Lead Up By Creating a Unique "To Do" ListChapter 9 The 50% Rule Prioritizing Time for Leadership The Leadership Log The 50% RuleChapter 10 Managing Student Conduct v. Leading Students Move From an Informal Curriculum on Values To a Formal Curriculum ValuesMove From Mass Production To Mass Customization Move From Consistency and Transparency in the Outcome To Consistency and Transparency in the ProcessMove From School as a Monarchy Run by Adults To School as a Mini-Democracy Run by AllMove From Teaching Student Compliance as a Way to Stay Out of Trouble To Student Compliance as a Symbol of a Personal Code of Ethics Chapter 11 - Building Family and Community PartnershipsInviting Engagement v. Building Bridges that Require Engagement Holding Family and Community Events v. Building Bridges to Family and Community PartnershipsDelegating Community Involvement to Others v. Building a Bridge of Leadership AccountabilitIt's All About Relationships Building Sustainable Partnerships Chapter 12 - Policies, Procedures, and the Law The Assistant Principal and Student Rights Reasonable Suspicion v, Probable CauseA Question of BalanceViewpoint Discrimination The Assistant Principal and Teacher Rights The Assistant Principal and Teacher Contracts Chapter 13 - The Assistant Principal and School Levels The Elementary Assistant Principal: Overview The Elementary Assistant Principal: Challenges and Opportunities The Middle School Assistant Principal: Overview The Middle School Assistant Principal: Challenges and Opportunities The High School Assistant Principal: Overview The High School Assistant Principal: Challenges and Opportunities Chapter 14 - Pursuing the PrincipalshipAppendix - Professional Organizations Bibliography