Learn to make the best decisions for your school! Essential to inspiring and improving schools, principals make complex decisions on a daily basis. This invaluable resource offers extensive case studies which explore factors considered by expert principals to manage crises, navigate tough choices, and gain control of unsettling school environments. You will learn how priorities and school culture inform these decisions, and acquire powerful insights on decision-making best practices. You will find: Problem-solving strategies and cases focusing on data analysis and competing stakeholders Easy-to-use checklists, robust reflection questions, and a framework to define your professional core values Tools to coach and evaluate teachers, and bolster struggling students INDICE: PrefacePart I: Factors Expert Principals Consider in Decision Making1: Weighing Options2: Recognizing and Connecting to Core Values3: The Impact of Culture on School Change Decisions4: Thinking Big about Big DecisionsPart II: Making Difficult Decisions5: Decisions About Student Consequences6: Decisions About Faculty and Staff7: Decisions about Practices, Policies and Programs8: Decisions That Improve African American and Latino Student AchievementReferencesResourcesClassroom Walkthrough FormCurrent School ScheduleProposed School SchedulePrincipal Interview QuestionsList of TablesList of Case StudiesGlossaryIndex
- ISBN: 978-1-4833-5119-3
- Editorial: Corwin
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha Publicación: 30/04/2015
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
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