Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

The Principalship Vision to Action

by: Lunenburg, Fred C.; Irby, Beverly J.

The Principalship Vision to Action

by: Lunenburg, Fred C.; Irby, Beverly J.

ISBN 13:
9780534625955
ISBN 10:
0534625959
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 07/19/2005
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Newer Edition

Rent

Sorry, this item is currently unavailable.

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Extend or Purchase Your Rental at Any Time

Need to keep your rental past your due date? At any time before your due date you can extend or purchase your rental through your account.

Summary

Succeed in your future career with THE PRINCIPALSHIP! This education text prepares you for your role as principal by addressing topics and issues faced daily by every principal at every school level, including curriculum development and implementation, professional development, developing effective communications, budgeting and school facilities, creating safe schools, community relations, ethics, and legal issues. End-of-chapter Field-Based Activities, current examples of effective school practice, and integrative case help you gain a better understanding of the day-to-day experience of principals and apply important concepts.

Part I Skills for Effective Leadership

Cultivating Community, Culture, and Learning

(23)

Focusing Questions

(1)

Introduction

(4)

Educational Leadership Constituent Council (ELCC) Standards

(3)

Reframing the Role of the Principal

(1)

A New Approach to the Principalship

(1)

Creating a Professional Learning Community

(4)

Creating a Mission Statement

(1)

Developing a Vision

(1)

Developing Value Statements

(1)

Establishing Goals

(1)

Developing a Culture: Learning for All

(4)

Definition and Characteristics

(1)

Heroes, Traditions, and Networks

(1)

Maintaining School Culture

(2)

The Principal as Instructional Leader

(3)

Focusing on Learning

(1)

Encouraging Collaboration

(1)

Analyzing Results

(1)

Providing Support

(1)

Aligning Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

(1)

Summary

(1)

Field-Based Activities

(1)

Suggested Readings

(2)

Overview of Context for Case Studies

(1)

Part I Case Study: A New Role

(3)

Part II ELCC Standard 1

Creating a Vision for Learning

(29)

Focusing Questions

(1)

Gaining a Perspective on the Vision: Considering the Future

(4)

Considerations of the Present and the Future: The Global Society

(1)

Understanding Our World and Our Position as a Principal in the Challenges for Learning

(2)

Bringing the Vision Home to the School Culture

(1)

The Systemic Vision

(1)

Creating a Vision

(3)

The Principal's Vision

(1)

Beliefs, Values, and Attitudes

(2)

The Leadership Framework

(1)

Benefits of Articulating the Vision

(1)

Shepherding the Vision

(2)

Vision Detractors

(1)

Vision Maintainers

(1)

Mission Statements

(1)

Goal Statements

(8)

Hierarchy of Goals

(2)

Criteria for Effective Goals

(2)

The Goal-Setting Process

(1)

Problems With Goal Setting

(1)

Making Goal Setting Effective

(2)

Developing Plans for Attaining Goals

(3)

Strategic Plans

(1)

Tactical Plans

(1)

Operational Plans

(1)

Standing Plans

(1)

Single-Use Plans

(1)

How Some Schools Have Used Goal Setting to Improve Test Scores

(1)

Summary

(1)

Field-Based Activities

(1)

Suggested Readings

(2)

Part II Case Study: Creating a Vision

(3)

Part III ELCC Standard 2

Curriculum Development and Implementation

(33)

Focusing Questions

(1)

Concepts and Models of Curriculum

(15)

Concepts of Curriculum

(1)

Models of Curriculum

(6)

Modern Models of Curriculum

(8)

Relationship of Curriculum to Instruction

(2)

The Principal as Curriculum and Instructional Leader

(7)

Curriculum Goals and Instructional Objectives

(2)

Writing Effective Instructional Objectives

(4)

Developing a Needs Assessment

(4)

How to Conduct a Curriculum Needs Assessment Considering Standards

(1)

Assessment Tools

(1)

Curriculum Alignment Process

(2)

Focusing the Vision and the School's Mission Through Curriculum

(1)

Aligning the Curriculum to the Vision and Mission

(1)

Summary

(1)

Field-Based Activities

(1)

Suggested Readings

(2)

Teaching and Learning

(34)

Focusing Questions

(1)

The Principal's Role in Teaching and Learning

(1)

The Principal's Role in Instructional Planning

(15)

Promoting Teacher Reflection in Instructional Planning

(1)

Using Student Data and Evidence in Instructional Planning

(2)

Using Students' Cultural Backgrounds in Instructional Planning

(1)

Using Theoretical Frames for Instructional Planning

(10)

The Effective Schools Model

102

(5)

Clear and Focused Mission

104

(1)

Instructional Leadership

104

(1)

High Expectations

104

(1)

Opportunity to Learn and Time on Task

105

(1)

Frequent Monitoring and Assessment

106

(1)

Safe and Orderly Environment

106

(1)

Positive Home-School Relations

107

(1)

Effective Teaching Practices

107

(6)

Twelve Principles of Effective Teaching

108

(3)

Conditions for Learning

111

(1)

Best Practices for the Classroom

112

(1)

Models of Evaluation

113

(3)

Formative and Summative Evaluation

113

(1)

Classroom Observations

114

(1)

Walk-Through Observations

114

(2)

Peer Coaching

116

(1)

Summary

116

(1)

Field-Based Activities

117

(1)

Suggested Readings

118

(2)

Professional Development

120

(15)

Focusing Questions

120

(1)

The Principal's Mission Related to Professional Development

120

(1)

The Principal's Mission for Teachers' Professional Development

121

(1)

High-Quality Professional Development

122

(6)

The Principal's Mission for Personal Professional Development

128

(4)

The Professional Development Portfolio

128

(2)

Using the Professional Development Portfolio

130

(2)

Ethics of Professional Development

132

(1)

Summary

132

(1)

Field-Based Activities

133

(1)

Suggested Readings

133

(2)

Student Services

135

(39)

Focusing Questions

135

(1)

Guidance and Counseling Services

136

(4)

Aims of Guidance and Counseling Programs

136

(1)

The Role of the Counselor

137

(1)

Major Guidance and Counseling Services

137

(1)

Methods of Counseling

138

(1)

Evaluation of Guidance and Counseling Programs

139

(1)

Attendance and Student Records

140

(2)

The Cumulative Record

141

(1)

The Use of Assessment Data to Improve Learning

141

(1)

Evaluating Student Progress

142

(5)

Purposes of Assessment

142

(1)

Establishing Information Criteria

143

(1)

Creating Effective Tests

143

(2)

Components of a Testing Program

145

(2)

Reporting to Parents and Families

147

(2)

Difficulties in Grading

147

(1)

Methods of Reporting Student Progress

148

(1)

Extracurricular Activities

149

(1)

Goals of Education

149

(1)

Functions of Extracurricular Activities

149

(1)

Special Education Services

150

(3)

Related Services

151

(1)

Due Process Protections

151

(1)

Discipline

152

(1)

Gifted Education

153

(9)

Administrative Arrangements for Gifted Education Programs

156

(1)

Definitions of Giftedness

156

(4)

What Principals Can Do for Gifted Education

160

(1)

Curriculum Models for Gifted Education

161

(1)

Bilingual Education

162

(6)

Program Descriptions

163

(1)

Administrative Arrangements for Service Delivery of Bilingual Education

164

(1)

Bilingual Education Models

165

(1)

English as a Second Language Program Models

166

(2)

Summary

168

(1)

Field-Based Activities

168

(1)

Suggested Readings

169

(2)

Part III Case Study: Learning for All

171

(3)

Part IV ELCC Standard 3

Organizational Structures

174

(28)

Focusing Questions

174

(1)

Key Concepts of Organizational Structure

175

(6)

Job Specialization

175

(1)

Departmentalization

176

(1)

Delegation

176

(2)

Decentralization

178

(1)

Span of Management

179

(1)

Line and Staff Positions

179

(2)

Schools as Open Systems

181

(1)

Inputs

181

(1)

Transformation Process

181

(1)

Outputs

182

(1)

Feedback

182

(1)

Leadership Functions

182

(2)

Planning

183

(1)

Organizing

183

(1)

Leading

184

(1)

Monitoring

184

(1)

Administrative Roles

184

(1)

Management Skills

185

(2)

Conceptual Skills

185

(1)

Human Skills

186

(1)

Technical Skills

187

(1)

Effective Principals

187

(2)

Task Dimensions

187

(1)

Human Resource Activities

187

(2)

Behavioral Profiles of Effective Versus Successful Administrators

189

(1)

The Demise of Bureaucracy

189

(2)

Emergent Models of Organizational Structure

191

(7)

System 4 Design

191

(1)

Site-Based Management

192

(1)

Transformational Leadership

193

(1)

Synergistic Leadership Theory

194

(2)

Total Quality Management

196

(2)

Summary

198

(1)

Field-Based Activities

199

(1)

Suggested Readings

200

(2)

The Principal as Decision Maker

202

(20)

Focusing Questions

202

(1)

The Nature of Decision Making

202

(2)

The Decision-Making Process

204

(3)

Identifying the Problem

204

(1)

Generating Alternatives

205

(1)

Evaluating Alternatives

206

(1)

Choosing an Alternatives

206

(1)

Implementing the Decision

206

(1)

Evaluating Decision Effectiveness

207

(1)

The Rational Decision Maker

207

(4)

Assumptions of Rationality

207

(2)

Limits to Rationality

209

(2)

Shared Decision Making

211

(2)

Advantages and Disadvantages of Shared Decision Making

212

(1)

The Decision Tree Model

213

(3)

The Decision Making-Pattern Choice Model

216

(1)

The Synergistic Decision-Making Model

217

(2)

Summary

219

(1)

Field-Based Activities

219

(1)

Suggested Readings

220

(2)

Developing Effective Communications

222

(16)

Focusing Questions

222

(1)

The Communication Process

222

(2)

Elements of the Communication Process

223

(1)

Planning a School-wide Communications Program

224

(1)

Organizational Communication

224

(5)

Direction of Communication Flow

224

(3)

Communication Networks

227

(2)

Managing Communication

229

(6)

Barriers to Communication

229

(2)

Improving Communication Effectiveness

231

(4)

Summary

235

(1)

Field-Based Activities

236

(1)

Suggested Readings

236

(2)

The Principal and Change

238

(18)

Focusing Questions

238

(1)

The Nature of Organizational Change

238

(6)

Forces for Change

239

(1)

Resistance to Change

240

(1)

Overcoming Resistance to Change

240

(3)

Understanding Resistance to Change

243

(1)

Getting Reform Right: What Works and What Doesn't

244

(1)

Managing Change

244

(5)

The Principal as Change Agent

244

(3)

The Change Process

247

(2)

Key Principal Behaviors That Promote Successful School Change

249

(1)

Change Strategies

249

(4)

Process Strategies

249

(2)

Structural Strategies

251

(2)

Summary

253

(1)

Field-Based Activities

253

(1)

Suggested Readings

254

(2)

Budgeting and School Facilities

256

(20)

Focusing Questions

256

(1)

School Budgeting

256

(8)

Expenditures and Revenue

257

(2)

The Budgeting Process

259

(2)

Financial Controls

261

(1)

Zero-Based Budgeting

262

(1)

Planning-Programming-Budgeting Systems

263

(1)

School Facilities Management

264

(9)

School Infrastructure Costs

265

(2)

Financing School Construction

267

(1)

Environmental Hazards

268

(5)

Summary

273

(1)

Field-Based Activities

273

(1)

Suggested Readings

274

(2)

Creating Safe Schools

276

(19)

Focusing Questions

276

(1)

School Violence and Alcohol and Drug Use

277

(3)

Creating a Safe Environment

277

(1)

Research: School Violence and Alcohol and Drug Use

277

(3)

Applying Research to Practice: Developing an Action Plan

280

(12)

Strategy 1: Predict School Violence

280

(1)

Strategy 2: Prevent School Violence

281

(3)

Strategy 3: Focus Resources on Schools

284

(1)

Strategy 4: Strengthen the System

285

(1)

Strategy 5: Develop a Crisis Management Plan

285

(2)

Strategy 6: Create an Orderly Climate for Learning

287

(5)

Summary

292

(1)

Field-Based Activities

293

(1)

Suggested Readings

293

(2)

Human Resource Management

295

(29)

Focusing Questions

295

(1)

The Human Resource Management Process

296

(1)

Recruitment

296

(3)

Job Analysis

296

(1)

Legal Constraints

297

(1)

Personnel Sources

298

(1)

Teacher Recruitment Consortium

299

(1)

Selection

299

(5)

Interviews

299

(2)

Components of a Good Interview Process

301

(1)

Testing

302

(1)

Assessment Centers

303

(1)

Staff Development

304

(5)

Assessing Staff Development Needs

305

(1)

Setting Staff Development Objectives

305

(1)

Selecting Staff Development Methods

306

(1)

Evaluating the Staff Development Program

306

(1)

Orientation and Induction of the Beginning Teacher

307

(1)

Guidelines for Improving Support for Beginning Teachers

308

(1)

Performance Appraisal

309

(7)

Appraisal Techniques

309

(3)

Common Rating Errors

312

(1)

Modern Appraisal Techniques

313

(1)

Supervision and Evaluation

313

(2)

Improving Teacher Performance Appraisals

315

(1)

Union-Management Relations

316

(1)

The Importance of Good Union-Management Relations

316

(1)

The Collective Bargaining Process

317

(1)

Summary

317

(2)

Field-Based Activities

319

(1)

Suggested Readings

319

(2)

Part IV Case Study: The New Math Program

321

(3)

Part V ELCC Standard 4

Community Relations

324

(21)

Focusing Questions

324

(1)

Principals as ``Boundary Spanners''

325

(1)

School, Family, and Community Involvement

325

(6)

Principals Leading Community Efforts During Catastrophes

326

(2)

Principals Leading School, Family, and Community Involvement

328

(1)

More Family Involvement Information for Principals to Consider

329

(2)

Principals, School-Community Relations, and Public Relations

331

(5)

The Politics of Internal and External Publics

333

(1)

Consideration of the Media and Community Relations

333

(1)

NSPRA Standards for Educational Public Relations Programs

334

(2)

Public Relations Plan

336

(2)

The Four-Step Public Relations Process

336

(1)

Public Relations Planning Process

337

(1)

Summary

338

(2)

Field-Based Activities

340

(1)

Suggested Readings

340

(2)

Part V Case Study: Building Bridges Again

342

(3)

Part VI ELCC Standard 5

The Principal and Ethics

345

(25)

Focusing Questions

345

(1)

The Ethical Principal

346

(1)

Principals and Philosophical Concepts of Ethics

346

(7)

Rights

347

(1)

Freedom

347

(1)

Responsibility and Authority

348

(1)

Duty

349

(1)

Justice

349

(1)

Equity

349

(1)

Caring

350

(1)

Character, Commitment, and Formality

350

(1)

Conflict of Interest

350

(1)

Loyalty

351

(1)

Prudence

351

(1)

Critique

352

(1)

Profession

352

(1)

Moral Imperative

352

(1)

Principals and Ethical Behavior in Schools

353

(4)

Principals Promoting Ethical Behavior in Athletic Programs

353

(1)

Principals Promoting Ethical Behavior Through Character Education

354

(1)

Policies and Procedures That Promote Ethical Behavior in Schools

355

(2)

National and State Codes of Ethics for Principals

357

(5)

National Ethical Codes

357

(3)

State Codes

360

(2)

Summary

362

(2)

Field-Based Activities

364

(1)

Suggested Readings

365

(2)

Part VI Case Study: Tough Decisions

367

(3)

Part VII ELCC Standard 6

Political and Policy Context

370

(22)

Focusing Questions

370

(1)

Society, Policy, and Politics

370

(2)

Policy, Politics, and the Principal

372

(1)

What Is a Policy?

372

(7)

The Examination of Policy

374

(3)

Conceptual Framework for Understanding Policy

377

(2)

What Is Meant by Politics?

379

(5)

Types of Educational Politics

382

(2)

Politics in the District: Working With the Superintendent and Other External Forces

384

(3)

Summary

387

(2)

Field-Based Activities

389

(1)

Suggested Readings

389

(3)

Legal Issues

392

(49)

Focusing Questions

392

(1)

Legal Basis for Public Education

393

(1)

Sources of Law

393

(5)

Federal Level

393

(3)

State Level

396

(1)

Local Level

397

(1)

The American Judicial System

398

(2)

Federal Courts

398

(1)

State Courts

399

(1)

Schools and the State

400

(12)

Compulsory School Attendance

400

(1)

Church-State Relations

401

(2)

State Aid to Private Schools

403

(2)

School Fees

405

(2)

The School Curriculum

407

(2)

State-Mandated Performance Testing

409

(3)

Students and the Law

412

(8)

Freedom of Expression

412

(2)

Student Appearance

414

(1)

Extracurricular Activities

415

(1)

Student Discipline

416

(3)

Students With Disabilities

419

(1)

Teachers and the Law

420

(15)

Licensure and Certification

421

(1)

Contracts

421

(1)

Termination of Employment

422

(2)

Discrimination in Employment

424

(4)

Collective Bargaining

428

(5)

Tort Liability

433

(2)

Summary

435

(1)

Field-Based Activities

436

(1)

Suggested Readings

436

(2)

Part VII Case Study: A Case for the Attorney

438

(3)

References

441

Name Index

(8)

Subject Index

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

The Principalship Vision to Action

The Principalship Vision to Action

9780534625955

0534625959

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

Write a Review

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

The Principalship Vision to Action

The Principalship Vision to Action

9780534625955

0534625959

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

Write a Review

Related Products