Making Sense As a School Leader

This text, written for aspiring and practising principals, provides a guide to school leadership. The authors offer real-life case examples of typical leadership dilemmas in such areas as student discipline, teacher assessment, fiscal management, parental involvement and schoolwide planning. "A real contribution to an over-discussed subject.... This book reaches below the surface to the real issue and relationships that confront principals in their orchestration of the daily affairs of the teachers, parents, and students. "Offers real-life case examples of typical leadership dilemmas—in such areas as student discipline, teacher assessment, fiscal management, community involvement, and school—wide planning—and discusses potential responses to issues that seem ambiguous, complex, and highy charged. "A real contribution to an over-discussed subject.... This book reaches below the surface to the real issues and relationships that confront principles in their orchestration of the daily affairs of teachers, parents, and students." --Harold Howe II, former president of the Ford Foundation for Education and Public Policy Based on the work of the prestigious Harvard Principal's Center, this book shares some of the "sense" that practicing principals have made of their own complex experiences. The authors offer real-life case examples of typical leadership dilemmas in such areas as student discipline, teacher assessment, fiscal management, parental involvement, and schoolwide planning.