Are You Sure You Re The Principal

Updated for new and experienced principals, this resource provides personal stories, practical advice, a new chapter on career fulfillment, and study guides for professional development.

"For those aspiring to be school principals, this book brings into focus the realities of serving in a leadership role. A must-read for tomorrow′s principals!" —Gerald Tirozzi, Executive Director National Association of Secondary School Principals "Villani offers stories and vignettes that capture the deepest questions and concerns faced by new and aspiring principals and reminds readers that they are not alone." —Stephanie Hirsh, Executive Director National Staff Development Council A wealth of leadership craft knowledge from a principal who has "been there"! Establishing collaborative relationships with staff, building trust, and fostering a climate of mutual respect are goals that principals strive for on a daily basis. The second edition of Are You Sure You′re The Principal? helps school leaders build upon these authentic leadership qualities by combining practical advice and theoretical insight with no-nonsense leadership and reflective strategies to improve principals′ professional practice. Ideal for new and experienced school leaders, this resource discusses how to balance listening and leading, work through conflict, be a mentor, and seek out advisors for guidance and support. This second edition is updated with: A new chapter on career fulfillment Advice on evaluating goals, preferences, and opportunities Study guides related to each chapter for group or individual professional development Through personal stories and commentaries, the author provides a mentor-in-a-book that helps principals feel more supported within the school community.

The students at Mr. Clarkson's school think he might be a superhero! Come join Mr. Clarkson's students in discovering if he really is a superhero or just a super principal. He is extraordinary, strong, fast, and his teachers say he is ALWAYS saving the day! 'My Principal is a Superhero' is a fun and easy read for ages 4-10. Published in large print, this book is also great for classroom read-alouds and as an entertaining book to read at home. Based on mostly true and extraordinary stories... NOW AVAILABLE! My P.E. Teacher is a Ninja, My Counselor is a Princess, and My Teacher is an Elf. The Wonder Who Crew is a diverse, engaging series about children's wonderful imaginations and connections to real life occupations and relationships.

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Janusz Glowacki's highly theatrical and often hilarious works concern the immigrant experience of the Eastern European in America, the struggles of the individual in a repressive state, and the manipulations of political and social power. The girls' reform school of Cinders, the Lower East Side tenement of Hunting Cockroaches, and the Norwegian court littered with bodies in Fortinbras Gets Drunk serve as backdrops for Glowacki's tragicomic explorations of the play within the play of contemporary existence.

Beginning with an abridged history of administrative and clinical supervision, The Principal's Guide to Instructional Improvement offers principals both background information, as well as comprehensive models and examples, to analyze and improve teacher instruction. Based on the principle of teacher growth, rather than teacher evaluation, this book explains both content and process, allowing for the establishment of principal-teacher rapport, the very foundation of successful school supervision. The book offers six supervision models that translate the theory to applied practice. All models can be used separately or together, and they are thoroughly explained with sufficient examples for easy implementation. Beneficial for both novice and veteran principals, this guide will systematically improve the hierarchy within schools, allowing for vast improvement within the classroom.

A pair of plays from the comic genius who gave us the Tony Award-winning Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Baby and the Bathwater follows its main character from infancy to adulthood, in a confusing search for identity after an unusual upbringing. In Laughing Wild, two comic monologues evolve into a man and a woman’s shared nightmare of modern life and the isolation it creates. From her turf battles at the supermarket to the desperate clichés of self-affirmation he learns at his “personality workshop,” they run the gamut of everyday life’s small brutalizations until they meet, with disastrous inevitability, at the Harmonic Convergence in Central Park. The fiercely ironic dark comedy of Christopher Durang can be perfectly described by the quotation—by Thomas Gray via Samuel Beckett—that inspired one of these play’s titles: “Laughing wild amid severest woe.” “One of the funniest dramatists alive, and one of the most sharply satiric.”—The New Yorker