Essentials for New Principals: Seven Steps to Becoming Successful, Key Expectations and Skills [Hardcover]

Essentials for New Principals: Seven Steps to Becoming Successful  Key Expectations and Skills presents seven new principal steps revealing how first-year principals can develop into a successful school leaders. Moreover, essential leadership skills and key expectations are advanced to aid new principals.

Each of the seven steps are identified, clarified, exemplified, and amplified in what serves as a most informative, instructive, and compelling text.

Dr. Richard Sorenson is professor emeritus at The University of Texas at El Paso where he served as department chairperson and director of the Principal Preparation Program. During his career he has taught school-based budgeting, school personnel, educational law, and numerous other administrative leadership courses.

Dr. Richard Sorenson has skillfully created an introduction for new principals. His compelling and well organized Essentials for New Principals narrative is loaded with interesting stories, captivating case studies, and helpful examples. New school leaders who put Dr. Sorensons principles into practice will be successful, respected, and appreciated. Dr. Michael Fanning, California State University, East Bay

In the crucial book Essentials for New Principals: Seven Steps to Becoming Successful: Key Expectations and Skills, Dr. Richard Sorenson has once again gifted both aspiring and present principals with a road map to develop the necessary skills, attributes, and responsibilities indispensable to becoming strong instructional and compassionate leaders! Sylvia Monsivais Bonscher, M.Ed, Bilingual Educational Consultant

Essentials for New Principals: Seven Steps to Becoming Successful  Key Expectations and Skills is a great resource for all those wanting not only to survive but to thrive in the principalship! Dr. Sorenson provides a practical approach in which new principals can maneuver not only the responsibilities of the position, but continuously grow professionallyl8