Impact: How Assistant Principals Can Be High Performing Leaders [Paperback]

Far too little attention has been paid to the role that assistant principals have in the development of high performing schools. Impact provides specific, practical, and replicable leadership strategies for todays assistant principal. Impact describes how to build meaningful principal/assistant principal leadership teams. The opportunities that assistant principals have to be the instructional leader of the school and the voice of the faculty, and the principal; in other words, how to lead from the middle are examined.

Impact is a practitioners guide for the assistant principal striving to be a school leader. Target audiences include teachers wishing to become assistant principals, current assistant principals looking to excel and lead careers of significance, colleges of education working with graduate students who are being trained in P-12 school administration, and sitting school principals looking to expand the often under-utilized, potential of the assistant principal.

This book examines the art and science of the assistant principal as a school leader; as a leader who impacts the lives of teachers and students. Great assistant principals matter.

Chris Colwell is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Education Department at Stetson University. His 37 year career includes serving as a principal at all levels of P-12 education as well as being recognized as the Florida Secondary School Principal of the Year and as the President of the Florida Organization of Instructional Leaders.

Impact: How Assistant Principals Can Be High Performing Leaders, provides a wealth of important information and strategies to assist those leading at the heart the organization. Focusing on assistant principals, in particular, is long overdue. Dr. Chris Colwell shares a wealth of practical applications in concert with supported scholarly research to address what is necessary to be a successful assistant principal in the 21st Century. This is a must readlÃ.