The Principal as Professional Development Leader [Paperback]

The authors provide principals with the tools needed to help teachers and staff enhance their skills and improve student learning.

   

The authors provide principals with the tools needed to help teachers and staff enhance their skills and improve student learning.

    This is the book to read! I will recommend it to my colleagues the minute it is off the press. The authors should be very proud of their work and contribution to a pivotal need in the field. Bottom line: It will help us improve what we do for childrenour ultimate purpose. At last we have a book that realistically, empathically, and interestingly describes leadership and the professional development work that needs to accompany itfor principals. It is all here: readings, web sites, theory, practice, helpful forms to use, vignettes of principals. Lindstrom and Speck are both insiders and outsiders teaching us in the best of ways how to both think about and act on our new knowledge! Overview of the Professional Development Process and clear framework for research and investigationForeword - Dennis Sparks
Preface
About the Authors
1. What It Means to Be a Professional Development Leader
2. The Principal as Builder: Building the Capacity of the Professional Learning Community
3. The Principal as Designer: Developing Focus, Plans, and Resources
4. The Principal as Implementer: Taking Action
5. The Principal as Reflective Leader: Evaluating Results
6. The Principal as Change Agent: The Challenge for the Future
Resource A: Recommended Readings
Resource B: Recommended Websites
References
Index