Setting Leadership Priorities: Whats Necessary, Whats Nice, and Whats Got to Go [Paperback]

Learn to focus on essentials and strengthen your priority, time, and task management skills to create balance, enjoyment, and satisfaction in your professional life.Learn to focus on essentials and strengthen your priority, time, and task management skills to create balance, enjoyment, and satisfaction in your professional life. Lovely gets right to the heart of what a principal needs to do--and not do--to avoid being overwhelmed by our all-consuming profession. This lively book encourages--no insists--that school leaders make room for the essentials in their professional lives, delegate without guilt, and have the courage to say no. Sprinkled throughout are personal checklists, scripts, and examples of disasters and great successes in the education world. There's something valuable in Setting Leadership Priorities for every principal. Suzette Lovely has synthesized a number of best practices and offers an easy-to-read resource--especially for central office leaders. A definite must-read for principals who are interested in improving their own work and enjoying it more. Lovely has written a valuable and highly practical guide chock full of helpful hints and common sense wisdom. Written in a breezy and easy-to-read style, this book skillfully separates the essential from the tangential in a sea of competing priorities that face principals every day. The book will benefit the struggling new principal as well as the veteran school leader. I wish I'd had this book when I was a principal. Sustainable leadership in today's schools goes beyond short-term gains on standardized tests. School leaders need to produce lasting and meaningful improvements in student learning. This book provides valuable and insightful tools that the talented and dedicated leaders of our schools want and deserve. The perspectives lSÏ