Staying on Track: An Educational Leader's Guide to Preventing Derailment and Ensuring Personal and Organizational Success [Paperback]

This updated guide helps you?assess your chances for derailment and offers practical strategies for promotion or retention.

This updated guide helps you?assess your chances for derailment and offers practical strategies for promotion or retention.

An exciting guide to help aspiring educational leaders develop. Filled with practical, useful ideas to help you get (and keep!) your career going in the right direction. All school administrators should make this book a part of their personal learning plan. We are using it as a part of our intensive leadership training program.

This second edition is moving, realistic, and candid. New chapters on how to negotiate accountability pressures and the seasons of an educational leaders life are excellent. Every would-be and present administrator would benefit from reading this book.

If all aspiring and practicing school leaders heeded the suggestions in Staying on Track, a tremendous loss of administrative talent to attrition could be avoided. Administrators can discover how to grow their own capacities to sustain their careers rather than to attempt to escape the realities of their jobs by running from one position to the next or resigning in disillusionment. This new edition offers two additional chapters aimed at helping leaders understand the four stages of an administrative career and how to avoid derailment by the high-stakes testing movement. Offers advice in plain terms, checklists of key points to remember and implement, and a season-by-season overview of what to expect in the career of an educational administrator. A helpful and practical-minded guide to being the best administrator one can be. Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Prologue: A Cautionary Tale