Beyond Books, Butts, and Buses: Ten Steps to Help Assistant Principals Become Effective Instructional Leaders

Rebecca Good

doi:10.5771/9781607098812

Summary

Beyond Books, Butts, and Buses: Ten Steps to Help Assistant Principals Become Effective Instructional Leaders is intended for ambitious future principals who recognize the importance of researching and preparing for that esteemed position. It contains ten steps that will lead those who are stuck in the duty world of books, butts, and buses to find ways to prepare for instructional leadership.

This book lays out strategies, suggestions, and checklists that will help support the learning. There are scripts, organizational tools, and rationales for following through on the implementation of these steps. There are also samples of different types of walk-throughs, agendas, and planners to help one get and stay organized. A campus administrator position is a hectic, crisis-of-the-moment type of job, and these chapters address how to handle these moments (or how to head them off!). The need for balance in one’s life is spoken to as well, with a chapter devoted to how to avoid burnout. This is a must-read for assistant principals serious about wanting to prepare themselves for the top position in a school.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2014
Copyright year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-1-60709-879-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-60709-881-2
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 156
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Introduction: Prepare for the Principalship No access
Chapter 1. Step 1: Understand SchoolAccountability Systems No access Pages 1 - 8
Chapter 2. Step 2: Stay Current withEducational Trends No access Pages 9 - 14
Chapter 3. Step 3: Increase InstructionalLeadership Capacity No access Pages 15 - 26
Chapter 4. Step 4: Set a Walk-Through Goal No access Pages 27 - 44
Chapter 5. Step 5: Get Assessment Literate No access Pages 45 - 64
Chaper 6. Step 6: Organize Yourself! BecomeMore Internally Disciplined No access Pages 65 - 74
Chapter 7. Step 7: Embrace Instructional Technology No access Pages 75 - 88
Chapter 8. Step 8: Say Tough Things toNice People with Gra No access Pages 89 - 104
Chapter 9. Step 9: Find a Principal Mentor No access Pages 105 - 110
Chapter 10. Step 10: Avoid Burnout:Lead a Balanced Life No access Pages 111 - 116
Chapter 11. Sum It Up No access Pages 117 - 122
Appendix A. Vocabulary Strategies No access Pages 123 - 130
Appendix B. Bloom’s Taxonomy No access Pages 131 - 132
Appendix C. Student Accommodations Plan for English-Language Learners No access Pages 133 - 136
Appendix D. Blank Weekly Administrative Planner No access Pages 137 - 140
Appendix E. Suggested Pyramid Response to Intervention No access Pages 141 - 142
Appendix F. Testing Tips No access Pages 143 - 144
Appendix G. Walk-Through Templates No access Pages 145 - 152
References No access Pages 153 - 156