Doing the Right Thing: Sometimes Difficult, But Always Correct

Dewitt Jones

doi:10.5771/9781475871319

Summary

Doing the Right Thing Sometimes Difficult, But Always Correct contains fourteen scenarios and solutions. The scenarios are real-life situations the author had to deal with as a principal and superintendent. Doing the right thing is sometimes challenging, but always correct. Each unique scenario is followed by questions that the reader or small groups should consider in a college/university graduate leadership course. These challenging scenarios will require discussions that will differ among each group member or individual and be shared by each group or individual.

The solution section describes what the author did with each scenario and identifies the applicable Professional Standards for Educational Leaders for that scenario. In the author’s nine years of teaching at the University of Northern Iowa, coordinating the superintendent preparation program, and teaching in the principal’s licensure program, he found that just teaching theory and concepts needed to be combined with real-world experiences to mean something to future leaders.

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-7129-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-7131-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 98
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Introduction No access
1. Loaded Gun in Elementary School No access
2. Drum Line No access
3. Motorcycle Ride No access
4. Arena Conferences No access
5. Newspaper Conflict No access
6. Parent Demand No access
7. Marching Band Sousaphones No access
8. Closing an Elementary School No access
9. Receptionist and Maintenance Assistant No access
10. Flag Girls No access
11. Bus Driver No access
12. Superintendent’s Daughter No access
13. Assistant Superintendent No access
14. Principal Issues No access
15. Bananas No access
16. Affair No access
17. Politics No access
1. Loaded Gun in Elementary School No access
2. Drum Line No access
3. Motorcycle Ride No access
4. Arena Conferences No access
5. Newspaper Conflict No access
6. Parent Demand No access
7. Marching Band Sousaphones No access
8. Closing an Elementary School No access
9. Receptionist and Maintenance Assistant No access
10. Flag Girls No access
11. Bus Driver No access
12. Superintendent’s Daughter No access
13. Assistant Superintendent No access
14. Principal Issues No access
15. Bananas No access
16. Affair No access
17. Politics No access
Appendix No access Pages 95 - 96
About the Author No access Pages 97 - 98