Tools for Improving Principals' Work - Hardcover

"A thorough and complete sourcebook for helping school principals improve their practice and the school they lead. Nowhere else can these tools be found together, easily accessible and powerful." (Duncan Waite, PhD, Professor, Texas State University; Editor, The International Journal of Leadership in Education; Director, The International Center for Educational Leadership and Social Change) "The role of the principal as an instructional leader is essential for educational success. School principals need effective strategies to continuously improve. Shen and his colleagues provide tools to school principals for enhanced instruction and student achievement." (Dorothy VanderJagt, Ed.D., Principal, Bauer Elementary School, Michigan) "A thorough and complete sourcebook for helping school principals improve their practice and the school they lead. Nowhere else can these tools be found together, easily accessible and powerful." (Duncan Waite, PhD, Professor, Texas State University; Editor, The International Journal of Leadership in Education; Director, The International Center for Educational Leadership and Social Change) "The role of the principal as an instructional leader is essential for educational success. School principals need effective strategies to continuously improve. Shen and his colleagues provide tools to school principals for enhanced instruction and student achievement." (Dorothy VanderJagt, Ed.D., Principal, Bauer Elementary School, Michigan)

The vital role of principalship in improving schools in general and enhancing student achievement in particular has been well documented. Given its importance, there is a need for tools to improve principalship, particularly ones emphasizing those dimensions associated with student achievement. Given the accountability movement, with its particular focus on student achievement and the advent of the evaluation era (including the evaluation of principals), the need for tools is even more urgent. This edited volume presents those tools with the aim of improving learning-centered principalship. The book is useful for researchers and policy makers as well as principals.