Powerful Partnerships

A Handbook for Principals Mentoring Assistant Principals
Gary S. Bloom - University of California-Santa Cruz, USA
Martin L. Krovetz - Leading For Equity and Achievement Design Center
Powerful Partnerships
November 2008 | 144 pages | Corwin
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Leadership Solutions

"This much-needed handbook is an excellent resource for principals and assistant principals as they face the challenges of school improvement together. The exercises focus school leaders on building their collective strengths, expanding their learning opportunities, providing schools with strong succession plans, and enabling leadership teams to address differences while building the capacity for effective teamwork."
—Sandra J. Stein, Chief Executive Officer
NYC Leadership Academy

Nurture the development of future school leaders through effective principal–assistant principal partnerships!

Assistant principals represent the next generation of school principals, so it is critical that schools and districts address the professional development of these key administrators. In this essential resource, Gary Bloom and Martin L. Krovetz demonstrate how principals and assistant principals can use their collaborative relationships to prepare assistant principals for future leadership roles.

This resource views the partnership between principals and assistant principals as a coaching-based relationship that benefits students and schools. Through this apprenticeship approach, assistant principals receive the mentoring and support they need to become tomorrow's school leaders, and principals benefit from a more effective leadership team. The authors offer discussion questions, activities for the assistant principal, and shared activities that help principals and their assistants to:

  • Develop a shared vision for their relationship and their school
  • Design a plan for communication and professional development
  • Build assistants' skills in school management, instructional leadership, and personnel management

Addressing a critical yet frequently neglected topic, Powerful Partnerships helps principals mentor assistant principals, promote their professional development, and prepare them for challenging new positions in the future!

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

Introduction

Introduction

Part 1. Building a Powerful Partnership

  • 1. A Coaching-Based Relationship
  • 2. Building and Communicating a Shared Vision
  • 3. You Need to Meet
  • 4. The Leader-Follower Relationship
  • 5. Building an Apprenticeship Plan

Part 2. The Managerial Basics

  • 1. Time Management
  • 2. Delegation
  • 3. Student Discipline
  • 4. Student Activities
  • 5. Site Budget Management
  • 6. Enrollment Projections
  • 7. Building the Master Schedule

Part 3. Working With People

  • 1. School Culture and Climate
  • 2. Recognition
  • 3. Classified Staff
  • 4. Difficult Conversations
  • 5. Effective Meetings
  • 6. Decision Making and Problem Solving
  • 7. Communications and Public Information
  • 8. Community Engagement
  • 9. Dealing With Difficult Parents

Part 4. Instructional Leadership

  • 1. Professional Reading
  • 2. Supervising and Supporting Teachers
  • 3. Classroom Walkthroughs
  • 4. Professional Learning Communities
  • 5. Using Student Data to Improve Teaching and Learning
  • 6. School Planning Processes
  • 7. Professional Development Planning
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Description

Leadership Solutions

"This much-needed handbook is an excellent resource for principals and assistant principals as they face the challenges of school improvement together. The exercises focus school leaders on building their collective strengths, expanding their learning opportunities, providing schools with strong succession plans, and enabling leadership teams to address differences while building the capacity for effective teamwork."
—Sandra J. Stein, Chief Executive Officer
NYC Leadership Academy

Nurture the development of future school leaders through effective principal–assistant principal partnerships!

Assistant principals represent the next generation of school principals, so it is critical that schools and districts address the professional development of these key administrators. In this essential resource, Gary Bloom and Martin L. Krovetz demonstrate how principals and assistant principals can use their collaborative relationships to prepare assistant principals for future leadership roles.

This resource views the partnership between principals and assistant principals as a coaching-based relationship that benefits students and schools. Through this apprenticeship approach, assistant principals receive the mentoring and support they need to become tomorrow's school leaders, and principals benefit from a more effective leadership team. The authors offer discussion questions, activities for the assistant principal, and shared activities that help principals and their assistants to:

  • Develop a shared vision for their relationship and their school
  • Design a plan for communication and professional development
  • Build assistants' skills in school management, instructional leadership, and personnel management

Addressing a critical yet frequently neglected topic, Powerful Partnerships helps principals mentor assistant principals, promote their professional development, and prepare them for challenging new positions in the future!

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

Introduction

Introduction

Part 1. Building a Powerful Partnership

  • 1. A Coaching-Based Relationship
  • 2. Building and Communicating a Shared Vision
  • 3. You Need to Meet
  • 4. The Leader-Follower Relationship
  • 5. Building an Apprenticeship Plan

Part 2. The Managerial Basics

  • 1. Time Management
  • 2. Delegation
  • 3. Student Discipline
  • 4. Student Activities
  • 5. Site Budget Management
  • 6. Enrollment Projections
  • 7. Building the Master Schedule

Part 3. Working With People

  • 1. School Culture and Climate
  • 2. Recognition
  • 3. Classified Staff
  • 4. Difficult Conversations
  • 5. Effective Meetings
  • 6. Decision Making and Problem Solving
  • 7. Communications and Public Information
  • 8. Community Engagement
  • 9. Dealing With Difficult Parents

Part 4. Instructional Leadership

  • 1. Professional Reading
  • 2. Supervising and Supporting Teachers
  • 3. Classroom Walkthroughs
  • 4. Professional Learning Communities
  • 5. Using Student Data to Improve Teaching and Learning
  • 6. School Planning Processes
  • 7. Professional Development Planning
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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Powerful Partnerships

A Handbook for Principals Mentoring Assistant Principals

Gary S. Bloom , Martin L. Krovetz
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November 2008 | 144 pages | Corwin

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Leadership Solutions

"This much-needed handbook is an excellent resource for principals and assistant principals as they face the challenges of school improvement together. The exercises focus school leaders on building their collective strengths, expanding their learning opportunities, providing schools with strong succession plans, and enabling leadership teams to address differences while building the capacity for effective teamwork."
—Sandra J. Stein, Chief Executive Officer
NYC Leadership Academy

Nurture the development of future school leaders through effective principal–assistant principal partnerships!

Assistant principals represent the next generation of school principals, so it is critical that schools and districts address the professional development of these key administrators. In this essential resource, Gary Bloom and Martin L. Krovetz demonstrate how principals and assistant principals can use their collaborative relationships to prepare assistant principals for future leadership roles.

This resource views the partnership between principals and assistant principals as a coaching-based relationship that benefits students and schools. Through this apprenticeship approach, assistant principals receive the mentoring and support they need to become tomorrow's school leaders, and principals benefit from a more effective leadership team. The authors offer discussion questions, activities for the assistant principal, and shared activities that help principals and their assistants to:

  • Develop a shared vision for their relationship and their school
  • Design a plan for communication and professional development
  • Build assistants' skills in school management, instructional leadership, and personnel management

Addressing a critical yet frequently neglected topic, Powerful Partnerships helps principals mentor assistant principals, promote their professional development, and prepare them for challenging new positions in the future!


Table Of Contents:

  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Building a Powerful Partnership
  • 1. A Coaching-Based Relationship
  • 2. Building and Communicating a Shared Vision
  • 3. You Need to Meet
  • 4. The Leader-Follower Relationship
  • 5. Building an Apprenticeship Plan
  • Part 2. The Managerial Basics
  • 1. Time Management
  • 2. Delegation
  • 3. Student Discipline
  • 4. Student Activities
  • 5. Site Budget Management
  • 6. Enrollment Projections
  • 7. Building the Master Schedule
  • Part 3. Working With People
  • 1. School Culture and Climate
  • 2. Recognition
  • 3. Classified Staff
  • 4. Difficult Conversations
  • 5. Effective Meetings
  • 6. Decision Making and Problem Solving
  • 7. Communications and Public Information
  • 8. Community Engagement
  • 9. Dealing With Difficult Parents
  • Part 4. Instructional Leadership
  • 1. Professional Reading
  • 2. Supervising and Supporting Teachers
  • 3. Classroom Walkthroughs
  • 4. Professional Learning Communities
  • 5. Using Student Data to Improve Teaching and Learning
  • 6. School Planning Processes
  • 7. Professional Development Planning
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

"These authors, having been principals and assistant principals themselves, know exactly what they are talking about. Step by step, they take the reader on a narrative walk-through of the principalship, presenting engaging stories, practical tools, and dynamic activities. The authors address both the internal and external relationships of the principalship and cover all the ingredients necessary to build a strong mentoring relationship between principal and assistant principal."
Lois J. Zachary, President, Leadership Development Services LLC
"Relationships are the foundations of successful organizations. Bloom and Krovetz have made public one of the most important and normally overlooked teams. Creating and sustaining this partnership is essential to student and organizational learning."
William A. Sommers, Past President, National Staff Development Council
"This much-needed handbook is an excellent resource for principals and assistant principals as they face the challenges of school improvement together. The exercises focus school leaders on building their collective strengths, expanding their learning opportunities, providing schools with strong succession plans, and enabling leadership teams to address differences while building the capacity for effective teamwork."
Sandra J. Stein, Chief Executive Officer, NYC Leadership Academy

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