The Principalship

By William Henry Roe and Thelbert L Drake

Using a strong social/historical foundation, this book deals in plain English with the real tasks facing any principal. It is designed to provide starter ideas and activities for projects, research, and discussion. It also deals with current issues while providing a thorough legal and organizational base. This book provides readers with topics that address real, current issues principals face daily and includes information on collaborative ventures with community agencies, full-service schools and evaluation as affected by the standards movement and high stakes testing. Coverage also includes teacher morale, gay rights, and pressure resulting from mandated testing. For professionals in the position of school principal.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0023304200
• ISBN13: 9780023304200
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Collier Macmillan
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Overview of a complex job

This book attempts to nail down exactly what it means to be a principal in the current environment of public education. This is a delicate task to accomplish in one volume but the book accomplishes this quite well. Topics covered range from community relations to performance evaluation to facilities management. Even more traditional topics of leadership, organization, and school law are covered. rather than attempting to be a "how to" book it focuses on general theories, realizing that situations on specific campuses will be different. The book is very readable, never bogging down in technical jargon. It is a good place to start when someone needs an overview of the actual tasks involved in being a school principal.