The Principal: Leadership for a Global Society

By Bruce M. Whitehead, Robert H. Decker, Floyd A. Boschee

Book Overview

The path to becoming a leader for your students, faculty, and community begins here.

The Principal: Leadership for a Global Society is the core textbook for aspiring and practicing K-12 school principals. Taking a practical and research-grounded approach, this inspiring text prepares school leaders to successfully face the challenges that they will deal with on a day-to-day basis and throughout their careers. From curriculum development to staff development to policy and discipline, it addresses the most up-to-date practices in developing leadership skills. The book provides a wide array of pedagogical features to help practicing and aspiring school principals improve programs, create a safer and more enriching environment for students and faculty; meet school, district, community, state, and national ideologies and standards; and much more. After reading The Principal, the educational leaders of tomorrow will be equipped with innovative, practical, and successful leadership concepts and ideas that will help them make a powerful impact on not just those who walk through the school doors, but the community as well.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412987105
• ISBN13: 9781412987103
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.2"