What It Means to Be a Principal: Your Guide to Leadership, (Hardcover)

<b><i><p>"Becoming a principal involves more than merely applying for a job. It means taking part in a long voyage toward becoming the most effective leader you can become."</p> </i></b><p>Author, educator, and leader John C. Daresh leads you on that journey in a unique and important book that combines self-exploration and career planning in a powerful new way.</p> <p>Now you can look at <i>every</i> facet of the most important career decision you can make. You&amp;#8242;ll ask yourself if you really want to be a principal . . . you&amp;#8242;ll discover what the job truly entails and how it matches up with your real career goals and personal plans.</p> <p>By examining a series of critical issues, this book can help you make that all-important decision by showing you what it&amp;#8242;s <i>really</i> like to be a principal on a day-to-day basis. Issues include: </p> <ul> <li>Differing views of administration </li> <li>The role of superintendents and district personnel </li> <li>Visions of leadership </li> <li>Conflict as part of the job </li> <li>The frustrations of leadership </li> <li>What it means to be in charge </li> <li>Options for principal professional development</li></ul> <i></i><p><i>What It Means to Be a Principal</i> is a work of insight and action -- a challenging real-world framework that will help you make one of the most important decisions of your career.</p> <b></b><p><b>John C. Daresh</b> has worked as a professional educator for more than 30 years in public schools in Iowa and Illinois and in universities across the country, and has served as a consultant to school districts, state departments of education, and universities. Currently he serves as a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Foundations at the University of Texas at El Paso. Daresh has been a frequent contributor to the literature on principalship, and is the author of the best-seller <i>Beginning the Principalship</i> from Corwin Press.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

• What It Means to Be a Principal: Your Guide to Leadership, (Hardcover)
• Author: John C Daresh
• ISBN: 9780761921561
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2001-08-09
• Page Count: 200