Workbook
The Principal's Leadership Workbook
Managing a Building: The Politics, the Parents, the Staff, and You
You run the building. This is where you decide what kind of building it is.
For the principal, assistant principal, or school director running a building with competing constituencies, insufficient resources, and an expectation of vision they have no time to execute.
The Name It First Experience
You run the building. You set the tone. You manage the politics, the parents, the staff, and the expectation of vision you have no time to execute. Across five chapters, you name the leader you are, map the patterns running your building, confront the gap between the school you intended and the one you are managing, and draft the commitments that govern your principalship. The output is not a school improvement plan. It is Your Principal's Leadership Charter — signed, dated, yours.
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Sample questions
- What school did you set out to build — and how close is the school you're actually running to that?
- What kind of leader are you in the room when something goes wrong — and is that the leader you want to be?
- What do the people in your building need from you as their leader — and what is the system making it hardest to give them?
Research basis
Leithwood & Louis on transformational and instructional leadership behaviors / Maslach on role overload, isolation, and values misalignment as burnout drivers for principals / Beauchamp & Thomas on educational leader identity as context-dependent / Fullan on coherence-building and moral purpose / Wallace Foundation on principal as driver of school culture.
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