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    The Principal: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact

    The Principal: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact

    by Michael Fullan


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      ISBN-13: 9781118582459
    • Publisher: Wiley
    • Publication date: 01/24/2014
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 192
    • File size: 445 KB

    Michael Fullan, Order of Canada, is a professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He consults with leaders of education systems worldwide and is the award-winning author of more than thirty books, including Leading in a Culture of Change, The Six Secrets of Change, and Change Leader. To learn more, visit www.michaelfullan.ca.

    Table of Contents

    Preface ix

    Acknowledgments xi

    About the Author xv

    CHAPTER ONE: Outmoded 1

    Gasp! 6

    Leading Learning 8

    Maximizing Impact 9

    This Watershed Moment 10

    The Chapters That Follow 13

    Still Worth a Struggle 14

    CHAPTER TWO: Vices and Virtues 17

    Panic Time? 21

    Four Wrong Choices for Driving Policy 22

    Too Broad, Too Narrow: The Transformative Versus Instructional Leader 38

    Principal Autonomy and Micromanaging:

    Other Roadside Attractions 42

    Time to Retune 46

    CHAPTER THREE: The First Key—Leading Learning 51

    What Key Research Tells Us 56

    Professional Capital—a Framework for Leading Learning 67

    Foster and Integrate 86

    The More Powerful Way 88

    CHAPTER FOUR: The Second Key—Being a District and System Player 93

    Looking Out to Improve Within 98

    Intradistrict Development 100

    Beyond the District 107

    Not You Alone 115

    CHAPTER FIVE: The Third Key—Becoming a Change Agent 119

    Change Agency 124

    Distorted Mirrors 135

    CHAPTER SIX: The Future Is Now 141

    The Unplanned Digital Revolution 145

    Planned Change: Common Core State Standards 154

    Time to Change Careers? Or to Change Gears? 157

    A Final Word 160

    References 161

    Index 169

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    “This revealing and powerful book comes just in time, as we launch the biggest education reform in the past fifty years. It should be required reading not only for principals, but perhaps even more importantly for those who support and lead them.”
    Laura Schwalm, CaEdPartners; former superintendent, Garden Grove, California

    “After decades of studying, working with, and enhancing the lot of principals . . . Fullan’s conclusion? Principals are needed now more than ever, and he’s smack on target. He doesn’t mince words, yet instills hope and confidence. Simply great . . . this book should be on every leader’s desk. Another bull’s-eye!”
    Willam Parrett, director, Center for School Improvement and Policy Studies, Boise State University, Idaho

    “I just read The Principal and I am on fire and in love. I couldn't put it down! Fullan's uniquely succinct brilliance for soaring above the noise and clutter that bogs us down is incredibly energizing and inspiring.”
    Alice Thomas, president and CEO, Center for Development and Learning, Metairie, Louisiana

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    The author of Six Secrets of Change describes how and why the principal's role must change to maximize student achievement

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    Principals are often called the second most crucial in-school influencers (after teachers) of student learning. But what should the principal do in order to maximize student achievement? One of the best-known leadership authors in education, Fullan explains why the answer lies neither in micro-managing instruction nor in autonomous entrepreneurialism. He shows systematically how the principal's role should change, demonstrating how it can be done in short order, at scale.

    • Reveals the three key roles that administrators must play in today's schools
    • Explains how to choose the right versus wrong drivers of school success
    • Filled with "action items" to help implement Fullan's program effectively
    • Includes strategies that have been successfully field-tested in schools across the United States and Canada

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