Principal's Leadership Resource Pack

The books included in this insightful pack are:

• The Principal 50: Critical Leadership Questions for Inspiring Schoolwide Excellence: Why do I lead? With this deceptively simple question, best-selling author Baruti K. Kafele begins a powerful examination of what it takes to make a school community achieve the greatest success in the classroom and beyond. In The Principal 50: Critical Leadership Questions for Inspiring Schoolwide Excellence, Kafele, a veteran school administrator, guides motivated school leaders through 50 self-reflection exercises designed to yield a deeper understanding of the meaning behind the work that they do.
• School Culture Rewired: School Culture Rewired - How to Define, Assess, and Transform It: Your school is a lot more than a centre of student learning—it also represents a self-contained culture, with traditions and expectations that reflect its unique mission and demographics. In this groundbreaking book, education experts Steve Gruenert and Todd Whitaker offer tools, strategies, and advice for defining, assessing, and ultimately transforming your school's culture into one that is positive, forward-looking, and actively working to enrich students’ lives.
• Formative Classroom Walkthroughs - How Principals And Teachers Collaborate To Raise Student Achievement: Revolutionise the walk-through to focus on the endgame of teaching: student learning. Authors Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart present the proven practice of formative walkthroughs that ask and answer questions that are specific to what the student is learning and doing.
• Sparking Student Creativity: Teaching isn't merely transmitting knowledge to students; it’s also about teaching students to approach learning in engaging and unexpected ways. In Sparking Student Creativity: Practical Ways to Promote Innovative Thinking and Problem Solving, author and researcher Patti Drapeau explores and explains research related to creativity and its relevance in today’s standards-based, critical thinking–focused classroom.
• Change Leader - Learning What To Do What Matters Most: We live in a challenging, complex, inter-connected and unpredictable world beset by a range of seemingly insoluble problems. But, says Michael Fullan—an internationally acclaimed authority on organisational change—we have an increasing understanding of how to tackle complex change. This involves developing a new kind of leader: one who recognises what is needed to bring about deep and lasting changes in living systems at all levels.
• Building Teachers Capacity For Success - A Collaborative Approach For Coaches And School Leaders: Educators know that teachers are a school’s most essential strength. In Building Teachers' Capacity for Success, authors Pete Hall and Alisa Simeral offer a straightforward plan to help site-based administrators and instructional coaches collaborate to bring out the best in every teacher, build a stronger and more cohesive staff, and achieve greater academic success.