Insights: How Expert Principals Make Difficult Decisions [Paperback]

Learn to make the best decisions for your school!

Essential to inspiring and improving schools, principals make complex decisions on a daily basis.  This invaluable resource offers extensive case studies which explore factors considered by expert principals to manage crises, navigate tough choices, and gain control of unsettling school environments.  You will learn how priorities and school culture inform these decisions, and acquire powerful insights on decision-making best practices.  You will find:

• Problem-solving strategies and cases focusing on data analysis and competing stakeholders
• Easy-to-use checklists, robust reflection questions, and a framework to define your professional core values
• Tools to coach and evaluate teachers, and bolster struggling students

Learn to make the best decisions for your school!

Essential to inspiring and improving schools, principals make complex decisions on a daily basis.  This invaluable resource offers extensive case studies which explore factors considered by expert principals to manage crises, navigate tough choices, and gain control of unsettling school environments.  You will learn how priorities and school culture inform these decisions, and acquire powerful insights on decision-making best practices.  You will find:

• Problem-solving strategies and cases focusing on data analysis and competing stakeholders
• Easy-to-use checklists, robust reflection questions, and a framework to define your professional core values
• Tools to coach and evaluate teachers, and bolster struggling students