The Portable Mentor: A Resource Guide for Entry-Year Principals and Mentors [Paperback]

This second edition helps principals and their mentors navigate through the first months of a principalship, with updated ISLLC standards and strategies for improving student achievement.This second edition helps principals and their mentors navigate through the first months of a principalship, with updated ISLLC standards and strategies for improving student achievement. A nice, quick look at the complex role of the principal. The strengths of the book lie in its inherent utility to the field. A great how-to book, informative, easy to read, and well organized. This book is helpful to those seeking to understand the principalship and for those?preparing future principals. Anything that can help the novice principal learn the tricks of the trade is a valuable tool! First-year principals need a mentor, and if one is not readily available, then?this book helps to fulfill the need. I found myself answering the questions, filling in the blanks, or considering how a scenario played out. The book is full of strategies and tips. It can be read quickly and kept on the desk as a reference tool! Principals, those wanting to be principals, and those mentoring principals will find this book very useful. Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Part I. Defining the Job
1. Which Way Is North?
2. How Do You Organize the Contents of Your Garage?
3. Will These Six Standards Work for You?
Recommended Readings Related to Defining the Job
Part II. Doing the Job
4. An Overview of Tasks Entry-Year Principals Need to Accomplish
5. Tasks to Be Accomplished Before the School Year Begins (July-August)
6. Tasks to Accomplished as the School Year Begins (The First Day of School)
7. Tasks to Be Accomplished as the School Year Progresses (Each Week)
8. Tasks to Be Accol˜