Lead From the Start : How to Succeed As the New Principal of Your School (A School Leadership Guide for New Principals and Experienced Educators)

Whether you are a brand-new principal or an experienced leader in a new job, Lead From the Start will help you succeed in your role. Written by Tommy Reddicks and Tina Merriweather Seymour--veteran school leaders with decades of firsthand experience--this book details how to quickly develop best practices and systems that ensure better outcomes for your students, staff, and school. Numerous personal accounts, opportunities for reflection, and discussion questions are included throughout the resource. Use this resource to improve your leadership skills and gain firsthand knowledge from educators like you: Develop an understanding of educational leadership as a skill that can be cultivated and improved. Study the greatest challenges that leaders face in the first few years in a new position and why success in these years is necessary for continued success. Study experience-backed lessons, strategies, and best practices that will improve your leadership skills and expand your management styles. Develop your own system of leadership that will empower you to overcome your school’s unique challenges and improve family and community engagement. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Understand the Setting Chapter 2: Prepare for Opening Day Chapter 3: Build Educational Relationships Chapter 4: Manage the Operation Chapter 5: Codify Schoolwide Behavior Management Chapter 6: Develop Academic Systems Chapter 7: Manage Your Staff Chapter 8: Administer Your Budget Epilogue Appendix: Reproducibles References and Resources Index "In Lead From the Start: How to Succeed as the New Principal of Your School, authors Tommy Reddicks and Tina Merriweather Seymour condense their cumulative decades of experience as school leaders into a guide for both new and veteran leaders. The authors note that, while there is no perfect system, great leadership can be achieved through a pinpoint focus on simple, strategic systems. Thus, this book provides a deeply informative and experience-based look at how leaders coming into a school can quickly develop best practices, leverage their creativity, avoid reactive processes, and more. The book goes a step further, providing numerous personal accounts and first-hand experiences, times for reflection, and discussion questions that will allow the reader to better comprehend and implement these lessons. Using this book, readers will be able to develop a unique system of leadership best practices that will not only keep them in the leadership role through the tumultuous early years, but allow them to improve their schools and ensure better outcomes for students, staff, and the school"-- Provided by publisher "In Lead From the Start: How to Succeed as the New Principal of Your School, authors Tommy Reddicks and Tina Merriweather Seymour condense their cumulative decades of experience as school leaders into a guide for both new and veteran leaders. The authors note that, while there is no perfect system, great leadership can be achieved through a pinpoint focus on simple, strategic systems. Thus, this book provides a deeply informative and experience-based look at how leaders coming into a school can quickly develop best practices, leverage their creativity, avoid reactive processes, and more. The book goes a step further, providing numerous personal accounts and first-hand experiences, times for reflection, and discussion questions that will allow the reader to better comprehend and implement these lessons. Using this book, readers will be able to develop a unique system of leadership best practices that will not only keep them in the leadership role through the tumultuous early years, but allow them to improve their schools and ensure better outcomes for students, staff, and the school"-- Résumé de l'éditeur