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Assistant Principalship
Assistant principals provide invaluable support to a school's administrative team. In thinking about how to recruit, train, and support assistant principals, questions such as "What are the roles of assistant principals?," "How are they recruited and trained?," and "What are their professional development needs?" may arise. This ReadySearch TM provides resources to assist in answering those questions.
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Role of Assistant Principals
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The Role of the Assistant Principal
This article provides general background information on the role of the assistant principal. Interviewed in the article is Mitchell Weiss, winner of the 2008 NASSP State and National Assistant Principal of the Year Award Program for the state of Delaware. Weiss describes his roles and responsibilities as assistant principal at Weiss of Howard High School of Technology. 2008. http://www.acteonline.org/uploadedFiles/Publications_and_Online_Media/files/files-techniques-2008/Leadership-Matters-May-2008.pdf |
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Sharing the Secrets
Assistant principals' roles are diverse, but 10 practices can help them be more effective school leaders. 2008. http://www.edreadysearch.org/search/item_preview.cfm?assetid=27552 |
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More Than a Disciplinarian
Assistant principals can go beyond their traditional roles and become trusted instructional leaders. 2004. http://www.edreadysearch.org/search/item_preview.cfm?assetid=27166 |
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Best Practices--Effective and Efficient Discipline: Top Tips for Assistant Principals
Assistant principals should be integral parts of the instructional leadership team. But often, one of the primary roles of the assistant principal revolves around student discipline. What follows are some strategies and techniques that the author has gleaned over the years as both a teacher and administrator. 2007. http://www.edreadysearch.org/search/item_preview.cfm?assetid=25726 |
Recruitment, Preparation and Development
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Next in Line: Preparing Assistant Principals for the Principalship
Deliberately preparing assistant principals to be principals is an important responsibility of current principals. 2007. http://www.edreadysearch.org/search/item_preview.cfm?assetid=27428 |
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Assistant Principals in Florida Rank First-Year Challenges; Study's Results Highlight Areas of Need
This article describes a project in which first-year administrators in Pinellas County, FL, were members of a professional development cadre. The major purpose of the study was to determine the problems encountered by first-year assistant principals. 2005. http://www.edreadysearch.org/search/item_preview.cfm?assetid=17602 |
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Are Assistant Principals Prepared for Principalship? How Do Assistant Principals Perceive?
This paper, written by a professor at Kennesaw State University, examines a study of assistant principal perceptions of their preparation for the principalship. 2003. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1b/7a/2f.pdf |
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What Personality Inventories and Leadership Assessments Say About Aspiring Principals
This article explores the personality preferences and leadership styles of aspiring school principals, including differences in race, gender, grade level, and school district location. 2006. http://www.edreadysearch.org/search/item_preview.cfm?assetid=20201 |
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Applicant Attraction to Assistant Principal Jobs: An Experimental Assessment
This report presents the results of a study that examined the lack of applicants for administrative positions, experimented with changing the way the assistant principalship was structured to attract more applicants, looked at potential gender differences in attraction to the assistant principalship, and attempted to determine if enrollment in administrator certification courses (versus not being enrolled) had an effect on teacher interest in the assistant principalship. 2002. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1a/a3/49.pdf |
