Beyond Books, Butts, and Buses

Ten Steps to Help Assistant Principals Become Effective Instructional Leaders

Rebecca Good

• Publisher: R&L Education
• Year: 2014
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216320456
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Administration

Beyond Books, Butts, and Buses: Ten Steps to Help Assistant Principals Become Effective Instructional Leaders is intended for ambitious future principals who recognize the importance of researching and preparing for that esteemed position. It contains ten steps that will lead those who are stuck in the duty world of books, butts, and buses to find ways to prepare for instructional leadership.

This book lays out strategies, suggestions, and checklists that will help support the learning. There are scripts, organizational tools, and rationales for following through on the implementation of these steps. There are also samples of different types of walk-throughs, agendas, and planners to help one get and stay organized. A campus administrator position is a hectic, crisis-of-the-moment type of job, and these chapters address how to handle these moments (or how to head them off!). The need for balance in one's life is spoken to as well, with a chapter devoted to how to avoid burnout. This is a must-read for assistant principals serious about wanting to prepare themselves for the top position in a school.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Prepare for the Principalship
• Chapter 1. Step 1: Understand SchoolAccountability Systems
• Chapter 2. Step 2: Stay Current withEducational Trends
• Chapter 3. Step 3: Increase InstructionalLeadership Capacity
• Chapter 4. Step 4: Set a Walk-Through Goal
• Chapter 5. Step 5: Get Assessment Literate
• Chaper 6. Step 6: Organize Yourself! BecomeMore Internally Disciplined
• Chapter 7. Step 7: Embrace Instructional Technology
• Chapter 8. Step 8: Say Tough Things toNice People with Gra
• Chapter 9. Step 9: Find a Principal Mentor
• Chapter 10. Step 10: Avoid Burnout:Lead a Balanced Life
• Chapter 11. Sum It Up
• Appendix A. Vocabulary Strategies
• Appendix B. Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Appendix C. Student Accommodations Plan for English-Language Learners
• Appendix D. Blank Weekly Administrative Planner
• Appendix E. Suggested Pyramid Response to Intervention
• Appendix F. Testing Tips
• Appendix G. Walk-Through Templates
• References