Creating a Successful Leadership Style Principles of Personal Strategic Planning

by Bonnici, Charles A.; Cooper, Bruce S.,

• ISBN13: 9781610480819
• ISBN10: 1610480813
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-16
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

Creating a Successful Leadership Style gives practical applications supported by real experiences. It presents the actual situations a principal or assistant principal faces on a day-to-day basis and provides strategies to address them. These strategies derive from a leadership style that is people oriented and designed to elicit positive outcomes and responses. Charles A. Bonnici presents several principles of educational leadership which, taken together, help the school leader develop a leadership style that is people oriented, humane, and effective. In the course of the regular school day, a school leader is rarely asked what management theory is being implemented in a school. Instead, the principal and assistant principal are faced with a multitude of immediate and long-range problems and issues that need real-life solutions.

Author Biography

Charles A. Bonnici has been an educator for forty years, serving as a teacher, assistant principal, and principal in the New York City public school system. For the past ten years, as an adjunct professor at Pace University, he has developed and taught educational leadership courses to students seeking their state certification.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
Always Be a Role Model	p. 1
Don't Exacerbate; Defuse	p. 11
Speak Little; Listen a Lot	p. 27
Give the Credit; Take the Blame	p. 37
People Are More Important than Paper	p. 51
Let Your People Fly	p. 69
Be Aware of Workplace Issues	p. 81
Lay the Groundwork: Get All Your Ducks in a Row	p. 99
Maximize the Positives; Minimize the Negatives	p. 121
Monitor the Communication	p. 131
Remember the Support Staff	p. 145
Mind the Details	p. 159
Stay within the Box and Remember-Life Is Unfair	p. 171
ôAlways Remember What's Importantö	p. 183
Guidelines for Marking and Grading	p. 193
Sample Weekly Bulletin	p. 207
Sample Parent Newsletter Article	p. 213
Highlights of the 2001-2002 School Year	p. 217
Acknowledgments	p. 223
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