The Principal′s Guide to School Budgeting - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412925320 ISBN 13: 9781412925327

Publisher: Corwin, 2006

Synopsis

This unique budgetary survival guide will enhance your instructional, technical, and managerial skills not only as the school′s leader but also as the school′s visionary, planning coordinator, and budgeting manager.

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About the Author

Learn more about Richard Sorenson′s PD offerings

Richard D. Sorenson, Professor Emeritus, is the former department chairperson of the Educational Leadership and Foundations Department at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). He also served as the director of the Principal Preparation Program. He earned his doctorate from Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi in educational leadership. Dr. Sorenson served public schools for 25 years as a social studies teacher, principal, and associate superintendent for human resources.

Dr. Sorenson continues to work with graduate students at UTEP teaching school-based budgeting and school personnel. He was named The University of Texas at El Paso College of Education Professor of the Year (2005), and he remains an active writer with numerous professional journal publications. Dr. Sorenson has authored textbooks, teacher resource guides, and workbooks related to elementary and secondary social studies curricula. He conducts workshops at the state and national levels, and he has been actively involved in numerous professional organizations, including the Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association (TEPSA), and the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals (TASSP), for which he conducted annual new-principal academy workshops the previous 12-years.

Dr. Sorenson continues his research agenda in the area of the school principalship, specifically the examination of conditions and factors that inhibit and discourage lead teachers from entering school administration. He makes time each day to exercise, walking 4 to 10 miles, depending on how industrious he feels!

Dr. Sorenson has been married to his wife, Donna, the love of his life, for the past 40 years, and they have two adult children, Lisa (a second-grade teacher with Cypress-Fairbanks ISD in Houston, Texas) and Ryan (an Exercise Physiologist in El Paso, Texas), a wonderful son-in-law, Sam (a petroleum engineer in Houston, Texas), and two grandchildren, Savannah Grace and Nehemiah Timothy – all of whom are the pride and joy of his life. Rick and Donna reside in El Paso, Texas, on the U.S./Mexico border, with their home facing the majestic Franklin Mountains. Of course, the Sorenson family remains a lover of Pugs, most notably one Little Bit (wanna go?), and Olive (wanna snack?) too.

Review

"I highly recommend this book to budget committees, site-based groups, educational administration professors, and new administrators. It is a great book to start out with for budgeting and connecting vision to the process. There are many examples provided that can be used right now in schools during a budgeting cycle."

Author: Darin Drill, Principal Published On: 2005-08-22

"Practical information that the school principal needs. The book is a resource that school principals should put on their desks, not their bookshelves. Additionally, the university professor may want to consider the book as a reference for students." Author: AASA Journal of Scholarship and Practice, Spring 2007 Published On: 2007-05-01

About this edition

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1412925320
• ISBN 13: 9781412925327
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Sorenson Richard D., Goldsmith Lloyd M.