Leaders Helping Leaders: A Practical Guide to Administrative Mentoring

"This is truly a how-to book for designing and implementing a mentoring program. Daresh pulls the reader in with a relaxed style and logical structure. The reader finds practical info about the possible pitfalls of starting a mentoring program and how to deal with them. I highly recommend this book."
Frank Buck, Principal
Graham Elementary School
Talladega, AL

Mentoring has been effective for teachers helping teachers and students helping students. John C. Daresh, educational leadership expert, brings this successful process to educational administrators in his recently updated Leaders Helping Leaders, Second Edition. In his highly acclaimed book, he offers a practical and up-to-date plan to pair experienced administrators with new and struggling colleagues to support continuity of leadership and create effective education.

In addition to the three-phase model of planning, implementing, and assessing, this updated edition includes:

• Special focus on promoting more diverse and multicultural schools
• Updated scenarios responding to critical concerns for today′s school administrators

In Leaders Helping Leaders, Second Edition Daresh details how to plan, implement, and incorporate a structured mentoring program into any school setting. A sample mentoring background quiz, real-life scenarios, a mentor-protégé action planning form, and details of training aids available for school system planners are just a few of the concrete aids this book offers to create a dynamic leadership mentoring program.

This is an essential resource guide for every school or school district that wants to maintain administrative continuity and improve education.

John C. Daresh is professor of educational leadership at the University of Texas at El Paso. Over the years, he has held faculty or administrative appointments at the University of Cincinnati, The Ohio State University, the University of Northern Colorado, and Illinois State University. He has also worked as a consultant on high school reform and administrator professional development for universities, state departments of education, national and state professional associations, and individual schools and districts across the United States, and also in Barbados, Canada, France, Holland, Israel, Turkey, South Africa, and Taiwan. By far, the bulk of Daresh’s international service has been in the United Kingdom where he served an advisor and trainer for the School Management Task Force that developed and promoted support programs for beginning headteachers, the National College for School Leadership, the Welsh Office of Education, the North West Network for Diploma Development in Cheshire, Manchester Metropolitan University, the University of Lincoln, the University of Hull, CREATE Consultancies, and literally dozens of Local Education Authorities and individual schools across England and Wales.

Daresh recently completed three years of service as the lead consultant on principal mentoring programs for the Chicago Public Schools as that megadistrict was faced with the challenge of bringing in mostly inexperienced principals to serve in nearly of the school system’s elementary and high schools.