The Principal's Companion: Strategies and Hints to Make the Job Easier

"This book adds extremely relevant knowledge and skills for innovative reformers and for more traditional leaders alike. It provides a solid set of interesting and shrewd suggestions that can be used immediately by practicing principals."
―From the Foreword by Kent D. Peterson, Professor
Department of Educational Administration, University of Wisconsin, Madison

What skills and knowledge will help principals lead and manage better schools? How can principals become successful leaders?

Never before has the principal′s role been so demanding, so this updated edition provides guidance both veteran and new principals alike. Every chapter is full of practical ideas and strategies, based on the experiences of successful practicing principals throughout the world.

Learn about shaping culture, implementing change, supervision and evaluation, beginning the school year successfully, faculty meetings, building a vision and mission, professional learning communities, time management, partnering with parents and the greater community, data-driven decision making, taking care of yourself, and much more!  This is a critical and responsive resource for every leader′s library, with added strategies for:

• Addressing state and national standards
• Supervising and evaluating teachers to enhance the quality of student work
• Developing a love for learning in students
• Incorporating social and emotional learning
• Using brain-compatible teaching practices to maximize learning
• Making data-driven decisions
• Sustaining effective professional development
• Using technology in meaningful ways
• Practicing ethical leadership
• Managing crises

Pam Robbins earned her doctorate in educational administration from the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, she consults with school systems, professional organizations, State Departments of Education, leadership academies, and corporations throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Europe, Asia, and South America. Her presentation topics include professional learning communities, effective teaching, how the brain learns, emotional intelligence, leadership, teaching in the block schedule, peer coaching, school culture, and presentation skills. Pam has served as a teacher, high school basketball coach, administrator, director of special projects and research, and director of training for the North Bay California Leadership Academy. She has lectured at several universities, authored and co-authored books, and developed training materials for several principals’ academies.