Principles for Principals: A Guide to Being a School Administrator

Principles for Principals presents eight great ideas and twelve guidelines for current and future school administrators at all three levels.

Within Principles for Principals, readers gain the insight of John D. Roberts’ 41 years of experience as a public-school administrator. The great ideas Roberts offers within are suggestions of what to do in specific situations. The twelve guidelines presented in Principles for Principals give new administrators suggested ideas to implement and traps to avoid. These ideas, traps, and guidelines are told through actual events and humorous examples that occurred during Roberts’ tenure. Principles for Principals also benefits established administrators with the presentation of new ideas to make them a better administrator.

John D. Roberts was born in Philadelphia and went to college in Ohio where he stayed for 41 years working in public education as an Athletic Director, Assistant and Deputy Principal, and Principal. He then went to teach at Baldwin-Wallace University for three years and finished his career at a charter school district as an elementary principal and curriculum coordinator. While there, John created the curriculum guide for the charter school district’s high school. He has been awarded a PTA State Lifetime Award and a National PTA Lifetime Award. John retired in December of 2010 and moved to Lady Lake, Florida where he currently resides.