Principal's Bookshelf - May 2012

May 2012 |Archives

It's MayTime to Gauge Your School's Strengths

Developed specifically for principals, these books will help you maximize data use, program evaluation, and teacher assessment, so your school can measure up.

 

Essentials for Principals: Data-Based Decision Making, third edition
by Edie L. Holcomb

“The principal’s role is to work concurrently on cultural work and technical work, creating the context and motivation for data use as well as actually increasing the use of data.”—From Essentials for Principals: Data-Based Decision Making
 

 

  

I Have the Data…Now What? Analyzing Data and Making Instructional Change
by Betsy Moore

“In the world of education we are inundated with data. The difficulty comes when we are required to analyze the data we receive, and then even more important, when we are asked to make instructional decisions about the data. This is where the problem lies.”—From I Have the Data…Now What? Analyzing Data and Making Instructional Change

 


 

Essentials for Principals: Effective Program Evaluation, second edition
by Mardale Dunsworth and Dawn Billings  

“Helping your staff members develop the skills they need to routinely evaluate school programs and encouraging them in data-based decision making brings them on as partners and promotes reflective inquiry—and it gives them a stake in the outcome.”
—From Essentials for Principals: Effective Program Evaluation
 

 

 

Writing Meaningful Teacher Evaluations—Right Now!, third edition
by Cornelius L. Barker and Claudette J. Searchwell

Writing Meaningful Teacher Evaluations—Right Now! serves as a launching pad for the busy administrator. It provides a foundation upon which the user, with a click of the mouse and a little editing, can easily build professional, comprehensive teacher evaluations.”
—From Writing Meaningful Teacher Evaluations—Right Now!

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Essentials for Principals: The School Leader’s Guide to Special Education
by Margaret McLaughlin
 


Recommended Resources:
Writer’s Workshop for the Common Core: A Step-by-Step Guide
by Warren E. Combs

Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School
by Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan

 

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