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Getting elementary students involved in their learning produces results. By Kristine Fox Principal, January/February 2012 Web Exclusive Why wait until students…

Building teacher self-efficacy is trickier than it seems. By Monica C. Higgins Principal, January/February 2012 Web Exclusive If we take the principal’s core r…

By Gail Connelly Principal, January/February 2012 A colleague recently told me about the first email she received nearly 20 years ago. She quickly dismissed it…

By Perry A. Zirkel Principal, January/February 2012 Web Resources Societal and school awareness of the pervasive scope and pernicious effects of bullying has b…

Principal, January/February 2012 Collective Trust: Why Schools Can’t Improve Without It. Patrick B. Forsyth, Curt M. Adams, and Wayne K. Hoy. Teachers College …

By Richard Jetter Principal, January/February 2012 One day I received a phone call from a parent whose child had been teased by another child in the school lun…

By James H. VanSciver Principal, January/February 2012 A long-held notion about public school educators is that while they deliver quality instruction, they mu…

By Nancy Flatt Meador Principal, January/February 2012 A wise university professor once said, “If an opportunity passes your way, seize it, for it may never pa…

By Lillian Brinkley Principal, January/February 2012 It seems as if it was just yesterday that I sat in my superintendent’s office as he uttered the words, “Yo…

By B. Lynn Brown Principal, January/February 2012 The purpose of education, one might argue, is to teach children to become more efficient thinkers, making sma…

By Sherry Watts Principal, January/February 2012 How can we reduce discipline problems and raise achievement? How can we give our students the emotional suppor…