The principal: three keys to maximizing impact

The Principal: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact; Copyright; Content; Preface; Accessing the Professional Development Training Kit; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Chapter One: Outmoded; Gasp!; Leading Learning; Maximizing Impact; This Watershed Moment; The Chapters That Follow; Still Worth a Struggle; Chapter Two: Vices and Virtues; Panic Time?; Four Wrong Choices for Driving Policy; Accountability; Individualistic Solutions; Technology; Fragmented Policies; Drivers in Perspective; Too Broad, Too Narrow: The Transformative Versus Instructional Leader.

Principal Autonomy and Micromanaging: Other Roadside AttractionsMicro Madness; Time to Retune; Chapter Three: The First Key-Leading Learning; What Key Research Tells Us; Viviane Robinson: Lead Learner as the Key Domain; Helen Timperley: "Who Is My Class?"; Ken Leithwood: Skills, Motivation, and Working Conditions; Tony Bryk: Capacity, Climate, Community, Instruction; Lyle Kirtman-Content and Organization; The Punch Line; Professional Capital-a Framework for Leading Learning; Human and Social Capital; Attracting and improving human capital; Social capital; Decisional Capital.

Foster and IntegrateThe More Powerful Way; Chapter Four: The Second Key-Being a District and System Player; Looking Out to Improve Within; Intradistrict Development; School to School; District Coherence; Beyond the District; Peel District, Ontario; School District 96, Illinois; California; Not You Alone; Chapter Five: The Third Key-Becoming a Change Agent; Change Agency; Mastery and Passion: A Mutual Feed; Skills for Leading Change; 1. Challenge the Status Quo; 2. Build Trust Through Clear Communications and Expectations; 3. Create a Commonly Owned Plan for Success; 4. Focus on Team over Self.

5. Have a Sense of Urgency for Sustainable Results6. Commit to Continuous Improvement for Self; 7. Build External Networks and Partnerships; Distorted Mirrors; Chapter Six: The Future Is Now; The Unplanned Digital Revolution; Planned Change: Common Core State Standards; Time to Change Careers? Or to Change Gears?; A Final Word; References; Index.