As a new administrator, navigating through the maze of difficult responsibilities is daunting at best and nerve-wracking at worst. Sapp offers readers a guide to make the job less stressful. She provides a variety of activities for self-assessment and for creating opportunities for interaction among administrators, faculty, students, and parents. A must-read for all new school administrators and seasoned veterans looking to become more effective.

Guide to Best Practices for New School Administrators

Education & Teaching

Sapp, Sheila E.

Schools & Teaching

R&L Education

Staying the Course: A Guide of Best Practices for School Leaders

This book presents current and aspiring school leaders with strategies, techniques, and recommended tips used by effective school administrators. It also shares selected principles and strategies used that assisted school leaders in maintaining their roles as effective instructional leaders and change agents for their schools. School leaders gain information and techniques they make use to increase their knowledge and skill based from veteran administrators who have been able to stay the course as they encounter challenges and changes faced throughout their career as school leaders.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The School Connection: Parents, Teachers, and School Leaders Empowering Youth for Life Success

<p>This handbook is a guide and recourse of strategies, tips, and how-to-do's for parents/caregivers, teachers, and school leaders. The author provides topics in the handbook that addresses parent involvement/engagement and its effect on academic achievement and school success, the benefits of parent involve/engagement and its impact, role of parents with their child's/children's education, a listing of selected easy-to-do games and instructional activities to develop and nurture self-esteem, self-confidence, resilience, and perseverance (Power Tools) to ensure school and life success. This book has tips/recommendations for not only parents/caregivers, but also for teachers and school leaders. When the home, school, and community form a viable partnership, all youth thrive and reach their potential. As an added feature of the handbook, includes brief explanations of the roles of key school personnel, general school policies, procedures, and regulations to demystify schooling to minimize misperceptions and increase positive relationships. Additionally, although the handbook is a resource all parents/caregivers in general, a chapter is included and devoted to the parents/caregivers of special needs children and discusses/shares strategies for maximizing the effectiveness of Individualized Education Program ( I.E.P.) meetings. There are also suggestions and recommendations for teachers and school leaders to participate as viable members of I.E.P. team members.</p>

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

Raising Readers at Home: An Easy-to-Follow Plan to Implement a Foundation for Reading in the Home

<p>This book consists of an easy-to-follow plan designed to guide and assist parents in nurturing and developing pre-reading/pre-literacy skills needed to learn how to read. Parents/caregivers begin their journey by examining and exploring why some children have difficulty learning to read. It is also noted the role they can play in preparing their children for the learning to read process at home. They are guided through the development of pre-reading milestones and behavior characteristics of young children. Additionally, parents/caregivers complete a self-assessment to determine their thoughts about learning which is important in setting up a creative and vibrant learning environment for their home. Before addressing the four components of the reading process, parents/caregivers are guided in setting the stage for learning to reading their home by establishing a print rich environment.</p>

Parenting & Relationships

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Guide to Best Practices for New School Administrators

Staying the Course: A Guide of Best Practices for School Leaders

Staying the Course: A Guide of Best Practices for School Leaders

The School Connection: Parents, Teachers, and School Leaders Empowering Youth for Life Success

Raising Readers at Home: An Easy-to-Follow Plan to Implement a Foundation for Reading in the Home

Raising Readers at Home: An Easy-to-Follow Plan to Implement a Foundation for Reading in the Home

The School Connection: Parents, Teachers, and School Leaders Empowering Youth for Life Success