The Principal Three Keys to Maximizing Impact

Principals are often called the second most crucial in-school influencers (after teachers) of student learning. But what should the principal do in order to maximize student achievement? One of the best-known leadership authors in education, Fullan explains why the answer lies neither in micro-managing instruction nor in autonomous entrepreneurialism. He shows systematically how the principal's role should change, demonstrating how it can be done in short order, at scale.

• Reveals the three key roles that administrators must play in today's schools
• Explains how to choose the right versus wrong drivers of school success
• Filled with "action items" to help implement Fullan's program effectively
• Includes strategies that have been successfully field-tested in schools across the United States and Canada

Michael Fullan, Order of Canada, is a professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He consults with leaders of education systems worldwide and is the award-winning author of more than thirty books, including Leading in a Culture of Change, The Six Secrets of Change, and Change Leader. To learn more, visit www.michaelfullan.ca.

Preface

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

Too Broad, Too Narrow: The Transformative Versus Instructional Leader

Principal Autonomy and Micromanaging: Other Roadside Attractions

Time to Retune

CHAPTER THREE: The First Key—Leading Learning

What Key Research Tells Us

Professional Capital—a Framework for Leading Learning

Foster and Integrate

The More Powerful Way

CHAPTER FOUR: The Second Key—Being a District and System Player

Looking Out to Improve Within

Intradistrict Development

Beyond the District

Not You Alone

CHAPTER FIVE: The Third Key—Becoming a Change Agent

Change Agency

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?

References

Index

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