Why the Principalship? Making the Leap from the Classroom

This book provides step-by-step, concrete advice for aspiring school administrators as they strive to achieve principal certification. Each chapter's snapshots illustrate key challenges that face principal candidates. The last third of the book includes exercises that help candidates and mentors, as well as colleagues, move through the program. Written in an easy-to-read manner, the book invites continued conversation.

Dale L. Brubaker is professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and has served on the faculties of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He has authored or coauthored more than twenty books on leadership and cultural studies in education. Misti Williams is clinical assistant professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She is the principal investigator of a research project on sustained staff development on the performance of assistant principals in their current roles and as newly appointed principals.