Bringing Out the Best in Teachers: What Effective Principals Do

This book provides practical advice from the teacher’s perspective! Learn what effective principals do to influence, motivate, and empower teachers. Based on an in-depth study in which teachers detail the strategies extraordinary principals used to help them become more effective in the classroom, this third edition incorporates the most up-to-date literature and includes easy-to-follow guidelines in each chapter. An ideal resource for experienced or aspiring school principals, this book offers strategies and related practices that illustrate how to: use the power of praise, influence by expecting and involving, encourage professional autonomy, lead by standing behind, suggest rather than direct, and use formal authority positively.