BOOK DETAILS

Pages: 324
Published: January 2017
ISBN: 978-0-9918626-2-7
Price: $19.99 (USD)

by Darrin Griffiths & Scott Lowrey

A book written by school leaders for school leaders!

The Principal Reader speaks directly to aspiring, novice, and experienced school leaders. The book features 56 leadership narratives from practising school leaders from the United States and Canada on topics such as: leadership theories in practice; confronting the status quo; improving instruction; reconciliation through education; leading through adversity; the challenge of change; fostering collaborative learning cultures; and social justice.

Reviews for The Principal Reader:

These narratives from the "trenches" are a refreshing change from the empty prescriptions we get from politicians, edu-businesses, and those who have given up on public schooling. This book is a testament to the fact that there are committed educators struggling one day at a time to transform public schools in spite of their armchair critics.
Gary L. Anderson, Professor of Educational Leadership at NYU Steinhardt

The Principal Reader is a compelling assemblage of voices from the ground that resists simplistic renderings of school leadership and dissolves artificial divides between leadership theory and practice. The vivid narratives told by experienced school leaders provide an insider's view of leadership as a complex, holisitic craft of leading, teaching, learning and advocacy. The text is humanizing and hopeful, bringing school leaders to the foreground as active participants in the struggle for social justice within diverse societies.
Tricia M. Kress, Associate Professor of Leadership in Education and Graduate Program Director of the Leadership in Urban Schools Ed.D./Ph.D. program at the University of Massachusetts Boston.