Price: $25.95 US
Published: January 2017
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 an outstanding collection of narratives that conveys the lived texture of learning and the deep ecology of leadership. This is a book that should be required reading for all educators, especially at a time when public education is becoming overrun by business models and commodified by corporate initiatives.
~Peter McLaren, Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, Co-Director, the Paulo Freire Democratic Project, College of Educational Studies, Chapman University
The Principal Reader is a banquet of reflective thinking. The insights provided will be illuminating for nearly anyone interested in schools.
~Douglas J. Simpson, Texas Christian University and Texas Tech University
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.
~Tricia M. Kress, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director of the Leadership in Urban Schools EdD/PhD program, University of Massachusetts
The Principal Reader is truly a unique resource . . . The narratives in this volume provide insight into how educational leadership theory might be enacted and understood and how practical wisdom is exercised on a daily basis by highly skilled and thoughtful educational leaders. Editors Griffiths and Lowrey have bough together a collection of commentaries and narratives that will provoke conversations about the contemporary principalship.
~Paul Newton, Department Head, Department of Educational Administration, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
