Principal leadership matters.
Not exact matches
«I have no doubt that some Christian leaders have felt restrained from expressing their views on this
matter for fear of being labelled homophobic or bigoted,» says Rev Ian Coffey, vice
principal (strategy) and director of
leadership training at Moorlands College and a regular speaker at Keswick and Spring Harvest.
Paul clearly states that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities in high places; He is suppose to be setting a
principal and he is in fact destroying the thing that God stand for, serving the flesh and the creation more than the creator who is blessed forever; Man will always have a battle between flesh and spirit; he is more flesh than spirit ever in his dress muscles and tight shirts; which has no place in the spirit;» dealing with
matters of the holy ghost «he can speck it but he can «t live it; which is the trouble with a lot of modern day Christians; do as i say not as i do... old fashion parents had the same concept, its not just Eddie he got caught, he was just falling weak to the flesh and his own desires; only thing is, he is responsible for the souls of those under his
leadership; He must answer and atone to God for those actions, you think for a moment we are being hard on him; God has a way of letting us know when we are wrong that lets us know we need to change.
Focusing effort on what
matters most is central to the strategic planning of any successful school, and hence should be a key focus of building
leadership capacity throughout the school from the
principal team down.
Education
Matters spoke with
Principal Kristy Kendall about her views on current trends, as well as her own brand of
leadership and support.
Read a Northwest
Matters blog post from Pasco
Principal Raúl Sital on his approach to «hiring for character» and «creating a
leadership culture.»
The moderating effects of organizational characteristics are to be expected, since district size and school size almost always «make a difference,» no
matter what the focus of the research is.180 Elementary schools are typically more sensitive than secondary schools to
leadership influence, although previous leader - efficacy research has reported mostly non-significant effects.181 And the rapid turnover of
principals has been widely decried as anathema to school improvement efforts.182 Now we have some evidence that the positive effects of leader efficacy are also moderated by school and district size (the larger the organization, the less sense of efficacy among
principals).
None of these studies was designed to investigate the effect of subject
matter (i.e. mathematics or science) on the
principal's influence on teacher
leadership, signifying an area for future research.
Guided by tools such as a high - tech calendar that charts the time the
principal is spending with teachers and others, the SAM or SAM team meets regularly with the
principal to schedule instructional
leadership time, reflect on whether and how changes in time allocations are affecting instruction, and designate other school staff members to tend to busing or other
matters that don't need to be handled in most cases by the
principal.
In a detailed 2010 survey, school and district administrators, policymakers and others declared
principal leadership among the most pressing
matters on a list of issues in public school education.
Since
leadership matters, why leave the interviewing of
principals and school administrators to answers that can be practiced and behaviors that can be feigned?
And having now been both a teacher and
principal working with this new system, I see how much
leadership matters.
• Why school
leadership matters • New expectations place tough demands on
principals • What teachers want (in a
principal) • Supply vs. demand: Rock - star superintendents • The modern superintendent
That the traditional system of recruiting and training teachers has filled far too many classrooms (and
principal's offices) with men and women lacking the subject -
matter competency, empathy for children,
leadership ability, and training in classroom management needed to not revert to tossing kids out of schools.
Teaching
Matters urges you to nominate a school
principal whose
leadership results in an academically rigorous and innovative learning environment.
«What I've found as a
principal (of another school in Guilford County)... it doesn't
matter what [educational] program we have, it has to do with the
leadership and it also has to do with the faculty that you're able to pull in.