John GrattoInside the Schoolhouse
What Great Principals Know and Do
John Gratto worked five years as a K-12 principal and 23 years as a superintendent of schools in school districts ranging from 450 to 4500 students. Since 2012, he has served as an associate professor, teaching graduate classes and supervising teachers who are interning as principals in Virginia Tech's principal preparation program.
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: How would you like to have you as a Principal? Whom do you
serve?
Chapter 2: Management precedes leadership. Make the ordinary things
ordinary
Chapter 3: Leading Instructional Improvement. Ten, No-Cost, High-Yield
Actions to Improve Instruction
Chapter 4: A three-step improvement process for improving virtually any
aspect of a school. Overcoming the 7 steps of stagnation with the success
questions
Chapter 5: Crafting a school improvement plan. Continuous improvement
consists of goal-setting and motivating teams
Chapter 6: Leading Effective Teams. How to hold productive meetings
Chapter 7: Creating Conditions for Success and Retention of Teachers.
Strategies to help teachers be successful and choose to stay at your school
Chapter 8: Motivating the Unmotivated. Getting Teachers and Staff Members
to Do Their Best
Chapter 9: You can't teach kids unless they are in School. Ten High-Yield
Strategies to Improve Student Attendance
Chapter 10: Preventing and Addressing Disciplinary Issues. Free Up Time to
Be an Instructional Leader
Chapter 11: Maximizing the Use of Your Time. Time-savings principles and
strategies
Chapter 12: Communicating to build confidence in you and your school.
Proactive communication strategies
Chapter 13: Master Communication and You Manage Conflict. Tips for
Preventing and Dealing With Conflict
Chapter 14: Friendly Advice. Ideas to Help Principals Personally and
Professionally
About the Author
