John GrattoInside the Schoolhouse
What Great Principals Know and Do
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
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