From the Back Cover
For the new and veteran elementary principal, here is a unique ?survival kit? packed with tested advice, practical guidelines, and ready-to-use materials for all aspects of your job gleaned from the author?s 25 years of experience in both public and private schools.
The Kit focuses on the issues, situations, and tasks that you face daily in your roles as leader, arbitrator, evaluator, chairperson, disciplinarian and more?
?from working with angry parents and ensuring the safety of all students?to stimulating your staff to reach for new goals? integrating technology into the regular school program? and promoting support for your school through positive parent and community relations.
What?s more, it includes over 150 letters, forms and checklists that can be used as is or readily adapted for any elementary school. For example, you?ll find a practical form to use when interviewing teacher candidates, a template for developing a school master schedule, and checklists for examining the school plant and preparing the budget,
All of this tested, ready-to-use help is organized for quick access into 20 sections and printed in a big spiral-bound format for easy photocopying. Following is an overview of section topics with one sample reproducible from each:
- Your Role As Principal?Flyer Seeking Volunteers for a Curriculum Committee
- How to Plan for the School Year?Parent Letter Outlining School Goals
- Shared Decision Making?Constitution for a School Leadership Council
- Improving Teacher Observation & Evaluation?Classroom Observation Report
- Curriculum Development & Renewal?Curriculum Map for Science Instruction
- Assessment purposes & Practices?Portfolio Assessment Forms
- Using the School Testing Program?Standardized Testing Schedule
- Reporting Student Progress?Form for Scheduling Parent Conference
- Programs for Special Needs Students?Student Records Inspection Log
- Student Discipline?Student Expectations Management Form
- Improving Professional Development?Staff Development Proposal Form
- Keeping School Staff Informed?Sample Staff Bulletin
- Promoting Positive Parent Relations?Letter of Thanks to a Parent Volunteer
- Technology & the School Program?Internet User Contract (Grades K-5)
- Budget Preparation & Control?Budget Development Worksheet
- Maintaining a Clean, Safe Environment?Building Inspection Checklist
- Effective Class Placement Policies?Letter to Students Announcing Placement
- Effective Scheduling Practices?Elementary School Scheduling Grid
- Staffing & Hiring?Sample Letter Announcing Staff Hiring
- School Traditions & Ceremonies?Sample Program for an Opening Assembly
And to save you even more time and effort, the
Kit includes a ?bonus? CD-ROM containing all of the reproducibles in it arranged in section order. You can use this to customize letters, reformat the text to enhance your own special message, and/or print any communication on special stationery!
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About the Author
Dr. Abby Barry Bergman is the principal of the Ralph S. Maugham School in Tenafly, New Jersey - an elementary school in a nationally reputed "lighthouse" school district.? He is the co-author of
The Complete School-Age Child?Care Resource Kit (1995, The Center for Applied Research in Education), adn the author of
Learning Center Activities for the Full-Day Kindergarten (1990, The Center for Applied Research in Education), and science education and activity books published by Prentice Hall.
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