Tools for Improving Principals' Work

Contents: Jianping Shen: The Need for Tools to Improve Principalship: An Introduction - Andrew C. Porter/Joseph Murphy/Ellen Goldring/Stephen N. Elliott/Xiu Chen Cravens: Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education: A New Tool for Principal Evaluation and Professional Growth - Philip Hallinger: A Data-Driven Approach to Assess and Develop Instructional Leadership with the PIMRS - Ronald H. Heck/George A. Marcoulides: Identifying Leadership and Organizational Processes Related to School Outcomes and Improvement: Validating an Instrument - Jianping Shen/Van E. Cooley/Xin Ma/Patricia L. Reeves/Walter L. Burt/J. Mark Rainey/Wenhui Yuan: Data-Informed Decision-Making on High-Impact Strategies: An Instrument for Improving Principalship - Jianping Shen/Van E. Cooley/Gary Marx/Elizabeth Kirby/David E. Whale: Data-Informed Decision-Making: A Guidebook for Data Points and Analyses for School Improvement - Lynn M. Scott: The Leadership Performance Planning Worksheet (LPPW): A Development Tool for Early Career School Leaders - Mark Shellinger: The SAM Process: Changing Principals and Their Relationships with Teachers via Time/Task Analysis(TM) and TimeTrack(TM) - James E. Bottoms/Paula E. Egelson: SREB's High Schools That Work School Improvement Model.

Jianping Shen is the John E. Sandberg Professor of Education at Western Michigan University. In addition to more than 80 journal articles, he is the author or co-author of School Teachers: Their Professional and Demographic Characteristics (Peter Lang, 2009), School Principals (Peter Lang, 2005), and The School of Education: Its Mission, Faculty, and Reward Structure (Peter Lang, 1999).

«A thorough and complete sourcebook for helping school principals improve their practice and the school they lead. Nowhere else can these tools be found together, easily accessible and powerful.» (Duncan Waite, PhD, Professor, Texas State University; Editor, The International Journal of Leadership in Education; Director, The International Center for Educational Leadership and Social Change)
«The role of the principal as an instructional leader is essential for educational success. School principals need effective strategies to continuously improve. Shen and his colleagues provide tools to school principals for enhanced instruction and student achievement.» (Dorothy VanderJagt, Ed.D., Principal, Bauer Elementary School, Michigan)