Tools for Improving Principals' Work

The vital role of principalship in improving schools in general and enhancing student achievement in particular has been well documented. Given its importance, there is a need for tools to improve principalship, particularly ones emphasizing those dimensions associated with student achievement. Given the accountability movement, with its particular focus on student achievement and the advent of the evaluation era (including the evaluation of principals), the need for tools is even more urgent. This edited volume presents those tools with the aim of improving learning-centered principalship. The book is useful for researchers and policy makers as well as principals.

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).