Principals Who Learn: Asking the Right Questions, Seeking the Best Solutions
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As a principal, you know how challenging it is to build a dedicated staff, encourage parental support, help students get excited about learning, and create a working school culture.
Table of contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
The Noisy Minority: From Loud Voices to All Voices
No More Bad Guys and Good Guys: From the Comfort of Agreement to the Wisdom of Diversity
Missing Persons: From an Open Door to an Open School
About the authors
Barbara Kohm worked for 14 years as an elementary school principal and for 10 years as an early childhood program director. During this time, her school won a national Blue Ribbon Award for Excellence in Education, and she learned that deep changes in curriculum and instruction required even deeper changes in power relationships and information flow. As she and her staff worked to raise student achievement, they found that they needed to think differently about their relationships with one another, their own learning, and about how they defined success. Most important, they needed to challenge assumptions that they held as absolute truths. She drew on these lessons in writing this book. She now works as a consultant and mentor to principals in a variety of school districts and is the author of “Improving Faculty Conversations” in the May 2002 issue of Educational Leadership. She can be reached at bgkohm@yahoo.com.
Beverly Nance serves as the co-director of the St. Louis Principals Academy, which is supported by the Missouri State Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Cooperating School Districts. She is also a leadership consultant and mentor for principals in a variety of school districts. She began her career as a secondary mathematics teacher and then served as a high school assistant principal and a middle school principal. Later, she served as director of leadership development for the Cooperating School Districts. Beverly holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis, a master's degree in teaching from Webster University, and a doctorate in education administration from Teachers College, Columbia University. From 2001 to 2003, Beverly designed and hosted annual systems thinking conferences for educational leaders in the St. Louis area. She has presented at both state and national conferences. Beverly also co-authored a booklet entitled, “Designing and Implementing a Leadership Academy in Character Education.” Beverly's passion is helping schools become learning communities using the five disciplines as defined by Peter Senge. She may be contacted at bnance04@earthlink.net.