Bringing Out the Best in Teachers. What Effective Principals Do, 3rd Edition

By Joseph Blase and Peggy C. Kirby

Practical advice from the teacher's perspective! Learn what effective principals do to influence, motivate and empower teachers. Based on an in-depth study in which teachers detail the strategies extraordinary principals used to help them become more effective in the classroom, this third edition incorporates the most up-to-date literature and includes easy-to-follow guidelines in each chapter.

An ideal resource for experienced or aspiring school principals, this book offers strategies and related practices that illustrate how to:

• Use the power of praise
• Influence by expecting and involving
• Encourage professional autonomy
• Lead by standing behind
• Suggest rather than direct
• Use formal authority positively