Administrative Passages Navigating the Transition from Teacher to As
Assistant principals are vital to school success. As one of the largest groups of frontline managers, they represent the face of school administration and they perform a complex range of leadership and managerial roles. As important as they are, little ac
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STUDIES IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP VOLUME 4 Series Editor Kenneth Leithwood, OISE, University of Toronto, Canada Editorial Board Christopher Day, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Stephen Jacobson, Graduate School of Education, Buffalo, U.S.A. Bill Mulford, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia Peter Sleegers, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
SCOPE OF THE SERIES Leadership we know makes all the difference in success or failures of organizations. This series will bring together in a highly readable way the most recent insights in successful leadership. Emphasis will be placed on research focused on pre-collegiate educational organizations. Volumes should address issues related to leadership at all levels of the educational system and be written in a style accessible to scholars, educational practitioners and policy makers throughout the world. The volumes – monographs and edited volumes – should represent work from different parts in the world.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PASSAGES Navigating the Transition from Teacher to Assistant Principal
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DENISE E. ARMSTRONG Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario,Canada
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Denise E. Armstrong Brock University Faculty of Education St Catharines ON L2S 3A1 Canada [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4020-5268-2 e-ISBN 978-1-4020-5269-9 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-5269-9 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009929299 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
This book is dedicated to my parents Cynthia and Joseph Forde and my in-laws Paula and Bill Armstrong.
Foreword
This book makes a much needed contribution to what we know about the role and work of the assistant principal. It offers terrific insights into the different challenges one faces after being appointed assistant principal, and it provides readers with a rich array of data regarding the mental, emotional, social, and physical adjustments accompanying one’s transition to this new role. The author refreshingly moves beyond mere description of what assistant principals do as they make their transition to that role, and actually helps us gain a sense of the lived experience of becoming and being an assistant principal. The book gives a realistic picture of the cognitive, social, and emotional conflicts and confusions, the daily ups and downs, the fears, frustrations, and highs that are experienced by the men and women undertaking the passage from teaching to administration. This book is distinctive fo
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