Supporting principals in building capacity to balance both instructional leadership and managerial competence is an essential task. Recognizing that principals do not directly teach students, their impact on school outcomes is broadly understood to be second only to teacher classroom instruction (Grissom & Loeb, 2011; Grissom et al., 2015;…

Mentoring may best be defined as "a process where one person provides individual support and challenge to another professional (Bush, 2009, p.379). The importance of mentoring new teachers and administrators has long been recognized. For example, since 2000 more than half of the states have passed laws requiring mentoring of new principals…

Using a sequence of exercises and short discussions, this manual trains principals and other administrators to manage their time better. Readers discover how they use their time, identify and reconcile their personal and job goals with their time commitments, prioritize the goals, and learn the planning steps needed to achieve the prioritized…