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The Principals Center
Beginning Principals Academy
2011-2012
Program Overview
The role of school principal today requires leaders who are instructional and curricular leaders as well as leaders who can juggle the many other demands of their position. The Principals Center has been working with beginning principals every year since it began in 1984. The Center is again offering its Beginning Principals Academy for the 2011-2012 school year. The Beginning Principals Academy will help participants identify their areas of focus, establish priorities, and develop their plans. The purpose of the Beginning Principals Academy is to help new principals build their capacity to enhance student learning and create success for their schools and for themselves.
Through a research-based curriculum, participants will focus on using multiple approaches to solving leadership challenges, supporting teaching and learning in the classroom, and leading and managing their schools more effectively.
Objectives
· Create a school culture that fosters student and teacher learning
· Understand and monitor curriculum alignment and development
· Apply research and best practices in developing school improvement efforts focused on increasing student and teacher learning
· Lead and manage needed and effective change
· Develop a culture of collaborative working relationships with faculty, parents, students, and members of the community
· Support teachers through effective supervision and evaluation
· Manage the operations of the school effectively and efficiently in order to create a positive learning environment
· Understand and manage conflict
· Understand the importance of and how to handle effective communications strategies with all constituents
· Study other issues and topics of importance and/or urgent need for beginning principals in the Academy
DATES for face-to-face all-day learning sessions are from 8:30-3:00 on June 22 and 23, Sept. 14, Oct. 12, Nov. 2, Jan. 18, Feb. 1 and April 18. All new principals will be invited to the Annual New Principals Celebration at the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum on May 1, 2012 (attendance optional but a great event!)
ONLINE sessions, including materials, readings, and online discussions, will be during the months of August, December, and January. These will be completed at times during these months that beginning principals choose.
FEES: $1,000 per participant for the year
The comprehensive program fee covers tuition for all face-to-face and online sessions, all instructional materials, and lunch and refreshments on days of face-to-face workshops. For more information, contact kmoore@gsu.edu. Also, see information on our website at www.principalscenter.org.
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