Creating a Successful Leadership Style: Principles of Personal Strategic Planning

by Charles A. Bonnici, Bruce S. Cooper PhD, emeritus professor a

Overview

Creating a Successful Leadership Style gives practical applications supported by real experiences. It presents the actual situations a principal or assistant principal faces on a day-to-day basis and provides strategies to address them. These strategies derive from a leadership style that is people oriented and designed to elicit positive outcomes and responses. Charles A. Bonnici presents several principles of educational leadership which, taken together, help the school leader develop a leadership style that is people oriented, humane, and effective. In the course of the regular school day, a school leader is rarely asked what management theory is being implemented in a school. Instead, the principal and assistant principal are faced with a multitude of immediate and long-range problems and issues that need real-life solutions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610480819
Publisher:	R&L Education
Publication date:	05/16/2011
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Charles A. Bonnici has been an educator for forty years, serving as a teacher, assistant principal, and principal in the New York City public school system. For the past ten years, as an adjunct at Pace University, he has developed and taught three educational leadership courses to students seeking their state certification.

Table of Contents

Foreword Bruce S. Cooper vii

Preface xi

Introduction xv

1 Always Be a Role Model 1

2 Don't Exacerbate; Defuse 11

3 Speak Little; Listen a Lot 27

4 Give the Credit; Take the Blame 37

5 People Are More Important than Paper 51

6 Let Your People Fly 69

7 Be Aware of Workplace Issues 81

8 Lay the Groundwork: Get All Your Ducks in a Row 99

9 Maximize the Positives; Minimize the Negatives 121

10 Monitor the Communication 131

11 Remember the Support Staff 145

12 Mind the Details 159

13 Stay within the Box and Remember-Life Is Unfair 171

14 "Always Remember What's Important" 183

Appendix A Guidelines for Marking and Grading 193

Appendix B Sample Weekly Bulletin 207

Appendix C Sample Parent Newsletter Article 213

Appendix D Highlights of the 2001-2002 School Year 217

Acknowledgments 223

What People are Saying About This

Will Manekas

Prospective school leaders who were not fortunate enough to have had Professor Bonnici in the classroom will find his wisdom delivered in common-sense laden and relevant anecdotes. Bonnici provides a practicality not found in most educational leadership texts.

Editorial Reviews

Prospective school leaders who were not fortunate enough to have had Professor Bonnici in the classroom will find his wisdom delivered in common-sense laden and relevant anecdotes. Bonnici provides a practicality not found in most educational leadership texts.

Will Manekas

Learning organizations are the framework for successful schools. This book is a recipe filled with the ingredients for developing and maintaining a learning organization that includes all stakeholders. Facilitating the environment for excellence through teaching, mentoring, and promoting high expectations for performance, Mr. Bonnici has written the pragmatic guidebook for present and aspiring school leaders.

Janet D. Mulvey

'Experience is the best teacher' and Charles Bonnici, in his practical, down-to-earth style, shares the lessons he has learned first-hand as a former, highly-regarded New YorkCity high school principal. In his book Creating a Successful Leadership Style: Principles of Personal Strategic Planning, Bonnici develops fourteen principles that every new and veteran leader needs to know and embrace in order to succeed. If you are an urban school leader, you need to pick up this book to learn what effective school leadership looks like 'on the ground' and not just from the ivory towers.

John W. Lee