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For anyone in school leadershipor anyone who hopes to bethis book is a must read. Seasoned educator Laurel Schmidt tells it like it is about a principal's daily life. From the nitty gritty of hiring, evaluating, and firing staff, to navigating the intricacies of school politics, and managing crises in the glare of the media, she provides a long overdue tool to take control of your life as a school administrator.

Schmidt combines insight and humor with use-this-now practicality as she details creative strategies for surviving the daily grind, while honing your vision of a school that works. Follow her lead and learn how to:

plant the seeds for your vision and maintain your course
weed out the worst, hire the best
nurture productive relationships with parents, board members, and staff
cultivate effective strategies for improving instruction
root out efforts to undermine your leadership
stamp out stress with simple techniques that work at work
master the communication glut-email, voicemail, and the in-box.

Gardening in the Minefield offers a refreshingly candid map through the landscape of leadership. As Schmidt confirms, it is a garden out thereif you know where to step.

Customer Reviews:

Signposts for Future Administrators.......2006-10-30

Laurel Schmidt has written a useful, insightful, and lighthearted handbook for future and present administrators. Her mixed-metaphor title prepares the reader to "spin straw into gold" when faced, as a school administrator, with the myriad challenges of public school administration. Often, the "minefields" are other adults. However, according to Schmidt, many are of our own creation.

I especially recommend using this book in graduate courses geared toward the preparation and licensure of future school administrators. If the book has any shortcomings--albeit, rather minor--it's the lack of references to the literature on school administration and leadership.

A Survival Kit for the Elementary School Principal: With Reproducible Forms, Checklists & Letters

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A Great Resource for the First Year Principal
Rookies need this book...
Survival Kit is A Life Saver

A Survival Kit for the Elementary School Principal: With Reproducible Forms, Checklists & Letters
Abby Barry Bergman
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0137459858

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For the new and veteran elementary principal, here is a unique “survival kit” packed with tested advice, practical guidelines, and ready-to-use materials for all aspects of your job gleaned from the author’s 25 years of experience in both public and private schools.

Customer Reviews:

Great Resource.......2007-01-04

This book is a must for elementary prinicpals!
The handouts are very helpful.

A Great Resource for the First Year Principal.......2001-11-06

This has been a required book in my graduate course in elementary school leadership for the past two years. I think that it gives a well-developed background in the major issues of the principalship and practical tips for the beginning principal. Students who have completed the course and gone on to leadership positions feel that this was a very practical guide that helped them in their work. As a bonus, students within the class felt that inclusion of this book added relevance to their academic study. It is clear that Bergman has written a very practitioner oriented text. I plan to continue using this book as long as it is available.

Jay A. Heath
Professor of Educational Administration
University of South Dakota

Rookies need this book..........2001-07-25

New school administrators, as well as veterans, will find this book useful. The book comes with a CD and is an incredible resource for elementary principals. The CD alone was worth the price. Administrators who are revising and restructuring their schools will have a format to build on in areas ranging from technology and internet use policy to long-range planning.

Survival Kit is A Life Saver.......1998-12-11

The Survival Kit for the Elementary School Principal is full of practical advice, common sense solutions, and scores of forms and letters that are of instant use to the busy practitioner.

The resources included are true "time savers" and reflect the seasoned and reasoned practice of a wise, politically astute elementary principal. Tips and techniques for creating a school vision and building and sustaining morale-- all-the-while developing a positive school culture are offered.

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"An excellent resource for new and experienced elementary principals. This book should be kept handy for easy reference and support."
Sheldon Dumain, Superintendent of Schools
Bellmore Public Schools
Bellmore, NY

An easy and effective way to get organized – and keep your school running smoothly!

Strategic planning can help you be a truly effective principal. Get off on the right foot in July and set your course for a successful school year with this month-by-month planning tool developed by veteran administrators. Developed for both new and experienced elementary school principals, this book lays out everyday challenges and administrative necessities to help you plan strategically for the academic year.

The Elementary School Principal’s Calendar provides a month-to-month guide that will make the school year run smoothly from opening to closing. Chapters cover key tasks for each month, beginning in July:

Overview of tasks
Communications – letters, memos, correspondence, media relations
Planning – workshops, orientations, field trips, fundraising activities
Personnel – assignments, schedules, rosters, tenure recommendations
Checklists to monitor progress with an assortment of tasks

A handy checklist for each month offers flexibility for modification and the monthly calendar helps busy administrators avoid reinventing the wheel each year. Also included is a rich resource of sample documents to help with a variety of communication needs: from samples of your summer letter to parents and memos on standardized testing to information and permission forms for programs designed to help children cope with divorce. The Elementary School Principal’s Calendar is essential for every principal faced with juggling the varied tasks of school administration.

An Administrative Handbook: A View from the Elementary Principal's Desk (Scarecrow Education Book)

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An Administrative Handbook: A View from the Elementary Principal's Desk (Scarecrow Education Book)
Larry J. Stevens
Manufacturer: ScarecrowEducation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0810840219

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Would you like to become a more successful principal? Then utilize a fellow principal's two decades of experience and avoid costly trial-and-error techniques that add to your stress and can damage your career and your school. The topics in this handbook cover timesaving techniques, improving communication, sensible budgetary procedures, developing vision statements for school development, and more. Each detailed chapter is highly goals-oriented and provides practical, time-tested advice that can encourage veteran principals as well as those just beginning.

Discipline, there are alternatives!: A handbook for elementary teachers and principals

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Discipline, there are alternatives!: A handbook for elementary teachers and principals
Stanley Curtis Coy
Manufacturer: Prinit Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Elementary Principal's Complete Handbook: Practical Techniques & Materials for In-Service Administrators

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Elementary Principal's Complete Handbook: Practical Techniques & Materials for In-Service Administrators
Fred B. Chernow , and Carol Chernow
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Trade
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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The elementary principal's handbook: A guide to effective action

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The elementary principal's handbook: A guide to effective action
Larry W Hughes
Manufacturer: Allyn and Bacon
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Binding: Unknown Binding

Elementary Principal's Handbook: New Approaches to Administrative Action

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Elementary Principal's Handbook: New Approaches to Administrative Action
Reynold Bean
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Elementary School Principal's Handbook
William Callison
Manufacturer: ScarecrowEducation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1566767008

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A reference handbook for elementary school principals, this volume gives principals a way to manage the overwhelming number of tasks they encounter on a daily basis. Divided into seven domains, which provide general information and knowledge about key tasks, the book includes reproducible and easily adaptable worksheets, templates, forms, databases, and work samples.

No Nonsense Principal: The Elementary School Prinicpal's Handbook

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No Nonsense Principal: The Elementary School Prinicpal's Handbook
Alice C. Blair
Manufacturer: Urban Research Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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The form of employment relations and the shape of organizations have changed significantly over the last two decades. Many companies now employ workers who have no access to collective forms of employee representation. The precise relationship between an employee and employer is often ambiguous within complex organizational boundaries. This book re-evaluates the way employment relations are conceptualized and examines employment conditions in non-union organizations.

The authors present a detailed analysis of the conditions and patterns of employment relations in both small and large non-union firms. They assess the impact of regulation, managerial ideology and market influences on employer strategies to avoid unionization. Using social and psychological exchange, the book concludes with an assessment of the capacity of workers to act as an agent of change in these non-union relationships. The implications for worker mobilization, trade union expansion and employer strategies are also considered in the light of detailed case study analysis.

Employment Relations in Non-Union Firms will be of essential interest to advanced students and academics in the fields of Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management and Organizational Analysis.

Customer Reviews:

Interesting integration of two major quality frameworks.......2004-03-25

This book is also available as an e-book (see ISBN B0000AJ68G). Regardless of which format you choose, the content is one of the best descriptions of ISO 9001:2000 and the CMMI - and how to use them as an integrated approach to achieve a high level of capability maturity.

The authors provide a summary of process improvement approaches, including frameworks and interrelationships among them. There is excellent background information on the CMMI and how it evolved from the older CMM. This also includes early work by the FAA with its iCMM approach.

In the parts of the book dealing with ISO 9001 the authors show the key differences between ISO 9001:94 and ISO 9001:2000, and provide a context and value proposition for them. The significant changes between the 1994 and 2000 versions of ISO 9001 are covered in detail. W

Another key feature of this book is the section on making the transition from legacy standards. This is where the differences between CMM and CMMI, and ISO 9001:1994 and ISO 9001:2000 are clearly highlighted. If you are currently operating under either the older CMM or ISO 9001:94 framework, this section of the book also provides clear guidance for making the transition to the CMMI and ISO 9001:2000. This guidance is in the form of a five-step approach for either implementing anew, or making the transition from a legacy framework - (1) initiating, (2) diagnosing, (3)establishing, (4) acting, and (5) learning. The authors also provide ISO 9001:2000->CMMI and CMMI->ISO 9001:2000 document mapping, which will cut through the maze and show how to reduce unnecessary documentation by integrating documentation where possible.

The authors have produced a book that is exceptionally well written, clarifies two complex frameworks, and shows how they can be used in conjunction with one another.

delivers what it promisses.......2003-09-11

the book brings together two recently updated, important standards for (software) quality management: CMMI and ISO 9001.
the book is thoroughly set up and structured, easy to interpret and navigate with all the necessary mappings and tables, and
systematic considerations of process improvement approaches.
also of interest for people only focussing on the CMMI and not ISO. well done!

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