Author: Milton Beverly PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The status of the high school principal in Texas ...
Author: Milton Beverly PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Texas High School Principal
Author: Louis Harold ShaverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : High school principals
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Saving the School
Author: Michael BrickPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101575352
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Inside the race to save a great American high school, where making the numbers is only the beginning Being principal was never her dream. Anabel Garza, the young widow of a young cop, got by teaching English to immigrant children, taking college classes at night and raising her son. And Reagan High was no dream assignment. Once famous for its state football championships, educational achievements and award-winning design, the school was a shadow of its former self. “Identified for improvement,” said the federal government. “Academically unacceptable,” said the state. Promising students were fleeing. Test scores were plunging. The education commissioner set a deadline of one year, threatening to close the school for good. But when Anabel took the job - cruising the mall for dropouts, tailoring lessons to the tests, firing a few lazy teachers and supporting the rest – she started something no one expected. As the numbers rose, she set out to re-create the high school she remembered, with plays and dances, yearbooks and clubs, crowded bleachers and teachers who brought books alive. And soon she was not alone. There was Derrick Davis, a star player on the basketball team in the early 1990s, coaching the Raiders toward a chance at the playoffs. There was Candice Kaiser, a science teacher who had left hard partying behind for Christ, drilling her students on chemistry while she drove them to games, tutoring sessions, Bible studies and sometimes even doctors’ appointments. There were JaQuarius Daniels, Ashley Brown and 900 other kids trying to pass the exams, escape the streets and restore the pride of a neighborhood, all while still growing up. Across the country, public schools face the threat of extinction in the numerically ordained churn of the accountability movement. Now, for the first time, we can tally the human cost of rankings and scores. In this powerful rejoinder to the prevailing winds of American education policy, Michael Brick takes us inside the high-pressure world of a school on the brink. Compelling, character-driven narrative journalism, Saving the School pays overdue tribute to the great American high school, and to the people inside.
Handbook for Texas Secondary School Principals
Author: Texas Association of Secondary School PrincipalsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : School management and organization
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
The Status of the High School Principal in Texas ...
Author: Oscar W. ThurstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Status of the Junior High School Principal in Texas
Author: Harold Dean DrummondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Junior high school principals
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Status of the High-school Principal of the Classified and Accredited Public High Schools of Texas
Author: Oscar Clarence SouthallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public schools
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
An Investigation of the Role of the High School Principal as Perceived by High School Principals and Superintendents in Selected Texas Public High Schools
Author: William Henry ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : High school principals
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Texas High School Principals' First Year Experiences and Perceptions Relating to the Leadership of Career and Technical Education Programs
Author: Toby Lee NixPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educational leadership
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions and experiences of three Texas high school principals regarding their first-year of leadership involving Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. A narrative non-fiction methodology was used to present the participants' stories and perceptions of their lived experiences. The three participants, principals who began their head high school principalship between 2008 and 2011, were selected from the Texas Region IV and VII Education Service Center areas using snowball sampling. Data were collected through interviews, tape recordings, observations, documents, field notes, journaling, and transcription. The participants' stories were constructed using narrative analysis and a paradigmatic analysis complemented and strengthened the study by illuminating common themes among all participants' stories. Four salient factors emerged from the analysis of narratives: developing human resources, lacking knowledge, feeling overwhelmed, and playing politics. The findings of this study also suggest first-year principals must have general principal leadership knowledge as well as knowledge specific to CTE leadership in order to fulfill the immediate responsibilities encountered upon entering a high school principalship.
Author: James Henry Goettee