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Leaders Helping Leaders.


Leaders Helping Leaders: A Practical Guide to Administrative Mentoring is a manual to help school districts establish leadership development programs.

This crisply written handbook
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 is designed so that an administrator, whether novice or veteran, can initiate a successful mentoring program. It is based upon the premise that today's school leaders are frequently cast in a solitary solitary /sol·i·tary/ (sol´i-tar?e)
1. alone; separated from others.

2. living alone or in pairs only.


solitary

being the only one or ones.
 role without collegial col·le·gi·al  
adj.
1.
a. Characterized by or having power and authority vested equally among colleagues: "He . . .
 resources.

The book provides definitions of purpose and strategies for the mentoring program. Responsibilities of all the players are clearly given with careful review of pitfalls to avoid. Two chapters deal with assessment of the effort. A guide to planning beyond the implementation year is also provided.

The material also may serve as a reference in other leadership training ventures. The standards cited for prospective mentors become a list of evaluative criteria for school leaders in many roles. The suggested appraisal process also could be used to evaluate more about the total effectiveness of a school.

(Leaders Helping Leaders: A Practical Guide to Administrative Mentoring, by John C. Daresh and Marsha A. Playko, Scholastic Inc., 2931 East McCarty St., Jefferson City Jefferson City, city (1990 pop. 35,481), state capital and seat of Cole co., central Mo., on the south bank of the Missouri River, near the mouth of the Osage; inc. 1825. , Mo. 65102, 1993, 103 pp., $22.95 softcover soft·cov·er  
adj.
Not bound between hard covers: softcover books; a softcover edition. 
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Author:Kellis, Raymond S.
Publication:School Administrator
Date:Sep 1, 1994
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