Principal Training on the Ground: Ensuring Highly Qualified Leadership.Assuming the quality of the principal is directly linked to student learning and instruction, whose responsibility is it to develop building administrators to their fullest? This question is at the center of Principal Training on the Ground by Sandra Stein and colleagues from the School of Public Affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. at Baruch College Baruch College: see New York, City University of. of the City University of New York The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym: IPA pronunciation: [kjuni]), is the public university system of New York City. resulting from their work in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's School District 2. The quest was to find strong principals to improve student achievement. The district created the Aspiring Leaders Program. Stein and her co-author, Liz Gewirtzman, base this book on the program's collaboration between several New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. districts and the public affairs school at Baruch. The intent was to develop a unique principal development program integrating the theoretical knowledge and research of college professors and the practical knowledge of master practitioners in the schools. The co-construction of theory and practice serves as the program's backbone. The authors define co-construction as "working together within the richness and against the limitation of multiple knowledge domains to create new knowledge with an emphasis on harnessing knowledge from both systems--the university and the world of practice." Principal Training on the Ground: Ensuring Highly Qualified Leadership describes how and why the Aspiring Leaders Program was started and some of the challenges in administering the program. Also detailed is the course content, how content is taught and the curriculum and resources needed to implement the program. Stein is the academic dean of New York City's Leadership Academy and founding director of the ALP (language) ALP - A list processing extension of Mercury Autocode. ["ALP, An Autocode List-Processing Language", D.C. Cooper et al, Computer J 5:28-31, 1962]. . Gewirtzman is a member of the team that constructed the program. Using the guidelines set forth by Stein and Gewirtzman, this program can be used not only in urban school districts but more widely as a tool to foster collaborative efforts between school districts and a university. (Principal Training on the Ground: Ensuring Highly Qualified Leadership by Sandra J. Stein and Liz Gewirtzman, Heinemann, Portsmouth, N.H., 2003, 162 pp., $19.50 softcover) Janiece T. Buck Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Lamar University Lamar University is a four-year university located in Beaumont, Texas, USA, and a member of the Texas State University System. As of September 2006, the university had an enrollment of 9,906 students. , Beaumont, Texas |
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