The challenges of the principalship are evolving, demanding a new skill set for leaders. Given the ever-changing landscape of expectations, universities and school systems cannot adequately prepare principals to enter the job fully prepared. Even veteran principals describe their challenges in responding to changing requirements for leaders. Principals are key players for student, teacher, and school success. Given that, systems must respond with new strategies for developing outstanding principals, well-prepared for expanding needs in schools.

In Effective School Leadership: Developing Principals through Cognitive Coaching^SM, Ellison and Hayes set forth a practical guide to assist systems in responding to the critical need for leadership development. Cognitive CoachingSM is a tried and true process for developing teachers' cognition for self-directedness. When principals are coached, they, too, become more complex thinkers. Principals construct complex schema for leadership through Cognitive Coaching^SM, drawing on efficacy, flexibility, consciousness, craftsmanship, and interdependence.

See how Cognitive Coaching^SM principles have been woven into schools, systems, and classrooms - and get a complete look at the ongoing process of implementing and sustaining the coaching ideals - in this invaluable new guide!

Ideal for teachers, administrators, staff developers, and district leaders familiar with Cognitive Coaching^SM, this resource shows you what practitioners who have actually learned and used Cognitive Coaching^SM think about its applications - how they value its premises, practices, and outcomes, and how they have found ways to integrate it into their own work cultures.

Part 1 takes a macro-view of the organizational culture, looking at it as a system.

In Part 2 you look at the day-to-day interactions that affect student learning as it addresses structures that allow the principles and practices of Cognitive Coaching^SM to become an integral part of each human interaction in a school.