Mentoring Principals

Paul G. Young - West After School Center, Executive Director
Jeromey M. Sheets - Lancaster City Schools
Dustin D. Knight - Lancaster City Schools

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Mentoring | Principal Mentoring, Induction & Coaching | Superintendents & District Administration

April 2005 | 168 pages | Corwin

This guide will be invaluable to mentors of new headteachers and designers of mentoring programs. For the mentee or new headteacher, it will jump start their process and shorten their learning curve. The authors recognize the primary role of the headteacher as instructional leader but also address the practical aspects of the headship. Their overview of mentoring includes a checklist of specific objectives linked to learning activities.

At the core of the book, a series of mentoring field stories, including comments from mentees, brings to life the issues and crises around which new headteachers are likely to speed dial their mentors, and also provides models for how the mentor can guide, support, encourage, but ultimately leave decision and responsibility with the new headteacher.

A recognized headship expert, the lead author has invited and shared here the collected wisdom and mentoring guidelines from leading mentoring colleagues from around the country to make this the truly indispensable handbook for mentoring reflective headteachers.

Paul G. Young has been a President of the National Association of Elementary School Principals and is now a Principal at West Elementary School, Lancaster, OH

- Writer/Author

D. Richard Murray

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Introduction

Part I: The Architecture of Mentoring

Part II: A Framework of Mentoring Objectives and Activities

Part III: Sample Agendas for Mentoring Breakfasts

Part IV: Job-Embedded Real Time Mentoring

Part V: Mentoring Wisdom From Experts Around the Country

Part VI Reflections on the Most Important Aspects of Mentoring

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Foreword by D. Richard Murray

Preface

Part 1: The Architecture of Mentoring

Paul G. Young

Paul Young, PhD, a retired elementary principal, is currently the Executive Director of the West After School Center in Lancaster, Ohio. He began his career as a high school band director and then retrained to become a fourth grade teacher before advancing to an elementary principalship in 1986.He served as President of the Ohio Association of Elementary School Administrators (OAESA) in 1997 and was elected to the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) Board of Directors in 1998 (the only person elected by write-in ballot). He became president-elect in 2001-2002 and served as the national president during the 2002... More About Author

Jeromey M. Sheets

Jeromey M. Sheets was born and raised in Nelsonville, a small town in southeastern Ohio. His success as a student-athlete helped him to obtain admission to Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio, where he earned a baccalaureate degree in elementary education and enjoyed success as an intercollegiate wrestler. After graduation, he taught a combined second/ third grade in Lancaster where he began working for Paul Young. After one year of teaching, he enrolled at Ashland University and completed the coursework for principal’s certification and earned a master’s degree within two years. In mid-March, 2002, he became the principal of... More About Author

Dustin D. Knight

Dustin D. Knight grew up in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio. He earned a baccalaureate degree in elementary education at Ohio University. He began teaching in a small rural school district as a full-time substitute. He was a middle school language arts teacher prior to teaching third grade at West Elementary School. He completed his master’s degree in educational administration at Ashland University. He became principal of Bloom Elementary School, Lithopolis, Ohio, in late August, 2002. He returned to Lancaster and worked as the interim principal of West Elementary School for the 2002–2003 school year. He is now the... More About Author

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Frameworks, Agendas, Tips, and Case Stories for Mentors and Mentees

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