Administrative Passages Navigating the Transition from Teacher to Assistant Principal /

• Main Author: Armstrong, Denise (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Studies in Educational Leadership ; 4
• Subjects: Education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Professional & Vocational Education.

Assistant principals are vital to school success. As one of the largest groups of frontline managers, they represent the face of school administration and they perform a complex range of leadership and managerial roles. As important as they are, little academic attention has been directed to the rol...

Table of Contents:

• Background
• Perspectives on Change, Transitions, and Passages
• Narrating the Administrative Passage
• The Individual Narratives
• Charting the Administrative Passage
• Entry–Exit: Crossing the Administrative Threshold
• Immersion–Emmersion: Ascending the Administrative Hierarchy
• Disintegration–Reintegration: Shifting Perspectives – Letting Go, Holding On, and Reframing
• Transformation–Restabilization: Becoming and Being an Assistant Principal
• The Way Forward: Connecting Theory and Practice
• Reconceptualizing Assistant Principals’ Leadership Transitions.