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Balanced Leadership: How Effective Principals Manage Their Work
reviewed by Eliot Larson - June 19, 2006
 Title: Balanced Leadership: How Effective Principals Manage Their Work
Author(s): Sheryl Boris-Schacter and Sondra Langer
Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York
ISBN: 0807746983, Pages: 111, Year: 2006
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While it is well settled that the principal plays a key role in the success of a school, what is less well understood is how difficult the job of principal actually is. This fact becomes all the more salient as increasing numbers of principals retire with a serious shortage of strong leaders to replace them. Sheryl Boris-Schacter and Sondra Langer jump feet first into this conundrum with their book Balanced Leadership: How Effective Principals Manage Their Work. Between 1998 and 2004, Boris-Schacter and Langer interviewed and surveyed over 200 principals to learn more about questions like why the principalship has become less attractive, why current principals are leaving their positions, how those who persist manage their work, why Americas schools lack capable and willing new principal candidates, and whether the role of principal can be rethought to improve recruitment, retention, and more realized academic goals. People who aspire to be... (preview truncated at 150 words.)
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- Eliot Larson
West Chester Area School District, Pennsylvania
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ELIOT LARSON received a B.A. in history from Hobart College and M.A., M.Ed., and an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia. He has over 20 years experience as a middle and high school principal in New York and Pennsylvania and has served for the last thirteen years as a middle school principal in the West Chester Area School District outside of Philadelphia. Recent publications include: “More Than a Business Plan”, Principal Leadership, April 2005; “The Suburban Paradox”, The School Administrator, December 2003; “School Improvement: What’s In It for Schools?” by Alma Harris, TC Review of Books, May 2003; “School Improvement: Notes from the Parking Lot”, Principal Leadership, May 2002; and “Anatomy of Change: Snapshot from a Building Perspective”, The Pennsylvania Administrator, February 2002.
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