R&L Education
Pages: 124
Trim: 5¾ x 8½
978-1-57886-759-2 • Hardback • February 2008 • $74.00 • (£57.00)
978-1-57886-760-8 • Paperback • February 2008 • $29.00 • (£21.95)
Rocky Wallace has served as a school principal, leadership consultant for the Kentucky Department of Education, and as an adjunct professor at Morehead State University.
Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Self Leadership
Chapter 3 Structure and Process
Chapter 4 Vision
Chapter 5 Lessons Learned
Chapter 6 Reality
Chapter 7 New Teacher Blues
Chapter 8 What Lies Beneath
Chapter 9 Teaching and Learning
Chapter 10 Growth Plans
Chapter 11 The Intramural League
Chapter 12 Core Values
Chapter 13 One Child
Chapter 14 Halfway
Chapter 15 Culture!
Chapter 16 Grace, With Accountability
Chapter 17 When the Fire Goes Out
Chapter 18 What's Not Working? Fix It!
Chapter 19 Courage Under Fire
Chapter 20 Overhaul
Chapter 21 Graduation
Chapter 22 Saying Goodbye
Chapter 23 Closing Thoughts
Rocky Wallace offers us a common sense, easy-to-understand approach to leading today's schools. Wallace draws on his commitment to core values in making decisions that positively influence student achievement. He brings all stakeholders together in making schools a great place for learning.
— Kathy Rice, principal, Ponderosa Elementary, Catlettsburg, Kentucky
All principals who care about meaningful school improvement and their legacy must read this book. Dr. Wallace captures our attention and conscious in a story of servant leadership. Full of questions and good intentions, a new principal finds the mentoring advice of the school's retiring principal priceless—as both come to better understand the impact and legacy of a principal on the school and community.
— Hobart Harmon, education consultant, author, and evaluator
The insights and practical advice in [this book] are valuable tools for all school principals. Dr. Wallace's experience and personal leadership style are reflected in this outstanding dialogue between a new energetic principal and a caring values based veteran. I enjoyed each encounter and found the exchanges between the colleagues enlightening, worthwhile and authentic.
— Dan Branham, former dean, College of Education, Morehead State University (VA)
... compelling, interesting, and filled with practical advice for all school leaders regardless of their level of experience. There are so many instances when various ISSLC Standards came to my mind. It would be a great experience for practicum students to read the manuscript and code it based on the ISSLC Standards.
— David Barnett, assistant professor, Morehead State University
Principal to Principal is so good! I really think this should be required reading for every administrator! What a great resource! I've read it cover to cover and I plan on keeping it as one of those special things I can go back to. I really got a lot from this book and it really is on point with a lot of my views and values.
— Brett Burns, teacher of educational technology, Owsley County High School, Booneville, Kentucky
Dr. Wallace's approach to servant leadership in the education field results in an easy to read, yet profound treatise on leading the right way. Wanting to lead and needing to lead are essential but inadequate without a clear set of instructions and principles about how to lead and Dr. Wallace provides this. This should be fundamental reading for every person who aspires to education administration.
— Bruce E. Winston, dean of Regent University School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship