Trustworthy Principals

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses how principals and teachers need to build trusting relationships with students and parents in order to accomplish their essential goal of fostering student achievement and equipping students for citizenship. The paper explores how principals play an important role in creating the environment for trust to develop between parents and the school and between teachers and parents. The paper also looks at teachers' trust in their colleagues, their trust in their principal and in their students. The paper concludes that although the building of trust in schools requires time, effort and leadership, the investment will bring lasting returns. The paper includes a graph that illustrates how important the values of trust are to members of the school community.

Outline:
School Professional-Parent Relations
Teacher-Principal Relations
Teacher-Teacher Relations
Teacher-Student Relationships

From the Paper:

"John C. Maxwell (2002) says in his book that trust is the foundation of leadership (p.64). Trust is fundamental for learning. Consequently, establishing a trusting environment hits schools at their bottom foundation - student achievement. Principals and teachers need to build trusting relationships with students and parents in order to accomplish their essential goal of fostering student achievement and equipping students for citizenship (Tschannen-Moran, 2004). When principals, teachers, students, and parents trust each other and work together cooperatively, a climate of success is likely."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bryk, A.S., and Schneider, B. "Trust in schools: A Core Resource for Improvement." The American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology, 2002, 2, 12-34.
• Fullan, M. "Leading in a Culture of Change." Jossey-Bass, 2001, 4, 51-77.
• Greenberg, J. "The Social Side of Fairness: Interpersonal and Informational Classes of Organizational Justice." Justice in the Workplace, 1993, 79-103.
• Jossey-Bass Reader "Educational Leadership." Second Edition, 2007, 8, 99-113.
• Kochanek, J.R. "Building Trust for Better Schools." Research-Based Practices, 2005, 1, 1-14.

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