Educational Leadership

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses how in today's classroom, the disciplinary needs extend beyond what a classroom teacher can provide. The paper shows how the principal must also play a proactive role in school discipline. The paper then discusses how this includes developing and implementing a disciplinary strategy, enforcing the school's discipline protocols and serving as a resource and educator to individual classroom teachers.

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Introduction
The Need for Administrative Disciplinary Support

From the Paper:

"One of the major areas of obscurity in educational leadership is the role of the administrator as a provider of classroom support to the individual teachers. Often times schools establish a line between classroom teacher and school administrator that allows for no overlap of their roles. However, the reality of the school environment makes such divisions absurd, as in order for a school to function effectively and efficiently, there needs to be cooperation between the administrative level and the classroom teacher. Nowhere is this more clear than in the area of classroom, or school, discipline."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Byham. (1992): Zapp in Education. Fawcett Books/Random House.
• Blanchard, Kenneth H. and Sheldon M. Bowles. (2001): High Five! The Magic of Working Together. William Morrow Publishers.
• Covey, Stephen. (1991): Principle Centered Leadership. Simon & Schuster Publishers.
• Fullan, Michael. (2007): Leading in a Culture of Change. Jossey-Bass Publishers.
• Fullan, Michael. (1997): What's Worth Fighting for in the Principalship. Teachers College Press.

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