20 Biggest Mistakes Principals Make and How to Avoid Them

Learn to navigate the principalship by avoiding the major roadblocks that can arise along the way!

Don't let bad decisions and unnecessary oversights ruin your school day - or worse, your career! Marilyn L. Grady examines the twenty most critical mistakes principals make, and provides the strategies you need to avoid them. By surveying both teachers and administrators, and applying her own experiences as both teacher and principal, the author examines the crucial errors from the following seven key categories:

• People Skills - managing interpersonal relationships
• People - working with staff and parents
• Principal - examining professional behaviors inherent in the position
• Job - juggling time demands and heavy workloads
• Tasks - looking more closely at administrative duties
• Personal Issues - focusing on family and health
• Fatal Attractions - addressing judgment errors that can be disastrous for your career