Principals

For school principals, there are many
different routes to success, and there just as many ways to
measure that success in a school. Principals introduces five
high school principals with their own stories to tell about
success and the challenges of managing mandated change.
These personal portraits illustrate the myriad ways
administrators respond to change and manage
transitions.

Created by the PULSE Institute of
Calgary, Alberta, Principals shares the vignettes of five
different principals in five situations-the Impresario, the
Sherpa, the Coach, the Rescuer, and the Gardener. They hail
from varied settings ranging from a large suburban combined
junior and senior Catholic school to a high school in a
small remote community. This study shows how each principal
successfully responded to change at the jurisdictional level
around accountability in schools.

Principals
serves to incite dialogue regarding how to respond to
mandated change and how other principals facing the same
issues can apply these lessons in their own work and to
their own realities.