Books by John C. Daresh

Designed to help you survive your first years as headteacher, this book provides the resources for becoming a strong and effective leader. It helps you with the technical skills needed to run a school; create and clarify personal professional growth plan; work effectively with the community; and incorporate staff in school goals and initiatives.

Offers a practical plan to pair experienced administrators with struggling colleagues to support continuity of leadership and create effective education. Featuring three-phase model of planning, implementing, and assessing, this title focuses on promoting more multicultural schools responding to critical concerns for school administrators.

This work of insight and action offers a challenging real-world framework that will help your students make one of the most important decisions of their career. Do they really want to be a principal? What does the job truly entail, and how does it match career goals and personal plans? This book shows what itAEs really like to be a principal on a day-to-day basis.'' ''

This practical and timely text coaches school principals on how to achieve effective supervision that centralizes student learning and encourages teachers' uniquely effective instructional styles.

This highly interactive guide offers a step-by-step method for planning, implementing, and evaluating mentor programs to maximize teacher satisfaction and productivity.

`A Practical Guide to New School Leaders will be appreciated by those taking up new posts as head or deputy and should be part of their personal collections'- Tim Brighouse, Times Educational Supplement