Published: June 12, 2008

Advice to a New Principal

Kim, an educator in the rural Southeast, recently accepted a principal’s job at a small K-3 school. Her first impulse was to turn to her virtual colleagues in the Teacher Leaders Network Forum for teacherly advice.

What, Kim asked, would teacher leaders like to say to a first-time principal coming to their school? “What do y’all wish I would know, do, think about, or act upon as a new principal? Pick any verb you like.”

The common themes that emerged won’t surprise teachers, but perhaps they’ll inspire some current and future principals.