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Administrative Passages

Navigating the Transition from Teacher to Assistant Principal

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  • © 2010

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Authors:
  1. Denise Armstrong

    1. Fac. Education, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada

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  • A comprehensive examination of the cognitive, emotional, and social challenges that novice assistant principals face in the passage from teaching to administration
  • A critical look at the assistant principalship and the socialization impacts of this organizational role
  • An integrated flow between new administrators’ narratives and theories of change, socialization, and transition
  • Practical recommendations for aspiring and new assistant principals, mentors, school districts, professional development providers, and regulatory bodies

Part of the book series: Studies in Educational Leadership (SIEL, volume 4)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Denise E. Armstrong
      Pages 3-12

    3. Perspectives on Change, Transitions, and Passages

      • Denise E. Armstrong
      Pages 13-28

  3. Narrating the Administrative Passage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-30
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    2. The Individual Narratives

      • Denise E. Armstrong
      Pages 31-52

    3. Charting the Administrative Passage

      • Denise E. Armstrong
      Pages 53-63

    4. Entry–Exit: Crossing the Administrative Threshold

      • Denise E. Armstrong
      Pages 65-76

    5. Immersion–Emmersion: Ascending the Administrative Hierarchy

      • Denise E. Armstrong
      Pages 77-90

    6. Disintegration–Reintegration: Shifting Perspectives – Letting Go, Holding On, and Reframing

      • Denise E. Armstrong
      Pages 91-101

    7. Transformation–Restabilization: Becoming and Being an Assistant Principal

      • Denise E. Armstrong
      Pages 103-118

  4. The Way Forward: Connecting Theory and Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Reconceptualizing Assistant Principals’ Leadership Transitions

      • Denise E. Armstrong
      Pages 121-137

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 139-151
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This book makes a much needed contribution to what we know about the role and work of the assistant principal. It offers terri c insights into the different challenges one faces after being appointed assistant principal, and it provides readers with a rich array of data regarding the mental, emotional, social, and physical adjustments accompanying one’s transition to this new role. The author refreshingly moves beyond mere description of what assistant prin- pals do as they make their transition to that role, and actually helps us gain a sense of the lived experience of becoming and being an assistant principal. The book gives a realistic picture of the cognitive, social, and emotional con icts and confusions, the daily ups and downs, the fears, frustrations, and highs that are experienced by the men and women undertaking the passage from teaching to administration. This book is distinctive for a number of reasons. It is an empirical study of the role of the assistant principal. There are comparatively few helpful studies, and P- fessor Armstrong’s research adds a solid and much needed addition to that body of work. It focuses on the transition from being a teacher to being an assistant prin- pal, and it reveals much about how the assistant principal’s role transition differs markedly from that of the school principal.

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“Denise Armstrong has done an excellent job in bringing together theory and practice in this book. … Armstrong gives a compelling picture of the transitions that have to be made as teachers move into more formal leadership positions. … I would recommend it because … the way that it draws together work on transition and suggests new ways of looking at the way transitions happen. … It is certainly a book that I would recommend both to postgraduate students and teachers in schools.” (Megan Crawford, Educational Review, November, 2011)

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  • Fac. Education, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada

    Denise Armstrong

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