Every year, an average of 20% of schools replace their principals. This book will inform and enhance the process of recruiting new personnel with its insights and practical suggestions for a successful search. This book also offers current thinking and research to help school boards and policy makers retain the professional leaders they have. This book is a must-read for principals and board members alike. While the departure of ineffective principals can be beneficial for schools, frequent turnover negatively impacts students' achievements. Today, when effective and powerful educational leadership is critical for quality teaching and student achievement, the numbers of principal candidates are diminishing and of incumbents waning. This book explores the central issues of principal development, appointment, and retention policies and practices. Its chapters ask what school boards, policymakers, and principals can do to ensure accountability, transparency, responsiveness, stability, equity, and inclusiveness to assure the longevity of school leaders within the system. Principal Recruitment and Retention presents the research findings of seventeen international scholars in the field over ten chapters. These scholars survey their respective situations from their home countries of United States of America, New Zealand, Israel and Turkey. The problems are similar; the solutions will be edifying.
About the Author: Chanina Rabinowitz served as a school principal on three continents. His doctorate is in School Leadership and Policy Studies from Loyola University of Chicago. He taught graduate students at Michlalah College, Jerusalem, and English at a public high school there. He directs and teaches a teacher training program at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Michael Reichel is an adjunct professor in the Leadership and Management of Educational Systems program at Michlalah Jerusalem College and Orot College. He was a school administrator in Jewish elementary and middle schools for over 20 years in the USA as well as Jerusalem, Israel. His research interests include management leadership, theories in educational administration, bridging theory with practice in educational administration programs, and recruitment strategies for hiring qualified principals.