This must-have manual delivers dozens of easy-to-use guidelines, planning checklists and sample forms — along with hands-on management strategies — to help your principals realize organizational and professional development goals while developing sound school programs and policies. Each section focuses on a crucial duty of the school principal — providing effective techniques, benchmarks and strategies to guide program implementation, procedure and management, including how to: strengthen leadership skills and plot a course for school reform; plan and create school calendars and activity schedules; design curriculum programs, alternative day programs and extended service programs for at-risk students; establish a successful teacher evaluation system; create school policies and procedures based on student and teacher needs and organizational functions; and much more.