The Principal Center - Building Capacity for Instructional Leadership

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Thank you for requesting the 52 Practice Interview Questions for School Administrators!

Check your email in about 5 minutes for the PDF download link, but in the meantime, read on for important next steps.

Here's how to use the 52 questions to prepare for ed leadership interviews:

  1. Print them out—yes, on paper! 
  2. Write out bullet-point answers to each question
  3. Practice on video—or at least with a timer—and make sure you can speak for 4-5 minutes on each of them. 
  4. Identify 8-10 stories you can use in response to "Tell us about a time when you..." questions, or just to make your answers more compelling.

The tricky thing about stories is that we tend to forget our most powerful and important experiences as leaders...either because they're unpleasant, or just because we have to move on to the next task so quickly. 

To help you identify and capture the most compelling stories, I wanted to give you a chance to get your hands on a resource that I created for my private coaching clients: the Ascend Leadership Journal. 

Not only does it have plenty of space for drafting your answers to the 52 practice interview questions...

...it also has prompts and logs to help you identify your most powerful experiences as a leader, which you can mention in your:

  • Interviews
  • Résumé
  • Cover letter

...or have your references mention in their recommendation letters. I've been taking people through this process for years, and it's incredibly powerful. When you can say "Here's what I did" not just "Here's what I would do," your answers are far more compelling. 

If you'd like a copy of the Ascend Leadership Journal, just take the Instructional Leadership Association for a spin for $19, and it's yours to keep. 

Membership is $47/month, but to help you get going quickly, we've included a $28 discount when you join below, so your first month will be just $19. 

You'll get instant access to the Ascend Leadership Journal PDF, plus the Résumé Blueprint workshop, which will help you make rapid improvements to your résumé. 

In addition to the Résumé Blueprint training, you'll get my 16-page step-by-step Résumé Blueprint PDF guide to help you implement the exact recommendations I share in the training.

In this training and PDF guide, you'll discover how to create a résumé that stands out from the crowd, so you get more interviews for your next-level instructional leadership role. You'll discover:

  • Why you should never start with a "candidate profile" (it'll sink your résumé's credibility)—and what to use instead
  • How to go beyond listing your references, and knock their socks off with my "résumé PDF secret weapon"
  • How to deal with gaps in your work history and jobs you held for a year or less
  • Why listing routine duties makes you blend in with every other candidate—and how to identify and describe meaningful accomplishments that will make you stand out
  • How to sequence your professional experience so it's obvious that you're ready to move to the next level

The Résumé Blueprint workshop, Ascend Leadership Journal, and book are yours to keep, even if you cancel (and cancelling is very easy—just shoot us an email or leave us a voicemail at 1-800-861-5172). 

When you register below, our system will send your login info to your email inbox, and you'll be able to sign in and access everything on our members-only Resources page.  

I'll also include my book on classroom walkthroughs—Now We're Talking! 21 Days to High-Performance Instructional Leadership, a $29.95 value—when you try our Instructional Leadership Association membership. 

You'll also find the unabridged audiobook of Now We're Talking in your member dashboard, so you can listen while you're on the go.

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What's Included


The Instructional Leadership Challenge, our fast-start video training program that has helped more than 10,000 administrators in 50 countries make a habit of getting into 3 classrooms a day

Now We're Talking! 21 Days to High-Performance Instructional Leadership (Solution Tree), which will give you a complete 21-day plan for classroom walkthroughs ($29.95 value)

The unabridged audiobook of Now We're Talkingso you can listen in the car or around the house ($29.95 value)

The Instructional Leadership Show, our weekly video podcast to help you deepen your instructional leadership practice according to the High-Performance Instructional Leadership Roadmap

Repertoire, our walkthrough app for instructional leaders who want to have evidence-driven feedback conversations with teachers

Ascend Live, our weekly video program on the job search for educators seeking their next-level instructional leadership role

The Instructional Leadership Association Planner, our printable monthly planner with 2-page spreads to help you track your time, priorities, and classroom conversations using the Achievement Science Daily Scorecard

The Marshall Memo, a weekly summary of the most important news and research for K-12 educators ($50 value)


From The Director

Justin Baeder, PhD

Director, The Principal Center

I believe that being a school administrator is one of the most rewarding and challenging jobs in the world. We have the opportunity to impact students' lives forever—but so much can get in the way. There's too much to do, too many challenges to manage, and never enough time.


Our mission at The Principal Center is to help you address each of these barriers by building your school's capacity for instructional leadership. If you want to take your leadership—and your school—to the next level, I hope you'll join us.


Sincerely,

Justin Baeder, Director


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We believe our program will transform your productivity, give you the tools you need to build the capacity for distributed instructional leadership in your school, and multiply your impact on student learning.


You’ll be amazed at the transformation that takes place in your ability to accomplish the work of leadership and move your school forward. We are fully committed to making our program the most powerful professional development for instructional leaders anywhere.


If you are not satisfied with the our program for any reason, contact us within 30 days for a full refund.