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“There was no easing into the role . . . (it) was like sightseeing at two, no, three hundred miles per hour and the second year, which I thought would be easier, was certainly not. Any credit I got for being new was gone and the expectations of everyone just kept rising.”
— Robinson Spur, The Guitar Principal
“Sense?” Robinson stared at Rahveen. “Making sense. Maybe that’s it. Maybe the reason is that this would let me . . . and others, make sense of it all.”
— Robinson Spur, The Guitar Principal
“And no matter how this breaks, I’m not going to tell the whole truth . . . more a variation of it. You know? To protect the innocent.” Robinson smiled. “No one would believe half of it anyway. Too good a story.”
— Robinson Spur, The Guitar Principal
The Guitar Principal
Inspired by actual occurrences, follow rookie principal Robinson Spur through his first year on the job at Holfield Junior High. Written to illustrate the power of relationships, building leadership capacity, valuing all the members of a community and the value of self-reflection The Guitar Principal provides a powerful case study on leadership to be examined and deliberated.
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““Leadership questions that school leaders actually have to wrestle with. And I’m not going to answer them. The reader will. And maybe that will spark a discussion of why we do the things we do . . . This will be a collection of questions universal enough that any school leader could be provoked to self-reflect on them, especially if they haven’t formed hard and fast feelings on these things yet. The story . . . will just be the vehicle that carries the passengers . . . er, the questions.””
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