Principal Recruitment and Retention

In Principal Recruitment and Retention, editors Chanina Rabinowitz and Michael Reichel have assembled a slate of international scholars to frame the world-wide issues surrounding the recruitment and retention of school principals. Each chapter includes but goes beyond research by unpacking systematically the barriers associated with recruiting and retaining school principals by offering promising practices that school systems and leadership preparation programs can frame actionable steps to stop the incessant cycle of leadership attrition. This world-wide approach is a first of its kind and surely this book will become a trusted reference for those who recruit aspiring leaders but more importantly, for the work needed to prepare and retain leaders for the complexities of schools.

-- Sally J. Zepeda, PhD, College of Education, University of Georgia

Principal Recruitment and Retention is a timely and much-needed book. Finding qualified principals and supporting them on the job is critical and a worldwide issue. In my country, there is a dire need to create fair policies for recruitment and to provide support to principals in the public sector schooling system. This edited volume provides many fresh ideas on the subject with practical strategies from authors in diverse settings.

-- Shazia Rehman Khan, Senior Assistant Professor, Bahria University, Pakistan

Principal Recruitment and Retention affords us a rare opportunity to examine a single, complex issue from multiple perspectives. This book presents a purposeful blending of theory and praxis into a lens for investigating solutions to a very real educational issue. The similarities and idiosyncrasies of the needs, habits, and realities of different countries and locales – the United States, Turkiye, Israel, and New Zealand – are examined as each struggles to attain the same goal.

-- Stephanie Bravmann, Professor, Seattle University

Recruiting and retaining talented principals is certainly a big challenge in schools in the New York metropolitan area. Research is axiomatic. Schools need talented principals, efforts need to be enhanced to attract the very best, and programs and practices need to be implemented to encourage retention. Principal Recruitment and Retention is an important addition to the literature. Each chapter explores these issues with a grounding in extant research in the field with practical suggestions that will be helpful to many schools and districts. The editors did a marvelous job recruiting a diverse cadre of contributors.

-- Susan Sullivan, College of Staten Island, City University of New York

The importance of principal leadership for the success of schools has been well-documented in international literature. At the same time, many schools worldwide have been struggling to recruit qualified principals and retain them in the job. This book brings highly relevant and exciting cases from various national contexts together and expands the current knowledge base on the recruitment and retention of school principals. I want to congratulate the editors and authors for their great effort to provide such a guiding source for educational leaders and policymakers around the world.

-- Sedat Gümüş, Associate Professor, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong,