Mentor Connections by Kathleen Sciarappa

• NAESP’s Principals Help Line is a member benefit where you may ask questions to on-call mentors who will review your question and send you a reply within 24 hours.
• Making the Case for Principal Mentoring is a guide designed for school districts and other educational groups that are designing and refining their own mentoring programs.

Ten Missteps That Will Drive Away Teachers by Stacey L. Smith and Leigh Ann Eisterhold

• “The Art of Great Meetings” provides relevant recommendations on preparing for meetings, conducting them efficiently, and following up meetings with maximum results.
• At websites such as Adopt-A-Classroom, Support Your Teacher, and I Love Schools, teachers may sign up their classroom and share their needed instructional materials for prospective businesses and community members to donate.

No Place for Bullying by James Dillon

• The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program provides information and training for administrators, staff, and parents to combat bullying. 
• Law professor and Principal columnist Perry Zirkel analyzes the current state of case law concerning bullying.

Make Friends With the Clock by David Coley and Chris Hitch

• The Triangle Leadership Academy offers tools for education leaders, including a meeting agenda template.
• Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers and author of How to Shave Ten Hours Off of Your Work Week, frequently blogs on personal productivity and leadership.

Making Sense of Dollars and Cents by Richard Sorenson

• Grants.gov is a first stop for those seeking all federal grant opportunities.
• The Foundation Center website offers basic information on grant-makers in the U.S., including private foundations, community foundations, grant-making public charities, and corporate giving programs.
• The University of Delaware Library provides a great website for novice funding seekers. It helps principals locate online gateways, databases, funding news, corporate funding, federal funding, and public charities.

Schools as Effective Data Users by Nancy Protheroe

• Data-Informed Leadership in Education, developed by the Center for Teaching and Policy at the University of Washington, discusses what schools need to do to use data to inform conversations about improvement.
• Teachers’ Use of Student Data Systems to Improve Instruction: 2005 to 2007 is a report developed for the U.S. Department of Education that summarizes teacher responses to questions about their data use and supports they feel would make them better data users.
• This ERS Spectrum article, “Improving Teaching and Learning with Data-Based Decisions: Asking the Right Questions and Acting on the Answers,” provides a brief overview of effective data use in schools.