New Leaders Trains New Principals
（新領導者訓練新校長）
Hoping to change urban education one school at a time, Jonathan Schnur and some colleagues founded New Leaders for New Schools, a training program for principals. By meshing coursework, on-the-job training, and mentoring from administrators and executives, New Leaders hopes to produce principals who can turn schools around. Included: Program participants share their perspectives.
As a member of the U.S. Department of Education’s staff a few years ago, Jonathan Schnur said he found a common denominator among great schools: they had great principals. So, after leaving the Department of Education, Schnur and some colleagues came up with a plan to train people -- both from inside and outside the field of education -- to staff the principals’ offices of America’s schools.
摘要：希望改變城市教育一次一校，Jonathan Schnur（強納生施努爾）和他的一些同事為新學校建立一個新領導者的校長培訓方案。透過嚙合的課程、在職訓練以及行政人員及主管的指導下，新領導者希望能產生使學校轉變的校長。
Jonathan Schnur幾年前作為一名美國教育部人員的成員，他說他發現了在大型學校間發現了共同的因素；他們皆有偉大的校長。再離開教育部之後，他也和他的同事共同提出一個計畫去訓練人。
We wanted to create an urban principals’ corps, said Schnur, co-founder and chief executive officer of the two-and-a-half-year-old New Leaders for New Schools. We developed a business plan, and three out of five of us decided to do this full-time.New Leaders recruits, trains, and mentors individuals to serve as administrators in urban schools. Mentors come from both the education and business world; among New Leaders’ newest and most prominent corporate mentors is Boeing Company chief executive officer Phil Condit.
身為已經成立兩年半的新學校新領導者的共同創辦人及主管，Schunur說他想要創立一個校長團隊。我們發展一個商業計畫，決定全心投入。新領導者之招聘，培訓和師傅當作為都市學校管理者。師傅來自教育界和商業界;而最新和最突出的企業師傅是波音公司首席執行官菲爾•康迪特。
New Leader programs operate in Chicago, New York City, and California. Participants, or "fellows," begin their training with a summer of intensive coursework, followed by an academic-year-long residency at a school. Each resident works with the school's principal and meets with his or her corporate mentor. The mentoring continues for two years after the residency ends. Currently, the principal corps has 48 fellows; 15 working as assistant principals or principals and 33 as residents. Most participants have an educational background, although people with no education training can apply.
New Leaders’ hopes to recruit 65 people for the program that will begin in the summer of 2003, said. Last year, 600 people completed applications for 48 openings. [The response] demonstrates that a lot of talented people are interested in changing schools, given the right opportunities, Schnur told Education World. We think this [program] has significant implications
新訓練計畫在芝加哥、紐約及加州運行。參加者或跟隨者開始一個密集課程的訓練，並且居住在學校一年，每個居住者都要與校長工作且和他的合作師傅見面。並在居住結束後，持續受指導兩年。目前，校長團隊有48個人，15個工作的副校長或校長以及33個居民。雖然沒有教育訓練人員可以使用，但大部分的參與者都有教育背景。Schnur希望在2003年的夏天為這個計畫招募65人。去年600人完成了申請。這證明了許多有才能的人都有興趣去改變學校，只要給予對的機會就可以。Schnur告訴教育界，這個計畫是有重大影響的。
LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD PRINCIPALS
（尋找一些好的校長）
New Leaders aims to improve urban schools by selecting for their program people who have the potential to be strong leaders in the areas of instruction, management, and school change; by providing them with intensive training and support; and then by helping to place them in urban schools where they will have extensive decision-making power, Schnur said. Participants receive a stipend of at least $40,000 during their year of study and residency, so they don't have to worry about surviving without a salary. Fellows receive full administrators’ certification at the end of the program.
Schnur說新領導者的目的是希望透過挑選他們計畫的人來改善都市學校，而這些計畫的人是有潛力成為指導、管理以及改變學校的有力領導者。藉著提供他們密集訓練和支持以及將他們安排在有廣泛決策權都市學校。參與者在研究和住宿期間可以至少得到40，000 美元的俸薪，因此他們不用單新生活沒有收入。跟隨者在計畫結束後可得到主管的認證。
心得省思：
在組織最重要且核心的人物莫過於是校長。本文談到在訓練學校領導者實務方面，Schnur主要是透過一個新的訓練計畫，內容包含一些密集課程，且參與者能不斷地與校長師傅交流，並接受指導，目的就是要培養一位能改變學校、創新學校發展的領導者。陳木金（2004）在學校領導人才實務知識方面，歸納出師傅校長教導模式的四大項目，包括Better reward、Better training、Better support以及Better leadership，從幫助領導人才設定的個人學習目標、協助領導人才發展一對一的特殊目標、給予領導人才省思所學，傾聽與支持，到幫助領導人才獲得成功，顯示師傅校長教導學校新領導者的核心價值。
一個優質學校，必定有一位偉大的校長。而師傅校長便是訓練成功新領導者的背後推手，如同Schnur想告訴教育界的，這個訓練計畫對我們是有重大影響的。
參考文獻：
陳木金(2004)。學校領導人才培訓課程計畫之研究。國立教育研究院籌備處專題研究計畫成果報告（NAER-93-07-C-2-01-00-02-02）。
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