Author and educator offers reference guide for first-year principals - Sault Star

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Daphne Wallbridge tapped into her own experiences as a long-time educator when putting together her new book, “The First-Year Principal.”

The Timmins resident said the book is written as a guide for new and aspiring principals to help navigate their first year as educational leaders.

“The book is about lessons for new and aspiring principals to help them narrow their first-year learning gap that principals need to go through as they experience their first year in administrations,” she explained.

The book is comprised of 52 lessons and supplementary resources.

“The lessons were inspired by my years as a high school vice-principal, elementary school principal as well as my first year as supervisory officer. So, it’s a mix of everything and I wanted to add lessons in the book that I felt resonated with new principals.”

She said that the book is divided into 52 lessons.

The format is inspired by her first book “Step Up, Step Out” which is a girls’ guide to empowerment, self-leadership and success.

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“They are bite-sized lessons and at the end of every lesson, there’s a section called take action, and this simply offers extra resources or actions readers can take to further deepen the lesson. At the end of the book, there’s also a full resource section like videos and courses and books they can read to further enhance their leadership journey.

“And this time I added a notes section so, it’s almost like a workbook because after a certain lessons you will notice that there are certain prompts because leadership is really an internal journey, it’s an inward journey, you have to look inward and I thought the best way to look inward is to reflect through writing so I offered readers such opportunity to write notes and journal at the end of the book as well,” explained Wallbridge.

Wallbridge is currently a supervisory officer for the Conseil Scolaire Catholique De District Des Grandes-Rivières.

“I was inspired to write this book as I was getting ready to start my first year as a principal, I was looking for a how-to book like a behind-the-scenes book that would help me master the essential lessons that first-year principals need to master; not lessons that you would learn through your principals’ qualifications but little tips and tricks that a principal needs or would like to know as they are entering their first year.”

The book is available on Amazon, Bookbaby or by visiting www.thefirstyearprincipal.com/pre-order .

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