The Insider’s Secrets to Finding Your School Leadership Job: This practical 125-page self-help professional guide coaches school and district leadership candidates through the hiring process for their dream jobs in public education. It delves into the fabric of how the process really works from the inside. Every aspect of being a candidate is strategic. INSIDER’S SECRETS offers and instructs the reader to embrace a core of job-seeking strategies, including creating a resume that captures attention and interviewing tactics, that when applied will get you the job.

With fifty years of award-winning service as a public school educator, spanning school districts considered as high needs to those of high wealth, Dr. Laurence Aronstein has hired over a thousand school leaders and teachers in one of the most competitive and highest-paying regions in the country. This book is targeted at professionals who are school leaders and aspiring leaders. Some might be nearing the end of their graduate studies in school leadership certification or sitting in central office and school leaders who are seeking promotion or positions that pay better or classroom teachers looking to land their entry-level leadership positions.

The reader will find authentic personal stories which are written by real educators in their own words. These accounts are designed to personalize the journeys of these educators as illustrative successful examples of the strategies that are described in this book.

Laurence Aronstein is a leader among leaders and a consummate professional educator. He has coached or mentored hundreds of school leaders across the world.

INTRODUCTION; 1 Know Who You Are; 2 Getting Prepared; 3 Executing Your Strategies; 4 Self Reflecting; 5 The End Game; About the Author