(This is Part One in a multi-part series)

Last week's question was:

What advice would you give someone who is interested in becoming a principal?

This is Part One in a multi-part series. I've received many reader contributions, which I'll be including in a post next week. However, there is always room for more!

This week's guest responses come from Lyn Hilt, Joe Mazza, and Cheryl James-Ward. I'll be posting answers from others on Thursday.

But before we get to the thoughts of today's three guests, I'd like to share a few comments of my own. Though I have never been the principal of a school, I have been a teacher for ten years and was a community organizer during the previous nineteen years. I think there are many similarities between being a successful principal and being a successful organizer, and here is the advice I would offer to both:

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