Cover; Contents; Preface; About the Editors; About the Contributors; Chapter 1 -- Evolution of the School District Superintendent Position; Chapter 2 -- Characteristics of American School Superintendents; Chapter 3 -- National Education Reform Reports: Implications for Professional Preparation and Development; Chapter 4 -- Learning Theory and Research: A Framework for Changing Superintendent Preparation and Development; Chapter 5 -- The Superintendent as Instructional Leader: Current Practice, Future Conceptualizations, and Implications for Preparation
Chapter 6 -- Superintendent as Organizational ManagerChapter 7 -- Superintendent as Educational Statesman and Political Strategist; Chapter 8 -- Reconceptualizing the Superintendency: Superintendents as Applied Social Scientists and Social Activists; Chapter 9 -- Preparing Superintendents to be Effective Communicators; Chapter 10 -- Women Superintendents and Role Conception: (Un)Troubling the Norms; Chapter 11 -- Superintendents of Color: Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Implications for Professional Preparation and Practice; Index
Summary
A strong superintendent is critical to the success of an entire school district, and this exciting new resource details the issues surrounding the state policies that appoint superintendents
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 10, 2015)
