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Katie Dewey Hill; Janice Bradley – Learning Professional, 2024
To address the question of how to develop the capacity for every instructional coach to provide job-embedded professional learning for every teacher and student, the Utah State Board of Education's quality instruction team designed and built a statewide 22 networked professional learning system that includes instructional coaches, local education…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Professional Development, Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
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Thiede, Robert – School Leadership Review, 2020
The Ashland University's superintendent licensure program had not been revised and updated for the last several years. With all of the educational reforms in the first part of this new millennium, there was a pressing need to redefine and develop the overall program and courses embedded in it. An action plan was set up to carry out several steps…
Descriptors: Universities, Superintendents, Administrator Education, Educational Change
Fowler, Gerald L.; Cowden, William K. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
So what if we just turned every course in our Superintendent's Program into a form of practicum? This question was asked by two former superintendents in response to nationwide calls to reform school leadership training and who found themselves leading a university executive leadership program. It triggered a comprehensive redesign of their…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Administrator Education, College Programs, Training Methods
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Devin, Mary – Educational Considerations, 2013
This article is a follow-up to Mary Devin's report on the collaborative efforts required to create the "Kansas Educational Leadership Institute" in 2010. The Kansas Educational Leadership Institute (KELI) moved from planning to implementation on March 30, 2011, as a statewide systematic support system for the recruitment, development,…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Statewide Planning, Leadership Training, Institutes (Training Programs)
Huang, Leann L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to identify strategies and behaviors that successful superintendents used to build strong relationships and trust with their boards within their entry period. The three research questions were developed to guide this study: 1. What strategies and behaviors were successful superintendents using to build strong…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Trust (Psychology), Board Administrator Relationship, Administrator Behavior
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Farmer, Tod Allen – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2009
The United Nations projects that the United States will have the highest migration rates of any nation in the world between 2000 and 2050. As American society becomes increasingly diverse, it is paramount that superintendent preparation programs produce pluralistic urban superintendents capable of synergistically energizing an increasingly…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Student Diversity, Cultural Pluralism, Superintendents
Eberly, Jody L.; Joshi, Arti; Galen, Harlene – School-University Partnerships, 2009
Periodic reexamination of existing professional development school forms is good practice to ascertain whether goals are being met. Such an assessment was sparked by a request from a superintendent in a 14-year-old professional development school structure at a public college in the Northeast. This assessment revealed that although the…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Public Colleges, Supervisory Methods, Educational Principles
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Robicheau, Jerry; Haar, Jean – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2008
The relevance of administrative preparation programs has been questioned. The questions center around how well programs are preparing school leaders to deal with the myriad of requirements placed in front of them (i.e. demands relate to issues of accountability, changing demographics, aging professionals, demanding publics, and school…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Administrator Education, Management Development, Relevance (Education)
Peters, Gary; Maulding, Wanda – Online Submission, 2006
For nearly a century this university has been training teachers and administrators for public schools. The university has benefited from a rich heritage, which includes being the first teachers college in Mississippi. Having established itself as the state's primary institution for the training of teachers it would be easy to rest on past laurels…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Schools of Education, Educational Administration, Educational Change
Larson, W. E. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1916
This bulletin traces the movement in Wisconsin for the establishment of schools having for their special object the preparation of teachers for country schools from the early 1890s through to the 1916 establishment of training schools in Racine and Juneau Counties. Contents include: (1) an historical statement; (2) the current county…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, School Law, Schools of Education, Teacher Education