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Jones, Philip G. – American School Board Journal, 1975
Examines the characteristics and tenures of some superintendents and lists five suggestions for helping the board and superintendent work constructively together to resolve mutual problems. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Elementary Secondary Education, Superintendents
Johnson, Carroll – American School Board Journal, 1979
Presents case histories of four fictitious superintendents to exemplify a few personal characteristics that can lead to failure. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Disqualification, Elementary Secondary Education, Superintendents
Kolze, Richard C.; Altergott, Bruce H. – American School Board Journal, 1970
A board's do-it-yourself program for identifying, training, and promoting administrators from its own staff. (JF)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Selection, Administrators
Ross, Robert S. – American School Board Journal, 1982
Presents four essential characteristics of good conduct for school board members: patience, tolerance, readiness to consider advice from outsiders, and humor. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Humor
American School Board Journal, 1979
The naivete this superintendent displayed was in not asking his school board to put its directives in writing. (IRT)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Board Administrator Relationship, Dismissal (Personnel), Disqualification
Blanchard, Paul D. – American School Board Journal, 1974
In discharging assigned duties, a board member who regards himself as a 'delegate' tends to represent constituent views. A 'trustee' tends to rely more on personal convictions. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Boards of Education, Educational Research
If Superintendents Could Pick Their Own School Board Members, Here's the Kind They Say They'd Choose
Mullins, Carolyn – American School Board Journal, 1974
'Professionals' make the best school board members, say superintendents, with medical doctors their strong first choice and lawyers a distant second. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Board Candidates, Boards of Education
Collins, Lorraine – American School Board Journal, 1976
Women administrators characteristically bring a distinctive and valuable background to their positions as high-echelon school district managers because of the comparatively (to men) humble route they take to the top. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, Employed Women
Weiss, Edmond H. – American School Board Journal, 1974
Effective debate skills make for good boardmanship. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Boards of Education, Critical Thinking, Debate
Doing, Larrie Anne – American School Board Journal, 1972
Explains how being a school board member takes a very special kind of person and how living with a school board member requires some talent, too. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Qualifications, Administrators, Board Candidates
Fowler, Charles W. – American School Board Journal, 1973
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Selection, Board of Education Policy
Underwood, Kenneth E.; And Others – American School Board Journal, 1982
Summarizes results of a national survey of the concerns and characteristics of school board members. Presents board members' concerns by school system size and compares these concerns with those of the general public. (JM)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Brubaker, Dale L.; Austin, Gerald D. – American School Board Journal, 1996
Compares the role of the superintendent with that of a National Football League (NFL) referee. Both jobs require intellectual and mental preparation, calmness, and consistency. Also compares the school board role with that of NFL director of officiating and the director's evaluation team. (LMI)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Jacobs, Mark M.; Langley, Nancy – American School Board Journal, 2002
Describes common characteristics of effective leaders, such as insight, strong interpersonal skills, self-growth, flexibility, and communications. Includes examples of effective leadership provided by an assistant superintendent, a middle-school principal, and an elementary-school principal. (PKP)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Effectiveness, Collective Bargaining, Contracts
American School Board Journal, 1993
New this year to the annual desk reference of key education facts is a special report on immigration, followed by education events in review; spending on school construction and renovation; demographics of school leadership; indicators of school performance and progress; and education indicators by region and by state. (MLF)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Characteristics, Educational Assessment, Educational Trends
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