Outlines a formal, specific, and structured method a board can use in evaluating a superintendent. (IRT)

Have you ever thought about what life would be like as a school superintendent? Despite the multitude of problems that accompany the job, author contends that the superintendency is a position unmatched in personal and professional rewards. (Editor/RK)

Describes beneficial experience as both an executive coach and a client. (PKP)

Reports results of national survey of superintendents' top reading choices from a list of 34 periodicals in educational leadership. Superintendents' top-ranked periodicals are "Educational Leadership,""Phi Delta Kappan,""School Administrator," and "American School Board Journal." (Contains 24 references.) (PKP)

Uses survey instrument and interviews to examine superintendents' perceptions of quality and quantity of principal candidates in one state. Finds that 50 percent of superintendents reported "somewhat extreme" to "extreme" shortages of principals and 30.2 percent rated the quality of principal candidates as either "fair" or "poor." Provides several…

Superintendent of the Rochester School Department, Rochester, New Hampshire, discusses the value of the publications available from the National Forum on Education Statistics. Describes how superintendents can obtain Forum publication through its website at www.nces.gov/forum. (PKP)

Assesses the association of role conflict and ambiguity with the administrative stress cycle. Surveys 1,000 randomly selected Washington State principals and superintendents, using the Administrator Work Inventory, consisting of the Administrator Stress Index, Malasch Burnout Inventory, Role Questionnaire, and demographic and organizational…

Participants in Educorps, a network of retired superintendents, travel throughout New York State to dispense hard-won advice to fellow school executives. During Educorps's first 20 months, 200 consultants have helped 60 school systems tackle financial planning, curriculum development, and public-relations issues. Services are free, minus…

Tells how being coached can help superintendents and principals improve their leadership and problem-solving skills. (PKP)

Shares some core values for effective leadership based on 20 years of experience as a superintendent: Define priorities, establish procedures to evaluate staff, respond to criticism, ensure that staff understand board members do not have individual authority, model learning for others, communicate with clarity and specificity. (PKP)

Basan N. Nembirkow grew up as a pre-adolescent adoring the Brooklyn Dodgers, and his friends in central New Jersey applied the nickname of Buzz, to which he still answers. But in other respects, it would be hard to suggest Basan Nembirkow is simply a product of a middle-class American upbringing. Nembirkow, who is about to finish his second year…

The Oxford Thesaurus describes "resiliency" with these words: elasticity, flexibility, life, spring, stretch, tenacity, rigor. Why would anyone want to be all of these things? And what does it take to do so? Enter the superintendent who wants to make a lasting difference. Today's superintendency calls on deep reserves from leaders who understand…

The perception that superintendency is a difficult role to assume is reflective of the general feeling that the job of school superintendent is filled with external pressures often played out in the arena of public criticism. Considering that understanding the role of motivators and inhibitors in superintendency is important, this article examines…

Moore reviewed the literature on accountability and assessment in order to design a questionnaire to survey superintendents across Wyoming on their existing and needed knowledge about student assessment. Results on the presence or absence of gaps in knowledge that is deemed important by respondents and/or the literature can be used by colleges and…

From the day he landed in the southeastern Washington community of Kennewick as district superintendent, Paul Rosier let it be known through his actions, as well as his words, that he intended to be the school district's instructional leader. Rosier is a big-picture guy who likes to spend time peering through small windows. In a masterful way of…