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Peer reviewedMendez-Morse, Sylvia – Urban Education, 2000
Presents examples and research findings that contradict the typical stereotypes of Latina leadership. Examines the idea that Latina superintendents are atypical of their ethnicity and gender with the idea of claiming Latina leadership legacies that bring an alternative perspective to the discourse on leadership. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Hispanic Americans
Peer reviewedLei-Lanilau, Carolyn; Peyton-Caire, Lisa; Perkins, Judith – Urban Education, 2000
This kinesthetic piece evokes and provokes the reader into a visceral experience that transfers the internal emotional reactions of women of color as they face a world that does not value their worth as leaders. Explores issues of leadership through parallels with masturbation. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Response
Wertz, Dan C. – American School Board Journal, 2002
Describes characteristics of effective superintendents based on interviews with 18 men and women with an average of 13 years' experience in their current positions. Superintendents offer insights on decision-making, stress management, avoiding surprises, and responding to political pressure. (PKP)
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Boards of Education, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Ilg, Timothy – School Administrator, 2002
Offers several recommendations to board of education on involving the incumbent superintendent in the search for a new superintendent. (PKP)
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Role, Board of Education Role, Elementary Secondary Education
Rohn, Charles – School Administrator, 2002
Describes positive and negative qualities in candidates that boards of education identified when searching for a new superintendent. Based on Illinois study of 180 superintendent vacancies during recent 3-year period. (PKP)
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Board of Education Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Interviews
Peer reviewedKing, Deborah – Educational Leadership, 2002
Provides insights into the changing role of instructional leadership based on the Annenberg Institute for School Reform's work with principals and superintendents. Such leadership changes include lead learning, a focus on teaching and learning, developing leadership capacity, creating conditions for professional learning, using data to inform…
Descriptors: Data, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership
Fitzpatrick, James – American School Board Journal, 2002
After the first year, new superintendents should take care to avoid the "sophomore jinx" by communicating effectively with the board president every week and with board members before meetings. Public engagement is also an integral part of a superintendent's job. (MLF)
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Occupational Information
Cunningham, William G.; Burdick, Glenn R. – American School Board Journal, 1999
Survey responses from 175 public school superintendents blamed school boards for the dwindling supply of qualified applicants for the superintendency. The top problem is micromanagement by the school board. The time and stress of the superintendency ranks second, cited by more than 53 percent of respondents. Diminishing financial resources were…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Market, National Surveys
Peer reviewedDavis, O. L., Jr. – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 2002
Describes principal participants and agenda at informal annual meetings of public-school curriculum works in late 1920s; meetings eventually led to the creation of a professional association for curriculum practitioners and researches: The Society for Curriculum Study, later to become the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, History, Meetings
Russo, Alexander – School Administrator, 2001
With the growth of online courses available for K-12 education, administrators should consider the following advice before implementing them in their schools: Plan carefully; think education, not technology; cooperate, do not compete; figure out the money. Includes a list of print and online reference materials on K-12 online education. (PKP)
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Internet
Reeves, Kimberly – School Administrator, 2001
Describes how several states are coping with issues related to the cost, value, and funding of online courses offered by virtual (cyber) schools. (PKP)
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Student Costs, Internet
Direct linkRoberson, Stewart D. – School Administrator, 2004
The first trials, convictions and sentencings of the two men charged as the infamous "Beltway Snipers" are now part of history. John Allen Mohammed and Lee Boyd Malvo will face additional capital murder charges in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC, for the deaths of 10 men and women and the wounding of a school child and two adults along the…
Descriptors: Public Opinion, Decision Making, Superintendents, Law Enforcement
Gordon, David W. – School Administrator, 2004
In this article, the author asserts that now that states and school districts are enacting ever more rigorous standards, instructional materials and assessments, school board members are asking more questions, as they should. Superintendents would be wise to have strategies ready to help them learn more about the new standards-based environment.…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Boards of Education, Superintendents, State Standards
Eadie, Doug – School Administrator, 2004
The setting is Pleasantville, a mid-size Midwestern suburban school district with 9,500 students and a proud tradition of active parent involvement and strong public support for the schools. Mary Vicenzi was recruited by Pleasantville's nine-member school board, which was concerned above all else, unanimously and emphatically, with the need to…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Boards of Education, Superintendents, Suburban Schools
Markova, Dawna; Holland, Bea Mah – School Administrator, 2005
This article contains short stories that involve positively focused systemic strategies. The three examples that provided in this article are all grounded in open-ended, asset-based inquiry about what is life-giving, generative and important for children and adults. In addition, each focuses on giving youth an opportunity to recognize the impact…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Inquiry, Systems Approach, School Administration
