The contemporary superintendent
Subtitle: preparation, practice, and development
By: [edited by] Lars G. Björk, Theodore J. Kowalski.
Contributors: Bjork, Lars G.; Kowalski, Theodore J.
Publisher: Corwin Press; Corwin
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: School superintendents -- United States; School management and organization -- United States; Educational leadership -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Evolution of the school district superintendent position / Theodore J. Kowalski; title: Characteristics of American school superintendents / Lars G. Björk, Thomas E. Glass, and C. Cryss Brunner; title: National education reform reports : implications for professional preparation and development / Lars G. Björk, Theodore J. Kowalski, and Michelle D. Young; title: Learning theory and research : a framework for changing superintendent preparation and development / Lars G. Björk, Theodore J. Kowalski, and Tricia Browne-Ferrigno; title: The superintendent as instructional leader : current practice, future conceptualizations, and implications for preparation / George J. Petersen and Bruce G. Barnett; title: Superintendent as organizational manager / Tricia Browne-Ferrigno and Thomas E. Glass; title: Superintendent as educational statesman and political strategist / Lars G. Björk and D. Keith Gurley; title: Reconceptualizing the superintendency : superintendents as applied social scientists and social activists / Bonnie C. Fusarelli and Lance D. Fusarelli; title: Preparing superintendents to be effective communicators / Theodore J. Kowalski and John L. Keedy; title: Women superintendents and role conception : (un)troubling the norms / Margaret Grogan and C. Cryss Brunner; title: Superintendents of color : perspectives on racial and ethnic diversity and implications for professional preparation and practice / Juanita Cleaver Simmons.