The Changing Relationships Between Principal and Superintendent: Shifting Roles in an Era of Educational Reform: New Directions for School Leadership #10

by Sheryl Boris-Schacter

• ISBN13: 9780787942755
• ISBN10: 0787942758
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

As school systems move away from centralization toward school-based management, the relationship between superintAndents and principals must be redefined. In this volume of New Directions for School Leadership, superintAndents and principals reflect on the relationship, considering how they can best work together in the joint enterprise of improving education for all students. Sharing their personal experiences and insights, the authors reveal how to build a successful superintAndent/principal relationship through a commitment to honest and frequent communication and mutual teaching and learning.This is the 10th issue of the quaterly journal New Directions for School Leadership.

Author Biography

SHERYL BORIS-SCHACTER is an associate professor and director of the Educational Administration Program at Lesley College School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

1. Learning and Communication as the Linchpins for the SuperintAndent-Principal Relationship(Sheryle Boris-Schacter)

2. Building Bedrock: The SuperintAndent and the Principal As Mutual Learners(Meredith Howe Jones)

3. SuperintAndents: Principals' Teachers?(Paul A. Naso)

4. Better Decisions Without the Surprises: Communication as the Key to the Principal-SuperintAndent Relationship(Lonnie Yingst)

5. A Principal's Perspective on Administrative Relationships(Mike Schwinden)

6. Seven Factors Affecting the Relationship Between SuperintAndents and Principals(Joseph A. Shivers)

7. FriAnds and Colleagues: A Response to the Factors(Joe Rottenborn)

8. Crossing Boundaries: Principals and SuperintAndents Assume Multiple Roles and Collaborate in a Climate of Creative Tension(Lynn F. Stuart)

9. Taking Turns at Teaching and Learning: The SuperintAndent-Principal Partnership(Bobbie D'Alessandro)

10. The SuperintAndent and the Principal: Partners in the ""Greatest Show on Earth""(Lisa Devlin Bjork)

11. Button Down the Mainsail(Greg Willis)