Books about Superintendency from Amazon.com

The State of the American School Superintendency: A Mid-Decade Study provides the largest and most comprehensive look at the nation's school leaders It offers a close examination of superintendents' professional experience, preparation, and training; superintendent/school board relations; key issues affecting education and leadership; superintendent evaluations and contracts; superintendent tenure; and the history of the school superintendent in American public education..
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These eight standards combine administrative knowledge with research on performance goals, competencies, and skills in the following areas: leadership and district culture; policy and governance; communications and community relations; organizational management; curriculum planning and development; instructional management; human resources management; and the values and ethics of leadership..
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"There are so few 'must read' books about superintAndents that I would recommAnd to policymakers, researchers, and novices Add Leading to Change to the list. This insightful chapters on political and managerial leadership alone are worth the price of the book."
-- Larry Cuban, professor of education, Stanford University.
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Intended as a book on the school superintendency, however other audiences such as practicing school superintendents and school board members will find the book useful as well.

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This book identifies the challenges that women in leadership positions face in public schools It provides examples to illustrate these challenges as well as strategies to increase their success..
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In 1909, when she became the superintendent of the Chicago schools, Ella Flagg Young proclaimed that women were "destined to rule the schools of every city." After all, women accounted for nearly eighty percent of all teachers by 1910 and their ascendance into formal school leadership positions could not be far behind. After World War II, however, a backlash against single women educators and a rigid realignment of gender roles in schools contributed to a rapid decline of women school administrators across the country, a decline from which there has been little recovery to the present.

Destined to Rule the Schools tells the story of women and school leadership in America from the common school era to the present. In a broad sense, it offers an historical account of how teaching became women's work and the school superintendency men's. Blount explores how power in school employment has been structured unequally by gender. It focuses on the superintendency because an important component of the effort to establish control of schools has occurred in contesting the definition of this position. Unique and important contributions of this volume include: the only published comprehensive statistical study describing the number of women superintendents throughout the twentieth century, an analysis suggesting that the superintendency may have become an appointive position in part to remove it from the influence of newly enfranchised women voters, a discussion of the role of homophobia in creating and perpetuating rigid gender divisions in school employment, and a broad analysis that integrates the histories of teaching and school administration..
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Here, the authors offer a way for superintendents and those in training to combine best-practice theory with practice using everyday, realistic situations within the framework of state and national standards..
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The superintendency offers the most powerful and prestigious positions in K-12 public school systems Few superintendents of these systems in the United States are women, although the majority of teachers are women and many women have leadership positions in schools. There are also increasing numbers of women in administrative preparation programs at institutions of higher education.

This study of 27 highly qualified women in top-level administrative positions in public education was designed to find out what it is like to be a woman aspiring to the executive leadership position. Research questions included: Why are there so few women superintendents when so many are qualified? What are the routes to the superintendency? What is the context of educational administration in the public school? What kinds of leaders are women who aspire to the superintendency? The research was also informed by a femininst advocacy of social change to discover how and under what conditions a more equitable distribution of superintendencies is likely to occur. A feminist poststructural framework provided the theoretical basis for the analysis of the data..
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Pursuing and obtaining a superintendency is more complicated than any other educational employment process. Marilyn Tallerico demonstrates how to navigate this challenging terrain by providing an insider’s view of how superintendents are found, selected, and viewed. Research-based and very practical, Accessing the Superintendency shows how to overcome the invisible selection criteria, the unwritten rules, and the biases that often shut out qualified women and racially and ethnically diverse candidates.

 

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