Synopses & Reviews
The most comprehensive handbook for the superintendency!
Written for urban, rural, and suburban superintendents, this practitioner-friendly book helps district leaders improve their effectiveness, learn from best practices, and fully understand current education mandates. The authors draw on five years of research on 100 members of the National Superintendents Roundtable, focusing on:
- Public engagement in this new economic environment
- Models of public leadership amidst change
- Issues of race and class in schools
- The changing nature of work
- Schools of the future
- Teacher quality and value-added assessment
- Essential elements of successful reform
Synopsis
Guidance for ever-changing challenges, success through improved effectiveness
Equip yourself to face the demands of a superintendent with this practical guide for new and veteran district leaders. Understanding leadership and budgets is only one piece of a pie that has grown to include privatization, performance-based teacher compensation, technology, and global comparisons like PISA. Based on research with 300 superintendents, this new edition is your touchstone for
practical advice on how to:
- Survive on the job
- Bargain like a pro
- Work with your school board
- Tackle the achievement gap
- Explain to the public what′s right with American schools
Synopsis
This new edition offers practical advice on how to survive on the job, bargain like a pro, engage with the public, work with school boards, and more.