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A Baker's Dozen for Principal Preparation Programs
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Abstract: Educational administrator preparation programs have been under attack for inadequate program quality. Despite these charges, there are embedded critical skills numbering thirteen, or a baker's dozen. These skills throughout each the principal preparation programs establish a foundation for the effective ... More »
A Superintendent's Final Announcement
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Abstract: Superintendent Gillet, lacking sensitivity to the environment of the school, allows issues to surface without resolving them within the context of the prevailing climate.
An Empirical Description of Doctoral Programs in Educational Leadership
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Abstract: The NCPEA Handbook of Doctoral Programs in Educational Leadership: Issues and Challenges, Chapter 1, authored by Frederick L. Dembowski.
Change and the Knowledge Base of Educational Administration
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Abstract: This study investigated one school district's transition from a junior high model to a middle school philosophy. Numerous documents were examined and individual interviews and focus group discussions were analyzed to reconstruct the process and strategies used to facilitate the institutionalization of ... More »
Creating Meaningful Online Discussions
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Abstract: As educators in higher education, we face many challenges, but probably none like that of teaching online. While institutions of higher education have enjoyed a long history of traditional teaching and learning, the realities of providing an environment tailored to the needs and interests of today's ... More »
Defying Gravity
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Abstract: This case study covers a wide variety of challenges facing administrators as they make an effort to improve the learning environments of impoverished communities. It may be used in an introductory course for aspiring school leaders and practitioners in th
Failure rate increases in the Boston Public Schools
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Abstract: David Boeri reports that the Massachusetts Advocacy Center released statistics indicating that the student failure rate in the Boston Public Schools has increased by 24 percent. Boeri notes that school officials have raised promotion standards but that students are unprepared. Boeri interviews Anne Wheelock ... More »
Forward: The Roles of Leadership and Management
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Abstract: Leadership is both objective and subjective. Some of our critics have suggested that we overemphasize the objective aspect of leadership: facts, data, and test scores. Others state we spend too much time addressing leadership at the expense of the actual
Groundbreaking ceremony for Roxbury Community College campus; Gail Harris interviews Brunetta Wolfman
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Abstract: Gail Harris reports on the ground-breaking ceremony for Roxbury Community College. The report includes footage of Bruce Bolling (Boston City Council) speaking at the ceremony. Harris interviews in-studio guest Brunetta Wolfman (President, Roxbury Community College) about the college. Wolfman talks about ... More »
Highly Effective IT Leadership That Promotes Student Achievement
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Abstract: With heightened accountability on student learning, 21st century educational leaders? roles and responsibilities as instructional leaders have grown to unprecedented levels and expectations. Among the latest expectations is direction and guidance in instructional technology or instruction supported by ... More »
It Takes a Village to Raise New Faculty: Implementing Triangular Mentoring Relationships
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Abstract: Expectations for productivity in published scholarship have certainly increased in recent years for university faculty seeking tenure and promotion in colleges of education and other colleges (Brown, 2006; Tierney, 2001). In response, more and more leaders at research universities sponsor formal mentoring ... More »
Job Survival Skills Superintendents Ought To Know!
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Abstract: A glance inside a classroom reveals the students, aspiring superintendents, requesting that their professor present to them the realities of school district leadership. The professor, a past superintendent, responds to the call by integrating conventional wisdom based upon his thirty years of educational ... More »
John Bryant criticizes the Boston School Committee
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Abstract: A commemorative church service held in honor of Martin Luther King. Jr. is addressed Reverend John Bryant, who uses the occasion to criticize the Boston School Committee for what he sees as a lack of commitment to the education of African American children.
K-12 Leadership and the Educational Administration Curriculum: A Theory of Preparation
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Abstract: Increasingly, education schools are being blamed for intractable social problems they did not create and cannot solve. They have been faulted for the quality of the people who choose to become teachers and administrators. They have been blamed for the woes of low-performing schools and school systems. ... More »
Laval Wilson begins his career as superintendent
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Abstract: A moderator on stage at English High School talks about the coming school year to staff and parents of the Boston Public Schools. Dr. Laval Wilson (Superintendent, Boston Public Schools) arrives to address the audience. Wilson talks about the challenges to be faced in the year ahead and about his commitment ... More »
Laval Wilson's contract is renewed
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Abstract: Christy George reports that the Boston School Committee held an executive session to make a decision on the renewal of the contract of Laval Wilson (Superintendent, Boston Public Schools). George notes that several audience members addressed the Boston School Committee about Wilson's performance before ... More »
Laval Wilson signs his contract at a press conference
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Abstract: Dr. Laval Wilson and members of the Boston School Committee assemble themselves at a press conference in Wilson's office. The media sets up a shot of Wilson and Nucci signing copies of Wilson's contract. Wilson and Nucci shake hands. Wilson shakes hands with each member of the School Committee. Wilson ... More »
Plans to restructure the Boston School Committee
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Abstract: Dorothy Jones, of Model Cities of Boston, discusses plans for the forthcoming restructuring of the Boston School committee.
Preface
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Abstract: The Handbook of Doctoral Programs in Educational Leadership: Issues and Challenges came into being following a session at the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA) conference in August 2006, which was held in Lexington, Kent
Questioning the Core of University-based Preparation Programs for School Leaders
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Abstract: Joseph Murphy argues in this essay that much of university preparation of educational leaders is, at best, of questionable value and, at worst, harmful. Let me start with a few points to ground my claims.
