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Leadership teaming : the superintendent-principal relationship / Cathie E. West, Mary Lynne Derrington.
Van Pelt Library LB2831.7 .W47 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- West, Cathie E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Principal-superintendent relationships.
- School superintendents--Professional relationships.
- School superintendents.
- School principals--Professional relationships.
- School principals.
- School management teams.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 130 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- Ideal for new or experienced school and district administrators, this book shows how to develop a strong superintendent-principal partnership. Written by a principal and a superintendent with decades of experience, this resource provides strategies for effective leadership, communication, and collaboration, and includes Both the principal's and the superintendent's perspectives on issues such as performance expectations and characteristics of quality teams, Critical experience- and research-based team components, Stories from the field about successful principal-superintendent teams, Reflective questions, summaries, and other tools to help readers apply the principles and strategies to their own practice.
- Use these practical and proven approaches to create a healthy school/district culture and promote mutually supportive professional relationships.
- Contents:
- Superintendent's perspective: characteristics of high-quality teams
- Principal's perspective: what phenomenal teams look and feel like
- Superintendent's perspective: what superintendents want in a principal
- Principal's perspective: superintendents principals want to work for
- Superintendent's perspective: the importance of trust in communication
- Principal's perspective: communication, expectations, and relationships
- Superintendent's perspective: cultivating team capacity
- Principal's perspective: perfecting principal performance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-123) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781412966306
- 1412966302
- 9781412966313
- 1412966310
- OCLC:
- 228362879
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