Contributing Authors

Review Board

Preface

Part 1: Invited Chapters

President's Message: NCPEA as a Learning Organization

Judith Adkison

Corwin Lecture: School Leadership and Educational Accountability: Toward a Distributed Perspective

Kenneth Leithwood

Part 2: Preparing School Administrators

Toward an Instructional Paradigm: Recasting How Faculty Work and Students Learn

Rodney Muth

Debra Banks

Jean Bonelli

Barbara Gaddis

Harriet Napierkowski

Cason White

Victoria Wood

University Educational Administration Program Development: Administrative Skills vs. Achievement Standards as Predicators of Administrative Success

Don Coleman

Deborah Copeland

R.C. Adams

Beyond the Knowledge Base Controversy: Advancing the Ideal of Scholar-Practitioner Leadership

Patrick M. Jenlink

The Intellectual Firepower Needed for Educational Administration's New Era of Enlightenment

John L. Keedy

C.M. Achilles

Lessons from the Performing Arts: Can Auditioning Help Improve the Selection Process in University Administration Preparation Programs in the 21st Century?

Theodore Creighton

Divergent Thinking as an Engine of Positive Change: The Role of Academic Freedom in the Educational Administration Professoriate

Emett Burnett Jr.

The Leadership Framework: Facilitating Reflection for 21st Century Leaders

Genevieve Brown

Beverly J. Irby

Alice Fisher

Student Self-Assessment of Leadership Skills: A Useful Tool in Preparation Programs

Kermit Buckner

Lynn Bradshaw

Issues of Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Diversity in Preparing School Administrators

Carolyn S. Ridenour

Patricia F. First

Angela Lydon

Michelle C. Partlow

The Road to Promotion and Tenure for Women and Minorities

Martha W. Tack

April Flanagan

Understanding Leadership Styles of Women and Men

Jacqueline Lougheed

Exploring Technology, Change, and Chaos Theory: Moving Educational Leadership Preparation Programs into the New Millennium

Patti L. Chance

Karlene Lee

Technology Standards and Reform in Educational Practice: The Role of Information Technology in the Transformation of a Leader Preparation Program

Ian W. Gibson

Computer Applications for School Finance and Business: Courses, Status, Process, and Considerations

Scott R. Sweetland

Technological and Programmatic Challenges Confronted in Delivering a Distance Learning Doctoral Program

Marilyn A. Hirth

William D. McInerney

Part 3: Issues of Practice

Coping with Children on Their Own: A Challenge for Educational Administrators

Lesley H. Browder Jr.

Leadership and Job Satisfaction in the School Superintendency

Lance D. Fusarelli

Bruce S. Cooper

Vincent A. Carella

Superintendent Performance Evaluation and Its Relationship to District Student Performance

John Hoyle

Dawn Hogan

Linda Skrla

Clark Ealy

The Role of the Central Office in Decentralization

Lars G. Bjork

The Fast Lane to Success: The Initiation Stage

K. Fritz Leifeste

Charles A. Reavis

Principal Leadership Skills Needed to Transform the Climate of a Struggling School

Sherry L. Rulfs

Charlene Crocker

Paulette D. Wright

Garth Petrie

Impact of Professional Development Schools on Teachers and Students: Considerations for Public School Administrators

Dan B. Wait

Preferred Leadership Frames of Texas Principals in Implementing the Professional Development and Appraisal System with National Implications

Gary Bigham

Charles A. Reavis

The Expected Demise of the Local School District

William G. Keane

Author Index

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