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New: Leadership on the Frontlines: Changes in Preparation and Practice--The 2008 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Education Administration

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Leadership on the Frontlines: Changes in Preparation and Practice
The 2008 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Education Administration

Editor: Rosemary Papa
Associate Editor: Charles M. Achilles
Assistant Editor: Betty Alford

Selected and refereed research on best ways to train school leaders
New material on technology, standards, and ethics for administrators

This 15th volume in the ongoing series of yearbooks from the National Council of Professors of Education Administration features selected scholarly investigations focused on the best methods currently applied in American universities to educate school administrators. It covers a wide range of ethical, managerial, and pedagogical issues related to the knowledge and skills needed to lead schools in the regulatory and cultural environment of the USA. This important book continues and augments the NCPEA's cumulative research into education administration, found in the previous 14 yearbooks in the series.

ISBN: 1-885432-45-3, Published August 2008, Binding: Hardcover, Non-Member Price: $54.95, Member Price: $46.00

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Table of Contents (condensed)

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

1. What Counts Towards Preparing Leaders to Educate (Mike Martin)
2. Strengthening a Collaborative Profession (Thomas Bellamy)
3. The Culturally Proficient Professorate (Randall Lindsey)
4. Proactively Serving Disenfranchised Youth (James Smith)

PREPARATION OF SCHOOL LEADERS

5. Generational Learning Communities (T. Browne-Ferrigno, R. Muth)
6. An Induction Model for School Leaders (V. Farrington, W. Grobe, H. Holloman, M. Ringler)
7. Leading Democratically (P. Jenlink)
8. Evaluating Principal Competence with Medical School Methods (H. Lane, W. Rouse et al.)
9. Teaching and Accessing Dispositions in Principal Preparation (R. Lindahl)
10. ISLCC/ELCC Standards Implementation in Preparation (C. Machado, D. Cline)
11. Team Testing and Developing Interpersonal Skills (A. Maddocks)
12. Gap Analysis of Principal Preparation Programs (J. Pacha, L. Morford, J. Crawford et al.)
13. Preparing Leaders to Engage Families (K. Shepherd, S. Hasazi, J. Aiken)

TECHNOLOGY FOR PREPARATION PROGRAMS

14. Educational Technology in Leadership Programs (R. Hancock, B. Parton, and Mijir)
15. Human Interaction in Distance Learning (T. Zigler, A. Ogletree, T. Pirkle. C. Schneider)

CRITICAL THEORY AND LEADERSHIP PRACTICES

16. Study of National Diversity Leadership Standards (C. Boske)
17. Race, Gender, and the Superintendency (E. Christie, J. Jackson, G. Babo)
18. Preservice Principals' Perceptions of Cultural Proficiency (M. Hines)
19. Women School Superintendents (S. Katz)
20. Superintendents Leading Districts to Cultural Proficiency (T. Price, S. Harris)
21. Principal Preparation for American Indian Education (W. Ruff, J. Erickson)

K-12 LEADERSHIP PRACTICES

17. Leader Values Needed and Student Values Held: Dilemmas for Leaders (J. Barbour)
18. Strategies for Transforming the Daily Work of Principals (T. Berkey)
19. Context and Successful Superintendent Preparation (P. Bredeson, H. Klar)
20. Explaining and Solving the Head Start Fade (D. Clarke, C. Achilles)
21. Accountability, District Monitoring, School Improvement (G. Doolittle, E. Browne)
22. New and Non-Traditional Leaders for Urban Schools (B. Fusarelli, M. Duckworth)
23. School Consolidation: What Administrators Need to Know (M. Morrison)
24. Professional Development for Licensure Renewal: Has Much Changed (V. Roach, L. Smith)

HIGHER EDUCATION LEADERSHIP PRACTICES

25. Evaluating Educational Doctorates in Administration (T. Creighton)
26. Formal Faculty Mentoring in Higher Education (C. Mullen)