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The Superintendent as CEO

Standards-Based Performance

By: John R. Hoyle, Lars G. Bjork, Virginia Collier, Thomas Glass

Transform the role of superintendent into the district's Chief Executive Officer!

Executive CEOs need management and executive skills to meet complex business issues. Superintendents require many of the same skills to effectively manage their districts. This text identifies the knowledge and skill base needed by current and aspiring school district administrators to become high-performing CEOs of their districts and schools. This scholarly and friendly research and field-based curricula for district CEOs, workshop planners, and doctoral preparation programs thoroughly examines:

District vision and school culture
Politics and school governance
Internal and external communication
Curriculum design and delivery
Human resource management for student learning

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780761931683
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2004
Page Count: 280
Publication date: October 12, 2004

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"John Hoyle and his co-authors have done the impossible-they have produced a textbook on the superintendency that is both research based and readable. They have also bridged the gap between the world of those who believe everything is measurable and those who see leadership as spiritual and learning as a work in progress. This is a major addition to the field of educating school system leaders."
Paul Houston, Executive Director
American Association of School Administrators
Paul Houston, Executive DirectorAmerican Association of School Administrators
"Professors, workshop facilitators, school administration students, and superintendents will find the content and authors' insights to be highly relevant and enlightening."
Theodore J. Kowalski, Kuntz Family Chair in Educational Administration
University of Dayton
Theodore J. Kowalski, Kuntz Family Chair in Educational AdministrationUniversity of Dayton
"This book represents an important contemporary effort to provide direction to the construction of a text-anchored curriculum for the preparation of superintendents."
Michelle Young, Executive Director
University Council for Educational Administration
Michelle Young, Executive DirectorUniversity Council for Educational Administration
Transform the role of superintendent into the district's Chief Executive Officer!

Executive CEOs need the management and executive skills to meet complex issues of budgets, personnel, information technologies, product accountability, and competition. Superintendents require many of the same skills to effectively manage their districts. The Superintendent as CEO identifies the knowledge and skill base needed by current and aspiring school district administrators to become high-performing CEOs of their districts and schools. The authors blend selected elements of the ISLLC and NCATE standards into the benchmark AASA Professional Standards for the Superintendency to outline the multiple ways of knowing and acting in the complex role of the CEO superintendent.

This scholarly and friendly research- and field-based curricula for district CEOs, workshop planners, and doctoral preparation programs thoroughly examines:

District vision and school culture
Politics and school governance
Internal and external communication
Organizing for high performance
Curriculum design and delivery
Human resource management for student learning

Intended for both practicing and aspiring superintendents, this book will provide the foundation for developing and cultivating the CEO leadership, values, and skills that superintendents will find helpful in moving from simply knowing to becoming the CEO.

Key features

Combines ISSLC and NCATE standards into the benchmark AASA Professional Standards for the Superintendency
Examines issues of district vision and school culture
Discusses key points about politics and school governance
Offers strategies for better internal and external communication
Shows how to organize for high performance schools and districts
Emphasizes the critical role of curriculum design and delivery
Underscores human resource management as a way to improve student learning

Author(s)

John R. Hoyle

John R. Hoyle, a professor of educational administration at Texas A&M University, is an authority on the superintendency, leadership research, and future studies. He served as president of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration and was the first recipient of the NCPEA “Living Legend Award.” In a 2004 survey, Hoyle’s peers selected him as one of the four most “exceptional living scholars” in educational administration. Hoyle served as chair of the AASA National Commission on Professional Standards for the Superintendency and authored the document Professional Standards for the Superintendency. He has written numerous books, book chapters, articles, and papers and is a popular consultant, seminar leader, and motivational speaker.

Lars G. Bjork

Dr. Björk is an associate professor in the Department of Administration and Supervision at the University of Kentucky, Co-Director of the University Council for Educational Administration’s Joint Program Center for the Study of the Superintendency, and a Senior Associate Editor of Educational Administration Quarterly. He has co-edited several books including Higher Education Research and Public Policy (1988), Minorities in Higher Education (1994), and The New Superintendency: Advances in Research and Theories of School Management and Educational Policy (2001), co-authored, The Study of the American Superintendency 2000: A Look at the Superintendent of Education in the New Millennium (2000) and The Superintendent as CEO: Standards-Based Performance (in press).

Virginia Collier

Virginia Collier is a Clinical Associate Professor at Texas A&M University. She served as a teacher, principal and superintendent in the Texas schools for thirty-five years. Governor George W. Bush appointed her as a member of the Texas State Board of Educator. Dr. Collier served as the first female president of the Texas Association of School Administrators and is active in the American Association of School Administrators. The focus of her work is serving as coordinator of the TAMU cohort programs in the San Antonio and Houston areas and working with masters and doctoral students in principal and superintendent preparation.

Thomas Glass

Thomas Glass is Professor of Leadership at the University of Memphis. Over the past three decades, he has served as a faculty member at Northern Illinois University, Washington State University, The University of Detroit and Indiana University. He is a former visiting scholar in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Oxford and is a member of Green College.

He has served public schools as a superintendent and administrator in Michigan, Washington, and Arizona. His research interests are superintendent leadership and preparation. Recently, he was lead author of The Study of the American School Superintedency 2000: A Look at the Superintendent of Education in the New Millennium, the ninth national study of the Amercian school superintendency sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators. He also authored the eight study, The Study of the American School Superintendency 1990: America’s Education Leaders in a Time of Reform. In 1992 he served on the AASA National Commission of the Superintendency and was a contributor to Professional Standards for the Superintendency. He is also co-author of Selecting, Preparing and Developing the School District Superintendent. For ten years he served as editor of The Journal of School Business Management and has been a frequent contributor to numerous education journals.

In twenty-five years he has served as a consultant to nearly a hundred school districts assisting them in public opinion polling, strategic planning, facilities, demographics, communications, and management review. Currently, he is completing for the Education Commisision of the States a policy project featuring a series of opinion surveys with superintendents, chief state school officers, board presidents, and leading educators as participants.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

1. New Directions for CEO Superintendent Preparation

Professional Standards and Licensure

Board Certification

Relicensure and Professional Development

Integrating Theory and Practice in Superintendents' Education

Discussion

2. Organizational Culture

Standard 1. Strategic Leadership and District Culture

Theoretical Frameworks

Applying the Eight Indicators to the Case Study

Discussing the Case

3. The Politics of School Governance

Standard 2. Policy and Governance

Theoretical Frameworks

Applying the Five Indicators to the Case Study

Discussing the Case

4. Communications and Community Relations

Standard 3. Communications and Community Relations

Applying the 18 Indicators to the Case Study

5. Management of the Organization, Operations, and Resources

Standard 4. Leadership and Organizational Management and School Finance

Theoretical Frameworks

Applying the Five Indicators in the Case Study

The Case of the Optimistic Budget Projections

Applying the Five Indicators to the Case Study

6. The Technical Core of Educational Administration: Curriculum Planning and Development

Standard 5. Curriculum Planning and Development

Theoretical Frameworks

Applying the Seven Indicators in the Case Study

7. Instructional Management

Standard 6. Instructional Management

Theoretical Frameworks

Applying the Twelve Indicators to the Case Study

8. Human Resources Management

Standard 7. Staff Evaluation and Personnel Management

Theoretical Frameworks

Apply the Four Indicators in the Case Study

9. Values and Ethics

Standard 8. Values and Ethics of Leadership

Theoretical Frameworks

Applying the Eight Indicators to the Case Study

10. Leadership Performance Evaluation

Theoretical Frameworks

Caveats in Performance Evaluation

Research on Performance Standards for Superintendents

Measuring the Effectiveness of Preparation Programs

School Board Evaluation of Superintendents

The Superintendent Executive Assessment Model (SEAM)

Applying the Chapter Material to the Case Study

Epilogue

References

Index

Reviews

"Professors, workshop facilitators, school administration students, and superintendents will find the content and authors’ insights to be highly relevant and enlightening."

Theodore J. Kowalski, Kuntz Family Chair in Educational Administration
University of Dayton

"Educational leadership faculty members across the country are engaging in large-scale renovation of their leadership preparation programs. This book represents an important contemporary effort to provide direction to the construction of a text-anchored curriculum for the preparation of superintendents."

Michelle Young, Executive Director
University Council for Educational Administration

"John Hoyle and his co-authors have done the impossible--they have produced a textbook on the superintendency that is both research based and readable. They have also bridged the gap between the world of those who believe everything is measurable and those who see leadership as spiritual and learning as a work in progress. This is a major addition to the field of educating school system leaders."

Paul Houston, Executive Director
American Association of School Administrators

"Blending theory and practical applications, this book is a must read for those aspiring to or currently in leadership roles in school districts. Unlike texts on the superintendency that are written solely from standards-based or constructivist perspectives, this book draws on multiple approaches in exploring the complexities and changing demands of the superintendent’s role."

Martha McCarthy, Chancellor's Professor
Indiana University

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