New Alliance of Superintendents and Principals: Applying the Research to Site-Based Decision-Making:
Issues About Change, Volume 2, Number 1
Author: Shirley M. Hord
Product ID: CHA-18 Price: Online only
• Published: 1992 • 6 pages
Available online: text
How can school superintendents build their effectiveness? By forging a new alliance with their school principals, and promoting site-based decision-making to set goals. This review of the research:
- Presents three roles that effective school superintendents play
- Presents three strategies that effective superintendents use to improve teaching
- Applies the three strategies to site-based decision-making
- Focuses on superintendents' role as teachers of principals
- Explores how superintendents can partner with principals to bring about school change
This publication is one of a series of briefing papers called Issues About Change.