New Alliance of Superintendents and Principals: Applying the Research to Site-Based Decision-Making: Issues About Change, Volume 2, Number 1

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.