The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to examine how high school instructional educators (teachers, curriculum development leaders), support staff members (guidance counselors, coaches, social workers, deans), and two principals employed within a U.S. northeastern urban city charter high school network described how an effective…

Being a principal, superintendent, dean, provost, or president carries a wide array of responsibilities and burdens. An inevitable part of being a leader is that some decisions are very hard to make which means that leaders carry a huge emotional burden. Author Rick Ginsberg identifies strategies that educational leaders have identified as helping…

A discussion of partnerships between schools and colleges to improve education focuses on the roles of college presidents and school superintendents, governing bodies, school administrators, faculty, parents, business and community leaders, students, consultants, and advisory committees in successful cooperative efforts. Parallels with industrial…