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Download full textIngrid L. Colvard; Mary Zaharis – Education Leadership Review of Doctoral Research, 2023
Women in education are strongly represented in the classroom but are much less likely to become school district superintendents. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand how women who have been superintendents for at least 3 years experienced mentoring and role preparation as they worked to attain the position. A transcendental…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Females, Women Administrators, Disproportionate Representation
TOPE, DONALD E.; AND OTHERS – 1965
SUMMARIES OF THE SEMINAR AND OF FOUR GROUP DISCUSSIONS IN THE SEMINAR ON CHANGE PROCESSES IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE PRESENTED. TOPICS OF THE FOUR GROUPS INCLUDED--(1) LANGUAGE USAGE AND THE ROLE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT, (2) RESEARCH IN EDUCATION, (3) ADMINISTRATOR'S DECISIONMAKING PROCESSES, AND (4) EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION. DONALD E. TOPE OF THE…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Role, Change Agents, Educational Change
Sorenson, Larry Dean – 1985
Public school superintendents consider situational and organizational variables when determining whether to involve others in decision-making processes. A sample of 240 superintendents from Washington, Oregon, and Idaho were sent the Situational Administrative Decision-Making Inventory. The sample was evenly divided geographically and by district…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership Styles
Stuckey, John – 1970
Three basic issues examined in this research include why superintendents are disturbed about teacher militancy; whether superintendents view teacher militancy as threatening to local decisionmaking, damaging to public support of education, adversely affecting professionalism, causing severe role conflict for administrators, driving out…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Collective Bargaining, Educational Change
Thompson, James P. – OSSC Bulletin, 1993
This bulletin explores the roles that various stakeholders have in systemic reform and offers some recommendations for action. Data were derived from a review of research on systemic education reform and interviews with four Oregon administrators. Chapter 1 provides a sampling of the diverse groups that are calling for reform and offers some of…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Boards of Education, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Zeigler, Harmon; And Others – 1980
This extensive survey pretest utilized in-depth interviews with school superintendents and city managers in selected cities throughout Oregon and in Los Angeles. The purpose of the pilot study was to explore the similarities and differences in conflict management between the two professions. The study reveals that superintendents and city managers…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, City Officials, Community Organizations
BARNES, WILLIAM D. – 1961
THIS LONGITUDINAL FIELD STUDY EXAMINED THE INFORMAL RELATIONSHIPS BY WHICH SCHOOL ORIENTED LEADERS INFLUENCED THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLICY IN THE EDUCATIONAL ARENA OF AN OREGON COMMUNITY. CONSIDERED WERE 15 BUSINESSMEN AND PROFESSIONALS WHO WERE NAMED AS LEADERS BY MANY OTHERS IN THE COMMUNITY AND WERE ALSO RECOGNIZED AS BEING INFLUENTIAL IN LOCAL…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Community Leaders, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Policy
