Keeping and Improving Today's School Leaders

Bruce S. Cooper, Ph.D. is professor of educational leadership and policy at Fordham University Graduate School of Education in New York City. His latest books as editor and author include: Handbook on Education Politics and Policy with James Cibulka and Lance Fusarelli (Routledge Press) and The Rising State: How State Power is Transforming our Nation's Schools (SUNY Press) with Bonnie Fusarelli. He is former president of the Politics of Education and a recent recipient of the Jay D. Scribner Award for Mentoring from the University Council of Education Administration.Sharon C. Conley, Ph.D. is professor of education in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her latest articles include: "Organizational Routines in Flux: A Case Study of Change in Recording and Monitoring Student Attendance" with Ernestine K. Enomoto in Education and Urban Society and "Teacher Role Stress, Satisfaction, Commitment and Intentions to Leave: A Structural Model" in Psychological Reports.

• 1 Foreword2 Chapter 1: Keeping Tomorrow's Educational Leaders3 Chapter 2: Socialization of Assistant Principals4 Chapter 3: Administrative Teams5 Chapter 4: - Leading in Financially Stressful Times6 Chapter 5: Routines, Rituals, and Revival7 Chapter 6: Mentoring Latina/Latino Leaders8 Chapter 7: Leadership for Superintendents Leading Principals9 Epilogue: Retaining and Sustaining the Best in a Dynamic Environment

What makes a school leader one of the best among her/his peers? How can schools and school districts succeed in keeping the best? How can they help enhance the ordinary to become one of the best? This volume seeks and offers answers to questions such as the above. The volume deals with a wide range of educational leadership roles and diverse personal backgrounds of leaders-all within difficult financial times. Cooper and Conley have included here an excellent selection of highly focused but interrelated new scholarly works designed to place high quality school leadership at tomorrow’s center stage along with teacher effectiveness and student success.