Sacred Dreams

C. Cryss Brunner is Assistant Professor of Educational Administration at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

• ForewordPatricia A. Schmuck Preface Introduction. "Scattered All over the Road"C. Cryss Brunner PART ONE"Crawling through the Window of a Dream" — Surveying the Terrain IntroductionC. Cryss Brunner 1. "Turning out the Ladies": Elected Women Superintendents and the Push for the Appointive System, 1900-1935Jackie M. Blount 2. Women and the Superintendency: What Do We Really Know?Marilyn Tallerico PART TWO"Do It Anyway" — Gaining Access IntroductionC. Cryss Brunner 3. The Role of Search Consultants in the Career Paths of Women SuperintendentsEstelle Kamler and Charol Shakeshaft 4. Power, Gender, and Superintendent SeletionC. Cryss Brunner 5. Climbing Hills and Mountains: Black Females Making It to the SuperintendencyJudy A. Alston 6. Seeking and Selecting Hispanic Female SuperintendentsFlora Ida Ortiz PART THREE"Small but Brilliant" — Living the Life IntroductionC. Cryss Brunner 7. The First Years: What Should a Female Superintendent Know Beforehand?Barbara Nelson Pavan 8. Redefinition of Self: Mexican-American Women Becoming SuperintendentsSylvia E. Mendez-Morse 9. Getting inside History — Against All Odds: African-American Women School SuperintendentsBarbara L. Jackson 10. Dancing in Red Shoes: Why Women Leave the SuperintendencyCynthia Beekley PART FOUR"One's True Song" — Authenticating Research IntroductionC. Cryss Brunner 11. "Back Talk" from a Woman Superintendent: Just How Useful Is Research?C. Cryss Brunner 12. A Feminist Poststructuralist Account of Collaboration: A Model for the SuperintendencyMargaret Grogan 13. Thoughtful Practice: Responding with Questions from the SuperintendencyDebra Jackson EpilogueSusan Chase Contributors Index

"Sacred Dreams makes a significant contribution to the literature on women in educational leadership, particularly serving in the superintendency, by offering personal narratives and reflections on what it means to be a woman and a superintendent. Those who are concerned about gender equity in all levels of the educational organization will find this book useful." — Ernestine Enomoto, University of Hawaii at Manoa