Leadership Teaming
The Superintendent-Principal Relationship
- Cathie E. West
- Mary Lynne Derrington - University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Leadership & Management Development | Local Authorities | Staff Supervision/Evaluation/Retention
This insightful resource shows superintendents and principals how to develop the communication and strong collaboration that are essential for mutually supportive professional relationships. The authors detail how secure relationships combined with a team approach can significantly strengthen an administrator's leadership performance.
In Leadership Teaming: The Superintendent-Principal Relationship, superintendents and principals will find research-supported concepts, novel strategies, and vivid examples that point the way towards productive, successful, and enduring professional relationships.
“This book has wonderful resources to help principals and superintendents build strong collaborative teams.”
“This thoughtful book on how superintendents and principals can collaborate as effective teams to form professional learning communities is cutting edge.”
“This book goes to the heart of the matter. It breaks new ground in its clarification of contemporary leadership literature and how both superintendents and principals can create a truly collaborative model in their schools.”
“As a former high school principal and school superintendent, I found myself wishing I had had access to a book like this when I began my administrative roles. The book provides ample resources based on contemporary research and literature and is filled with practical, field-based suggestions and activities that will assist school administrators in building cohesive, goal-oriented, successful teams.”
"The authors have been in the trenches, yet their book represents a hopeful message that schools can be high-performance organizations as well as healthy and supportive places for adults and students."
"Relationships are key, and this book beautifully provides the necessary highs and lows of positions, how they relate, and the successes of a productive relationship.”
“While based on clearly described leadership theory, this book is filled with practical ways to improve teamwork in any school district."
“At last, a book that adds value by bringing principals and superintendents together in a new kind of partnership.”