Accessing the Superintendency The Unwritten Rules [Paperback]

Pursuing and obtaining a superintendency is more complicated than any other educational employment process. Research-based and very practical, this insiders' view shows how to overcome the invisible selection criteria, the unwritten rules, and the biases that often shut out qualified women and racially and ethnically diverse candidates.

Pursuing and obtaining a superintendency is more complicated than any other educational employment process. Research-based and very practical, this insiders' view shows how to overcome the invisible selection criteria, the unwritten rules, and the biases that often shut out qualified women and racially and ethnically diverse candidates.

The content of the book is outstanding. Thank you for continuing to advance the cause of superintendents who reflect the increasingly diverse student populations of America.

Introduction
PART ONE: DEMYSTIFYING SELECTION PRACTICES
How Do School Boards Prepare for the Search?
What Is Recruiting and Interviewing Candidates All About?
How Are Hiring and Powerbrokering Related?
PART TWO: PREVENTING AND PROMOTING ADVANCEMENT
What Do Sex and Color Have to Do With It?
Whare Are the Biases?
How Do Consultants and School Boards Help?
How Can You Get the Most Out of the Network?
Conclusions
So What?