Printer Friendly
The Free Library
19,573,952 articles and books
Member login
User name  
Password 
 
Join us Forgot password?

AASA resources on gender in leadership.


AASA AASA American Association of School Administrators
AASA Asian American Student Association
AASA Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia
AASA Aging and Adult Services Administration
AASA Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army
 offers the following compilation of articles, books, monographs, electronic materials and conferences addressing issues of women in education leadership.

Web Resources

* Monographs, PowerPoints and discussion papers from the Second International Women's Leadership Conference, Sept. 14-18, 2009, in Augsburg, Germany, will be available at www.gza.uni-augsburg.de/ gender_education.

* Monographs from AASA's Women's Conferences in 2003, 2004 and 2005 are available at http://tinyurl.com/mroqkz.

Books/Articles

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

* Moving Up!: A Guidebook for Women in Educational Administration Second Edition by Judith Thompson Judith Clare Thompson (born September 20, 1954) is a prominent Canadian playwright who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail once declared that "...in this country, a playwright as good as Judith Thompson is a miracle.  Witmer, Rowman & Littlefield Education, Lanham, Md., 2006, 408 pp. including appendix and references.

* Succeeding as a Female Superintendent: How to Get There and Stay There by Suzanne L. Gilmour and Mary P. Kinsella, Rowman 8, Littlefield Education, Lanham, Md., 2009, 167 pp. including appendix and references.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

* Women in the Superintendency Su`per`in`tend´en`cy

n. 1. The act of superintending; superintendence.
: Discarded dis·card  
v. dis·card·ed, dis·card·ing, dis·cards

v.tr.
1. To throw away; reject.

2.
a. To throw out (a playing card) from one's hand.

b.
 Leadership by Joyce A. Dana and Diana M. Bourisaw, Rowman & Littlefield Education, Lanham, Md., 2006, 238 pp.

* Women Leading School Systems: Uncommon Roads to Fulfillment ful·fill also ful·fil  
tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils
1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises.

2.
 by C. Cryss Brunner and Margaret Grogan, Rowman & Littlefield Education, Lanham, Md., 2007, 167 pp. including appendix and references.

* Women Leading Education Across the Continents: Sharing the Spirit, Fanning the Flame edited by Helen C. Sobehart, Rowman & Littlefield Education, Lanham, Md., 2009, 223 pp. including appendix.

(AASA members receive a 20 percent discount on AASA books co-published with Rowman & Littlefield. Use promotional code AASA20 on the publisher's website.)

* "Women Leading Systems: What the Latest Facts and Figures Say About Women in the Superintendency Today" by Margaret Grogan and Cryss Brunner, The School Administrator, February 2005.

Conferences

* AASA National Conference on Education, Feb. 11-13, 2010, Phoenix, Ariz. The Effie Jones Memorial Luncheon is an inspirational in·spi·ra·tion·al  
adj.
1. Of or relating to inspiration.

2. Providing or intended to convey inspiration.

3. Resulting from inspiration.
 affair and networking event rolled into one Adj. 1. rolled into one - made up of several components combined into a single entity
combined - made or joined or united into one
. The luncheon connects aspiring as·pire  
intr.v. as·pired, as·pir·ing, as·pires
1. To have a great ambition or ultimate goal; desire strongly: aspired to stardom.

2.
 leaders with veterans in the field. To register, log on to www.aasa. org/nce.

* AASA Women's Conference, December 2010. The AASA website will publish details concerning this conference in the coming months.
COPYRIGHT 2009 American Association of School Administrators
No portion of this article can be reproduced without the express written permission from the copyright holder.
Copyright 2009 Gale, Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.

 Reader Opinion

Title:

Comment:



 

Article Details
Printer friendly Cite/link Email Feedback
Author:Reed, Ashley
Publication:School Administrator
Date:Sep 1, 2009
Words:321
Previous Article:Dilemmas and discarded leadership: a community's cultural norms challenge women who aspire to the superintendency and those already in the role.
Next Article:Single-gender classrooms: in South Carolina, schools flock to offer separate classes with promising early results for students.
Topics:



Related Articles
Upcoming.
Final reflections on leadership.
Categorizing my leadership experiences.
The courage to lead.
Women in the Superintendency: Discarded Leadership.
Spirituality in Educational Leadership.
Gender and leadership.
A foundation for leadership support.
Women on the move.
Three reactions to the labyrinth.

Terms of use | Copyright © 2012 Farlex, Inc. | Feedback | For webmasters | Submit articles