Articles from Leadership (September 1, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A legacy of inspiring future leaders.	Gomez, Frank	Editorial	421
Breaking the silence: gender bias in the top ranks: research on how women superintendents experience gender bias finds many women believe they are treated with disrespect and their authority is questioned, leading to heightened stress.	Banuelos, Marie V.		2195
Communities that undermine learning: school leaders must distinguish between PLCs that genuinely serve greater student learning and groups that protect mediocre performance by both students and adults.	Platt, Alexander D.; Tripp, Caroline E.		2737
Does leadership coaching really work? It is failing to understand, respect and respond to all the diverse elements of the school community--simultaneously and constantly--that can prematurely end a new principal's career.	Bossi, Mike		2736
Generations at school: managing the cross-age divide: a variety of strategies can be used to ease the tension caused by generational lines being drawn in the sand over such issues as work ethic, collaboration, job assignments and compensation.	Lovely, Suzette		1047
How Leaders Learn.	Manthey, George	Book review	172
Inspiration for the next generation of leaders: when principals share the parts of their work that touch their hearts, they can inspire those they lead to become leaders.	Wilhelm, Terry		2241
Leadership practice communities: improving teaching and learning: participants in LPCs wrestle with real dilemmas that arise in their work. In-the-moment problem solving builds a shared vision of what good classrooms, schools and school leaders look like.	Helsing, Deborah; Lemons, Richard W.		2959
Offering future generations the skills to choose wisely: if efficacy requires an understanding that one has choices, then leadership requires ensuring that our teachers and their students have options.	Manthey, George	Poem	588
Opening up the superintendency: there is no magic formula for becoming a superintendent, but there are similarities in the paths taken by most successful women and minority superintendents.	de Santa Ana, Thelma Melendez		2399
Six Secrets of Change.	Manthey, George	Book review	155