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This is the 2011 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA). This Yearbook contains five parts. Part I, Invited Chapters, includes: (1) NCPEA President's Message, 2011 (Gary W. Kinsey); (2) Shadows and Images II (Lloyd Duvall); and (3) Micropolitics in the School: Teacher Leaders' Use of Political Skill and Influence Tactics (Donald J. Brosky). Part II, Critical Issues in Shared Leadership, includes: (4) Complexities in the Workload of Principals: Implications for Teacher Leadership (Caryn M. Wells, C. Robert Maxfield and Barbara A. Klocko); (5) Professional Learning Communities: A Feasible Reality or a Chimera? (Ronald A. Lindahl); (6) Superintendent Leadership as the Catalyst for Organizational Learning: Implications for Closing the Achievement Gap (Victoria L. Kelly and George J. Petersen); (7) Special Education Director Burnout in Montana (Debra Lynn Ferris and William G. Ruff); (8) Superintendent Decision-making and Problem-solving: Living on the Horns of Dilemmas (Walter S. Polka, Peter R. Litchka, Frank F. Calzi, Stephen J. Denig and Rosina E. Mete); and (9) The Administration of Special Education Programs in Rural Schools: The Roles and Responsibilities of Educational Administrators (Michael K. Redburn and William Ruff). Part III, Critical Issues in Promoting Academic Achievement, includes: (10) The Effective Practices and Beliefs of School Principals in High Achieving Hispanic Majority Mid-Level Schools (Johnny Briseno, Sandra Harris and Jason Mixon); (11) Creating Shared Meaning in High Performing, Low Socioeconomic Urban Elementary Schools: Going Extra, Above, and Beyond (JoAnn Danelo Barbour and Olga Pacot); (12) Increasing Student Success in Rigorous Courses: Promising Practices in Reform Identified by a School-University Partnership (Betty J. Alford); (13) Principals and Teachers Stated Beliefs as Compared with Their Perceptions of Multiage Implementation (Dean Halverson and Ruth Ann Tobey Brown); and (14) Distinguishing Practices for Administrators: A Case Study of a University's Lab Settings' Journey to Academic Excellence (Gloria Gresham). Part IV, Critical Issues in School Improvement, includes: (15) Self-Efficacy and Principal Involvement in Character Education (Robert Tatman, Stacey L. Edmonson and John R. Slate); (16) Navigating the Politics of Change in a Suburban School District: A Phenomenological Study (Emily Reichert and Mike Boone); (17) Redefining Curriculum Leadership for Principals: Perspectives of Texas Administrators (Sandra Stewart and Janet Tareilo); (18) Structured Inequity: The Intersection of Socioeconomic Status and the Standard Error of Measurement of State Mandated High School Test Results (Christopher H. Tienken); (19) The Social Justice Implications of the Deteriorating U.S. Economy on Public Schools in Selected U.S. School Districts in Colorado and Illinois (John W. Hunt and Gregory N. Pierson); and (20) Experiences with PTELL in Six Illinois School Districts: Leadership Perceptions and Student Performance (Keven D. Forney, Neil Sappington and Guy Banicki). Part V, Critical Issues in Educational Leadership Preparation, includes: (21) Preparing Future School Leaders to Foster Site Level Cultural Proficiency: Investigating the Work of Successful Schools First-hand (Kathryn Singh); (22) Shifting From a Face-to-Face to an Online Educational Leadership Program: A Case Study (Ross Sherman, Vance Vaughn, Peggy B. Gill, Wesley Hickey and Genie B. Linn); (23) Service to the Profession: The Forgotten Element of Tenure and the Importance of Faculty Mentoring (Janet Tareilo); (24) Blazing a New Trail for the Educational Turnaround Leader (Rayma L. Harchar, Mitzi P. Trahan and Janet G. Broussard); and (25) Developing and Supporting Early Childhood Teacher Leaders: A Leadership Project Connecting University, Community and Public School Resources (C. Robert Maxfield, Julie Ricks-Doneen, Barbara A. Klocko and Lisa Sturges). An author index is included. Individual papers contain tables, figures, references and appendices.

This volume presents the 2009 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration. This year's theme is "Remembering Our Mission: Making Education and Schools Better for Students." This Yearbook contains six parts. Part 1, Invited Chapters, includes the following: (1) President's Message: Remembering Our Mission (Sandra Harris); (2) Preparation and Opportunity (Living Legend 2008) (Marilyn L. Grady); and (3) Teaching and Assessing Dispositions in Principal-Preparation Programs: A Conundrum (Ronald Lindahl). Part 2, Preparation and Professional Development of School Leaders, includes the following: (4) Los Principios y Los Lideres Escolares Del Cambio Democratico: The Principles and the Principals of Democratic Change for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (Betty Alford and Mary Catherine Nino); (5) Preparing Future School Leaders: How Can it be Accomplished Online? (Al Ramirez, Brian Burnett, Sandra S. Meagher, Jaime McMullen Garcia and Regina Lewis); and (6) Front-Line Education Administration (EDAD) Requires Concepts of Schooling Outcomes Beyond Test Scores (C. M. Achilles). Part 3, Theory in Leadership, includes the following: (7) A Comprehensive Theory and Practice of Constructivist Leadership (Arthur Shapiro); and (8) The Synergistic Leadership Theory: A 21st Century Leadership Theory (Beverly J. Irby, Genevieve Brown and LingLing Yang). Part 4, Diversity Issues in Leadership, includes the following: (9) Fostering Resiliency: Making Schools a Better Place for Students with Dyslexia (Christine Butler and Stacey L. Edmonson); (10) Leadership in Children's Books: Bridging Values of Equity in Creating Gender Awareness (Patricia Ann Marcellino and Lori Berman-Wolf); and (11) Leadership for Social Justice: Voices of Female School Principals (Julia Ballenger, Sandra Harris, Janet Tareilo, Sharon Ninness and Sandra Stewart). Part 5, Policy and Standards, includes the following: (12) High School Exit Exams and Conditional Standard Error or "Mis"measurement (Christopher H. Tienken); (13) Money Matters: Making Schools Better for Children--An Equity Study of Mean Per-Pupil Instructional Expenditures Among Property-Wealthy and Property-Poor Small School Districts in Texas (Clyde W. Steelman Jr., E. Jane Irons and Nancy Leffel Carlson); (14) Leadership in the Effective Change Zone: A Case Study of the High-Touch Needs of Educators Implementing the Georgia Performance Standards (Walter S. Polka); and (15) Challenging the Battleship Mentality of Education Leadership and Practice: A Metaphor Borrowed from History (Donald E. Larsen). Part 6, Professional Learning Communities and Leadership, includes the following: (16) Seeking to Make Schools Better for Students: High School Principals Implementing Professional Learning Communities (PLCS) (Caryn M. Wells and Lindson Feun); (17) Looking for the Crossroad: Merging Data Analysis and the Classroom Through Professional Learning Communities Dialogue (Sharion H. Jackson and Rebecca B. Good); and (18) We are True Witnesses on the Side of Those Who are Oppressed: People of Color and Co-Created Leadership (Christa Boske). An author index is included. Individual papers contain tables, figures, references and appendices.

This volume presents the 2007 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA). This year's theme is "At the Tipping Point: Navigating the Course for the Preparation of Educational Administrators." This yearbook contains six parts. Part 1, Invited Chapters, includes the following: (1) President's Message (Linda Morford); and (2) The Basic Antinomy: The Living Legend Address to the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration, Opening Banquet, August 1, 2006, Lexington, Kentucky (Louis Wildman). Part 2, Navigating the Future through Practice, includes the following: (3) Achieving an Adequate School Finance System: Focusing on Longitudinal Data (Jimmy K. Byrd and John Brooks); (4) The Effects of a Community Mapping Inservice for Teachers on Their Perceptions about Their Schools' Communities (Denise P. Dunbar and Patricia Jones); (5) Assessing Educational Leadership Preparation Framework (Brenda F. Graham); (6) Relationship Building--Navigating the Future through Practice: Implications for Administrator Preparation (E. Jane Irons and Warren Aller); (7) An Investigation of Elementary Teacher Stress to Guide Educational Administrators in Curing the Early Career Departure of Elementary School Teachers (Michael Jazzar, Richard G. Lambert and Megan O'Donnell); (8) Building Capacity and Connectivity for Alternative Education: The Evolving Role of the Educational Administrator (Carol A. Kochhar-Bryant and Dennis L. White); (9) Perceptions of Leadership Behaviors by Female Principals (Cheryl McFadden and Susan Beck-Frazier); (10) The Tipping Point in Home, School, and Community Support for Hispanic Students' Participation in Advanced Placement Courses (Rebecca Robles-Pina and Raul Hinojosa); and (11) Co-Creating Leadership (Teresa A. Wasonga). Part 3, Navigating the Technological Imperative, includes the following: (12) A Scholarly Opportunity for NCPEA to Tip the World: Navigating the Technological Imperative (Theodore Creighton and John Eller); (13) Applying Learning Pattern Theory to Electronic Portfolio Development: Navigating On-going Programmatic Evaluation (Patricia Ann Marcellino, Susan Eichenholtz and Adrienne Andi Sosin); and (14) Technology Leadership Practices of Secondary School Principals (Kevin Matthews and Casey Graham Brown). Part 4, Navigating the Political and Policy Waves, includes the following: (15) University-District Partnerships for Principal Preparation: A Quest for Relevance (Connie L. Fulmer, Dorothy F. Garrison-Wade, Ken Reiter and Rodney Muth); (16) Building Capacity for Change in a Small Rural High School: One Woman's Journey (Peggy B. Gill, Genie B. Linn and Ross Sherman); (17) Being Attentive to Changing Student Demographics: Minority School Leadership and Multicultural Environments (Jean M. Haar and Jerry W. Robicheau); (18) Navigating the Internship through the Political Waves of Collaboration (Rayma Harchar, Kathleen Campbell and Frederick Dembowski); (19) Navigating the Political and Legal Ramifications of Intelligent Design (Wesley D. Hickey); (20) The Impact of the No Child Left Behind Act on Administrative Morale (John W. Hunt); (21) The Emerging Sixty-Five Percent Instructional Expenditure Rule Public Policy: Will Student Performance Improve? (Timothy B. Jones, Wayne D. Bingham and Sherion H. Jackson); (22) School Board Presidents' Perspectives on Teacher Tenure: Implications for Professors of Educational Administration (Thomas A. Kersten and Susan J. Katz); (23) Admissions to University-Based Programs: Faculty Assessment of Current Practices and Implications for Navigating the Future (Kaetlyn Lad); (24) Strategies for Surviving the Professional Victim Syndrome: Perspectives from Superintendents on Navigating the Political Waves of Contemporary Leadership (Walter S. Polka and Peter R. Litchka); (25) Analysis of Superintendent Search Criteria and the Standards for Administrative Preparation Programs (Al Ramirez, Dick Carpenter and Nadyne Guzmain); and (26) Navigating the Political and Policy Waves: State Education Leadership Policies and No Child Left Behind (Virginia Roach). Part 5, Navigating the Teaching and Learning, includes the following: (27) Mapping Principal Preparation Programs at the State Level: The Indiana Building-Level Administrator Study (William R. Black and Justin M. Bathon); (28) Charting the Course of Improvement: Using Hybrid Programs to Enhance Pedagogy for the Preparation of School Leaders (Leonard R. Bogle, Vickie S. Cook and Scott L. Day); (29) Research Skill for Effective School Leadership: School Administrator Perceptions (Julie P. Combs, Rebecca M. Bustamante and Eric D. Wilson); (30) The Efficacy of School Leadership Programs (Helen A. Friedland, Carol Fleres and Frederick Hill); (31) Navigating the Future through Practice: Preparing Future Leaders with an Elaborated Professional Development Model (Dianne C. Gardner, Joseph M. Pacha and Paul J. Baker); (32) Metaphor as an Instructional Tool to Develop Metacognition in Educational Leadership Students (Bobbie J. Greenlee); (33) Learning Transfer Strategies: Impact on Changed Leadership Understandings and Practice (Sandra Harris, Michael Hopson and Vicky Farrow); (34) Charting a Course in the Preparation of School Leaders: Quality, Quantity, or Both? (Hal Holloman, Art Rouse, Marjorie Ringler and Lynn K. Bradshaw); (35) Navigating Learning and Teaching in Educational Administration: Educating Aspiring Principals in Wisdom (Richard M. Jacobs); (36) Preparing School Leaders to Support Rural Communities of the Future (William K. Larson, Aimee Howley and Lawrence Burgess); (37) Navigating the Future through Practice: A Heuristic Model of the Role of Supervision in the School Improvement Process (Ronald A. Lindahl); (38) Considerations for Navigating the Staffing of Principal Preparation Programs (Diane Ricciardi and Frankie Keels Williams); (39) Reaching the Tipping Point: The Interconnectedness of a School Leadership Program (Paul Sims, Michael Sukowski, and Margaret Trybus); (40) At the Tipping Point: Principal Preparation Internships through District and University Collaborations (Jenny S. Tripses and Diane Rutledge); (41) The Tipping Point: Knowledge Failure at the Vision, Mission, and Core Values Level (Sandra Watkins and Donna McCaw); and (42) Will Teacher Leadership be the "Tipping Point" for Principal Preparation Programs? (Ted Zigler and James G. Allen). Part 6, Navigating the Moral and Ethical Challenges, includes the following: (43) What Public School Principals Know about Educator Sexual Misconduct: Re-charting Leadership Preparation to Address Legal, Ethical, and Professional Responsibilities (Sylvia S. Cairns, Carol A. Mullen, Lenford C. Sutton and Janice R. Fauske); (44) How to Bring Our Educational Administration Programs Out of the 20th Century: A Moral Imperative--Reflections on the Levine and Murphy Recommendations (Effie N. Christie); (45) Reclaiming the Concepts of Calling, Professions, and Professional Obligations: A Mindful Pedagogy for Teaching the Ethics of School Administration to Future and Practicing School Leaders (Marla Susan Israel and Amanda M. Maddocks); (46) Sailing through the Murky Waters of Leadership Ethics: Use of Problem-Based Learning in an Educational Leadership Graduate (Eileen S. Johnson); and (47) Principals' Leadership Behaviors Affecting School Climate (Shirley Johnson, Steve Busch and Stacey Edmonson). A subject index and an author index are included. Individual papers contain tables, figures, references and appendices.