Educational administration researchers are currently organized in two ways. They are focused on common topics that change fairly quickly and are coordinating their work both formally and informally. Most frequently published topics include teaching, learning, and testing and professional preparation and certification. Organization around critical…

Findings from three studies of school superintendents' daily behavior and work attitudes indicate that superintending means mediating and communicating; that superintendents are constrained by social and organizational structures but do exert important organizational influence; and that dominant notions about leaders' social contexts,…

Using Karl Weick's concept of organizing, argues that the information processing systems of administrators and teachers are largely separate. (JW)

Describes how an elementary school coped with its principal's impending departure and extends R. Gephart's grounded theory of leader succession--that faculty collectively degrade the departing principal's status. This study finds individual degradation attitudes prevalent among teachers lacking meaningful contact with the departing principal.…

Conceptualizes leadership as an organizational quality. The dominant perspective on organizations has fostered a narrow treatment of four leadership assumptions involving function, role, the individual, and culture. Originating from people's personal resources, leadership flows through networks of roles comprising organizations. Leadership shapes…

Presents findings of a study examining how an elementary school faculty made sense of its principal's replacement. Teachers' understanding was affected by two sets of research-based factors: a group norm and characteristics of the succession process. A general expectation of change and presuccession sense making also affected teachers'…