ERIC Number: EJ776669
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Sep-12
Pages: 3
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ISSN: ISSN-0277-4232
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Joining Forces
Klein, Alyson
Education Week, v27 n3 pS16, S18-S19 Sep 2007
For decades, educators in this rapidly developing corner of Appalachia who have wanted to become school administrators have enrolled at East Tennessee State University, which offers one of just a handful of educational leadership programs available nearby. Both of the local school districts in the area, in turn, have hired many of their principals from the university's program. But despite what seemed to be a mutually beneficial relationship with the university, neither the Greeneville City nor the Kingsport school system traditionally had significant say over which employees got into the program, or how they were prepared. That began to change two years ago. This article describes the collaborative partnership district officials entered into to help East Tennessee State revamp its educational leadership program. The overhaul at the university is part of a broader effort aimed at reshaping the process for credentialing principals statewide. Tennessee plans to require all its universities to begin revamping their programs or to stop credentialing new principals.
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Leadership Training, Administrators, School Districts, Beginning Principals, Partnerships in Education, Mentors
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Tennessee
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