Leadership

Autumn Tooms Cyprès, St. John’s University, New York City.

• Section I. Learning.Chapter 1. The Long Shadow of Mike Mikusa; Autumn Tooms Cyprès.Chapter 2. K–12 Administrator to New Faculty: Negotiating All Over Again; Thomas H. Beatty.Chapter 3. Newbie Again: Transitioning to the Professoriate From a Life in K–12; Elizabeth Chase.Chapter 4. Hecate's Question: Seeing Multiple Dimensions to Navigate Responsibility, Set Goals, and Build Success in a Career; Noelle Witherspoon Arnold and Autumn Tooms Cyprès.Section II. Teaching.Chapter 5. Preparing Educational Leaders as Consumers of Policies and Practices or Thinkers Influencing Educational Reform and Freedom? Elizabeth Murakami and Frank Hernandez.Chapter 6. The Potential Role of Research Methods Courses in Bridging Research to Practice; Lisa M. Abrams and Tameshia V. Grimes.Chapter 7. Group Decision Making in Higher Education: Identifying the Tensions Between Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty; Brenda Cowlbeck.Section III. Practice.Chapter 8. The Heart Beats Strong, But the Fist Was Slow to Form: Lessons Learned From My Principal Preparation Program; Charles Smialek.Chapter 9. A Precarious Intersection of Democracy in the United States: The Public School Administrator's Dilemma in Working with the School Boards That Employ Them but Who Lack Critical Thinking Skills; John Tharp.Chapter 10. Idealism, Realism, and Blue Jays in the Gas Chamber of Educational Leadership; Barbara Driver.About the Authors.