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Article: Building a professional learning community: for system leaders, it means allowing autonomy within defined parameters.
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- School Administrator
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- May 1, 2003
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To be a school superintendent in the United States today is to feel the pull of conflicting demands and competing ideologies. The demands of different interest groups are often readily apparent--for example, parents who want smaller class sizes versus taxpayers who want cuts in the budget.
Perhaps less obvious to those who never have served as a superintendent are the conflicting images of the very nature of the position. Should the superintendent be the forceful leader who implements his or her personal vision of how a school district and its individual schools should operate, or should the contemporary superintendent embrace site-based management and encourage ...