Publications

The following list publications are directly related to Center activities during 1998 through 2005.

Books:

Björk, L. & Kowalski, T. (Eds.) (2005, in press) The Contemporary Superintendent: Preparation, Practice and Development. Corwin Press.

Hoyle, J., Björk, L., Collier, V., and Glass, T. (2004). The Superintendent as CEO: Standards-based performance. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. 

Brunner, C. C., & Björk, L. (Eds.). (2001). The new superintendency: Advances in research and theories of school management and educational policy. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.  

Brunner, C. C. (2000) Principles of power: Women superintendents and the riddle of the heart. Albany: SUNY Press.

Björk, L. & Kowalski, T. (Eds.) (2005) The Contemporary Superintendent: Preparation, Practice and Development. Corwin Press.

Journal Special Issues:

Journal of School Leadership (May 2003). “The Superintendent Shortage: Myth and Reality.” Guest Editors: Lars G. Björk and John Keedy.

Urban Education—Special Issue: Women of Color and the Superintendency (December 2000). Guest Editors:  Lisa Peyton-Caire, Muriel Simms, and C. Cryss Brunner.

Monographs:

Glass, T., Björk,L. & Brunner, C. (2000).The Study of the American Superintendency 2000: A Look at the Superintendent in the New Millennium. Thousand OakesCA: AASA/Corwin Press.

Björk, L., & Rinehart, J. (2005, June). Perspective. Improving educational leadership:  Alternative and conventional approaches, (pp. 4-8), AERA Division A Newsletter: School Leadership News.

Björk, L., & Rinehart, J. (2004, June). Alternative and conventional certification for education administrators: A look at the debate. AEL Policy Briefs.

Book Chapters:

Björk, L. (2005). Superintendent-Board Relations: An Historical Overview of the Dynamics of Change and Sources of Conflict and Collaboration. In Peterson, G. & Fusarreli, L. (2005). The District Superintendent and School Board Relations: Trends in Policy Development and Implementation. Information Age Publisher, Inc., 

Björk, L. & Gurley, K. (2005).  Superintendent as Educational Statesman. In Björk, L. & Kowalski, T. (Eds.) The Contemporary Superintendent: Preparation, Practice and Development.(pp. ) Thousand Oakes, CA:   Corwin Press

Björk, L., Kowalski, T., & Browne-Ferrigno, T. (2005).  Learning Theory and Research: A Framework for Changing Superintendent Preparation and Development. In Björk, L. & Kowalski, T. (Eds.) The Contemporary Superintendent: Preparation, Practice and Development.(pp. ) Thousand Oakes, CA:  Corwin Press

Björk, L. Kowalski, T. & Young, M. (2005).  National Reports and Implications for Professional Preparation and Development. In Björk, L. & Kowalski, T. (Eds.) The Contemporary Superintendent: Preparation, Practice and Development.  (pp. ) Thousand Oakes, CA: Corwin Press.

Björk, L., Glass, T., & Brunner, C.  (2004). The American School Superintendence. In Björk, L. & Kowalski, T. (Eds.) The Contemporary Superintendent: Preparation, Practice and Development. (pp. ) Thousand Oakes, CA:  Corwin Press.

Chance, P. & Björk, L. (2003), Social dimensions of public relations. In Kowalski,T. Public Relations in Schools, 3^rd Edition. (pp. 125-150)  Upper Saddle River, NJ, Merrill-Prentice Hall.

Björk, L., Bell, R. & Gurley, D. (2002). Politics and the socialization of superintendents. In Perreault, G. (Ed.). The changing world of educational administration, (pp. 294-31). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.

Brunner, C. & Grogan, M. & Björk, L., (2002). Shifts in the discourse defining the superintendency: Historical and current foundations of the position. In J. Murphy (Ed.). The educational leadership challenge: Redefining leadership for the 21st century: Ninety-ninth Year book of the National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE) (pp.211-238 ). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Keedy, J. & Björk, L. (2002).  Superintendents and local boards and the potential for community polarization: The call for use of political strategist skills. In Cooper, B. & Fusarelli (Eds.) (pp.103-127). Scarecrow Press. Reconceptualizing leadership: The superintendency in transition.

Brunner, C. C. (2002). Bane or benefit? Considering the usefulness of research focused on women superintendents.  In B. Cooper & L. Fuscerilla (Eds), The promise and perils facing today’s school superintendent (pp. 221-246). Lanham, MA: Scarecrow Press.

Björk, L. (2001). The role of the central office in decentralization. In Kawolski, T. (Ed.) 21^st Century challenges to educational administration (pp.286-319). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.

Björk, L. & Brunner, C. (2001). Introduction: changing perspectives on the new superintendency.  In C. C. Brunner, & L. Björk (Eds.). The new superintendency: Advances in research and theories of school management and educational Policy (pp.ix-xx). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press series: Advances in research and theories of school management and educational policy.  

Björk, L. (2001). Preparing the next generation of superintendents: Integrating formal and experiential knowledge.  In C. C. Brunner, & L. Björk(Eds.). The new superintendency: Advances in research and theories of school management and educational (pp. 19-54). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press series: Advances in research and theories of school management and educational policy. 

Björk, L. (2001). Institutional barriers to educational reform: The superintendent’s role in school decentralization. In C. C. Brunner, & L. Björk (Eds.) (pp. 207-230). The new superintendency: Advances in research and theories of school management and educational policy.  Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Björk, L. (2000). The transformative role of superintendents: Creating a community of learners. In Short, P. and Scribner, J. Case Studies on the Superintendency (pp.41-60). LancasterPa: Technomic Publishing Co.

Mountford, M., & Brunner, C. C. (2001). Motivations for school board membership: Implications for superintendents. In Brunner, C. C, & Björk, L. G. (Eds.). Advances in research and theories of school management and educational policy: The new superintendency (pp. 135-152) Oxford: Elsevier Science, Ltd., Press.

Brunner, C. C. (2000). Menopause as lessons for retreat and rejuvenation: An experience of women superintendents. In Funk, C., Pankake, A., & Schroth, G. (Eds.). Women as school executives: The complete picture (pp. ). TX: Texas Council of WomenSchool Executives. [Note: Rewritten from a chapter in book: Principles of Power]

Brunner, C. C. (2000). Faced with a hostile press. In Short, P., & Scribner, J. P. (Eds.), Case studies on the superintendency (pp. 61-80). Lancaster, PA: Technomic Publishing Co., Inc.

Björk, L., (2005). New directions for ceo superintendent preparation. In, Hoyle, J., Björk, L., Collier, V., and Glass, T. The superintendent as ceo: Standards-based performance, (pp. 1-16). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Björk, L., (2005). The politics of school governance. In, Hoyle, J., Björk, L., Collier, V., and Glass, T. The superintendent as ceo: Standards-based performance, (pp. 35-58). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Björk, L., (2005). Instructional management. In, Hoyle, J., Björk, L., Collier, V., and Glass, T. The superintendent as ceo: Standards-based performance, (pp. 127-158). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Brunner, C. C., Opsal, C., & Oliva, M. (2006) Disrupting identity: Fertile
soil for raising social consciousness in educational leaders. In C. Marshall
& M. Oliva (Eds.), Leading for Social Justice: Making revolutions in
education (pp. 214-32). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Brunner, C. C. (2005). Women performing the superintendency: Problematizing
the normative alignment of conceptions of power and constructions of gender.
In J. Collard & C. Reynolds (Eds.), Leadership, gender and culture: Male and
female perspectives (pp. 121-135). Two Penn Plaza, NY: Open University
Press.
 
Kowalski, T., & Brunner, C C. (2005). The school district superintendent. In
F. English (Ed.), The handbook of educational leadership (pp. 142-67).
Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Refereed Journal Articles:

Winter, P., Millay, J., Björk, L., Keedy, J. (2005). Superintendent recruitment: Effects of school councils, job status, signing bonuses, and district wealth. Journal of School Leadership, 15(4), 433-455.

Kowalski, T. J., & Björk, L.(2005). Role expectations of district superintendents: Implications for deregulating preparation and licensing. Journal of Thought, 40(2), 73-96.  

Björk, L., & Rinehart, J. (2005, Spring). Improving educational leadership: Alternative and conventional approaches. School Leadership News. (American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division A Newsletter, 11, 4-8.

Winter, P., Rinehart, J., Keedy, J. and Björk, L. (2004). Recruiting certified personnel to be principals: A statewide assessment of potential job applicants. Planning and Changing, 35, 1 & 2, 85-107.

Björk, L., & Gurley, D. K. (2003). Superintendents as transformative leaders: Schools as learning communities and communities of learners. Journal of Thought, 38(4), 37-78.

Björk, L., & Keedy, J. (2003). Guest Editors introduction: Who will lead? Examining the superintendent shortage. Journal of School Leadership, 13(3), 256-263.

Björk, L. & D. K. Gurley (2003). Superintendents as transformative leaders:

Schools as learning communities and communities of learners. Journal of Thought, 38(4), pp. 37-78.

Björk, L. & Keedy, J. (2003). Guest Editors introduction: Who will Lead? Examining the Superintendent Shortage. Journal of School Leadership, 13(3), 256-263.

Glass, T. & Björk, L. (2003). The superintendent shortage: Findings from

Research on School board presidents.Journal of School Leadership, 13(3), pp. 264-287.

Björk, L., Keedy, J. & Gurley, D. K. (2003). Career Paths of Superintendents: Results from the Study of the American Superintendency.  Journal of School Leadership, 13(4), pp. 406-42.

Björk, L. & Grogan, M., & Johnson, B.  (2003). The Reality and Myth of the Superintendent Shortage: Implications for Research and Educational Policy, Journal of School Leadership, 13(3), 451-463.

Brunner, C, Grogan, M., & Björk, L. (Sept. 2002).  Shifts in the Discourse Defining the Superintendency: Historical and Current Foundations of the Position. LSS Review, 1(2), 22-23.

Brunner, C. C. (May, 2003). Invisible, limited, and emerging discourse:

Research practices that restrict and/or increase access for women and people of color to the superintendency. Journal of School Leadership. 13(4), pp.428-450.

Brunner, C. C. (2002). A proposition for reconceptualizing the superintendency: Reconsidering traditional and nontraditional discourse. Educational Administration Quarterly, 38 (3), 402-431.

Björk, L. & Keedy, J. (2002, Winter). Decentralization and school Council Empowerment in Kentucky: Implications for community relations. School Public Relations Journal, pp. 30-44.

Brunner, C. C. (2002). A proposition for reconceptualizing the superintendency: Reconsidering traditional and nontraditional discourse. Educational Administration Quarterly, 38 (3), 402-431.

Björk, L. & Keedy, J. (2001). Changing Social Context of Education in the United States: Social Justice and the Superintendency. Journal of In-Service Education, 27(3), pp. 409-431.

Björk, L. & Keedy, J. (2001). Politics and the Superintendency in the United States: Restructuring In-service Education. Journal of In-Service Education 27(2), pp. 277-305.

Keedy, J. & Björk, L. (Summer, 2001).   The Superintendent, Local Boards, and the Political Arena.  AASA Professor 24(4), pp.2-6).

Björk, L. & Lindle, J. C.  (2001). Superintendents and interest groups. Educational Policy. 15(1) 76-91.

Björk, L. (2000).  Women in the superintendency: Advances in research and theory. Educational Administration Quarterly, 36(1), 5-17.

Brunner, C. C., & Peyton-Caire, L. M. (2000). Seeking representation: Supporting Black female graduate students who aspire to the superintendency. Urban Education, 31 (5), 532-548.

Brunner, C. C. (2000). Unsettled moments in settled discourse: Women superintendents’ experiences of inequality. Educational Administration Quarterly, 36 (1), 76-116.

Grogan, M., & Brunner, C. C. (2005). Women leading systems: Latest facts and
figures on women and the superintendency. The School Administrator, 2(62),
46-50.
 

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