Rule book for Education Leaders

How Do We Solve the Administrator Shortage? By  Peter DeWitt  on  September 30, 2018 7:50 AM Today's guest post is written by Patrick Sweeney, Ed.D. is a recently retired superintendent from the Hunter-Tannersville School District (NY). Lately, we have been talking in education circles about the teacher shortage, but there is another shortage we should be just as concerned about. That shortage I'm referring to is the school administrator shortage. This has been an ongoing issue for over a decade, and NASSP reports, According to the Institute for Education Statistics, one in five principals working in schools in the 2011-12 school year left their school by the 2012-13 school year. Additional research shows that one out of every two principals is not retained beyond their third year of leading a school . Given this news, it's easy to see that the profession of the school administration is in a crisis. There are not enough qualified and suitable ca

Response: 'Authoritarian-Style Mandates' From Central Offices Don't Work By  Larry Ferlazzo  on  July 20, 2018 10:33 AM (Today's post is the first in a two-part series) The new question-of-the-week is: How can Central Offices of School Districts best help schools, their administrators and teachers, and their students and families? Response From Dr. Patrick Darfler-Sweeney Dr. Patrick Darfler-Sweeney is a retired Superintendent of Schools from New York State after 33 years in K-12 education. He currently teaches for SUNY Oneonta in the Masters of Education Technology Department. He also is the author of  The Superintendent's Rule Book: A Guide to District Level Leadership  by Routledge Press: A bad system will beat a good person every time. -W. Edwards Deming Structure/Start with great ingredients In a single word, structure. People talk about leadership, but, that is hard to define. If you can't describe it, how do you know you h