1st Edition
District Leader Internship Developing, Monitoring, and Evaluating Your Leadership Experience
District Leader Internship challenges school district leader interns to develop a rigorous and broad-based experience to prepare for their first job as a superintendent. This text provides step-by-step guidance for interns, district supervisors, and preparation program faculty to develop, monitor, and evaluate the internship experience. This accessible resource includes activities and assessments, explores how to develop an internship plan, unpacks duties of the intern, supervisor, and advisor, and helps readers prepare a final program report. The content is aligned with the National Education Leadership Preparation (NELP) Standards for district-level administrators and assists in preparation for certification exams and applications for desired superintendency positions.
Co-published with International Council of Professors of Educational Leadership (ICPEL).
Introduction, Stage 1: Internship Assessment, Stage 2: Internship Plan Development, Stage 3: Internship Plan Implementation, Stage 4: Internship Summative Assessment / Final Report
Biography
Gary E. Martin is Professor of Educational Leadership at Lamar University, USA.
Jimmy R. Creel is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Lamar University, USA.
Thomas W. Harvey is Clinical Instructor of Educational Leadership at Lamar University, USA.
Robert E. Nicks is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Lamar University, USA.
Michael Schwanenberger is Associate Professor and Department Chair of the Educational Leadership Department at Northern Arizona University, USA.
"The authors present a meaning-making approach to building one’s own leadership capacity. It isn’t a culminating internship experience as much as it is an experiential approach to a lifetime of learning about educational leadership."
-From the Foreword by Dr. Jim Berry, Executive Director of the International Council of Professors of Educational Leadership (ICPEL)
"This book is an important contribution to our field in that it shares a process for planning, designing, implementing, and assessing a district leader internship based on research-based dispositions, skills, and practices. University faculty advisors and internship coordinators will find this guide useful for designing the district internship and for ideas for tracking and demonstrating learning. Typically, this process is at the discretion of the university, and designing and supervising the internship has clear outcomes but a nebulous process, so this guide will be essential for supporting faculty newly designing or redesigning the district internship."
--Review in Teachers College Record by Erin Anderson, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, the University of Denver
