By Dr. Peter Gorman with Dail Willis

A must-read for any education leader serious about their professional growth!

Recognized nationally as an education leader and for developing outstanding leadership teams, Dr. Peter Gorman has distilled his 30 years of experience into this professional development guide for aspiring and serving superintendents. It's packed with big ideas plus an action plan for putting the ideas into practice -- to guide you in taking concrete steps that increase student achievement and close achievement gaps. Hands-on scenarios take you through:

• Preparing and applying to be a superintendent: The Board of Education, reform governance, board communications, media and public relations
• Entering as superintendent: evaluating the current state, developing an entry plan, building public trust
• Establishing systems, processes and structures: the "meat" of the book, focusing on climate and culture, an aligned system, creating a strategic plan and much more
• Implementing a theory of action: strategic staffing, accountability, data-based decision-making, differentiated resources
• And more!