Promoting Critical Ideas of Leadership, Culture and Diversity. The 2010 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration

This volume presents the 2010 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA). This year's theme is "Promoting Critical Ideas of Leadership, Culture and Diversity." This yearbook contains five parts. Part 1, Invited Chapters, includes the following: (1) President's Message: Critical Issues in Leadership (Joe Pacha); and (2) It's Not the Bicycle, It's the Ride: Eight NCPEA Living Legends Respond (Living Legend 2009) (Theodore Creighton, Marilyn Grady, Louis Wildman, Robert Beach, Rosemary Papa, Martha McCarthy, Charles Achilles and John Hoyle). Part 2, Critical Issues in Education Leadership Preparation, includes the following: (3) Cohort Cohesiveness or Collective Chaos? Groupthink Phenomenon in the Preparation of Educational Leaders (Marla Susman Israel, Judith Docekal and Beverly B. Kasper); (4) Revisiting and Redesigning a Faculty-Developed Team Instructional Model (Patricia Ann Marcellino); (5) Developmental Skills Assessment for Future Superintendents (Lynn K. Bradshaw and Kermit Buckner); and (6) Advocating for Quality Programs: A Critical Issue in Leadership Preparation (Judith A. Zimmerman, Carol Engler, A. William Place and Anita Varrati). Part 3, Critical Issues in Leadership, includes the following: (7) Transformational Leadership: Research, Effects, and Applications (Fred C. Lunenburg); (8) Critical Issues for Leadership: Early Transition of Implementation to a Professional Learning Community, A Conceptual Design (Caryn M. Wells); (9) Reconciling Supervisory Beliefs and Behaviors: A Case Study about a Collaborative Performance Appraisal Initiative (Michael Chirichello and Kevin J. Walsh); (10) High School Athletic Director Roles: Views from Rural School Superintendents (Joe F. Young, Jr., Stacy Edmonson and John R. Slate); (11) A Social Justice Framework for Navigating the Sea Change in Public School Life (Carol A. Mullen); (12) Meeting Critical Academic and Socioemotional Needs of Middle School Students: A Case Study Illuminating a Middle School Principal's Successful Practices (Betty Alford); (13) Reasons Small Schools are Successful with Student Achievement: Themes from High Student Achievement School Districts (Pauline M. Sampson, Ralph L. Marshall and Lee Stewart); (14) What Critical Issues Do Principal Preparation Programs Need to Address in Business and Community School Partnerships? (Peggy B. Gill, Wesley D. Hickey and Genie Linn); and (15) Collective Efficacy and the Teacher Leadership Academy: A Ca