Leadership Tenacity and Public-School Superintendents
Journal of Leadership Education
ISSN: 1552-9045
Article publication date: 15 January 2019
Issue publication date: 15 January 2019
Abstract
Leadership tenacity for school superintendents rests largely upon experience, grit, and subsequently resilience as they balance the pressures of the operational challenges of school operation with the instructional needs of the children they serve. Through this study, the authors identified the critical aspects of how effective superintendents may have developed and whether deliberate practice was evidenced in their experience. The superintendent’s perseverance to doing what matters over an extended period of time and under challenging conditions contributes to leadership grit and resilience. Viewed through the lens of these superintendents, experience, grit, and resilience influence leadership tenacity interdependent, but not limited to the theory of deliberate practice and transformational leadership.
Citation
Klocko, B.A., Justis, R.J. and Kirby, E.A. (2019), "Leadership Tenacity and Public-School Superintendents", Journal of Leadership Education, Vol. 18 No. 1, pp. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.12806/V18/I1/R1
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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