Leadership Mentoring Maintaining School Improvement in Turbulent Times

School systems face the challenge of developing the next generation of school leaders. This means more than simply hiring promising new leaders-it requires developing an effective mentoring program. True leadership mentoring must be carefully crafted with highly educated mentors and prepared proteges. This book answers six fundamental questions that school systems interested in creating a leadership mentoring program should consider: 1. How might a district interested in leadership mentoring organize their work? 2. What background is available in current literature on leadership mentoring? How might the literature serve as an effective basis for program development? 3. What theoretical framework can planners use to organize their program so that it will have unity and best respond to the hardest questions facing building leaders? 4. What example of leadership mentoring that uses this theoretical framework can be studied so that we can understand the emerging model in a naturalistic setting? 5. What are the qualities of a fully developed model for leadership mentoring? 6. How might such a program be implemented and connected to larger district priorities? Chock-full of answers to crucial questions about mentoring, Leadership Mentoring will help school districts face the task of developing new leaders with greater confidence. Book jacket.

Steven Jay Gross is associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Temple University