The journal of the Texas Council of Professors of Educational Administration

Summer 2005
Volume 1, Number 1
Stacey Edmonson, Editor, Sam Houston State University
Theodore Creighton, Production Editor, Sam Houston State University

• Editor’s Corner
  Welcome to the inaugural issue of the School Leadership Review, a nationally refereed journal sponsored and published by the Texas Council of Professors of Educational Administration. This journal is designed to offer a publishing opportunity to professors of educational leadership across the country. The first issue has been published with a number of invited articles from well respected authors across the nation. It also includes pieces by TCPEA members; these articles were previously accepted but not yet published in other nationally refereed journals. We encourage submissions from new professors as well as those with years of valuable experience. We hope that the School Leadership Review will soon become one of your “must reads,” a helpful tool as you endeavor to improve the field of educational leadership.

• The Good News about the Preparation of School Leaders: A Professor’s View
  John Hoyle, Texas A&M University

• Emerging Gender Issues between Mentors and Protégés in a Principal Preparation Program
  Sandra Harris, Lamar University; and Charlene Crocker, Sam Houston State University

• Developing Professionally Anchored Dissertations: Lessons from Innovative Programs
  Joseph Murphy and Michael Vriesenga, Vanderbilt University

• A Subgroup Analysis of Predictors to Standards–based Certification Examination Scores In Differing Principal Preparation Programs in Texas
  Elaine Wilmore, Dallas Baptist University

• Developing Academic Leadership in Schools: Guidelines and Implications for University Preparation Programs and Administrators
  Jo Blase and Joseph Blase, University of Georgia

• Ethical Administrators: Tools for the Trade
  Stacey Edmonson, Alice Fisher, Barbara Polnick, and Shirley Johnson, Sam Houston State University

• A Playful Puppy Chasing Its Own Tail
  Ted Creighton, Executive Director, NCPEA