Six Steps to Preparing Exemplary Principals and Superintendents is the first book to inspire and guide professors and program administrator's proven ways to prepare exemplary principals and superintendents for schools. The authors review issues surrounding extreme criticism of leadership education and counter with positive new research and practices that clearly highlight successful programs that link preparation to on-the-job successes of graduates. The reader will find a step-by-step guide to selecting the best students, creating a pre- and post-assessment of student learning, a well-designed procedure to pretest and assure that all masters degree students actually acquire a strong knowledge base and score well on state licensure exams. The final step provides proven questionnaires to survey graduates of the masters or doctoral programs to gather valuable feedback for constant program improvement and relevance to the real world of schools.

"Hoyle and Torres (educational administration and future studies, Texas A&M U.) enumerate six steps to guide educational administration professors and program administrators in preparing principals and superintendents in master's and doctoral leadership education programs for their work in schools. Drawing from research and colleagues, they explain how to select the best graduate students, create pretests and post-assessments of student learning, and align programs with the 2008 Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Education Policy Standards, research, and best practices, to ensure that all students acquire a strong knowledge base and score well on licensure exams. They also detail how to create and maintain student advisory committees and effective support staff, and survey students to gather feedback for program improvement." - Book News, Inc.