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SUPERINTENDENT COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES AND EXPERIENCES THAT PROMOTE TRUST AND POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD DURING THE ENTRY PERIOD: A CASE STUDY
by
Alfonso Jimenez
____________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
May 2012
Copyright 2012 Alfonso Jimenez
Object Description
| Title | Superintendent communication strategies and experiences that promote trust and positive relationships with the school board during the entry period: a case study |
| Author | Jimenez, Alfonso |
| Author email | alfonsoj@usc.edu;alfonsojimenez562@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-02-23 |
| Date submitted | 2012-03-17 |
| Date approved | 2012-03-18 |
| Restricted until | 2012-03-18 |
| Date published | 2012-03-18 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Escalante, Michael F. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Garcia, Pedro Garcia, John |
| Abstract | Superintendents have vast demands placed upon them by their school boards and via the political pipeline. The purpose of the study was to identify strategies/behaviors that successful superintendents used to build strong relationships and trust with their school boards within their entry period. It is during the entry period that determines whether a superintendent experiences success or failure. This study captured those strategies in order to provide a blueprint by which other superintendents, researchers, policy makers, and leadership training programs could use. ❧ This study implored the use of a qualitative approach using surveys and face-to-face interviews with superintendents across California. Nine doctoral students from the USC Rossier School of Education developed survey questions and corroborated and validated them through the conceptual frameworks of Bolman and Deal (2008), Watkins (2003), Covey (2006), and Hurley (2006). The research team sent out a total of 90 surveys to superintendents and their school board president/board member designee (as identified through the selection criteria). A total of 64 superintendents and 48 board members participated in this study with 46 matched paired surveys (superintendent and board member) returned for further case study consideration. From the aforementioned surveys, the researchers chose one superintendent and board member, respectively, to interview. These interviews provided the contextual basis by which qualitative data was obtained and triangulated to confirm the survey results. ❧ The results of this study shed light on the following questions: (1) What strategies/behaviors were successful superintendents using to build strong relationships and trust with the board during their entry period; (2) How did superintendents implement these strategies and evaluate their success; and (3) What formal/informal leadership preparation assisted superintendents for entry into the superintendency? ❧ From the survey results, the following themes emerged that successful superintendents experienced during their entry period to establish trust and a positive relationship with their school boards: 1) the use of a formal or informal superintendent entry plan during the first 90-100 days had positive benefits for new or transitioning superintendents; 2) the frequency of the communication strategies played a key role in the establishment of trust; and 3) informal administrative experiences prepared future leaders for the superintendency. |
| Keyword | superintendent; communication; trust; relationships; school board; entry period; entry plan; superintendent training programs |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Jimenez, Alfonso |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume6/etd-JimenezAlf-513.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | SUPERINTENDENT COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES AND EXPERIENCES THAT PROMOTE TRUST AND POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD DURING THE ENTRY PERIOD: A CASE STUDY by Alfonso Jimenez ____________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION May 2012 Copyright 2012 Alfonso Jimenez |
