School leadership internships are the bridge between classroom teachers and first-time leadership positions. Research shows that quality internships are equally as important as the graduate programs themselves in establishing leadership practices that improve teaching, learning, and school conditions.

This book was written as a stand-alone graduate textbook and serves as a guide and support for creating and managing quality school leader internship programs. It provides step-by-step guidance for interns, their supervisors, and their faculty on how to initiate an internship and evaluate interns' work.

In this updated third edition, the authors have aligned the internship to the revised ISLLC standards, making this book critical for the over 500 leadership preparation programs nationwide and the thousands of school districts that support leadership candidates.

Introducing School Leader Internship
Stage One: Internship Assessment
1.1 Vita
1.2 Self-Assessment of Educational Leadership Policy Standards: ISLLC: 2008
1.3 Self, Peer, Superior, and Subordinate Assessment of ISLLC Dispositions
1.4 Self-Assessment of the TELSA
1.5 Other Assessments and Evaluations
1.6 Position and Leadership Goals
1.7 School/District Assessment
1.8 Assessment Summary
Stage Two: Plan
2.1 Standards, Leadership Areas, and Activities
2.2 Meeting with Site Supervisor
2.3 Performing Service Activities
2.4 Conducting Local Projects
2.5 Networking
2.6 Organizing a Notebook or an E-Portfolio
2.7 Internship/Leadership Experience Overall Plan Report
Stage Three: Implement
3.1 Interviewing
3.2 Theory into Practice: Using the 12 Major Skills
3.3. Reflection in Action
3.4 Enrichment and Extended Learning Activities
3.5 Technology and Leadership
3.6 Journal
3.7 Log
3.8 Monitoring/Formative Evaluation
Stage Four: Internship Summative Evaluation
4.1 Summary and Evaluation of Experience
4.2 Reflection on Action
4.3 Increased Learning and School Improvement: Results and Recommendations
4.4 Portfolio Development
4.5 Vita Update
4.6 Letter of Application
4.7 Future Professional Development Plan
4.8 Internship Report
Appendix A.1 Sample Vita and Guidelines
Appendix A.2 Sample Letter of Application and Guidelines
Appendix A.3 Educational Leadership Policy Standards: ISLLC 2008
Appendix A.4 NASSP 21st Century Skills
Appendix A.5 NAESP Standards
Appendix A.6 ISTE Nets-A Technology Standards for Administrators