The exhilaration of overseas leadership: former U.S. superintendents find directing international schools is a chance to influence child development minus the ties that bind.
School Administrator › Vol. 66 Nbr. 3, March 2009
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The exhilaration of overseas leadership: former U.S. superintendents find directing international schools is a chance to influence child development minus the ties that bind.
"Imagine, no press to deal with and no nonparents to nurture!" So chuckled Bob Gross, a Minnesota-based superintendent for 18 years who then moved abroad to head the Singapore American School from 1999 to 2007.
The quip by Gross, now a regional education officer of the State Department's Office of Overseas Schools, was echoed in other ways by Sherry Miller, who spent six years as superintendent of the 1,000-student School District 1 West in Ranchester, Wyo., covering 1,400 square miles with five school buildings. After she assumed the top administrative post at the Maya School in Guatemala in August 1999, Miller says for the first time in her professional life, "I felt I was part of something much bigger--the world!" Choosing an international lifestyle alongside motivated parents and fellow educators has added a zest to her leadership work that is becoming harder to experience back...See the full content of this document
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