Samuel Betances

Samuel Betances, professor of education, Northeastern Illinois University, describes the administrator's role in building a collective vision in the school and community, in a presentation at the July 1992 Summer Institute of NCREL's Academy for Urban School Leaders, attended by adminstrators from Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, and Milwaukee.

"We must set a tone as instructional leaders, and that tone is that whatever people bring when they come to us and to those under our administrative leadership we must respect what people bring and expand and build and universalize the spirit from there."

This Critical Issue summary was researched and written by Kent Peterson, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Date posted: 1995