The Dark Side of Educational Leadership: Superintendents and the Professional Victim Syndrome »

Walter S. Polka is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the Niagara University College of Education in New York.

Peter R. Litchka is Assistant Professor of Education and Director of the Graduate Program in Educational Leadership at Loyola College in Maryland.

A valuable resource to institutions of higher education and various state and national superintendent organizations and agencies, The Dark Side of Educational Leadership provides valuable insights into specific resiliency behaviors that contribute to superintendents' abilities to overcome the trauma associated with being a professional victim. Specifically illuminating those issues that contribute most often to the victimization of superintendents, well-researched chapters demonstrate strategies employed by superintendents to prevent similar issues from causing additional pain.

Foreword Lee G. Bolman Bolman, Lee G.

1 Victims 1

2 Help Wanted 19

3 Mobbing 33

4 This Can't Be Happening to Me 51

5 Beyond the Glass Ceiling 65

6 I Was Only Following Orders 83

7 You Gotta Be Kidding 97

8 You Never Know 115

9 A Broken Heart Forever 127

10 Family Matters 143

11 No Superintendent Left Behind 159

12 Compass: A Survival Guide 171

Appendix The Professional Victim Study (2006) 179

References 199