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

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.

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.