mandates and initiatives. They are expected to broker the
often-conflicting interests of parents, teachers, students,
district officials, unions, and state and federal agencies,
and they need to be sensitive to the widening range
of student needs. Although that job description sounds
overwhelming, at least it signals that the field has begun
to give overdue recognition to the indispensable role of
and mounting demands on principals (DeVita, as cited
in Davis, Darling-Hammond, LaPointe, & Meyerson,
2005, p. i).