As Jackson (1990) maintains (citing Clifford Geertz), the key question is not so much “what counts as knowledge” but “what knowledge do we need.” As the field of educational administration continues to evolve, we needs to be defined more broadly to include both academic researchers and administrative practitioners, bridges need to be built between the knowledge produced and used both by academics and by practitioners, and the “more articulated domain of public knowledge” (Clemens, 1999) needs to be joined to the less apprehensible domain of practitioners’ personal knowledge.