Introduction: Principals in Succession - Transfer and Rotation in Educational Administration; Robert E. White and Karyn Cooper.- Prologue: The Construction of the Principalship - Institutional Ethnography and Principal Selection and Succession; Alison Griffith.- 1. Succeeding Leaders - Supply and Demand; Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink .- 2. The School District and the Development of Trust in New Principals - Policies and actions that influence succession; Robert B. Macmillan, Matthew J. Meyer, Shawn Northfield and Michael Foley.- 3. Planning for Succession - Considerations and Implications for Educational Policy; Robert E. White and Karyn Cooper.- 4. Principal Turnover and the Impact on Teacher-Principal Relationships - Mitigating Emerging Values Issues; Matthew J. Meyer, Robert B. Macmillan, Shawn Northfield and Michael Foley.- 5. Survive and Thrive - Leadership Distribution as a Strategy for Frequent Principal Turnover; Blair Mascall, Shawn Moore, Doris Jantzi, Kevin Walker and Robin Sacks.- 6. Trust during Transition - Strategic Leadership and Trust Development during Principal Succession; Shawn Northfield, Robert B. Macmillan and Matthew J. Meyer.- 7. The Effects of Cultural Contexts on Leadership Succession - Participation of Women and People of "Difference" in Educational Administration.- Epilogue: Contextualizing Principal Succession - Reflections on Principal Succession and Rotation in Western Countries; Izhar Oplatka.- About the Contributors.- Index.
