Chapter 16: Mentored in Research

This article is chronology of my journey from being a lazy student in high school who was never going to college to a first year Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at a research 1 university. This journey is filled with an incredible cast of characters and mentors which made this possible. While there are many people over the more than forty-four-year professional journey who have help guide me to this point. This is the story of how I was guided in the transition from the hierarchical, military style to a more eclectic style of leadership. But the this is much more this is about how I became a better teacher and administrator while developing my ability to conduct research and create manuscripts.