Self-reflections on the Amount of Superintendent Talk and Impact on Stakeholders from Wyoming Superintendents

The purpose of the current study was to gain the self-reflections from K-12 superintendents on their amount of oral language/talk to accomplish the work of the superintendency and the engagement of internal and external stakeholders. The focus of this study were superintendents in a rural, Western state. The response rate of the study was 63%.

The results of this quantitative study were (a) superintendents talk over 74% of the time to accomplish the work of the superintendency, and (b) when engaging internal and external stakeholders, superintendents preferred working with internal groups versus external ones.