“…In 1983 the American Council on Industrial Arts Teacher Education (now the Council on Technology Teacher Education) devoted its yearbook to the topic. Recently, articles have been written about faculty perceptions of selection criteria for department leaders (Paige, 1997). Although informal types of leadership development exist in our profession, there is little evidence that many formal arenas for leadership development exist, particularly embracing the preceding traits within a structure that can be called "succession planning."…”