National Insight: A Look at Synnoetics in One African American Female's Journey to the Principalship.

This article discusses the principle of synnoetics as defined by Dr. William A. Kritsonis in the Ways of Knowing Through the Realms of Meaning as it chronicles the teaching career of Rhodena Townsell. Rhodena, an African American female, began her teaching career as an uncertified special education teacher in a small East Texas town. Rhodena became the principal of an elementary school in 1998. She is the first African American principal in her rural school district since integration. urrent demographic and economic studies show that African Americans are beginning to migrate back to rural areas in the South. Statistics support that 4.1 million African Americans reside in small towns and rural areas (Jen, Kassel & Whitener, 2004). C