Describes (with sample questions) interviewing techniques, format, and follow-up for selecting qualified teachers. (LD)

This article addresses instructional improvement role responsibilities by suggesting, with appropriate rationale, that supervisors and principals work together in effecting instructional improvement. (Author)

Discusses five of the most common money management pitfalls in operating child care centers and suggests some ways to avoid these pitfalls. (MP)

Provides the administrator with guidelines for use in evaluating teachers' implementations of basal reader programs. (HOD)

Author's counsel is directed at the associate principal who would like to expand his administrative role. It offers food for thought, however, to all members of the administrative team. (Editor/RK)

A veteran principal offers some wide-ranging and practical suggestions for supervising children on the playground and in the cafeteria. (Author/MLF)

Fluctuations in the role of foreign language department chairs since 1958 are discussed, with focus on the "intellectual expansion" of language educators' roles in American education as a whole. The nature of leadership is considered. (one reference) (LB)

This reprinted 1970 article examines the role of the university research administrator and finds that the role involves paradoxes between controller and entrepreneur, master and slave, censor and publicist, and traditionalist and innovator. (DB)

Substantive institutional change can only be accomplished by faculty and staff who have changed. The skills needed for that change must be learned. The college administrator charged with managing change can use knowledge of the people and systems involved to create conditions for constructive engagement of those affected by the change. (Author/MSE)

Presents a "Code of Ethics for School Administrators" and "Standards of Conduct for the Association of School Business Officials." These codes, combined with school regulations and adherence to various statutes, can provide school business officials with a sound philosophical basis for fulfilling their responsibilities. (MLF)

The director of a college consortium must be a strong leader, whose primary duties range from providing leadership to securing resources and to clearly communicating the consortium's mission. The director must keep in mind that the consortium's work is valuable only to the degree that it eases the load on the individual member institutions and…

This article examines four roles of the college or university development officer: salesperson (when direct solicitation is seen as the officer's primary role); catalyst (or sales manager, adviser, expert, facilitator); manager (stressing the importance of the overall office functioning); and leader (who exerts a leadership role in the…

School-wide positive behavior support (SWPBS) has been identified as an effective and efficient method to teach students prosocial skills. It requires both effective behavior support practices and systems that will support these changes, including data-based decision making among the school leadership team. There are many practical and systemic…

The position of assistant principal has been virtually ignored and sometimes maligned. Based on perspectives that arise from administrative theory, career development research, and school administration studies, this document describes the special nature of the assistantship, daily work, rewards, and frustrations. Five chapters include: (1) "What…

The final volume in a series on Project REACH (Regular Education for All Children with Handicaps) is addressed to administrators involved in integrating severely disabled students into regular public schools. The manual is intended as a trouble-shooting tool with information on background theories and specific strategies. An introductory chapter…