This book presents a comprehensive case study of the professional life of a fictional school principal. Based entirely on case-study methodology, all the episodes discussed in the book depict actual events in everyday education leadership practice and represent a real-life education leadership experience through episodic progression. The case…

This book addresses leadership in the academic community, how college presidents and other leaders affect their institutions, and institutional renewal. The book is based on data collected by the Institutional Leadership Project (ILP), a 5-year-longitudinal study of how college and university presidents and other leaders interact and communicate,…

This book focuses on the supervisor-supervisee relationship as it occurs in social service and counseling agencies. It teaches supervisors and supervisees to anticipate the workplace issues they may face and provides valuable insights about what really goes on in the clinical supervisory relationship. The book contains many diverse, real-life…

The use of the "management grid" method of organizational development in college and university administration is described in this adaptation of the 1964 book by the same authors, "The Management Grid." Five major administrative styles are identified: (1) caretaker, (2) comfortable and pleasant, (3) constituency-centered, (4) team, and (5)…

Intended as a text, this book emphasizes practical techniques of clinical supervision in working with teachers to help them improve their classroom teaching. It is divided into four units. The first provides necessary background for understanding techniques of clinical supervision. The next two units describe specific techniques for conducting…