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Mutter, Davida W.; Parker, Pam J. – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2004
Even the best educational leaders can be unprepared for the responsibility of spending and accounting for the thousands of dollars that pass through school's books each year. Without a solid understanding of school financial management, administrators may find it a serious distraction from their primary pedagogical mission. They also risk damage…
Descriptors: School Funds, Purchasing, Money Management, Guidance
Diaz-Maggioli, Gabriel – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2004
It's true that students gain more from learning experiences when they're encouraged to plan their activities, share their knowledge with one another, and tailor material to their own needs. So why not create a professional development program that gives teachers the same range of options? This book provides the framework and steps to help…
Descriptors: Peer Coaching, Mentors, Writing (Composition), Action Research
Williams, R. Bruce – 1997
As school-restructuring efforts are initiated across the country, many schools are calling upon facilitators to guide the change process. Many people both inside and outside the school system can play facilitative roles. This guidebook offers tools and approaches for facilitating school change, breaking down the facilitator's role into 12…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Prichard, Craig – 2000
This book discusses the development and significance of managers and management in universities and colleges, focusing on management that involves the development of different ways of talking, acting, and relating to people at work. It draws on interviews with more than 70 senior managers from 4 universities and 4 further education colleges in the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Adult Education, College Faculty
Smulyan, Lisa – 2000
This book uses life history and ethnography to examine the lives and work of three female elementary school principals and highlights their daily use of personal and professional skills. The principals' personal backgrounds and their effect on their work are examined within the community they serve, their school, and the historical and social…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership, Power Structure
Neugebauer, Bonnie, Ed.; Neugebauer, Roger, Ed. – 1998
The first of two volumes intended for directors of early childhood organizations, this volume compiles selected articles for center directors from the first 20 years of the journal "Child Care Information Exchange." The articles cover leadership, organizational management, and financial management. The articles are grouped into…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Role, Administrators, Budgeting
Long, Ada – National Collegiate Honors Council, 1995
This handbook is intended to serve as an on-campus companion and guide for honors administrators, helping them to define and solidify their positions within their institutions. "Everyone knows" what deans or department heads are: what their responsibilities are, how they fit into the institutional hierarchy, who reports to them and to…
Descriptors: Guides, Honors Curriculum, Administrator Role, Administrator Responsibility
Kouzes, James M.; Posner, Barry Z. – 1987
This book challenges traditional notions of leadership. It was written to help managers and nonmanagers alike improve their abilities to lead others to get extraordinary things done in organizations. Data were derived from administration of the Personal Best Questionnaire to 550 managers, interviews with 42 managers, and administration of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Change Strategies, Leadership
Thorpe, Ronald, Ed. – 1995
This book for principals or aspiring principals contains a collection of essays about the "human side" of school leadership as experienced by 30 principals during their first year on the job. Two themes emerge from the essays. The first is that leadership requires a whole new set of skills which principals are continuously learning, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership
Murphy, Joseph – 1992
This book is designed to inform the debate on administrator preparation and to provide information for shaping new designs for administrator education. Chapter 1 discusses the changing educational environment and the need for improving administrator training. Chapters 2 and 3 review phases in the evolution of training programs over the last…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Educational Administration
Mayer, Milton – 1993
This biography reviews the life of Robert Maynard Hutchins, a leader in higher education in the 20th century, by a long-time friend and colleague. The biography first follows Hutchins' story from his origins as a preacher's son in rural Ohio to Oberlin College, through early success at the Yale Law school where he reformed legal education and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Biographies, College Presidents, Educational Change
Goldring, Ellen B.; Rallis, Sharon F. – 1993
This book explores the new roles required of principals of dynamic schools. The first chapter examines the following forces that shape principals' activities: teachers are becoming teacher-leaders; parents are more vocal and action-oriented advocates; student bodies are more diverse; the social and technological contexts of schools are more…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Interprofessional Relationship
Burdin, Joel L., Ed. – 1989
This four-part document provides an overview of the knowledge, perspectives, and skills of administration. The chapters are extracted mostly from issues of "Educational Administration Quarterly." Part 1, "The Society in Which Leaders Lead," contains five chapters: (1) "Do Political Ideologies Influence Education in the United States?" (Ralph B.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Policy
Joyce, Bruce, Ed. – 1990
It is a premise of this Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) yearbook, that staff development will become a human Curriculum Development (ASCD) yearbook, that staff development will become a human resource development system designed to change the nature of schooling, the status of its personnel, and their relations with…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Strategies, Cooperation, Educational Change
Fuoss, Donald E.; Troppmann, Robert J. – 1977
This text is designed for professional preparation classes in physical education and sports administration and serves as a guide for inservice secondary school athletic directors. Managerial principles are applied to athletic personnel and programs: coaches are depicted as managerial supervisors, the athletic director is middle management, and the…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Athletic Coaches