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Download full textMalone, Robert – Research Roundup, 2001
Increasing evidence shows that school leaders, throughout all stages of their careers, can benefit from a mentoring system in which a seasoned leader helps the protege combine theory and practice with experience. This research roundup reviews works that provide support for principal mentoring and share strategies for establishing mentoring…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Leaders Guides
Lashway, Larry – Research Roundup, 1998
This newsletter reviews five reports that address the implications of standards for administrators. These texts include "Designing and Implementing Standards-Based Accountability System" (Education Commission of the States), which describes some of the policy implications of standards-driven accountability; "Why Principals Fail: Are National…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership, Leaders Guides
Malone, Robert J. – Research Roundup, 2002
Never before has the need for effective mentoring programs for principals been more urgent. Record student enrollment, an anticipated retirement of about 40 percent of principals, and a shrinking pool of those who aspire to be principals have brought about a shortage of principals and an alarming lack of qualified applicants. This research roundup…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Guides, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Lashway, Larry – Research Roundup, 1999
This issue reviews five publications that provide a sampling of current perspectives on the preparation of school leaders. Joseph Murphy's "Preparation for the School Principalship: The United States' Story" traces the history of leadership preparation programs in the United States from the 19th century to the present. David L. Clark's "Searching…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Incidental Learning, Instructional Leadership
Lumsden, Linda – Research Roundup, 1993
This publication reviews five information sources about new designs and recommendations for principal preparation programs. In "The Landscape of Leadership Preparation: Reframing the Education of School Administrators," Joseph Murphy examines the nature of current problems in administrator preparation. He argues that before they can draw sound…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Ellis, Thomas I. – Research Roundup, 1988
Five selections summarize training methods for the principalship from the perspective that cognizance of the complexities of being a principal arises from practice, thus experiential learning should be incorporated into preservice and inservice training programs. The first selection, "Making Sense of Principals' Work," by Kent Petersen, is a…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Elementary Education, Inservice Education, Leadership Training
