This guide to simplified performance management approaches contains five sections. The first section, entitled "Simple Techniques for Managing an Innovation," is written from the viewpoint of a principal as manager. It describes how to manage an innovation, develop an objective, allocate resources for the innovation, keep organized…

The first part of the document presents a collection of workable ideas, organized by topic, which were submitted by principals who used them to improve the programs in their schools. Some areas of interest covered include community involvement, student-choice electives, parent reporting, career education, and counseling and changing behavior. Also…

This booklet is a compendium of ideas and suggestions gathered in conferences with public school principals in North Carolina in 1972. Major topics discussed are public information programs and communication with different segments of the educational community, human relations and student discipline, innovative program services, and pupil…