Suggests ways for superintendents to assess instructional photocopying needs and costs and adopt workable, cost-effective procedures and guidelines. Evaluators of copy content need to consider teaching objectives, appropriateness, conceptual enrichment, alternative approaches, style, grammar, public relations effects, and possible copyright…

School building level public relations depends on the principal or vice principal. Strategies designed to enhance school public relations programs include linking school and community, working with the press, and keeping morale high inside the school. (MLF)

Secondary principals can promote staff development by adopting eight instructional leadership behaviors that promote teacher involvement, exhibit knowledge of the field, establish high standards, maintain high principal visibility, recognize achievement, and encourage change. (PGD)

In 1983 the Far West Laboratory's instructional management program established Peer-Assisted Leadership (PAL), a unique professional development program for principals. No longer isolated, principals help each other develop analytical and other skills to become better instructional leaders. MLH)

Presents ten guidelines for human relations skills that can help elevate the practice of student personnel administration to an art form. Administrators need to develop and perfect leadership skills including respect for individual differences, consistency, listening skills, instinct, being a role model, and establishment of realistic performance…

Principals can make changes happen, help them happen, or simply let them happen. Effective change leadership involves setting long-term goals, clarifying the school's commitment to work at education, staying on top of innovations, consulting and collaborating with teachers, making decisions, offering support and guidance, and maintaining…

Reports a survey of 60 school administrators on most frequently used power tactics and most effective tactics for principals. The use of the administrator's personality to acquire power was reported as the most often used and most effective strategy. (MJL)

Discusses aspects of leadership theory and concludes that the effective chairperson not only responds to current leadership demands of the situation but also develops a positive history of support and relationships in the organizational group. (PD)

The administrative functions providing non-technical services to the technical research staff are often seen by researchers as antagonists, but they can enhance the research effort if organized and run correctly. To be effective, the services should be designed to enhance and not destroy creativity. (MSE)

Educators who are also members of the bar offer advice to administrators on how to testify in court in school-related cases. (MJL)

This guide is intended to assist members of governing bodies of universities and colleges of higher education in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland in the performance of their duties. The guide is divided into two parts. Part 1 is concerned with the role of the governing body. It outlines the legal status of institutions and their structures of…

Principals' use of the curriculum council to develop the professional management function and establish a position of educational leadership is recommended. Additional benefits would include improved communications with staff and increased professional collegiality. (MJL)

Proposes questions that can be raised by principals evaluating the character and effectiveness of their high schools. Suggests studying the nature of daily school operations, the school program, the school's structure and schedule, student activities, staff quality, guidance services, off-campus learning opportunities, administration, and school…

Provides a checklist of the most important techniques for interviewing potential faculty members, as selected by a panel of personnel directors. The purposes served by these techniques fall into four categories: helping candidates relax and express themselves, and helping interviewers evaluate candidates' teaching competence and enthusiasm for…

Provides guidelines for ensuring teacher involvement in and satisfaction with inservice programs, using consultants in inservice programs, and involving administrators in inservice programs. (PGD)