This article encourages supervisors, in general, and counsellor supervisors, in particular, to engage in reflective learning as a way to identify their cultural biases. Awareness of counsellor bias has been addressed by ethical standards outlined for professional helpers. This article presents reflective learning as a potentially useful strategy…

Discusses the works of popular business and self-help gurus, focusing on the book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Argues that such works fail to meet minimal academic and research standards and questions their efficacy as instructional materials for educational-leadership training. (Contains 1 table and 54 references.) (WFA)

This article is a sympathetic response to English ("Education Leadership Review," Vol. 3, No. 3, Fall 2002, p. 13-22). (Contains 24 references.) (WFA)

Describes the Principals' Project, designed to provide information to elementary school principals about basic science skills, the principal's role in providing leadership, the characteristics of good elementary science programs, and what research says about elementary science. Discusses conferences conducted for principals by science educators on…

Describes how a group of teachers of high school and university physics in the Chicago area exchange new ideas and teaching techniques with each other. (HM)

Some methods for getting adult learners to participate in classroom discussions are offered by a training manager. The trainer's attitude and the classroom environment contribute to motivating all trainees to participate, stimulate the nonparticipant to join in, and control the aggressiveness of the overparticipant. (MF)