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Langlois, Donald E. – Executive Educator, 1986
Counsels new superintendents to assess staff strengths and deficiencies before devising a plan that uses everyone's talents (even those of "turkey" principals) to fullest advantage. Strong communication and supervisory skills and firm administrative policies are essential to target weak performers and determine when transfers or dismissals might…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Principals
Bigenwald, Myles M.; McClure, Robert B. – School Administrator, 1991
When two former principals in central office positions set out to improve administrative communications, their goal was to achieve the quality of exchanges often occurring in the faculty room. With the superintendent's support, they successfully approached district principals with the idea of scheduled, informal, open agenda meetings between them…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, Collegiality, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Solomon, Gloria – Principal, 1992
After being shadowed by her new superintendent for one hectic workday, a veteran elementary school principal learned she had high blood pressure and needed to flex her management style. She was advised to delegate more responsibilities, write about her practice, schedule only half her workday, and provide balance in her life. (MLH)
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Coping, Elementary Education, Hypertension
Peer reviewedKnoff, Howard M. – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1988
This article analyzes the conceptual similarities and differences of clinical supervision, counseling, and consultation models in training of educational leaders. It also provides a conceptual model whose goal is to make supervisors aware of the implications of introducing consultation and counseling into the supervisory relationship. (TE)
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Education, Consultants, Counselor Role
Champagne, David W.; Cobbett, Allen A. – 1983
Based on a theoretical paper on effective supervision (reproduced here), this study attempted to investigate superintendents' definitions of, knowledge of, assumptions about, and perceived effects of the supervisory structures and organization they have established in their school districts. Semistructured interviews of six superintendents in…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Case Studies
Download full textPerreault, George, Ed.; Lunenburg, Fred C., Ed. – 2002
The 26 essays in the volume compose the 10th annual yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration. The essays examine the pressing issues facing educational leaders from a variety of philosophical perspectives. The essays are as follows: "President's Message: Professors and Practitioners: Building Bridges…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Administrative Principles, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education
