The camp community is plagued by various stereotypes, including that camps and their staff are excessively happy, of poor quality, focused on partying and debauchery, scary, or overly strict. These cliches are perpetuated by the mass media. Each stereotype is discussed, and strategies for countering them during staff training are presented. (TD)

Highlights elements of effective leadership and briefly discusses each. Also covers specific elements of ineffective leadership. Describes the role of the teacher as leader and the importance of executing this role effectively. (ET)

Discusses how to teach teachers who want to become administrators or supervisors, explaining the importance of ensuring that they have clear visions and are willing to take responsibility for their actions. Four relevant issues to consider include articulating personal visions, anchoring those visions, personal modeling, and rearranging classroom…

Analyzes the concept of educational technology leadership and how it differs from leadership in general. Leadership research is reviewed, levels of skills are examined, consequences of leadership are discussed, leadership training is considered, and a technology leadership training program is outlined. (27 references) (LRW)

This special section features research concluding that volunteers find the time because they believe they have more time to help (Rowland); an extension program using volunteer master teachers (Feather); use of volunteer marketing professionals (Fromer); retaining volunteers through leadership training (Balliette, Smith); "problem" volunteers and…

Describes how narrative fiction can help prepare school leaders by involving imagination and aesthetic experience. The article examines the research-narrative link, the teaching-learning process, and the use of novels to explore administrative and social issues such as race, class, gender, language, experience, symbolic order, professions, and…

A Singapore educator reflects on the transformation of Singapore to an urban, consumer society. Reviews the need and opportunities for adventure in Singapore, including commercially operated play programs for young children, field trips and extracurricular activities for school-age children, leadership training programs for the upper secondary…

Compassion, healing, and the emphasis on process that are hallmarks of experiential education give it a role in building more compassionate communities and encouraging systemic change for the better. Recommendations for fulfilling this role include creating time to reflect, living both within and beyond "tribe," practicing consciousness…

In this article, the author shares the anxiety she first felt when she learned that she will be teaching a course on the spiritual dimensions of leadership. She was afraid of the fact that she would be going to give up a lot of control when she starts this course. Unlike teaching organization theory, where the boundaries seem clear and tidy,…

Leadership, like diversity, is often used in education as an all-encompassing notion, applied to a wide variety of situations, or at times, used rather loosely. The danger with such an approach is the lack of specificity. Yet, specificity can set the boundaries so narrow that one is led to believe one approach is better than another or that "one…

A new model for promoting leadership development in programs emphasizes individuals' psychological development. The model, which is intended for use by individuals responsible for leadership development in organizations or by leadership development program planners/evaluators, is based on a cyclic process of three time-linked categories: readiness…

This document includes a description of the conference on preparing leaders in vocational education, the conference evaluation data, a participant list, and a paper, "Resources for Leadership Development: Concepts, Criteria, and Examples" (Finch, Gregson). The paper constitutes the majority of the document and includes resource concepts and…

After an introduction by Derek Allison describing the rationale of this inquiry and the preliminary research performed, three reflections on the current status of the educational administration field are presented. Goldwyn Emerson urges those in educational administration to borrow knowledge and methods from related fields and suggests that…

Forces of societal change have placed new demands on school administrators for skills to manage schools. The result has been an increasing realization of the need for improved university preparation programs and for more effective Human Resource Development (HRD) for practicing administrators. A growing body of research shows a very positive…

Kansas State University and the Topeka Public Schools are operating a model leadership academy for the identification and advanced preparation of educational administrators for building-level positions. (JOW)