Supervisors should be responsible for long-range instructional planning, monitoring planned changes in programs, program evaluation and experimentation of new instructional ways. (Author/AF)

This study revealed that supervisors' actual duties are not those described in the literature. In fact, supervisors maintain day-to-day operation of the school system, serve as a center of communication (mostly direct verbal contact), and participate in other highly fragmented activities. (Author/JM)

School performance is as closely tied to competent administration, effective supervision, and dynamic management as it is to aggressive leadership. Transformational leadership arises when leaders are more concerned about gaining staff cooperation and energetic participation than accomplishing particular tasks. (MLH)

By describing a typical hectic week in the life of an assistant principal, the author demonstrates why there is little time for educational leadership. (JM)

Describes principal William Corbett and the characteristics that make him an effective principal; his foremost strength is commitment to the instructional program. (JM)