Counselors and administrators need to collaboratively build a guidance program. This article offers a model of a people-oriented guidance program that requires the principal's active participation in challenging old assumptions and exploring new roles to bring about change. A checklist for establishing an effective program is provided. (Author/WD)

Presents a team-management bargaining model, which gives school principals a more central role. The five steps in the model include contract item analysis, negotiating team membership, contract administration, strike management, and poststrike administration. (Author/WD)

The expectancy theory model, a system using appropriate rewards for appropriate behavior, may be helpful to principals in motivating personnel. (Author/MLF)

A description of the organizational structure of a system for districtwide organization of staff and a process for curriculum development, coordination, and evaluation. (Author/MLF)

Presents the "Change Potential Analysis Chart," a tool for administrators to use in successfully managing change. (Author/JM)

This article examines one aspect of the principal's role - the supervisory function - and asks whether the principal can convey human sensitivities in supervision rather than the all-too-frequent benevolent despotism. (Editor)

Describes a model for principals to follow in involving teachers in implementing educational change. (JG)

Reviews the various dimensions of persuasion. (MLF)

For schools that are too large to give individualized attention to student problems, the house system's team approach to problem-solving responsibility may be the answer. One house organization plan is explained in detail here. (Editor)

This article focuses on one systematic design model--Planned Instructional Emphasis--and the principal's function in its use. In addition, some leadership strategies for use when implementing an instructional design model are outlined. (Author)

This author discusses the need for employer-based career education, barriers to its widespread implementation, and how to overcome those barriers with changes in staffing and fund allocation. If career education is one of your top priorities, you'll find this indispensable reading. (Editor)

A positive climate is characterized by a comfortable, orderly, and safe environment. A healthy culture exists when all stakeholders understand an organization's goals and purposes and work productively to achieve them. This article contrasts the "McSchool" (efficiency-celebrating) cultural model with the spaceship-discovery model,…

Describes a comprehensive guidance model designed to help the middle school student achieve the developmental and learning tasks of transescence and outlines a step-by-step plan for implementing the model. (Author/IRT)

Presents research-based guidelines for improving instruction. Areas treated include planning, teaching method and style, classroom management, student-teacher relationships, and conditions that inhibit good teaching. (MCG)

Offers a teacher evaluation model designed to help principals understand their role as instructional supervisor. The model can also help teachers understand the nature of the evaluation being accomplished, facilitate the delegation of formative evaluation to others, and reconcile two seemingly irreconcilable processes. (12 references) (MLH)