Qualities of the effective principal are listed here. If you need a morale boost, something to inspire, this article is for you. (Editor)

School administrators can work to develop leadership competencies in department heads, including the ability to encourage and assist fellow teachers. Suggestions for further reading are offered. (MJL)

Introduces the five articles that follow it as being addressed to principals who need to interpret recent reseach into and issues subsumed under school effectiveness. (JW)

As instructional leader, the secondary school principal can make a difference in increasing reading skills. Those activities that have been shown to be effective include understanding the reading process, spending time in classrooms, and communicating reading's high priority. (Author/WD)

Outlines the five items that one administrative team has stressed in promoting a workable, understandable, and realistic discipline program. The best move has been making administrators and counselors visible. (Author/IRT)

An analysis of how the role of the secondary school administrator has changed during the past 30 years, based on a review of the NASSP Bulletin from January 1949 to December 1978. (Author/MLF)

Lists 10 suggestions that an assistant principal can use to enhance his/her position in the school. (LD)

Students were electronically polled about the influence of the Internet in their education and ways teachers could use this resource to motivate them and increase their learning. Responses from the 956 adolescents showed that the school quest to increase student engagement could more often be met through online assignments that facilitate…

Do you plan or hope to build a new school or renovate an old one? Practical guidelines for exerting leadership during facilities planning are provided here. (Editor)

Suggestions drawn from research and theory on problem-solving and creative decision-making. (Author/MLF)

The situational leader combines the best of many theories by selecting theoretical constructs that will assist in making the proper decision at the opportune moment. (Author)

Over 500 Texas secondary school principals emphatically say that their actual roles are not congruent with their ideal roles. The principals wish to become most involved in the instructional and curriculum leadership role. (Author/IRT)

The principal must use the interactional relationships emerging as part of the struggle within and between teachers' associations to maintain the position of principal as a functional aspect of the new leadership. (Author/IRT)