Describes five types of stress (relationship, personal, financial, health-related, and emotional) and offers advice on how to successfully cope with each. (Contains seven references.) (PKP)

Veteran superintendent offers his colleagues advice, based on his own experience, on how to have a healthy, productive career until retirement. Advice centers on suggestions for maintaining physical, mental, social, spiritual, and professional well-being. (PKP)

Offers superintendents suggestions for achieving and maintaining physical fitness through proper diet and exercise. (PKP)

Describes the successful implementation of a senior volunteers program in the Butte (Montana) Public Schools known as the Retired and Seniors Volunteer Program (RSVP) funded by the National Senior Service Corp. (PKP)

Between 69 percent and 90 percent of English language learners (ELLs) in middle and high schools were born in the United States and have been in U.S. schools since kindergarten still have not achieved the academic proficiency to succeed in an all-English mainstream program. Various ELL program options are available for school districts to…

Briefly reviews different types of tax-deferred annuities (TDA's) and describes the National Education Association's TDA Studies--comparative analyses of specific fixed, variable, and qualified mutual fund annuity packages. (PGD)

Describes Texas program that allows school districts to access Medicaid funds as partial reimbursement for medically related services that are provided to Medicaid-eligible children who are identified for special-education services and who have specific eligible services written into their individualized educational plans. (Author/PKP)

Discusses issues related to reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act pertaining to assessment and accountability requirements in the No Child Left Behind Act. (PKP)

Breaks community member attitudes toward education into three groups: Supporters, nonsupporters, and neutrals. Describes how best to communicate with individuals in each group. (PKP)

Describes beneficial experience as both an executive coach and a client. (PKP)

Describes how Charlotte-Mecklenburg (North Carolina) district used a relational database, e-mail, electronic newsletters, cable television, telecommunications, and the Internet to enhance communications with their constituencies. (PKP)

Retired school administrator describes five types of school personnel that make an administrator's job difficult: Bushwackers, termites, CIA moles, rumor-mill addicts, and sartorial slobs. For example, termites are staff members who purposely volunteer for committees so they can sabotage the group's efforts from within. (PKP)

Describes positive and negative school district experiences with block scheduling. (PKP)

Describes harmonious, eight-step budget-cutting process used by Quincy (Massachusetts) Public Schools. (PKP)

Describes key provisions of two recent federal program for rural schools: The Rural and Small Schools Achievement Program for rural districts with fewer than 600 students and the Rural and Low Income School Program for larger, high-poverty rural districts. (PKP)