The role of the instructional leader is to facilitate good instruction, which necessitates characteristics and skills of a personal, professional, and managerial nature. The authors list these characteristics and skills and suggest that the real instructional leader will try to determine how his teachers perceive him in relation to these skills.…

The manual of role descriptions, flow charts, and sample forms are presented to assist New Mexico education agencies implement special education. Sections cover the following areas: roles and responsibilities, identification of exceptional children and youth, educational appraisal and review committee, special education process, nonbiased…