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Williams, Tom – Education Canada, 1976
Today's educational leaders have been accused of being vacillating, waffling and out of tune with the times. The author points out the issues, the problems and the potential trends and urges administrators to re-establish their credibility and identity as a profession. (Editor)
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Conflict Resolution, Educational Administration
Moorthy, David – Education Canada, 1992
Although principals typically emphasize their managerial role, they need to increase their role as instructional leaders. The principal's role as an instructional leader encompasses three dimensions: (1) defining the school mission; (2) overseeing the instructional program; and (3) promoting the school learning climate. (KS)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Hickcox, Edward S. – Education Canada, 1974
What can be done about creating a better working relationship between trustees and officials? The author offers a few suggestions. (Editor)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Educational Administration
Flower, George – Education Canada, 1973
Author specified three crucial suggestions that seemed central in looking at the challenge of educational leadership while considering the role of the administrator. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Decision Making, Educational Administration, Educational Development
Andrews, John – Education Canada, 1969
Based on an address given at a conference for school trustees in London, Ontario, on March 27, 1969.
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrative Problems, Administrator Role, Boards of Education
Henchey, Norman – Education Canada, 1981
Discusses pressures on education in the 1980s: declining enrollments, school criticism, increasing government control, demands for parent participation, competition for public resources, rising energy costs, growing media impact, climate of uncertainty and turbulence. Describes roles administrators can utilize in meeting these challenges:…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Administration, Educational Change, Educational Strategies
Hay, Gordon C. – Education Canada, 1980
Since 1960 the role of the secondary school principal has changed greatly for many reasons. Changes are apparent in the areas of competencies needed to be a principal, leadership, training programs for principals, and the relationship of principals to professional teachers' associations. The principal's primary task is now one of management. (SB)
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Role, Competence, Educational Administration
Girard, Luc; Daouda, Gba – Education Canada, 1999
Examines the link between educational leadership in schools and students' performance. Educational leadership is a determining factor in student success. A leader must define and communicate the school's mission; plan, organize, supervise, and evaluate curriculum and teaching; foster a positive climate for learning, with clear student…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Role, Educational Administration, Educational Environment
May, William J. – Education Canada, 1983
Defines the principal's role as educational leader. Shows how the status of principals and the bureaucracy of public schools in Canada limit the principal's role. Explains the Canadian school budgeting process and its disadvantages. Suggests that school-based management can overcome educational centralization. (SB)
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Role, Budgeting, Bureaucracy
Ralph, Edwin – Education Canada, 1988
Discusses recent shift in role of school district administrator from that of "chief" to that of coordinator, who influences educational policy decisions through "political" style. Describes new postgraduate internship programs for beginning teachers in Alberta and British Columbia; outlines effective responses of district…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Policy, Educational Administration
