This practical book deals with the emotional and moral dimensions of school leadership. The author sets out the intra-personal and interpersonal attributes, attitudes and behaviours necessary to develop emotional and moral leadership within the school community. The book provides a range of person-centred strategies for building communities of…

In this article, the authors present Edwin Diaz, superintendent of California's Gilroy Unified School District and discuss the common challenges and strategies among those education leaders who take on--and succeed at--the role of change agent and reformer. When Edwin Diaz became superintendent of California's Gilroy Unified School District in…

This paper explores whether potential school leaders can be identified and encouraged earlier in their lives. The story of Judy, a teacher who became the leader of an innovative technology project, provides clues to her development as a professional and her creation of the vision that inspired the project. The numerous markers in Judy's life that…

Steps toward a theory of leadership must blend needed change with appropriate strategies for implementation. Discussions of leadership must begin with the concept of empowerment, since all leaders are empowerers. The theory that drives empowerment is the theory of individual differences, here based on C. G. Jung's ideas of four main personality…

At a time when our nation faces crisis for want of ethical and moral leadership in all facets of our society, the business educator must not shirk the responsibility to teach those intangible characteristics of leadership that are needed by those who prepare themselves for leadership in our society. (Author)

This paper argues that the search for and development of talent in science and mathematics must not be so circumscribed that every young person found with that talent be captured for science and mathematics careers. Talented youth should also be prepared for broader roles in the betterment of society. Leadership needs to be strengthened, in the…

A study was made to standardize instruction in the Army's Leadership Preparation Program (LPP). A portion of the LPP was converted to an automated method of instruction, accomplished mostly through the use of tape-recorded lectures and supported by visual aid frames. A comparison study was then made with the conventional lecture-conference…

The program treated in this document assumes that most present educational leaders are perhaps not as effectively trained as possible. Funded by the Mary Flager Cary Trust, the 5-year project is designed to train a selected group of experienced teachers of children--especially minority group teachers from inner-city schools--to become educational…

This manual was designed for second grade children learning in small groups under an open classroom approach in which leadership and active participation are encouraged. It was intended especially for bilingual classrooms where children have a good opportunity to learn a second language from one another. Some instructions appear in Spanish…

Although many authors have spoken to the concept of leadership, basic predictive theory has eluded all who attempt to define it. This paper undertakes to conclude inductive principles suggested within published leadership literature of an experimental design. A thorough review of this intangible, leadership, was undertaken from papers indexed in…

Utilizing the terminology of the Managerial Grid (a two-dimensional model clarifying the behavioral dynamics of a manager's concern for both people and productivity), the team builder is advocated as the most effective leadership style. Presents a rebuttal to the counter belief that leadership styles should change with the situation. (EM)

Leadership is different from management, but much of the confusion about leadership stems from equating the two. The differences between leadership, involvement, and management are discussed. Leaders have vision, power, are doers, embrace conflict, and meet the needs and wants of followers. (MLW)

Urges the development of community leaders whose performance can skillfully and sensitively deal with the needs of the community. (Author/JB)

This paper describes the training seminar approach for providing family life leaders in developing countries during times of rapid social change. It has been found that the effective service rendered by trainees as they returned to their home communities was closely related to the qualities and qualifications they brought to the seminar.…

Describes a study which measured to what degree selected leadership theories concerning human relations taught during a management training course are transferred to job performance in the field. (CT)