The library media center for the restructured school must accommodate the ongoing changes in the curriculum, staffing patterns, and available resources and technologies. The process must result in facilities that can handle change, be expanded, provide for communication and interaction, and address inequities within local school communities and in…

Describes the tenets of proper preparation for collective bargaining with teachers and emphasizes the principal's role in the procedure. (Author/IRT)

School trips to museums do not have to be boring lecture-tours if educators and museum personnel work together to make the visits exciting learning experiences. Includes a simple plan for developing such trips. (Author/MD)

Guidelines and activities are presented for principals to consider as they initiate the preplanning phase for the self-study, an integral part of the accreditation process. (Author)

Presents results of a 1985 survey to identify the occupational stressors and stress-coping preferences of 212 secondary school principals from excellent schools. Primary stressors are task-based; preferred coping strategies are discussing concerns with colleagues, delegating tasks to others, and taking work home. Principals must improve planning…

Offers 20 recommendations for administrators to follow in preparing for teacher evaluation conferences. (Author/WD)

Reviews strategic planning aspects essential to educational administration, including organizing for planning, utilizing information sources, and developing the participative decision-making process. Strategic planning clearly transcends traditional and outmoded planning procedures in its ability to upset views, identify new possibilities, and…

Incident reports filed by school nurses may be one of the best sources for analyzing and preventing school injuries. By using an appropriately formatted injury report form and simple data-management computer program, information can be stored, retrieved, and analyzed. A systematic analysis may yield patterns or trends leading to changes in policy…

Surveys the broad range of existing programs and notes the implications for administrators. (Author)

Outlines how the Lounsberry Hollow Middle School in New Jersey has devised a scheduling program that minimizes the student pullout problem and maintains the academic integrity of the school day. (MD)

Experienced as a practitioner and as a student in building master schedules for both junior and senior high schools, the author recommends a procedure that puts the human element back into scheduling students and teachers into the right classes. (Editor)

Inschool suspension programs often fail due to lack of planning, inadequate financial support, insufficient monitoring procedures, inconsistent counseling and followup, and a poorly developed evaluation design. This article outlines 12 essential program elements and offers program design recommendations. (MLH)

To obtain information for planning school goals and activities, Armwood Senior High School (Seffner, Florida) decided to interview graduating seniors concerning the curricular program. This article reviews survey questions and significant responses. (MLH)

A Maryland high school has developed a formal program of school/business partnerships, with W.R. Grace Company cast in the starring role. Success depends on creating a professional position to supervise and promote school-business partnerships; providing employee training to delineate partners' roles, responsibilities, and expectations; and…

A high school principal describes the day of the terrorist attack on the federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. After meeting with assistant principals and the school nurse to make plans for dealing with possible repercussions, he told students what had happened, monitored TV broadcasts, evacuated the building during bomb scares, and…