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Boland, Dr. Margaret F.; Watkins, OSF, Mary Rose – Momentum, 2000
Focuses on the leadership role of the associate/assistant superintendent and their impact on Catholic education. Writes about the scarcity of educational research on this topic, the history of this role, its areas of responsibility and organizational structure, and the need to recognize assistant superintendents for their expertise, dedication,…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Assistant Principals, Catholic Educators
Download full textTerry, Paul M. – 1996
Effective-schools research has determined that successful schools are invariably led by a principal who is recognized as an instructional leader. This paper synthesizes and attempts to clarify the most recent perspectives on instructional leadership. Data sources included professional educational journals, trade books on leadership, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership
MacNeil, Angus J.; Delafield, Dennis P. – 1998
This study examined technology implementation in the classroom and the principal's perception of what the inhibitors are to technology integration. Surveys were distributed to 112 school administrators--both principals and assistant principals--in a school district in southeast Texas. Sixty-four (57.14%) were returned. Results indicate that…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Assistant Principals, Educational Change
Cordeiro, Paula; And Others – 1993
This paper focuses on the emerging role of practitioners, students, and professors in the preparation of school administrators. The first section provides an overview of the Connecticut Administrator Preparation Program (CAPP), a 2-year program based on core modules/courses, reflection sessions, and internship experiences. The second section…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Richardson, Mike; And Others – 1989
Instructional leadership, the essential component of an effective school, does not require inborn talents, but skills that can be learned and applied. A systematically designed and implemented training program positively affects practicing principals regarding the use of time, personnel, and resources in the school. The model training program…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Demonstration Programs
Pounder, Diana G. – 1990
A frequently cited explanation for women's underrepresentation in educational administration is the incongruence between traditional administrative role stereotypes and gender stereotypes. However, this paper posits that certain educational and demographic trends may influence school administrator roles to become less stereotypically masculine.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrator Selection, Decentralization, Educational Change
Hagstrom, David A., Ed. – 1990
In this collection, 32 Alaskan principals, retired principals, assistant principals, and principals-to-be share their experiences as administrators and reflect on their feelings about the nature of the work and about schooling issues in Alaska. Nine of the writings were selected from "Totem Tales," the newsletter of Alaska's Association…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Alaska Natives, Elementary Secondary Education
Blumberg, Arthur; Greenfield, William – 1986
Unstructured interviews conducted in 1977 with eight respected elementary and secondary school principals revealed their conceptions of the principal's role and of the skills and activities that had gone into their efforts to fill that role. The eight principals are identified in terms of their outstanding characteristics, as revealed through…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education
DeFigio, Nicholas; Hughes, Sean – 1987
Increasingly, principals are being viewed as instructional leaders, professional educators active in initiating and planning teacher development programs. While most principals consider instructional leadership a high priority, they spend much of their time solving routine problems and confronting minor crises. Immediate, short-term responses take…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Crisis Management, High Schools
Holmes, Mark; Wynne, Edward A. – 1989
In 10 chapters, this book gives administrators and teachers a better understanding of how schools operate for the purpose of providing them with conceptual tools to improve performance. Chapter 1 relates what schools do and ought to do. Chapter 2 discusses the influence, power, authority, and role of the school principal. Chapter 3 analyzes…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Administrative Principles, Administrator Characteristics
Blumberg, Arthur – 1989
In three parts, this book intends to present and illustrate a way of understanding the field of school administration and the work of administrators as craft within the context of how administrators function daily. Part 1 argues for school administrators to perceive their work as craft. Part 2 describes administrators' work as craft in action and…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Qualifications
Clark, Terry A. – 1979
To help New Jersey parents and other citizens increase their involvement in schools, this handbook describes school-site management, a form of decentralized administration that can help broaden effective citizen participation in educational management. Part 1 first defines school-site (or school-based) management--a type of school governance in…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Case Studies, Citizen Participation, Elementary Secondary Education
Esp, D. G. – 1980
The Netherlands has an effective training system for secondary school administrators, in spite of an outwardly complex and compartmentalized education system. Nearly one-third of the schools are Roman Catholic, one-third Protestant, and one-third run by municipalities and by private boards. There is increasing emphasis on the growing complexity of…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrator Selection, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making
BOYAN, NORMAN J. – 1966
THE NEED FOR TWO SEPARATE STRUCTURES FOR TEACHER PARTICIPATION IN SCHOOL GOVERNMENT WAS DISCUSSED. THE FIRST STRUCTURE WOULD INVOLVE THE PARTICIPATION OF TEACHERS AS MEMBERS OF EXTRA-SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY AND EXTRINSIC CONDITIONS OF WORK. THE SECOND STRUCTURE WOULD ENCOMPASS THE PARTICIPATION OF TEACHERS…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Role, Bureaucracy, Collective Bargaining
Brown, Alan F.; And Others – 1978
A questionnaire surveying a 5 percent sample of Ontario's schools attempted to evaluate how declining enrollment is affecting principals and vice-principals in their relationships with staff, students, community, colleagues, trustees, and superiors, as well as in their personal lives. Analysis of the data reveals that there is generally more…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Assistant Principals, Decentralization
