This book was written for the student-practitioner. It introduces organizational and leadership theories that are especially relevant to educational administration programs that prepare students for school and district leadership roles. It begins with a historical overview of organizational theory, in chapter 1, to provide a framework for…

This paper describes a retreat, "Leadership without Easy Answers," which was held for leaders in the arts community. It examines whether the retreat had a positive impact on the leadership work of the participants, and it discusses ways that the retreat influenced leadership development in arts advocacy. Attending the retreat were…

Using the analogy of ship's captain, the authors illustrate three types of leadership for school principals: nomothetic, idiographic, and transactional. (Editor)

Author outlines the dimensions, perspectives, and dimensions of leadership that are applicable to the principalship. (Editor)

The purpose herein is to suggestively demonstrate that careful scrutiny of the existing body of knowledge by practicing educators can reveal possible solutions to the continual attacks upon American education by diverting energy to the enhancement of educational endeavors. (Author/RK)

Approaches to developing management ability include systematic techniques, mental enlargement, self-analysis, and job-related counseling. A method is proposed to integrate them into a responsive program involving depth understanding, vision of the future, specialization commitment to change, and self-monitoring control. (MS)

Controversy in the educational environment is a naturally occurring phenomenon. A change model is presented to show alternative ways of dealing with controversy and using it to bring about change. (MS)

The author outlines 3 principles of learning and discusses their implications for management training. (Author/PG)

Article offers 13 guidelines for improving educational leadership in schools at the district level. (GB)

Paper attempts to identify two of the reasons for the slow progress of school superintendents in bringing positive, significant, and lasting improvement to their schools, and to develop a scheme for preparing central staff and school principals for the change process. (Author)

Article describes results of a study at Northeastern University on the effects of programs for experienced business managers. (Author/MM)

Outlines the history and status of the National Academy for School Executives (NASE), a new approach to administrator inservice education sponsored by the AASA. (DE)

A pilot physical education project uses personnel from elementary, secondary, university, and district programs to train 10th graders in recreational leadership so that they can work in elementary school physical education and recreation programs. (Editor/MB)