Describes a school discipline model with five stages (problem identification, data collection, administrator-student conference, student response, and follow-up reports) that addresses due process while efficiently resolving disciplinary problems, providing immediate feedback to students and teachers, minimizing classroom disruption, and promoting…

Curriculum development should be a comprehensive process requiring a broad-based view of the educational system and its place within society, thus necessitating the use of a systematic curriculum development model. Such a model is provided here. Three references are provided. (DCS)

Immediate steps must be taken to construct a plan to help middle school students make the transition to the high school. A Program Evaluation and Review Technique model for helping to construct such an articulation plan is provided in this article, and program sequence and timeline charts are included. (DCS)

Describes the Walker-Carfield Model for teacher evaluation, designed to reduce teacher anxiety and hostility and reduce administrator time. Includes the Teacher Effectiveness Chart. (MD)

Four research models used by schools to study writing across the curriculum are compared and discussed briefly, reasons for conducting such research are considered, and recommendations are provided for those interested in conducting similar research. The models cited were used in New Jersey, Toronto (Canada), and Perth (Australia). (PGD)

Presents a team-management bargaining model, which gives school principals a more central role. The five steps in the model include contract item analysis, negotiating team membership, contract administration, strike management, and poststrike administration. (Author/WD)

Guides school administrators through a process to institute a workable criterion-referenced instructional system. (Author/MLF)

Outlines the uses of power in the position of principal. Includes definitions of types of power and explains how to implement an empowering approach that enables principals to have power "with" not "over" their teachers. (MD)

Provides a model for developing a course in student leadership at the secondary level. Includes a sample outline for a Basic Leadership Course and a sample outline for an Advanced Leadership Course. (MD)

Presents a plan for individualizing and personalizing teacher supervision and evaluation. Includes five illustrations of components involved in the plan. (MD)

The supposed gulf between curriculum development as it is practiced, and curriculum theory, may be an imaginary one, this article suggests. Textbook curriculum axioms are used to analyze Mississippi's Accountability and Instructional Management program, and it is found to be consistent with the theory taught in college classrooms. (DCS)

Presents a model explaining student misbehavior in the classroom and an instrument that translates the model into improved supervision of teachers, particularly in helping teachers learn to handle student misbehavior. (Author/IRT)

Presents the "Change Potential Analysis Chart," a tool for administrators to use in successfully managing change. (Author/JM)

The author shows how "Star Trek" is more than a television show about space exploration and the future. Captain Kirk's style demonstrates there are goals to be achieved. (Author/MLF)

Outlines the plan used in the Longview, Washington, public schools for determining the rate of compensation for coaches and activity advisors. (Author/JG)