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Barth, Roland S. – 1985
This paper describes a new approach devised by the Harvard Principals' Center for improving professional development for practicing principals. The approach is predicated on a novel conception of principals as life-long learners and on the proposition that principals themselves can and should assume major responsibility for all aspects of their…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Cooperative Planning
Wimpelberg, Robert K. – 1984
Voluntary organizations providing inservice activities for principals are the newest in the administrative development field. This paper explores those organizations' prospects, particularly the voluntary, administrator-directed "principals' center," and borrows its analytical framework from theories of group formation. The Principals' Center in…
Descriptors: Administrators, Agency Role, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
Daresh, John C.; LaPlant, James C. – 1984
To help classify and map the field of administrative inservice, five generic administrative inservice models may be identified and their strengths and weaknesses determined based on what is known about effective inservice practices. The models are a traditional model, institutes, competency-based programs, the academy, and networking. A review of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education