Teachers are the most effective change agents for improving schooling. The Reading to Learn project suggests ways for administrators to promote collaborative teaching, including encouraging the coaching concept among teachers, creating support systems, offering ongoing teacher training opportunities, setting expectations for experimentation and…

Many principals recognize the assistant principal's role as either a career commitment or a step on the administrative career ladder. A strong mentoring relationship enables the principal to facilitate the assistant principal's maturation and professional development through initiation, collaboration, inclusiveness, coaching, reciprocation,…

To ensure secondary school counseling program effectiveness, administrators should know the premises underlying all guidance and counseling programs, the components of all school counseling programs, and the major helping processes used by professional counselors. This article introduces a special section focusing on counseling research studies,…

If school leaders are to resolve the unique administrative problems that educational reforms, greater parental involvement, new legislation, and a continuously changing society will generate, existing professional development experiences must be improved substantially. School councils will expect administrators to assess complex situations,…

Principals and central-office administrators often spend little time interacting or discussing curriculum, instruction, and staff development. Leadership consciousness must be formed through links between schools and the central office. In a restructured setting, central-office leaders support the principal, provide technical assistance and…