"The Learning System" is an eight-page newsletter published eight times a year. Designed for superintendents and central office staff with professional learning responsibilities. This issue includes: (1) Superintendent Stays on Course with Personal Learning Plan (Valerie von Frank); (2) District Leadership: Permit, Don't Proscribe, to Build Leadership (Hayes Mizell); (3) Focus on NSDC's [National Staff Development Council's] Standards: Do the Right Thing! (Pat Roy); and (4) NSDC Tool: Iowa Individual Administrator Professional Development Plan to Be Developed Collaboratively between Administrator and Supervisor. (Individual articles contain references.) [For Volume 4, Number 8 of "The Learning System," see ED507671.]