A practical strategy to help school administrators improve curricula is presented. (MJL)

Developed primarily to assist local administrators and teachers in planning and implementing secondary level vocational health occupations programs, this guide is also designed for vocational guidance personnel who assist students in making career choices. Section topics are as follow: trends in health care, health occupations education…

This booklet covers advisory committees in vocational education, particularly vocational agriculture. Focus is on the following topics: advisory committee defined, types of advisory committees or councils, suggested steps in organizing and implementing advisory committees, functions of advisory committees, suggestions and precautions in the…

In the two-step process of student scheduling, the initial phase of course selection is the most important. At Chesterton High School in Indiana, student self-scheduling is preferred over computer loading. (Author/MLF)

Presents guidelines for teacher observation and evaluation. (Author/MLF)

Suggests 30 strategies a secondary school principal can follow for (1) improving rapport with parents, students, subordinates, superiors, and community representatives; (2) enhancing his or her own image and that of the school; and (3) ensuring the smooth administrative functioning of the school. (PGD)

This article can be used as a checklist in surveying individual school situations before developing strategies to overcome the possibility of resegregation. (Author/MLF)

A review of school vandalism and specific systems and approaches to use in preventing it. (LD)

The High School Self-Renewal Program offers a method for defining and solving school problems. (Author)

Argues that the secondary principal's most important duty is helping his teachers to respond to student needs, and presents six guidelines for principals to follow in helping teachers. (JG)

Provides suggestions for building a reputation for service journalism, including (1) how to get started; (2) how to build service journalism once it is started; and (3) how to maintain service journalism. (MM)

This book, designed as a mentoring and training tool for experienced and new secondary school principals, is a guide for attaining what the authors call "authenticity." An authentic principal is defined as one guided by service and responsibility for students and staff. The book is written in narrative form through the eyes of a…

This "how-to-do-it" manual on the intricacies of school scheduling offers both technical information and common sense advice about the process of secondary school scheduling. The first of six chapters provides an overview of scheduling; chapter 2 examines specific considerations for scheduling; chapter 3 surveys the scheduling models and their…

Describes a process of supervision that the author used successfully when he was a principal. (Author/MLF)

An accessory to a principal's repertoire of techniques used in managing administrative task areas is the role of the principal as an administrative gamesman. (Author/MLF)