Strategic leadership is built upon traits and actions that encompass the successful execution of all leadership styles. In a world that is rapidly changing, strategic leadership in schools guides school leader through assuring constant improvement process by anticipating future trends and planning for them and noting that plans must be flexible to…

Many contemporary superintendents face a new challenge, one of ensuring that the school buildings in their school districts are safe, sound, and conducive to offering the educational programs found in twenty-first century classrooms. Despite the growing need to upgrade the physical plants in many school districts, few superintendents have the…

Many studies have documented small negative relationships between teacher absences and student achievement. The purpose of our research was to explore relationships between teacher absences and student achievement in a large urban school district in the southeastern United States. The work emerged from a question directed to the Accountability…

Reviews responsibilities and structure of local boards of education; notes deficits. Improvements suggested: additional qualifications for board members; changing to an active, creative, thoughtful board; more attention to curricular policies; board committees with greater emphasis on the curricular; appropriate school officials seated with boards…

School Boards of the future will have to be politically controlled, members will have monetary compensation, and boards will represent an approximate 15,000 to 20,000 students rather than the traditional 1,000 to 3,500. (Author/MB)

A needs assessment produced the four themes (school board member role, communications linkages and processes, problem solving and decision making, planning) which provided the framework for a successful weekend leadership training workshop for Fort Worth (Texas) Independent School District School Board Members. (SB)

The study investigated the association of school superintendents' Machiavellian orientation and self-perceptions of influence as well as school board members' and other administrators' perceptions of superintendent's influence. (Author/JC)

Concluding that well-developed tenure provisions benefit both school and community, while haphazard application or improper enforcement of these provisions leads to conflict, this article details the purpose of tenure, its legal aspects, and the advantages and disadvantages for teachers and for school systems. (JC)

A survey of 557 school boards across Canada was conducted to obtain a profile of the political and local background of Canadian school board members. The importance of such factors as age, race, sex, income, occupation, education, organizational membership, political affiliation and family involvement within the education system is discussed. (TLJ)

Uses political economy theory as a framework for analyzing the interorganizational relationship peculiar to school-university cooperative efforts. Examines specific cooperative projects in terms of domain and ideological concensus, interorganizational evaluation and work coordination; and their combined effect on resource maintenance/acquisition…

The study of 228 Maine principals measures actual and preferred roles of school principals during teacher-board contract negotiations, compares elementary and secondary data, and draws conclusions related to five role types (principals as administration representatives, as separate bargaining units, as part of teachers' organizations, as…

Explores assumptions behind local control of public schools by elected boards of education, e.g., existence of personal choice, availability and use of information, power to intervene in school affairs and willingness to exercise that power, and ability to create stable environment in which organizational changes can be sustained. (AH)

Reports a dangerous gap between information school districts give teachers and information teachers want or need. Provides suggestions for better upward and downward communications between teachers and administrators. (AH)

Adoption of the Behavior Analysis Model by the Northern Cheyenne Tribe led to dramatic gains for Native Americans in (1) frequency and percent of decision making at Policy Advisory Committee meetings and (2) school board membership. The effect of this involvement is discussed in terms of quality control. (DS)