Student confidentiality can create challenges for both school counselors and administrators. The article addresses historical and ethical issues surrounding confidentiality in schools as well as methods of working toward collaboration. Developing an understanding of one another's ethical, legal, and professional responsibilities can lead to a…

Academic leadership directly helps faculty members, administrative leaders, and professional support persons improve the quantity and quality of student learning. Those who regularly lead decision-making and action-taking processes in curriculum, instruction, and assessment of student learning can be called academic leaders. This article focuses…

Cites research related to management teams, pinpoints some decision-making methods they use, presents team models, and cautions readers about their use. (JM)

Examines several management theories dealing with subordinate-supraordinate relationships and concludes that the most favorable relationship occurs in the institution when the transactional decision-making method is used. (Author/IRT)

Provides a model for developing a course in student leadership at the secondary level. Includes a sample outline for a Basic Leadership Course and a sample outline for an Advanced Leadership Course. (MD)

For schools that are too large to give individualized attention to student problems, the house system's team approach to problem-solving responsibility may be the answer. One house organization plan is explained in detail here. (Editor)

To implement school-based management successfully, the decision makers must reach consensus about degrees and levels of school and school district control of allocating human, financial, curricular, instructional, equipment, and school plant resources. This article sketches three different decision-making scenarios related to hiring teachers and…

Communication with staff can be improved if the variability in information processing preferences is accommodated. Communication based on cognitive style can increase the probability of follow-through while reducing misunderstanding and potential conflict. The Jungian definition of cognitive style is most widely used; the Myers Briggs Type…

Describes a successfully pilot-tested planning model that focuses on the decisions that need to be made at the school level. (IRT)

Total Quality Management is a team approach that challenges administrators to rethink their traditional decision-making and problem-solving strategies. This article describes the use of pilot programs (Key Communicators Network, School Leadership Teams, and a Number "One"derful Idea program) to help teachers feel part of a professional…