Principal leadership has been identified as the key to successful implementation of inclusive education for students with disabilities. Prospective principals require knowledge, skills, and dispositions to equip them to work with key stakeholders to initiate and sustain inclusive practices within their schools. The purpose of this action research…

A profile of one state's principal preparation programs is presented in this article. The collaborative inquiry process used to develop a program narrative instrument and to capture data on characteristics of all 17 state-approved programs in the state of Indiana is provided. The statewide preparation program characteristics profiled in this…

Purpose: This paper aims to discuss the teaching and assessment strategies for an organisation-centred curriculum. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on a case study. Data were collected from interviews and a focus group with worker-learners enrolled in a Graduate Certificate in Education (Educational Leadership) course. Findings: The…

The purpose of this paper was to explore the role and purpose of school administrators in international schools and obtain data helpful in redesigning principal preparation programs. An ethnographic case study was designed to obtain perceptions of issues related to leadership, curriculum, teachers, students, and parents in two U.S. accredited…

A program was developed at a local college to provide directors of child care centers, Head Start programs, nursery schools, and school-based early childhood programs with formal training in administration, supervision, and program development to help them better manage their programs. The program was the result of a collaborative effort by…

Providing a history of the development and evaluation, this report discusses an information product designed to provide useful information to those responsible for staff development. The SourceBook purpose is to increase awareness of the kinds of products that are available for training in instructional planning and management, and to provide…

A knowledge base to guide the development of educational leadership programs is suggested in this report. The first part reviews sources of the educational leadership knowledge base, which include the traditional sources of school administrator experience and statutory specification, and recent sources, such as research on administrator induction…

These proceedings begin with a history of the workshop series and a statement of the workshop's goals and purpose, specifically to examine issues related to graduate-level education as an extension staff development activity. A program overview and greetings precede the keynote address on the part graduate education can play in development of…

This book is the fifth edition in a series designed to help individuals plan programs and teach courses in leadership. It offers descriptions of various methods, designs, current texts, and development tools for teaching leadership education. Following the introduction, the first part on courses and programs includes sections on the following:…

This is the 2011 Yearbook of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA). This Yearbook contains five parts. Part I, Invited Chapters, includes: (1) NCPEA President's Message, 2011 (Gary W. Kinsey); (2) Shadows and Images II (Lloyd Duvall); and (3) Micropolitics in the School: Teacher Leaders' Use of Political Skill…

This 3-year project aimed to improve delivery of support and instructional services among 33 West Virginia county school districts in implementing special education mandates. The participating school districts are within the service area of West Virginia University. The introduction details each year's objectives. "Year one" pursued…

This document presents a strategy for education reform. It focuses on four major issues: (1) the students' future employability; (2) strategies for increasing the nation's investment in education that would increase payoffs for students and society; (3) a program for upgrading the professionalism of teachers and improving the quality of education…

This combined management audit and personnel staffing survey of a sample of Alabama schools reports recommendations for policy changes to the Alabama Education Study Commission. Policy changes in educational management are suggested with respect to school organization, state fund apportionment procedures, curriculum development, test scoring,…

China has recently developed a national infrastructure of institutional units, from the central to county level, for the training of educational administrators. The range, scope, and dimensions of educational administrative training as conducted in China in 1985 are described in this document. Contents include an introduction to the Chinese system…

One of five modules in the administrative series of the 16-module series designed to train vocational education curriculum specialists, this module is intended for use in classes or individual study arrangements at the preservice or inservice level by students with varying amounts of experience in vocational education. (These modules are revised…