Besides spotlighting education and influencing agencies' intervention in the educational processes, the recent reform movement has focused attention on all educational actors and called for increased accountability for teachers and administrative staff, including principals. While researchers disagree on the degree of instructional leadership…

School staff members need continuing opportunities to learn and grow because the waves of social change strike them first and most powerfully. Research on effective schools tends to stress staff development as crucial. School boards are involved in the development of their staff. A staff development program of broad scope and sharp focus can…

Asserts that high turnover in educational administrative personnel, especially principals, necessitates that attention and resources be allocated to administrative staff development. Recommends peer coaching as a way for principals to help each other, and presents a model for implementing a staff-development program. (VWC)

The organizational and human productivity knowledge-base expansion of the past 5 years indicates that educational leaders and support staff must assume responsibility for schooling together to change student achievement patterns. The sociological management challenge is one of empowering groups to address educational productivity. The…

A profile of leadership behaviors that describes principals who successfully improve schools has emerged from effective schools literature and research of the corporate world. Instructional leadership involves four technical tasks that comprise a leadership profile: curriculum development, teaching supervision, staff development, and teacher…

Guidelines for central office staff and personnel involved in school-based management efforts are offered in this manual. Contents include an overview of school-based management and the functions of school site councils, suggestions for training designs, and nine training modules. Topics addressed in the module include: the roles and…