Describes the Audit of Principal Effectiveness, designed as a reliable, practical instrument for obtaining teachers' perceptions about principals' performance. Discusses the instrument's domain and factor definitions and lists some applications. Provides a copy of the instrument and three references. (MLH)

The Baylor Principals' Center encourages and provides leadership for educational improvement through the personal and professional advancement of school administrators. It fosters collegiality through "collegial circles," provides opportunities for interaction between administrators and Texas Education Agency representatives, and offers…

Now that educational reform has targeted principal performance as a key to school excellence, methods and procedures for evaluating these administrators have become an increasing concern. Current studies suggest that evaluation practices used in many districts are ill-suited to improving principals' performance and professional competence. Many…

The Texas A and M University Principals' Center serves principals by providing them with the orientation, skills, and understanding to enhance their position as instructional leaders in their schools. Some of the services offered include a Summer Academy with nine regional clusters to support principals in their regions, and a toll-free hotline…

Reports on a peer assistance program for principals involving training, observation (via shadowing), and feedback. The sample involved nine pairs of Australian principals matched by age, experience, and school size. Reports generally positive findings regarding principals' overall ratings, claimed benefits and limitations, perceived value of…

Interviews with primary headteachers in three local education authorities in the Midlands, England, disclosed heads' overall satisfaction with a new government-mandated appraisal process. Although appraisal reports are available by law to chairpersons of governing bodies, such feedback tended to be perfunctory in many cases. Headteacher appraisal…

The Bellevue Administrative Professional Development Program was successful in its attempt to have principals learn and apply the skills of clinical supervision. Future opportunities for maintaining the principals' abilities to apply such skills should emphasize the planning and conducting of postobservation conferences with the teacher. (JN)

A Nebraska principal describes her experience of a two-day workshop in the assessment center at the University of Nebraska. Both the oral and written feedback helped her formulate long- and short-term goals, increased her skills in conflict resolution and stress management, and improved her classroom observation skills. (TE)

Five self-selected triads of Western Australia (W.A.) principals served as process consultants to improve their schools. Patterns of communication, leadership procedures, tensions impeding collaboration, decision-making, and problem-solving procedures were the foci of attention. The strategy asked each consultant pair (in turn) to clarify their…

Indiana University South Bend (IUSB) School Leadership Project has adopted as a central educational strategy, problem based learning and its sub-model, problems of practice, in its program to prepare school leaders. Problems of practice is an active learning model that involves students in taking responsibility for their learning by immersing…