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Rubinstein, Saul A. – American Educator, 2014
For most of the past decade, this author has studied union-management efforts to improve public education, and has witnessed extraordinary examples of teachers, union leaders, and administrators working together to improve teaching and learning. In this article, seven case studies on collaborative partnerships between teachers' unions and…
Descriptors: Unions, Labor Relations, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Motivation
Ficklen, Ellen – Executive Educator, 1982
A study of Chicago (Illinois) principals revealed many ways principals practiced "creative insubordination"--avoiding following instructions but still getting things done. Among the dodges are deliberately missing deadlines, following orders literally, ignoring channels to procure teachers or materials, and using community members to…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Elementary Secondary Education, Interprofessional Relationship, Principals
Allison, Derek J.; Morfitt, Grace; Allison, Patricia A. – 1996
What do principals discuss when they get together to "talk shop?" This paper offers some answers and discusses implications for the preparation and professional development of school leaders. The activities reported in the paper were undertaken as part of the Cognitive Approaches to School Leadership (CASL) Project. In the broadest terms…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Discussion Groups, Elementary Secondary Education, Interprofessional Relationship
Long, Claudia – Phi Delta Kappan, 1985
Two catalogs produced at the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development describe programs and practices used by elementary and secondary level building administrators to handle common problems of instructional management. Addresses and phone numbers of principals whose practices are cited are provided to encourage information…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Directories, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Dissemination
Oja, Sharon N.; Pine, Gerald J. – 1984
The Action Research on Change in Schools (ARCS) project was a collaborative action research study that involved two levels of research: a specific research project in each of two junior high schools in Michigan and New Hampshire, and a simultaneous study of the collaborative action research process itself as it relates to teachers' individual…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation