The Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) has achieved particular success in operationalizing the National Higher Education and Workforce Initiative (HEWI) in Maryland around cybersecurity. Leveraging its membership of corporate CEOs, university presidents, and government agency leaders, BHEF partnered with the University System of Maryland to…

Engaging families and communities in physical activities for the benefit of children is an extension of the role of a physical education instructor. Although it is possible for a physical educator to generate ideas that encourage families and communities to move, a certified director of physical activity (C-DPA) would be better trained to…

Describes an experimental effort in in-service administrator education that evolved from the literature on change and developed to meet the particular needs of the Swedish educational system. (Author/IRT)

Relatively little specific information is available about basic administrative concerns in organizing a group counseling program. This article presents basic methodological issues and provides step-by-step guidelines for initiating a group counseling program, including rationale, pregroup activities, and selection and orientation of group members.…

This mini-packet is designed to help school districts that are writing an educational philosophy as part of the Local Planning and Assessment Process (LPAP). There are two basic uses for the mini-packet: to acquaint teachers and the lay public with what developing an educational philosophy will require and to guide a committee in writing an…

The activities of the Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) in helping administrators cope with the aftermath of P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, are described. (CL)

Described is the development and implementation of a competency based training program in special education administration. The historical development and components (including individualized and field-centered instruction) of the Special Education Administration Training Program (SEATP) are reviewed. Implementation of such a model is seen to…

A program to teach evaluation skills to middle-management administrative personnel is described. The course consisted of three training sessions totaling 12 hours. The course notebook materials presented are: (1) objectives; (2) planning educational experiences through systematic procedures; (3) outline of materials--what is evaluation?, where…

This article briefly critiques management by objectives (MBO) as a means of specifying administrator tasks and then describes the implementation of MBO in the West Bloomfield School District, Orchard Lake, Michigan. (Author/DS)

Addressed to persons responsible for developing all kinds of training programs, this two-part monograph provides information for replication of a program titled "Training Administrators of Community-based Residential Correctional Facilities," of the training process used in the Community Corrections Training Project. Part 1 describes the…

This booklet examines the topic of inservice training for educational administrators and is intended to aid school district personnel interested in developing and implementing such programs. Besides discussing the inservice training opportunities currently available for Oregon school administrators, the authors also provide general guidelines for…

Adversarial relationships existing among medical students, nurses, and hospital staff members were recognized at Hermann Hospital, a private, nonprofit teaching hospital in Houston, Texas, to be potentially detrimental to patient care. A joint communications committee identified ways to improve relations between medical students and hospital…

This paper discusses the role and training needs of school leaders and then describes the rationale and basic design of a two-year Swedish program for training school leaders. The first half of the paper presents a democratic view of modern educational leadership and then examines the implications of that view for the design of training programs…

The National Level Internship Program is designed to give eight students at the doctoral level in educational administration the opportunity to work for a year in federal or private, special or general education agencies at the national level. The purpose is to provide training to a new generation of educational leaders at a time when the need to…

Management by Objectives (MBO) has been used by many businesses as a means of improving performance by managers. MBO involves setting agreed performance objectives in writing and includes a periodic review of the degree of achievement of those objectives. This document argues that MBO principles should be used by colleges and universities, and it…