Experienced as a practitioner and as a student in building master schedules for both junior and senior high schools, the author recommends a procedure that puts the human element back into scheduling students and teachers into the right classes. (Editor)

Is student self-scheduling the way to reduce class changes, provide more students with their first choices, and make everyone happier, or is it a method that deludes the principal into abdicating his responsibility for a workable master schedule? This author gives his opinions. (Editor)

Solving scheduling problems related to declining enrollments. (LD)

Offers suggestions for using computers to institute an innovative, creative school schedule that allows for flexibility in the curriculum. (Author/WD)

Outlines how the Lounsberry Hollow Middle School in New Jersey has devised a scheduling program that minimizes the student pullout problem and maintains the academic integrity of the school day. (MD)

In the two-step process of student scheduling, the initial phase of course selection is the most important. At Chesterton High School in Indiana, student self-scheduling is preferred over computer loading. (Author/MLF)

Describes the scheduling changes that allowed for program improvement at the New Platz, New York, Middle School. (DS)

Purchasing an inhouse computer system does not have to be a nightmare if you are aware of the obstacles and know how to overcome them. (Author/JM)

Although building the master schedule has always been a major administrative function, it is often overlooked as an instructional tool. To use the schedule effectively requires the principal and faculty to have an agreed-upon educational philosophy, a collegial working relationship, and a climate supporting continued curriculum reassessment.…

Principals inevitably influence instruction and learning whether they intend to or not. How principals handle six managerial tasks (scheduling; articulating policies, rules, and norms; hiring personnel; supervising personnel; coordinating pupil services; and managing self-development) determines their effectiveness as managers and instructional…

Space age technology is providing techniques for attacking problems of crime control in schools and provides help in developing programs to improve instruction and facilitate learning. (Editor/CB)

A principal of a Texas junior high school theorizes about the role of principal as instructional leader. He offers suggestions for developing instructional leadership in the areas of organizational goals and objectives, personnel, staff evaluation, and curriculum planning. Includes a reference list. (MD)

Maintains that secondary schools often assign their counselors major responsibility for the gatekeeping and custodial functions associated with student scheduling. Recommends as an alternative having counselors advise students and others needing counseling while paraprofessionals and clerical personnel handle the administrative duties. (Author/PGD)

A brief review of the literature indicates that decisiveness is an important dimension of effective administrative behavior. (Author/WD)

Reports trends and implications of interdisciplinary teaming practices in middle schools, based on findings from a national survey. Noting that nearly 80 percent of schools currently implement teaming, challenges principals and teachers to move beyond simple formation of teams to the creation of an infrastructure that supports high-performing…