Leadership is conceived of as a sequence of five levels of activity. The levels are analyzed to determine tasks associated with each level and the technologies available to help leaders acquire the necessary proficiencies. (Author/MLF)

When faced with budget cuts, a region of the District of Columbia public schools undertook a massive training program to make up for reduced supervisory services. (Author)

Critiquing the McFaul and Cooper article, the author cites poor research design and implementation as the reason for negative research findings on clinical supervision. Seven concepts of clinical supervision are outlined. (MD)

Describes a model program developed at Emory University for training Resident Clinical Supervisors, master teachers who teach part-time while providing clinical supervision of other teachers in their school. (JG)

Principals in a Pennsylvania district are voluntarily observing one another in order to improve their supervisory skills. Two principals jointly observe a teacher, compare their notes, label the data, conduct the teacher postconference, and then hold the principal postconference. (MLF)