Principals help teachers become more reflective practitioners by providing a supportive environment, using specific facilitative behaviors (asking questions, informally critiquing, and questioning program irregularities), and enabling program implementation. Principals create a supportive environment by encouraging justification of practice,…

How the school's chief administrator--the principal--works with people on a daily basis is the primary determinant of the overall success of the school. (Author/ LH)

Examines the extent to which elementary school principals perceive themselves as performing specific reading supervision or administration behaviors connected with teachers, students, policy, or the community. (FL)

Offers advice for administrators on how six laws of human behavior affect employees. Laws discussed include: how employees recreate familial roles in the workplace, how persons constantly seek to gain or maintain control of their lives, how change in a person's environment can cause changes in behavior, and how employees covet tokens of approval.…

This case study presents findings from a year-long ethnographic study of an urban junior high school principal. It concludes one of seven studies conducted in elementary and intermediate schools in urban, suburban, and rural settings to investigate the instructional management role of principals. Although previous research offers disparate…