One state curriculum guide too many produced the Principal's Advisory Council on School Improvement (PACSI), a Huntington, New York, principal's "kitchen cabinet" to handle curriculum overflow. In two years, PACSI developed three solutions: grade level objectives and suggested time allocations; monthly curriculum calendars; and…

Conflict between work and family roles can be stressful and damaging to the job performance of both sexes. Instruction in combining these roles will improve the quality of life, increase worker productivity, and enable workers to exert a constructive influence on business, industry, and government in stimulating changes in policy and practice. (SK)

Explores the unique time-related stresses on the adult educator and the implications for educational institutions. Focuses on extension education as a specific case and how an effort to redirect programing can increase time-related stress. (JOW)

Effects of two interventions on quality of residential care for 39 severely/ profoundly mentally retarded individuals in four living groups were assessed. Although assigning an extra staff member to living groups did not change staff activity distribution, assigning extra tasks to the extra staff member resulted in more time spent on training…

Summarizes survey responses of 92 mentor teachers. Among respondents' 210 comments, 103 (49%) focus on the mentoring role and 107 (50.9%) relate to perceived obstacles to effective mentoring. Respondents often doubted their mentoring qualifications and voiced concerns about time, pairing methods, beginning teachers' receptiveness, and limited…

Advises principals to fit reading into their busy schedules by rethinking their reading interests, carrying a book everywhere, keeping a book in different locations, learning to scan, underlining, finding a reading buddy, using file cards, trying audio books, exercising patience with interruptions, and sprinkling conversations with insights gained…

This article describes use of a comprehensive calendar designed to help college students with learning disabilities organize course assignments, assess assignments in terms of time allocation, and plan for the completion of assignments. The calendar design, which was implemented with students at the University of North Texas, involves task…

According to responses from 47% (227) of Canadian nurses surveyed, nonwork variables such as personal resource enrichment/depletion from nonwork activities, work interference with nonwork, and organizational support of nonwork explained a significant percentage of the variance in organizational commitment. Differential effects appeared for…

After being shadowed by her new superintendent for one hectic workday, a veteran elementary school principal learned she had high blood pressure and needed to flex her management style. She was advised to delegate more responsibilities, write about her practice, schedule only half her workday, and provide balance in her life. (MLH)

Reports on the University of Pennsylvania Library's reexamination of interlibrary loan activities. Major initiatives included developing new resource sharing partnerships, increasing the use of electronic document delivery systems, and reducing processing time through journal linking projects. Automated data management, heavier reliance on e-mail,…

Identified activities school counselors perceive to be their greatest time wasters, identified percentage of time counselors believe they spend on each of primary counselor job functions, and compared those perceptions with counselors' ideal allocation of their time. Findings from 205 counselors revealed that counselors spent over 40% of their…

Four major areas (office traffic, the telephone, organization, and discipline) consume much of a school administrator's time. Because principals of small and rural secondary schools do not always have adequate personnel support, planning a daily calendar, setting priorities, and delegating to other administrators and staff are essential…

Reviews the process of unemployment and the benefits of leisure, as well as proposes a broader conceptual framework for integrating leisure with work as a means of assisting unemployed workers to cope with unemployment. Notes that, by viewing leisure as integral component of individual's career, employment counselors can more effectively assist…

For many administrators, retirement does not usually provide flow of accomplishments and satisfaction because small emotional gratifications of day at work are gone and time suddenly seems too open-ended. Superintendents need to pursue something that keeps them vibrant physically, intellectually, and emotionally. For some, work is tonic.…

Describes results of an Indiana study to determine what proportion of the typical teacher aide's time involved in instructional activities deals with different-size groups of children, pursuing various academic activities, and using various instructional materials. Teachers use aides mostly to assist them in discussion/review with a single child…