During the last year, SETDA tackled the question, "How do you provide professional development to those who typically develop and/or provide the opportunities to others?" Although providing professional development opportunities for administrators and teachers is a primary responsibility of many SETDA members, many state educational technology…

A customer can recognise a professional institute almost immediately from the manner in which the customer is dealt with. The institute makes the customer (read student) feel special and deals with the customer as a matter of priority rather than as a secondary issue, less important than the undertaking of other activities. The customers of…

The author describes the development of a 20-hour curriculum to train clinical managers to enhance the cultural competence of their staff. After training, managers reported improvements in their multicultural competence and in the ability to enhance their staff's cultural competence.

This exercise invites critical consideration of domestication, exploitation, and hegemony. We enquired with participants into the ways in which these processes may be embedded in the taken-for-granted logics of organizational and personal decision making. We contrast participation or tolerance of these processes with commitment to often…

More than ever there are both leadership shortages and the temptation to cut training budgets. Senior administrators and faculty are retiring at an alarming rate, and the trend is expected to continue. For a decade, prominent business journals have focused on a crisis of leadership in the corporate sector. This article describes executive…

In most states those aspiring to be school superintendents must satisfy a series of post-master's requirements to receive the necessary certification. At the University of South Carolina, these academic requirements can be met through the completion of a 33 credit hour program culminating in an educational specialist's degree. A survey of recent…

Victor Vroom provides a revealing and insightful account of a lifetime search for integrating his dual identities as researcher and teacher. He takes us through his early transitions from teaching in the psychology department at the University of Pennsylvania through his ten-year career at Carnegie to his current role at Yale School of Management.…

A major obstacle to the diffusion of management development learning technologies from Higher Education Institutions to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) is a lack of understanding about how SME learners learn. This article examines the nature of learning in SMEs and considers the incidence of informal support for informal learning.…

This paper addresses the need for managers to possess hard-to-obtain skills in today's complex business environment. To achieve this, they need to expand their borders of knowledge beyond the barriers that logic imposes. This has to be reflected in managers' education, training and thinking processes. The first part of the paper examines how…

The purpose of this article is to examine the formal training of 205 principals in a variety of school districts in southern California. The data clearly define a need for increased training of principals in the area of special education during enrollment in preservice administration programs and while on the job. Preparation programs and school…

The relevance of administrative preparation programs has been questioned. The questions center around how well programs are preparing school leaders to deal with the myriad of requirements placed in front of them (i.e. demands relate to issues of accountability, changing demographics, aging professionals, demanding publics, and school…

Educators often have a vision but lack the tools necessary for transforming it into reality. This paper describes the Dupont Leadership-Development Process Model (1988), a tool for determining educators' priorities and helping them accomplish their goals. The model has been applied in business and educational settings. The paper describes its uses…

The 31 papers in this volume address the requirements and qualities of leadership and leaders in the organization of the future. Papers are grouped into the following categories: Leading the Organization of the Future, Future Leaders in Action, Learning to Lead for Tomorrow, and Executives on the Future of Leadership. Some of the papers included…

Elements of a principal renewal program to help principals improve their instructional leadership skills are described in this paper. Nine topics of the staff development training program are highlighted, which are learned through supervised nonjudgmental practice: quality schools development; quality principal characteristics; time management;…

Findings of a study that examined the concerns and professional development of beginning principals who participated in an administrator-preparation program are presented in this paper. The Leadership Enhancement and Development program (LEAD) is collaboratively developed and delivered by the University of Georgia and Gwinnett County schools.…