Presents a career ladder model intended as a guide to be implemented according to the particular circumstances of a school district. Addresses longitudinal career plans and enhancement of the professional work place. (SRT)

Teachers participating in a school's budget development understand better why resources are allocated as they are. Participative budgeting involves submission of prioritized requests by each department's teachers, review of the requests by the principal, and revision of the requests by department heads in response to each other's demonstrated…

Faculty organizations are taking a closer look at college athletic programs and are voicing strong objections when they don't like what they see. (MLW)

A forum sponsored by the RISE Teacher Center illustrates how teachers and policy-makers can work together to effect educational change. (DF)

This article reports on productivity programs being undertaken by private sector organizations. One private sector case described here was based on identifying productivity problems and linking information/measurement systems with participative management efforts and could be adapted and applied to public sector organizations. (CT)

Discusses the Just Community Approach to corrections that, partly through the use of participatory democracy, strives to make the two cultures into a single community in which staff act as leaders and advocates for justice and the welfare of the community, rather than as authoritative managers of the correctional institution. (CT)

Advocates creation of a steering committee of teachers to develop inservice education topics, find topic presenters, and establish inservice program procedures that will ensure active participation by teachers and sufficient interaction with presenters. (PGD)

Designing a school building on site at the school district, rather than in the architect's office, provides for input from administrators, students, and community members. Misunderstandings are prevented from escalating. (MLF)

School Centered Management (SCM) focuses on the school as the center of all management endeavors. Systematic delegation, support, and accountability are parts of SCM's situational approach to management. (MLF)

A seminar held on a kibbutz in Israel in which educators from the United Kingdom, Canada, and Israel discussed school-based curriculum development is described. (RM)

Asserts that organizations do not have wills of their own but are only groups of individuals acting in concert. Argues that trying to run an organization by consensus results in the loss of accountability and merely relocates conflict without eliminating it. Urges adopting leadership by consent in educational organizations. (PGD)

Leadership styles change over time and with individuals. The relationship between presidential style and effect is explored. The essay suggests that crisis and change do not lend themselves to extensive collaboration and planning, but that to ignore the traditions of faculty input threatens the ability of an institution to move forward.…

A model for examining the relationship between the professor and teaching assistant (TA) was tested at the University of California, Irvine. Based on an open communication system between professor and TA, problem identification and solutions strategies were a participatory process. Professor and TA opinions about participative restructuring were…

Quality Circle members identify problems, select one for attention, analyze the potential causes of the problem, and identify and select preferred solutions that are proposed to the administration. Skills, knowledge, and experience gained by people in an education Quality Circle become theirs as well as those of the school. (MLF)

A cross-section of teachers in California were surveyed regarding working conditions, organizational support, participation in decision making, and teacher support for proposed reforms. Findings are presented. (MT)