Multiple funding creates special management problems for the administrator of a human service agency. This article presents a useful analytic technique adapted from business practice that can help the administrator draw up and balance a unified budget. Such a budget also affords reliable overview of the agency's financial status. (Author)

Provides the school principal with a checklist of items to follow in introducing innovations such as instructional television (ITV). (Author)

The story in this book paints a picture of how a troubled school transformed itself into a community of leaders and learners working together to achieve a shared vision: a school that nurtured students to be all that they could be. The author relates her experiences and thoughts as she entered the principalship of a troubled school and transformed…

School-based sexual harassment is taking an undeniable toll on students across this country, and they do not know what to do about it. Parents, teachers, administrators, and local and state policymakers must acknowledge that it is a problem in schools. Sexual harassment policies must be established in every school in this country, and they must be…

School handbooks contain the policies and procedures for which school community members are responsible. Developing and writing them, however, is a formidable task for any Catholic school administrator in this era of legal and moral accountability to entities ranging from state educational authorities to diocesan officials to pastors in parish…

This book has been greatly revised and expanded to make it a definitive up-to-date reference for educational innovators involved in educational reform. Sixteen chapters incorporate new theoretical and empirical knowledge about change processes, provide powerful insights into the complexity of reform, and recommend inspiring and practical…

This guide offers Head Start staff a blueprint for developing the skills and methods necessary for a Head Start program's planning and review process. The guide stresses the need for Head Start administrative and managerial leadership to maintain a holistic, integrated approach; use the strength and resources of Head Start team members; identify…

Suggests ways school districts can more effectively plan communication with the public. (Author/DN)

Attempts to draw together the kinds of information needed to help school district administrators view their orgnization by examining the consequences of decisions for all of the district goals and objectives, rather than by solving problems one at a time. (Author)

Advice to administrators from the assistant director of teacher recruitment for the Chicago public schools. (SP)

Presidents expect deans to exercise primary, internal leadership to the end that the institution's most fundamental purposes can be realized. (Author)

The job of directing the instructional program should be returned to the principal and a specially trained assistant should be employed to help administer and manage the school. (Author/AF)

A management information system for school construction defines responsibilities and details the planning and building processes. (Author)