Basic ingredients of a successful negotiations process in education include adapting the procedure to the time schedule of the district and personnel concerned, establishing an agenda of items to be negotiated, sharing factual information, providing a proper setting with adequate facilities for the negotiating participants, utilizing effective…

Attitudes of four groups of professional educators are compared respecting the role of the superintendent in collective negotiations. The AFT sees him as head of the opposition's negotiating team. The NEA sees him as a member of the professional staff and as a neutral catalyst providing resource information while teacher representatives negotiate…

The document is part of a series that reports the findings and accomplishments of the Models for Career Education in Iowa project which was initiated to research, define, and describe an emerging concept of career education. It discusses administrator roles in implementing career education concepts in the school curriculum through a definition of…

This paper reports the findings of a 1975 survey of Louisiana school superintendents that was intended to develop a data profile of the typical Louisiana superintendent. Fifty-eight of the 66 Louisiana superintendents completed and returned the survey questionnaire. Survey responses are discussed and compared with data from a 1969 national survey…

Rather than a direct report on staff development programs, the speaker presents a case study of a district's experiences in organization change that were planned to improve the ways in which the school system fulfills its basic mission and goals. The change plan emphasized staff development at the administrative level as a means of decreasing the…

This document summarizes the interview responses of school superintendents and administrators in 19 K-12 school districts in Wisconsin. The administrators were asked ten questions about educational planning and evaluation issues, needs, and accomplishments in their districts. The respondents indicated a need for improved administrative practices,…

The way superintendents perceive their mobility and the succession of routes they use in attaining their positions were compared. A stratified random sample was drawn from the total population of public school superintendents in Illinois based on an extension of the insider-outsider dichotomy. It was found that outsiders tended to use more general…

The primary objectives of the study were to develop a model for a National Academy for School Executives (NASE), to determine the receptivity of school administrators to such a program, and to determine the feasibility of implementing the model within the near future. Four academic task forces studied the structural elements, fiscal requirements,…

This study was designed to ascertain a) the distribution of student teaching letter grades in 29 Iowa teacher education institutions from 1967-70; b) the predictive value of student teaching letter grades held by superintendents; and c) the preference of Iowa superintendents concerning the present letter grade and recommendation system versus the…

A series of five monographs comprises this document. The overall concern is with elementary school guidance and each monograph which is complete within itself deals with a specific aspect of this topic: (1) Models and Directions; (2) Role of the Superintendent and School Board; (3) Role of the Principal; (4) Role of the Teacher; (5) Role of the…

The major purposes of this study were to identify the attitudes of Ohio public school superintendents, vocational education supervisory personnel, and teacher educators regarding vocational education, and to determine their degree of acceptance of selected vocational education principles. The method of investigation employed an attitude scale…

The Seattle, Washington school board members attended a retreat during the summer. At the retreat, which included the superintendent and a consultant-facilitator, the board examined the superintendent's self-evaluation and worked on long-range goals, short-term priorities, and professional effectiveness. (IRT)

Wilson Riles, the state superintendent of public instruction in California, has developed the revolutionary Early Childhood Education (ECE) program, which provides for improvement and restructuring from kindergarten through grade 12. Discusses this program with the superintendent in a recent interview that covered many other elements of his early…

Describes one attempt to determine the information needs of the administrative users of an information system and to gauge the extent to which that system is meeting the needs expressed. (Author)