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Nelson, Norbert J. – 1980
Superintendents who come into conflict with their boards of education utilize a number of strategies with varying degrees of success. In this study, 77 Indiana school superintendents provided data on the strategies they use to resolve conflicts on their effectiveness. Superintendents indicated that "changing behavior" (communicating convincing…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Communication (Thought Transfer), Conflict
Lortie, Dan C. – 1977
This paper addresses the question, "What potentialities lie in the use of 'informal networks' for the improvement of problem-solving in American public schools?" The first section consists of a close examination of the charge with consideration of networking and problem-solving capacity. In the second section, some of the constraints that affect…
Descriptors: Diffusion, Educational Innovation, Informal Organization, Interaction
Kudlaty, Frank – 1980
One of the conditions set forth in the hiring of the new superintendent of a southeast Texas school district was that a reduction in force would be accomplished. How this process, that usually involves six months planning time and and additional year to carry out, was accomplished in a period of six months is detailed in this speech. An analysis…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Board of Education Policy, Class Size
WALLENDER, MARTHA LEE – 1965
THE REACTIONS OF 11 SUPERINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS TO THE IDEA OF A SUPPLEMENTARY EDUCATION CENTER WERE PRESENTED. SUPERINTENDENTS WERE ASKED TO COMMENT ON THEIR PRESENT COOPERATIVE ARRANGEMENTS. REACTIONS WERE OBTAINED ON SUCH TOPICS AS REFERENCE SERVICE, INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS LIBRARY, BOOK EXAMINATION CENTER, CENTRALIZED CATALOGING AND PROCESSING,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Education Service Centers
BERGERON, W.L. – 1965
THIS SURVEY ATTEMPTED TO IDENTIFY THE DUTIES OR ROLE OF THE SECONDARY SCHOOL COUNSELOR AS SEEN BY COUNSELORS AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS. QUESTIONNAIRES WERE SENT OUT TO 253 CERTIFICATED COUNSELORS, 561 PRINCIPALS, AND 67 SUPERINTENDENTS. THEY AGREED THAT A COUNSELOR SHOULD (1) COUNSEL ALL STUDENTS, (2) COLLECT AND DISSEMINATE OCCUPATIONAL…
Descriptors: Administrators, Attitude Measures, Counselors, Dropout Characteristics
MORRIS, EDDIE W. – 1965
CERTAIN FACTORS AFFECTING FACULTY DESEGREGATION SUCH AS DESEGREGATION PREPARATION, TEACHER PERCEPTION AND QUALIFICATION, COMMUNITY STRUCTURE, AND SCHOOL FACILITIES WERE STUDIED. THE INTERVIEW SCHEDULE CONSISTED OF TWO PARTS. PART ONE WAS DESIGNED TO INVESTIGATE PREPARATION, UTILIZATION, ASSIGNMENT, AND OBSERVATIONS. PART TWO WAS DESIGNED TO…
Descriptors: Black Teachers, Community Influence, Comparative Analysis, Desegregation Methods
American Association of School Administrators, Arlington, VA. – 1979
Because school administrators, particularly superintendents and their top level management staffs, occupy such critical roles in the nation's schools, guidelines for their training and preparation must be systematically and periodically reexamined. The purpose of this guide, the first in a series of three, is to help those persons involved in the…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Guides, Administrators, Board of Education Role
Download full textFrasure, Kenneth J. – 1968
Inservice education of administrators has received too little attention from universities, state education departments, and the federal government. Recent developments in educational administration provide means for improving inservice education, particularly in leadership development. Various approaches to inservice education for administrators…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Educational Administration, Educational Needs
Miller, Donald R.
A school district plan of functional organization is designed to integrate the functional and the organizational aspects of performance. The plan can be used to seek solutions to three basic management problems: (1) The functions which must be performed in a school district, (2) the plan of organization which should be implemented to facilitate…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Administration, Educational Innovation, Educational Planning
Heller, Robert W. – 1978
As a result of the accountability movement, there is a new interest in superintendent performance evaluation. The new approach to superintendent evaluation demands that superintendents be allowed to help boards of education develop criteria, job descriptions, and performance evaluation processes. A functional system of performance appraisal must…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Boards of Education, Check Lists, Elementary Secondary Education
Volp, Frederick D.; Greenfield, William D. – 1978
The purpose of the research on which this paper is based is to develop fundamental understanding of the problem-solving behavior of school superintendents, given the political character of their work environment. Data drawn from interviews with a school superintendent and a long-standing consultant to school boards are relied on as the basis for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Governance, Intermediate Administrative Units, Political Influences
Napier, Lee – 1975
In order to determine what characteristics are most important in prompting Mississippi's major educational consumers to hire teachers, an opinionnaire was developed and sent to a stratified random sample of elementary, junior high, and senior high principals, and to superintendents. The questionnaire consisted of 11 factors to be ranked according…
Descriptors: Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Practices, Employment Qualifications
Deever, R. Merwin; Jurs, James E. – 1975
This report summarizes a doctoral dissertation that attempted to determine the criteria used by school districts in selecting administrative personnel other than superintendents at the district office level. Data were gathered through questionnaires mailed to all superintendents of school districts with more than 10,000 students in eight Rocky…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Selection, Administrators
Berle, Adolf A. – 1968
Adolf A. Berle, a statesman and law professor, discusses the powers and responsibilities of the educational administrator. Emphasized is the belief that education must not be sacrificed to race relations militants, anti-war groups, or teachers' demands. Police force should be used when needed to prevent schools from becoming battlegrounds.…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Decentralization, Organizations (Groups), Political Power
Carlson, Richard O. – 1969
Behavioral differences between school superintendents who achieve their positions through promotion in the home district (place bound) and those who achieve their positions through movement from one school system to another (career bound) were analyzed by means of interviews with 61 superintendents in one county. The study examined the rate of…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Educational Innovation, Modern Mathematics, Occupational Mobility
