This study examined preferences for consultation models and styles among 67 professionals who worked in early intervention programs in Colorado. Participants preferred a collaborative approach involving shared responsibility across all stages of the consultation process and a directive style of sharing specific strategies to address the concerns…

Portrays work of four headteachers as local administrators in Malta's highly centralized educational system. Examines teacher allocation, school management styles, establishment of school emphasis, curriculum development. In centralized systems, most significant parameters for curriculum making are set by central authorities. Despite binding…

Contrasts the spontaneity and magic of remembered childhood adventures with artificial irrelevant professionalized adventure activities that result in the disempowerment of young people. Calls for a different style of outdoor leadership focused on coaching and facilitating young people as they apply their own strategies to high-risk areas of their…

Examines various ways that principals provide leadership for school improvement and the relationship of these "change facilitator styles" to school effectiveness in different work contexts. Results of this study of 472 Louisiana elementary teachers indicate that principals exhibited different leadership styles across effectiveness and…

Analyzes the impact of women on the community college presidency, addressing the potential of women presidents to make a unique contribution by connecting the characteristic strengths of their gender to the power of their office. Proposes a blueprint for women presidents to utilize to effect meaningful changes in their institutions. (32 citations)…

Women engaging in outdoor activities tend to be more supportive of each other and more willing to express their feelings and apprehensions about adventurous settings than are men. It is important for women to have strong female leaders as role models. Instructors should be aware that women's learning styles and learning curves differ from men's.…

Presents a study of parental influence on leadership styles. Reports that correlations between students and their role models show early influence is important to leadership qualities. Suggests that gender related influences are operational. Concludes that early influences are emulated rather than opposed and are strongest in male students with…

Research suggests four different metaphors of schools as organizations: (1) factory; (2) family; (3) jungle; and (4) cathedral. Each implies a leadership role and an ethical responsibility for board members. Integrating all four images might help provide a better map of the board's governance task and improve the board's ability to make wise…

Selected to replace a dismissed superintendent in Loudoun County (Virginia), Ed Hatrick has won support from teachers and the school board by open communication. Faced with budget cuts, Hatrick is stretching school funds by sharing some resources with the county and combining some jobs in small elementary schools. (MLF)

Overattachment to particular innovations or overreliance on a charismatic leader can restrict consideration of alternatives and produce short-term gains or superficial solutions. To encourage lasting school improvement, principals should build collaborative cultures instead of imposing their own visions or change agendas. A sidebar illustrates a…

Examines role changes in school administrators, especially with respect to the professional development of staff members. Nontraditional images of the principal are explored, their new activities are linked to the staff development needs, and the implications of this changing image to staff development are discussed. (GLR)

Existing in schools means actively doing and critically pursuing possibilities for teacher growth and achievement. Two vignettes focus on principals who fully exist in their schools. One principal created a circle of caring and cooperation by stressing positive language. The other shared his contagious school vision and sparked teacher thinking…

Introduces a model presented at the Linkage Leadership Conference in which 10 senior executive teams developed strategies to effectively implement organizational change. Demonstrates how style influences the ability to lead and relates, through the example of the U.S. Army's gender integration, how leader communication style can be used to…

A study of school achievement and student-income data for 54 Wichita (Kansas) Public Schools over three years revealed six "breakthrough" elementary schools with above-average achievement and proportions of poor students. These schools shared three characteristics: positive school climate, smaller school size, and structural leadership…

Exploring cognitive school leadership elements, this study uses a set of 1200 U.S. principals and employs an earlier validated set of five leadership cognitions drawn from psychologists in educational administration. Regression analysis suggests these cognitions exist independently of many social and personal qualities typifying principals and are…