Ways in which teachers and principals respond to changing leadership roles and some practical steps that principals can take to support leadership are discussed in this article review. It focuses on five papers that explore educators' roles, offering advice on how to respond to changing expectations. "When is New: A Plan of Action" (A. W. Hart)…

One writing program administrator (WPA) is convinced that writing program administration constitutes, for the most part, "intellectual work," and that this intellectual work develops a specific kind of understanding that is particularly valuable to those who possess it. WPAs mediate daily between theory, practice, institutional…

This digest considers four questions about the academic deanship. The first is what are deans and what do they do? The position of dean did not gain universal acceptance in U.S. higher education until 1913. Deans continue to be predominantly white and male, and are generally in their mid-fifties. Strong scholarly credentials distinguish most…

Many inner-city schools are performing poorly. Measurable outputs, such as test scores and graduation rates, are low, while schools are often unsafe. Some schools, however, still manage to provide a high-quality education for their students. In this study, leadership was examined as a factor in the creation of good schools. Eight principals of…

A research project explored the potential of collegial coaching and reflective dialogue as mechanisms for school leaders to use to significantly alter the organizational context so that cultural change might occur. The study investigated the possibility that collegial coaching, reflection, and dialogue about teaching practices may provide an…

This guide describes the school administrator's managerial role. It is designed to help readers gain additional insights into this role by explaining how to conduct a self-review of the strengths and weaknesses of educational-management-related policies and procedures in school districts. It begins with a discussion of a school administrators'…

The purpose of this bulletin is to describe the current status of proposals for formalizing negotiation procedures between teachers and their boards of education, indicating some potential trends. The entire issue of collective negotiation by teachers remains of relatively recent origin in terms of interest on a national scale, and the directions…

Article describes a model that serves to enhance the role teachers can play in their attempts to gain greater status, salary increases, and job satisfaction. (RK)

Author specified three crucial suggestions that seemed central in looking at the challenge of educational leadership while considering the role of the administrator. (Author/RK)

The principal who puts public relations at the bottom of his priority list is short sighted and should expect his school's eventual breakdown, says an expert in the PR field. (Editor)

Article discusses the responsibilities and duties of the academic dean as the change agent responsible for improving the over-all educational program. (GB)

The principal will play a key role in designing educational systems that free the human spirit to exercise initiative, to experiment openly, to enter fully into the enterprise of living and learning as complete people. (Author/WM)

The principal is the key to change and effectiveness, and hence to the health of schools and the educational system in general. (WM)

The professional-as-administrator construct has relevance to many positions in the administration of education. Reports selected aspects of recent research in which the construct was applied to the role of the secondary school head. (Author)

The research reported in this article found that the behavior of research administrators influenced positively the satisfaction of their researchers. To a lesser extent, their behavior also influenced researcher productivity, especially when the administrators followed a resource person-coordinator role model. (Authors)