Describes a Texas principal's experience of overseeing the consolidation of three elementary schools into a larger facility for nearly 1,000 students. The 3 years spent designing, building, and moving into the new facility were both exhilarating and exhausting. Advice on handling frustrations is provided. (MLH)

The primary headteacher's role has undergone significant changes since Britain's Education Reform Act (1988). This article explores headteachers' perceptions of change resulting from their career paths, imposed legislation, and relations with key stakeholders. Many changes are contradictory and generate paradoxes. Heads manage, but are more than…

Presents the first of two articles examining Alfred North Whitehead's notion of the rhythm of the university, discussing the rhythm of teaching and learning, the importance of academic freedom to an imaginative faculty, and the relationship between Whitehead's own pedagogy and his considerable administrative practice. The paper's purpose is to…

Discussion of online learning environments focuses on the shift in perspective needed by online learners. Highlights include participation in and completion of an online course; feedback; awareness of self and others; learner-centered metaphors in online course design; needed research; and recommendations for faculty and administrators to help…

Discussion of distance education focuses on strategies for administrators and faculty to use to support the appropriate use of this educational format. Considers some of the advantages and disadvantages of distance education, financial support for the development and delivery of distance education courses, and needed faculty training. (Author/LRW)

Describes the Teachers as Trainers staff development model which provides a comprehensive framework for faculty and staff training, and provides examples of its use in implementing educational technology into classroom instruction. Focuses on interrelated concepts designed to generate shared responsibility among faculty, staff, and administration…

Discusses the concept of double alignment, where the curriculum, instruction, and assessment are aligned to both state standards and the needs of students. Describes curricular, instructional, assessment, and administrative features of double alignment. (Contains 10 references.) (PKP)

Describes the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, a database of online instructional and professional development materials developed for use in higher education. Provides examples of potential applications in elementary and secondary education. (PKP)

Suggests that racial discrimination contributes to the overrepresentation of minority students in special education. Offers several practical suggestions that principals can use to identify discrimination and reduce minority overrepresentation in special education. (PKP)

This paper looks critically at the government's year 2000 initiative to make school governors responsible for headteacher performance management (HTPM). A case study, carried out at John Wiseman Community Primary School by the author as an insider-researcher, is augmented by questionnaire and interview data from other institutions. Critical…

Elementary, middle school, and high school principals have a powerful impact on the schools in their charge. These lead administrators mold the atmosphere of a school and, in turn, the feelings of the teachers who work in it. The current teacher shortage combined with the demands of standards-based education has made retaining new teachers a…

On the surface, Michael Moher's major challenges as a superintendent do not seem so foreign from any other leader who is responsible for the education of 28,000 students. He has been grappling in recent years with budget shortfalls, school closings, a couple of dissident board members and even a week-long teacher's strike. Moher runs a Catholic…

Kevin Mitchell's calling card once read "criminal investigator," when his days and nights brought him to the scene of burglaries, assaults and any other felonies or misdemeanors reported to the sheriffs department in Buffalo, Wyo. Now his professional mission is nothing less than spearheading a battle for survival of a sparsely populated…

This article focuses on leadership practices and teacher mentoring in an urban school context. A central perspective of this discussion is the role of the urban school principal in implementing and facilitating mentoring arrangements that will lead to competence, retention, and improved student achievement. Results from a case study of a mentoring…

In this article, the author discusses seven critical lessons for navigating a leadership position in higher education. The author focuses on developing a personal means of remaining centered regardless of circumstances or situations as well as building an ethical foundation for one's work. He uses spiraling as a metaphor to describe his own…