Part of Project STRETCH, a special personnel preparation grant, this guide contains 13 units on the practical and philosophical areas practitioners, educators, and consumers believed should be included in a basic course for administration of an organized camp: growth and development special populations, camp director's role, philosophy and…

This description of microcomputer use in schools within the East Texas School Study Council (ETSSC), a professional organization of 80 school districts, is based on 279 responses (66%) to a survey of 422 elementary and secondary school principals. Topics addressed include hardware and software available for educational use, microcomputing…

Exchanges within the mentor-protege relationship, the effect of age and gender on that relationship, and the effect of that relationship on career progress and subsequent mentoring behavior are here studied for the first time in the context of a state government agency. Twenty-five males and 25 females were selected randomly from among 250…

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education selected material produced by Ken Blanchard, co-author of "The One Minute Manager," as the basis for a series of 4-day workshops on situational leadership for school personnel. Among the concepts brought to bear in situational leadership training are that (1) concern for…

Described are the initial visit of a parent to a special school to consider placement for her minimally brain injured adolescent son, attitudes of parents and special educators, and ways parents and special educators can facilitate placement. (MC)

Reviewed are issues explored by R. Reger concerning reasons special education administrators have not had a role in planning for special teacher education, and suggested is a strategy for systematically incorporating ideas of administrators and parents in new educational models. (MC)

This study was designed to compare time allocations to major functions actually performed and idealized by bilingual administrators and principals; to rank specific procedures used in accomplishing these functions; to determine staffing patterns, and program and organizational characteristics; and to isolate personal/professional demographics of…

This report describes a study of one-year educational innovation projects funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Focus of the study was not on the content of the projects but on how they were conducted, with particular emphasis on the role of the project directors. Data for the study were gathered through…

Outlines strategy by which university department chairpersons, by clearly stating their expectations for faculty performance and by understanding the faculty members' personal professional goals, can organize support for professional development in teaching along with organizational development. (JT)

The Chief Student Affairs Officer at the University of California at Berkeley analyzes the major issues and problems with which his office has dealt. (Author)

With the probability of declining enrollments education needs, according to the author, to develop administrators skilled in adjusting to decline. He notes what educators can learn from the decline of agriculture and railroads and points up the need to get out from under the grants economy. (JT)

Highlighting the planning role of the junior college board of trustees, the author discusses board structure and membership, college president selection, lay advisory groups and faculty input, the setting of institutional goals, the board-president relationship, future issues the board will face, and needs for interinstitutional cooperation and…

This literature review was intended to provide information and suggestions regarding the role and evaluation of the principal. It is supplementary to two reports commissioned by the California State Legislature on school principals. In the first section on the role of principals a chart is presented summarizing conclusions from the two original…