A survey of 51 instructional supervisors sought information on their time management: ideal versus actual use of their time, assigned tasks perceived as superfluous to jobs, and constraints on more effective use of time. Job clarification and personal time audits are aids to time management. (JW)

Correlates two research projects and one review to provide a descriptive model for three styles of principal behavior in their role as change facilitator: responder, manager, and initiator. Implications are derived concerning the relationship between change facilitator style and implementation success, school climate, and potential for…

Elementary school teachers and their supervisors were surveyed to determine their perceptions of supervisory tasks. (GW)

This report is based on interviews of 18 school superintendents who demonstrate the quality know as resilience. The 14 men and 4 women averaged 17 years as superintendent, serving 3 rural, 13 suburban, and 2 urban school districts. It was found that resilient superintendents deal with challenges in positive ways. They do not dwell on the negative…

This paper reports on a study that investigated the frequency with which principals practice behaviors believed to positively or negatively affect the supervisory climate that exists in a school. The secondary purpose of the research was to look at demographic factors, such as gender and grade level, that might influence a principal's supervisory…

Details of a study done by 11 western New York state school districts to determine the behavior supervisors found most effective in teachers during a one-to-one conference. (DS)

Describes role of local coordinator in providing vocational teacher supervision, thus allowing state supervisors of agricultural education more time for their other responsibilities. (DM)

Speech delivered at the national convention of the Department of Audiovisual Instruction (DAVI) of the National Education Association (NEA), April 29, 1969, in Portland, Oregon. (DS)

Quality supervision requires assessing the needs for the instructional program in vocational agriculture and carrying out appropriate activities for these needs to be fulfilled. (JOW)

Describes vocational agriculture supervisors as the bond that holds all the components together to form a stronger product than the components would be alone. Stresses the importance of team effort in building a better program, with teachers being the most important ingredient. (JOW)

Profiles the principal of Terraset school in Reston (Virginia) and discusses the effects of her successful management of this model school for energy conservation. An adjacent article describes the design of the facility and resultant energy savings. (WD)

This study identifies specific coping techniques helpful to educators in handling the tensions of their jobs, clusters the reported techniques into coping categories, assesses the number and frequency of coping techniques used by educators, and identifies similarities and differences in coping responses. (Author/TE)

This article discusses walk-throughs as a valuable source of instructional data for teachers and administrators. Data gathering and analysis can be a dynamic and exciting process when walk-throughs are incorporated into a school's improvement plan as an instructional snapshot. At Norris High School in Firth, Nebraska, the principal uses…

When a popular high school principal was reassigned under difficult circumstances, the school's culture was torn apart. A narrative of how this happened and how the principal's successor was able to heal the rift is provided in this report. The paper provides details of the actions that led up to the board reassigning the principal and the outcry…