This publication defines and illustrates approximately 80 terms and concepts that are crucial to understanding the Educational Management Project, a comprehensive inservice program for educational administrators that was developed by the Tucson Public Schools. Annotations for the individual terms vary in length from approximately 30 to 350 words and are cross-referenced to other related concepts. Included are terms dealing with such topics as accountability, classical management theory, decision-making and problem-solving theory, and the systems approach to management. (JG)