Careful planning can help principals manage two schools without eroding their sanity. Two-school principals should use color-coding to keep meetings straight, devise a work schedule that accommodates both schools, develop a workable off-campus communication system, eat lunch with students, and create a card-and-candy student-recognition system.…

Discusses the need to understand the unique nature of illness and dying for each person and circumstance. Describes ways for center directors to deal sensitively with an employee's illness. Explores the impact of serious illness on child care programs and examines pitfalls to avoid in dealing with ill employees. (SM)

Among 252 school-based occupational therapists surveyed in 5 northwestern states, the most common problems were large caseloads, too little time for paperwork, and inadequate physical facilities. Additional primary problems identified by rural therapists were excessive traveling, lack of interdisciplinary team communication, and lack of…

A case study explored availability of collaboration benefits and the difficulties teachers experienced in attaining them in a traditional comprehensive high school that hosts a career academy and a school-within-a-school. Administrators should encourage teachers' voluntary participation, allow adequate planning time, provide training, and increase…

The primary school headteachers' role has changed considerably since Britain's Education Reform Act (1988). A 2- year study of 12 Welsh principals disclosed key issues: increased managerial responsibility; changing deputy headteacher roles; parental involvement/social-worker emphases; relations with school governors; stress and overload;…

Examines a woman superintendent's 2-year tenure in a small southern city from a feminist perspective. Against a backdrop of community/district politics, shows how gender stereotyping still influences how female superintendents are perceived as school-system leaders. Women must resist traditional images reserved for them and reinvent the…

Accomplished teachers are leaving the profession by the thousands (7% yearly). A 1997 National Center for Education Statistics survey found that dissatisfied teachers leave because of student discipline and motivation problems, inadequate administrative support, poor salary, and insufficient influence over school policies and practices. The…

Examines the ways that academic department chairs cope with the demanding and often contradictory roles they must assume. Discusses the challenge of allocating resources among faculty members and simultaneously maintaining collegiality. Presents data culled from interviews with 23 current and former department chairs. (MJP)

Discusses five obstacles to the development of a continuum of child welfare services; the effects of these obstacles on minority children; and steps that policymakers and voluntary agencies might take to improve the continuum of care of minority children. (BG)