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Davis, Janet Haggerty – Journal of School Health, 1983
The secondary school principal's role in health education was explored through: (1) ideal presentations in the literature; and (2) a survey of teachers and principals in the Chicago (Illinois) schools. Health teachers and principals agreed about the principal's role, but teachers gave health education a lower priority than principals did.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Health Education
Lashway, Larry – Research Roundup, 2003
School-reform efforts in recent years have stressed, and expanded, the leadership role of the principal. But in the view of many analysts, the task of transforming a school is too complex for one person to accomplish alone. Consequently, a new model of leadership is developing: distributed leadership. This Research Roundup summarizes five…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces. Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1989
Eleven graduate students from the geographic area near and around Southern New Mexico and West Texas, all seasoned professionals in education, all in leadership roles, have presented their approach to leadership. Three commonalities characterize their approaches as revealed by the 10 chapters of this document: (1) leaders must be empowered in…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Qualifications
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Villarreal, Abelardo – Bilingual Research Journal, 1999
The success of transitional bilingual programs depends on program support at all levels of the school hierarchy and on the level of knowledge of bilingual education as evidenced through curriculum and instructional activities. Negative impacts and challenges of three types of inappropriate transitional bilingual programs are outlined along with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Bilingual Education Programs
Keith, Novella Z. – 1993
Discussions of teacher participation in the reform literature do not take into account the different meanings of the term, teacher participation. This paper uses a critical perspective to review the main approaches to teacher participation; to bring to light issues these approaches fail to address; and to offer alternatives. It is argued that…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Collegiality, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Waters, Tim; Marzano, Robert J.; McNulty, Brian – 2003
This paper reports on an examination of the effects of leadership practices on student achievement. It includes a meta-analysis of nearly every available study since the 1970s, including doctoral dissertations, that indicated it examined the effects of leadership on student achievement. From a total of more than 5,000 studies, 70 met the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Principles, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Qualifications