Instructional Management must be carried out so that it is responsive in an accountability sense to the social system; there must be negotiation and communication among a variety of parties; and the work must be understood, accepted, and supported by all key participants. Communication is needed to establish and maintain the system, to resolve…

This monograph provides guidelines to help principals effectively administer schools under master contracts. The report (1) describes how a principal should prepare for bargaining; (2) discusses day-to-day administration of the contract; (3) examines some problems with administrator-teacher roles under the contract; and (4) makes suggestions about…

This handbook is written for the principal of an inner-city school in the belief that the principal who respects the people with whom he works, who encourages them in planning to achieve mutually agreed-upon goals, who trusts them with real responsibility, and who supports their efforts has a greater chance of being an affective school…