Offers points for consideration by both school boards and charter-school advocates. Important elements of a successful charter school include vision, hands-on administrators, a commitment to staff development, and founders who also serve as maintainers. (LMI)

Describes how art therapists can clarify their roles and assertively sell themselves to the public. Looks at the future of art therapy, defines assertiveness, explores the need for art therapists as mentors, details the need for change, and introduces some practical solutions to achieve change. (RJM)

Partnerships between nursing education and health service providers can provide financial benefits, bridge the theory/practice gap, and cultivate collegial interdisciplinary relationships. To realize benefits may require creation of more formal partnership strategies. (SK)

Explores the role and importance of faculty governance based on personal experience at the University of California, Berkeley (which has one of the country's strongest faculty governance systems) and the University of Michigan (with a weaker system more representative of national norms). Discusses the increasing market-related obstacles to…

College and university student recruitment offices are encouraged to use graphic illustrations and other artwork, in addition to photographs, to enhance the individuality of their viewbooks, and are offered suggestions for selecting, combining, and commissioning such artwork. (MSE)

Discusses the implementation of partner teams of two or three teachers at the middle school level. Considers the effect of these partnerships on class organization, student achievement, and teachers' relationships, and notes the evolution of partnerships from teaching teams. (JPB)

Discusses the need for middle school teaching teams to maintain boundary relations with other parts of the school. Provides a framework for dealing with group boundaries and recommends actions to preserve intergroup relations, including intergroup communication, acquiring a total-school perspective, and deliberately attending to boundary matters.…

The Louisiana State University Libraries adopted a mentoring program in 1998 to help tenure-track librarians successfully meet tenure requirements. The program was evaluated after the first year and the faculty determined that it was successful; it was implemented on a permanent basis. The program was developed using six basic components. Details…

This editorial comments on a study that found that parents of infants prenatally exposed to illegal drugs did not subsequently have more child abuse allegations than a comparison sample. The need for adult and child welfare professionals to work together in serving infants and their parents is stressed. (Contains 1 reference.) (CR)

Discusses how mentoring is being increasingly used by companies as a means of fostering employee learning and development. Presents the results of a qualitative study that investigated the characteristics that the ideal mentor should possess, and ways that both mentors and proteges can make mentoring relationships most effective. (Author/GCP)

Describes the Third Symposium on Chicano Psychology (East Lansing, Michigan, April 1998). Provides an overview of earlier meetings on Chicano psychology, 1973-82. Discusses the diversity of conference participants, increased participation by Chicanas, presentation themes, barriers to Chicanos during their academic and professional careers, the…

Offers a view of the scholarly review process for manuscripts submitted to this journal. Presents an introduction, a manuscript submitted for publication, three reviews of the manuscript, and the author's response. Notes that the rich scholarly dialogue that goes on during the review process is rarely glimpsed in its entirety by most researchers.…

This study examines how newcomers use colleagues as role models in organizational socialization, taking a multiple level approach to organizational socialization as individual, social and cultural learning processes. The newcomers most important personal characteristics are expectations, experience, self-confidence and competitive instinct. These…

Trust is a critical factor in determining whether principal-teacher working relationships are positive or negative. This article begins to explore the concept of trust and its development in twelve Canadian secondary schools that experienced frequent principal turnover in a period of eight years. The authors found that the development of trust…

Assistant principals are often overlooked as a resource for creating, advancing, and sustaining a compelling vision for mathematics. The Math Collaborative Project developed in New York City examined the process of developing and implementing programs designed to help assistant principals network and strengthen their instructional leadership…