Survey to determine the backgrounds of administrators, examine some of the skills of those experienced practitioners identified by their peers, recommend guidelines for development of inservice training experiences for prospective and practicing administrators and develop guidelines for districts seeking community services officers. (Author/CB)

A biographical sketch of Dr. Lester E. Rounds, superintendent of Ramapo Central School District, Suffren, New York. The article describes the unorthodox methods and the humanized approach Dr. Rounds uses in his job. (DN)

The principal who is to remain instructional leader amid current pressures for change needs to be a student of the social forces in which his school operates. (Editor)

More time and attention should be devoted to identifying and developing academic leaders. (Editor)

A survey of student personnel services reports patterns of administrator characteristics, program organization and the range of services offered. (MN)

A board's do-it-yourself program for identifying, training, and promoting administrators from its own staff. (JF)

Reviews approaches taken in the study of human behavior and psychology by assessment centers, places where different experimenters apply various diagnostic techniques to the same individuals and then meet to report their findings and collectively formulate the personality of the subject/participant. (Author/GC)

Gives a composite view of the successful superintendent in Ohio. The information is based on a study of 16 superintendents identified as the most successful in the state. (IRT)

The value systems of individuals play a large part in determining their educational decisions. The increasing effects of unilateral decision-making are discussed here together with the implications of extended participation in leadership roles. (Editor)

Investigates superintendent searches to determine the degree of similarity between the leadership qualities and characteristics recommended by the Standards for School Leaders (Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium) and the superintendent qualities desired by school boards. Finds that school boards valued standards that emphasized…

Discusses the soul of leadership, including basic principles such as a leader is the symbolic soul of the group. Describes the essentials of leadership using the acronym LEADERS: Look and listen, Empowerment, Awareness, Doing, Emotional freedom and empathy, Responsibility, and Synchronicity. (PKP)

Sex stereotypes are often less clear-cut than they seem. Erstwhile weaknesses can come to be viewed as valuable skills, and formerly perceived strengths can be seen as inflexible and one-dimensional. Management culture is beginning to see the value of a mixture of feminine and masculine traits. (Contains 60 references.) (JOW)