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The text is designed to help prospective and experienced principals, administrators and supervisors increase their knowledge and skills through concepts, case-studies, and simulations. Two parts makeup this text. Part I presents important theoretical concepts and research findings that if adequately understood and appropriately applied can improve educators' problem solving and leadership effectiveness. Problems and issues illustrated in case studies and simulations are presented in Part II. Nevertheless, it is the problem dimension of human behaviour in school administration that should be studied, and it is here that preparation and in-service training programs need to be directed if prospective and experienced administrators and supervisors are to be equipped with the skills needed for the future as well as for the present.

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• Part I Major Concepts In Administration And The Social Sciences: Conceptual Tools For Effective School Leadership
• Introduction ISLLC Standard
• Chapter 1 Leadership
• Chapter 2 Decision Making
• Chapter 3 Authority, Power, and Influence
• Chapter 4 Communication
• Chapter 5 Conflict Management
• Chapter 6 Organizational Culture
• Chapter 7 School Improvement
• Part II Case Studies And Simulations
• Chapter 8 Introduction to Clinical Materials and Learning Experiences
• Chapter 9 Beginning Challenges
• 1 Preparing for the Job Search
• 2 From Teacher to Administrator
• 3 The New Principal (In-Basket Activities)
• 4 The New Assistant Principal (In-Basket Activities)
• 5 Resentment over Appointment
• 6 Why Does a Woman Need to Act Like a Man?
• 7 Gimme That Old-Time Discipline
• 8 Is Being Busy Necessarily Productive?
• Chapter 10 Student Problems
• 9 School Yard Dangers
• 10 The Underachiever
• 11 What Should Be the Role of the Student Newspaper?
• 12 A Complex Discipline Problem
• 13 The Drop-Out Problem (Simulation Exercise)
• 14 Students Can't Take Pressure Any Longer
• 15 An Issue of Morals and Priorities
• 16 "Zero Tolerance" for Weapons in Schools
• 17 Student Drug Problem at Washington School
• 18 Do Extreme Times Call for Radical Action? (A Leaderless Group Activity)
• 19 A Different Kind of "Drug" Problem
• Chapter 11 Administrator-Staff Relationships
• 20 Teacher Selection
• 21 Problems of a Beginning Teacher
• 22 Faculty Teamwork
• 23 Who Needs Lesson Plans?
• 24 Conflict Over Teacher Citizenship Rights
• 25 Faculty Dissatisfaction and Low Morale
• 26 Teacher Files a Grievance
• 27 Teacher Reacts Negatively to Personnel Evaluation
• 28 Faculty Slowdown
• 29 Do Women Have Power?
• 30 Collaboration Woes
• Chapter 12 School-Community Relations
• 31 Curriculum Unit Upsets Parents
• 32 Communication and Constructed Reality
• 33 Parental Apathy
• 34 Wanted: A Plan for Improving Parental and Community Involvement
• 35 The School-Community Web
• 36 Developing Student Talent
• 37 A New Role for the Parents' Organization
• 38 How Much Should Parents Be Told?
• 39 Administrator-Press Relations
• 40 Public Relations: What's Really Important?
• 41 Censorship? Or Parents' Rights?
• 42 Financial Crisis!
• Chapter 13 Role and Organizational Problems
• 43 Principal's Mid-Year Problems and Priorities (In-Basket Activities)
• 44 Principal's End-of-the Year Problems and Priorities (In-Basket Activities)
• 45 Principal's Dilemma
• 46 Principal's Personal Conduct Results in Possible Suspension
• 47 Intra-Organizational Role Conflict 48. Supervisor-Principal Relationship
• 49 The Superintendent and the New School Board Members
• 50 Administrator Evaluation
• Chapter 14 Social Justice Issues
• 51 Can Total School Integration Be Achieved?
• 52 Minority Parents Are Dissatisfied with Integration
• 53 We Want Neighborhood Schools, Too!
• 54 Metropolitan Integration
• 55 Parents Detect Racial Disparity
• 56 Teacher Difficulty in a Multicultural Climate
• 57 Matter of What? 58. Do (Should?) We Treat Them All Alike?
• 59 Ideas on IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Act)
• 60 Student Formed Gay-Straight Alliance
• 61 Inclusion of Special Needs Students
• Chapter 15 Problems of Change
• 62 Teacher Tries to Individualize Instruction
• 63 Effective Schools: How Do We Get There From Here? (A Group Activity)
• 64 Planning for Improvement
• 65 School-Based Management
• 66 Restructuring Staff Evaluation and Supervision
• 67 Changing the Role of the Building Principal
• 68 In-Service or Disservice Education?
• Part I
• 69 In-Service or Disservice Education?
• Part II
• 70 School Choice
• 71 School District Chips Away