"The Learning Principal" is an eight-page newsletter published eight times a year. It focuses on the important and unique work of school principals. This issue includes: (1) Efficacy Can Overcome Classroom Barriers (Valerie von Frank); (2) Q & A: Leadership, Learning Communities Change School Culture (Valerie von Frank); (3) Focus on NSDC's [National Staff Development Council's] Standards: Road Trip! (Pat Roy); and (4) NSDC Tool: Teacher Beliefs. (Individual articles contain references.) [For "The Learning Principal," Volume 4, Number 7, see ED507666.]