In a time of great flux and dynamic change in schools, from where will our future school leaders come? The answer, of course, is from a variety of places. By and large, however, most of these leaders are already in the nation's schools. Some are highly engaging teachers who have a particular knack with parents, some are department chairs…

This past May, the author was more dismayed than surprised to read the "New York Times" article about the scores of parents who are enrolling their three- to five-year-olds in Junior Kumon enrichment programs. As some parents interviewed for the article expressed, their motivation in doing so was either to keep their children from falling "behind…

To create a feeling of school unity and to reinforce the concept of human interdependence, the teachers of Friends' Central School planned Project Terra, a six-week school-wide activity. With the school viewed as a mythical planet, classes designed their own cultures and interacted as nations. (SJL)

As a focal point for their unit on Anglo-Saxon England, the reading of "Beowulf" led fourth and fifth graders into a variety of learning projects: creating monsters, writing sagas, tracing the tale's geography, and role playing Saxon life and customs. (SJL)

Presents the rationale for and content of a sixth-grade unit on Africa, focusing on the concepts of race and of variation in cultural patterns. A bibliography of instructional resources is appended. (SJL)

Suggests that independent school teachers and administrators need to know as much as possible about television and that they can and should influence the role television plays in their students' lives. Critically evaluates television programming and its impact upon parents and students. Also gives some TV guidelines for parents concerned about…

Proposes an economical model for meeting some of the problems a principal faces in dealing with a school's emotional health. (Author/RK)

Parents are asking educators for ways of not having to choose between themselves and their children. How independent schools can help is discussed by the author in her remarks made at the 1977 National Association of Independent Schools Annual Conference. (Author/RK)

Certain changes in today's families are making enormous differences in what parents expect of schools. Independent schools have to relate to their demands thereby better understanding what parents want for their children. As a result parents will be more motivated to find the time to cooperate with the school. (Author/RK)

Describes the characteristics associated with children who have receptive language disability or aphasia, the difficulties these children have in everyday living, the problems they can expect in school, and the responsibility of the teacher and parent in helping the aphasic child overcome his problem. (RK)

Maintains that males and females have physiological and psychological differences which cause differences in perception and learning patterns, and that educational and curricular approaches should be geared to those differences. (CM)

As a consultant to Quaker elementary and middle school teachers in Pennsylvania, the author helps teachers develop a sense of how to make a working atmosphere where creative thinking and learning can take place in many ways and helps principals find constructive ways to deal with personnel problems. (Author/SB)

Brookwood School, a private K-8 day school in Manchester (Massachusetts), evaluates itself through community and parental perceptions, comparisons with local private schools, personnel and curriculum evaluations, standardized test results, questionnaires to recent graduates and to faculty at private secondary schools, and its recent long-range…

Word processing may change how people learn to write. The use of a word processor to teach a sixth grader with writing problems showed how the machine can alleviate problems involving writing with pencil and paper, correcting errors, evaluating and revising, and producing a good-looking text. (RW)

A newly-appointed principal describes the responses of schoolchildren, and how the responses vary according to age and experience, as the children adjust to her presence after the departure of a beloved predecessor. (Author/MLF)