If the textbook and material selection process is to be adequately supported in school budgets, curriculum directors, teachers, and administrators must be able to defend their requests with high-quality information. This article offers nine suggestions to help build a leadership structure and a database for making appropriate textbook selections.…

All too often, the research dealing with sex equity is overlooked by teacher supervisors. Research findings dealing with verbal interaction patterns and various alternatives to following sexist examples are presented so that unconscious sexist teaching behaviors among both male and female teachers can be identified. (CJH)

Faculty feedback is an effective method for administrators to assess their performance and work toward leadership improvement. Guidelines for developing and using self-styled faculty feedback instruments are provided. (MD)

A teaching style classification system that can aid in the evaluation of teachers is outlined. It allows the evaluator the use of systematic and orderly evaluation practices. (MD)

A practical strategy to help school administrators improve curricula is presented. (MJL)

The importance of the establishment of a written school philosophy statement is presented. Includes an example of such a statement and suggestions for writing one. (MD)

Outlines how to develop and write an effective curriculum governance document to be used in creating and monitoring curriculum development. Includes specific steps to consider in developing the document. (MD)

Principals are confronted daily with opportunities to choose either bureaucratic or nonbureaucratic leadership behaviors. Effective principals make a conscious leadership choice, recognizing that the options have paradoxical implications and produce different school cultures. In the process, new administrator role definitions are emerging.…

Teachers who feel good about themselves and their abilities are the ones most likely to experience success. A personal approach is suggested for principals to use in building teachers' self-esteem through recurring compliments, imagery, social reinforcers, and trust. (TE)

Administrators involved in school improvement programs are finding that supervision is the essence of instructional leadership. Effective supervisor leadership requires constant searching for ways to integrate several core elements of school improvement--classroom instruction, curriculum development, classroom management, and staff development.…

To develop nonbureaucratic leadership behavior (and earn prestige among staff members), principals must understand and recognize seven bureaucratic/nonbureaucratic ranges of behavior: stability/activity; intention/distinction; accountability/efficacy; regularity/ variability; intervention/facilitation; control/empowerment; and…

Traditional instruction employs text/talk vehicle focused on basic literacy, with little effort to engage students in information literacy, or accessing, analyzing, synthesizing, applying, and creating information with electronic media. This article provides Information Age Teaching-Learning Audit to help principals assess their schools' progress…

New (information) literacy may be defined as accessing, analyzing, applying, creating, and communicating information electronically. School leaders must encourage and support electronic literacy and understand its relationship to previous pictographic, oral, and bibliographic eras. Unless schools begin to address and teach the new literacy, U.S.…