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The Florida Academy for School Leaders offers programs about school
finance, collective bargaining, comprehensive planning, curriculum
management, and school and community relations.
Professional Associations and Foundations
The Charles F. Kettering Foundation has produced a training
activity, the I. D.E.A. Principal's Inservice Program, based on the premise
that the school is the unit of change in an educational system. The program
attempts to improve administrative effectiveness by examining individual
performance and engaging in prolonged efforts for personal and
professional improvement. The key element in the program is a local
collegial support group of from six to ten principals supported by an IDEA-
trained facilitator. 27
The NASSP Assessment Center program, initiated in 1975, is
based on three components: twelve critical skills; simulation techniques and
exercises; and a comprehensive training program to produce assessors. The
critical skills are problem analysis, judgment, organizational ability,
decisiveness, leadership, sensitivity, stress tolerance, communication,
written communication, range of interests, personal motivation, and
educational values. The NASSP Assessment Center works with the
University of Nebraska at Lincoln and the University of Utah to
demonstrate the concept in a campus setting.26
The many training options for school administrators thus
reveal the changing nature of professional education in the field. Although
most training in the immediate future will probably continue to be
university-based and structured around state department requirements for
certification, all administrators must find a way to connect theory and
practice on the job. In most cases, this means that basic training from
traditional sources must be supplemented by high-intensity skill training to
meet specific problems and changes.