CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES -- 1. The Evolution of Training for School Administrators by Bruce S. Cooper and William L. Boyd -- 2. Principles of Quality Staff Development: Lessons for Administrator Training by Nancy J. Pitner -- 3. The Legacy of the Theory Movement: Learning from the New Tradition by Robert L. Crowson and R. Bruce McPherson -- II. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS -- 4. The Center for Advancing Principalship Excellence (APEX): An Approach To Professionalizing Educational Administration by Paula F. Silver -- 5. The AASA Model for Preparing School Leaders by John R. Hoyle -- III. STATE MODELS -- 6. Maryland's MPDA: The Maryland Professional Development Academy and Its Odyssey in Comprehensive Training by A. Skipp Sanders -- 7. The North Carolina Leadership Institute for Principals by Lee W. Grier -- IV. LABORATORY AND UNIVERSITY APPROACHES -- 8. Peer-Assisted Leadership: Peer Observation and Feedback as Catalysts for Professional Growth by Bruce G. Barnett -- 9. The Harvard Principals' Center: School Leaders as Adult Learners by Sarah L. Levine, Roland S. Barth and Kenneth W. Haskins -- 10. The Institute of Educational Administration in Australia by Colin R. J. Moyle and Keith C. Andrews -- 11. Facilitating/I/D/E/A/Principals' Collegial Support Groups as a Means of Professional Development and School Improvement by James C. Laplant -- 12. Lewis and Clark College's Summer Institute for Beginning School Administrators by Daniel L. Duke -- 13. Research, Practice, and Conceptual Models: Underpinnings of a Principals' Institute by Kent D. Peterson -- 14. The Australian Administrative Staff College: The Syndicate Method by W. G. Walker -- V. CONCLUSION.

15. New Directions in the Professional Development of School Administrators: A Synthesis and Suggestions for Improvement by Joseph Murphy and Philip Hallinger -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.