Three Identified Publications Producing Information Relevant to School Administration, Essay Example

Texas School Administrators Professional Journal – Fall 2006 Edition http://www.tasanet.org/files/PDFs/Insight/insight%20fall06.pdf

Time and the School Leader by Virginia Collier http://www.tasanet.org/files/PDFs/Insight/insight%20fall06.pdf

AAP Policy Journal

Pediatrics Vol. 112 No. 3 September 2003, pp. 697-699 http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;112/3/697

Parents Recommended Short Term Medications

School administrators and health personnel should consider whether the administration of over-the-counter, parent-recommended medications is worth the problems that this practice presents. Benefits of pain relievers, anti-inflammatory medications, and antihistamines, for example, are that there may be symptomatic improvement for the student that enables learning and causes less classroom disruption. However, disadvantages include difficulty in obtaining physician permission for such limited use, liability of the school district in assisting with the administration of an unprescribed medication that has potential to cause harm, and issues of school safety and security of drug use (eg, sharing of medication between classmates). The social realities of parents who work, often in jobs that do not allow for medical leave to attend to their children’s illnesses, may require that they send their children to school with mild illnesses. Because of these realities, it may be necessary to consider allowing the administration of parent-recommended medications for students during the school day on a short-term basis.

The CAP Journal : Resources for School based Leadership Volume 16 No. 1, Winter 2008

Simon Blakely Article on Succession Planning http://www.cdnprincipals.org/winter%202008%20issue.pdf