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This workshop presenter's guide is intended for use by administrators in training one another in the Project Leadership program developed by the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA). The purpose of this particular guide is to train administrators to interpret common contract provisions that affect management's decision-making authority and to provide administrators with a guide to help them analyze their districts' union contracts and the limitations they place on administrator latitude in making decisions. The guide gives a brief historical review of the problems principals face in contract administration, presents a hypothetical grievance case, and then covers topics of grievance procedures, arbitrability, maintenance of standards, precedence of agreement, preeminence of agreement, and duty to bargain. Written to be read aloud, the guide contains a script, suggestions for conduct of the session, an 8-item reference list, 2 appendices containing an arbitrator's opinion in both a real and a hypothetical situation, 4 handouts, and masters of 15 numbered transparencies. (IW)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert