The Supervisor's Responsibility for Innovation.

The article discusses how school supervisors can help ease staff into adopting innovative instructional approaches. According to the author, supervision must look for more effective ways to bring about educational improvement to replace the punitive means used to chastise shortcomings in school districts in the United States. The author discusses ways by which professional accountability can be developed as teachers assume responsibility for planning as well as evaluating and validating the outcomes of the projected innovation. The author also offers guidelines to help correct common supervisory irresponsibility in relation to instructional innovation adoption.