Partners in Progress: Strengthening the Supterintendent-Board Relationship

Partners in Progress: Strengthening the Supterintendent-Board Relationship
Author: Matthew King
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1999
Genre: Education
ISBN:

In order for a school systems to function well, the superintAndents and boards of education must successfully model the values of cooperation, honest communication, and leadership they espouse for their students, teachers, and administrators. This volume of New Directions for School Leadership shows how superintAndents and school boards can build a strong, collaborative team relationship that reflects those values. Written by practitioners, the chapters offer effective, creative techniques superintAndents and boards can use to enhance communication and relationship-building, including annual planning retreats, weekly written communications, and annual evaluations of the superintAndent. The authors also describe successful approaches for creating a climate of trust and support in the school administration and improving the academic achievements of minority students.

Eight Keys to an Extraordinary Board-Superintendent Partnership

Eight Keys to an Extraordinary Board-Superintendent Partnership
Author: Doug Eadie
Publisher: R&L Education
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2003-05-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1578860164

This book draws on author Doug Eadie's work with hundreds of boards to provide detailed, hands-on guidance for building and managing a board-superintendent partnership that is close, positive, productive, and enduring. Eadie describes how the superintendent can wear the "chief partnership officer" hat while leading and managing a board-superintendent partnership program. Special attention is paid to such critical partnership building tools such as: · Empowering the board · Building board member ownership of their governing work · Making governing work easier and more fun · Involving senior administrators in providing executive support to the board For superintendents, school board members, and school system senior administrators.

The Board-Savvy Superintendent

The Board-Savvy Superintendent
Author: Paul D. Houston
Publisher: R&L Education
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2002-11-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1461663474

The Board-Savvy Superintendent's hard-hitting, no-nonsense, advice on school board leadership capitalizes on Houston and Eadie's hands-on experience working with hundreds of boards and superintendents over the past quarter-century. It is a practical, survive-and-thrive book that will help school district leaders—board members, superintendents, and senior administrators—learn to work together successfully in leading their districts in these extraordinarily challenging times. Filled with detailed, thoroughly tested guidance on how to acquire the skills and knowledge that make up board savvyness, it also addresses how to develop the school board's capacity to produce truly high-impact governance, and how to build a strong, enduring, productive board-superintendent working partnership. The authors take a fresh look at the process of governing, going well beyond the old-fashioned, control-focused "policy governance" approach. Rather than being preoccupied with developing a static structure of policies to distinguish the board's role from the superintendent's, the book describes how the board and superintendent can creatively work together in making decisions about such critical governing "products" as values, vision, mission, and strategic change initiatives. School district leaders will appreciate The Board-Savvy Superintendent's close look at the "gold standard" for board involvement in school affairs: leading strategic change. The authors go well beyond the conventional long-range planning approach of merely projecting everything a school district is doing for some arbitrary period of 3 or 5 years, which has generated tons of paper and little important change to provide the reader with detailed, practical guidance on engaging school boards creatively and proactively in a much more selective, vision-driven process that actually results in the implementation of strategic change: the Strategic Change Portfolio.

Building a High-Impact Board-Superintendent Partnership

Building a High-Impact Board-Superintendent Partnership
Author: Doug Eadie
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2019-08-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475847912

Building a High-Impact Board-Superintendent Partnership will consist of 11 brief chapters, each covering a critical question that practitioners need to answer in building the board-superintendent partnership

Working Toward Success

Working Toward Success
Author: Amy E. Van Deuren
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2016-02-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475815549

The importance of positive board/superintendent relationships cannot be understated. The need to balance competing political pressures to create the best possible learning opportunities for students is ever present. Most importantly, board/superintendent relationships should be cultivated with openness and transparency among each other and the public. This book is a resource for both board members and superintendents, and explores issues related to the board/superintendent relationship and superintendent hiring practices. The book includes contributions from experienced and new superintendents and board members on a wide range of topics that boards and superintendents must navigate together successfully in order to move districts in a positive direction for students, staff, parents, and communities. This book is unique in that the intended audience is both boards and superintendents. It is not a resource wherein “experts” tell board members how they should conduct board business, nor a resource that informs superintendents how to “manage” school boards. Instead, the book promotes and encourages a productive working relationship and partnership that moves school districts forward in a positive manner.

Seven Secrets of the Savvy School Leader

Seven Secrets of the Savvy School Leader
Author: Robert Evans
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2010-02-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0470507322

The keys to having an outstanding career as a school leader. The American educational system is in crisis; trends of recent years have been extraordinarily hard on educators. An entire generation of school leaders is retiring, many of them early, and the number of candidates applying to replace them is plummeting. In many districts, applications have shrunk by nearly two-thirds. Seven Secrets of The Savvy School Leader hopes to counteract these glum statistics by giving both aspiring and experienced school leaders important survival tools, and encouraging long-term leaders to renew their faith in their own abilities. Describes the innate tensions inherent in leadership Explores the difference between dilemmas and problems Encourages leaders to make change by making meaning Offers guidance for being your best and bold self Written an expert on school leadership who has worked closely with thousands of schools over the years, the book will help anyone serving as or considering becoming a school administrator.

School, Family, and Community Partnerships

School, Family, and Community Partnerships
Author: Joyce L. Epstein
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2018-07-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483320014

Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.

Peak Performing Governance Teams

Peak Performing Governance Teams
Author: Timothy Gerald Quinn
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-01-08
Genre: Educational leadership
ISBN: 9781456331764

The underlying reason for most school superintendent turnover is a breakdown in the board-superintendent relationship. This book presents a comprehensive set of practical strategies and structures that will help ensure effective governance team practices become a permanent way of doing business in the school district. While it is written primarily for K-12 school superintendents, it is also a must-read for anyone aspiring to the role, members of a superintendent's leadership team, and school board members interesting in creating a governance team that works at an optimal level for the benefit of all children.

Roles and Relationships

Roles and Relationships
Author: Joint AASA-NSBA Committee
Publisher: R & L Education
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994
Genre: School board-superintendent relationships
ISBN: 9780876522080

This position statement, coauthored by a joint committee composed of members of the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) and the National School Boards Association (ASBA), outlines a new cooperative relationship for superintendents and school boards. In light of the challenges that today's superintendents and school boards face, it is necessary that both parties examine their roles and responsibilities. This document describes the work of the joint committee, professional standards for the superintendency, and the governance role of school boards. It also highlights some societal changes that have affected public school governance and administration. Three major factors of the board-superintendent relationship include the nature of policy development and administration; the increasing influence of external factors on local district governance; and the discretionary authority granted to boards by their chief administrators. The specific responsibilities for boards and superintendents are outlined. Effective communication is identified as a key to a successful board-administrator relationship. (LMI)

Building Relationships, Yielding Results

Building Relationships, Yielding Results
Author: Julie L. Hackett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: School board-superintendent relationships
ISBN: 9781612508078

Provides a clear road map for effective collaboration with school boards and the type of relationship-building required to achieve long-term, sustainable reforms. Instead of keeping school board members at arm's length, Julie L. Hackett demonstrates how to tailor traditional superintendent activities to include board members and increase understanding and trust.