Board Capacity Building
Superintendents Oliver Robinson and Aaron Spence On Building a Cohesive Board Governing Team
The January 27 article on this blog – “May the (Centrifugal) Force Not Be With You!” – talks about one of the most insidious enemies of a really cohesive board governing team: the centrifugal force caused by board members’ loyalty …
May the (Centrifugal) Force Not Be With You!
A few months ago at a team building retreat I was facilitating, involving the board, superintendent and her top administrators of a large suburban district, I sat in on a breakout group that was really struggling. Its charge was to …
Don’t Unwittingly Invite Micro-management!
A superintendent called me earlier this week, asking if I’d be interested in presenting a governance training workshop for her school board. She explained that several board members were coming dangerously close to “micro-managing,” and she wanted them to understand …
Performance Oversight Isn’t the Superintendent’s Responsibility Alone
“Falling fund a district slipup.” This is the headline of a front page article by Marlene Sokol in the August 8 Tampa Bay Times – about the dramatic decline in the Hillsborough County Public Schools’ reserve fund: from $298 million …
Board-Superintendent Collaboration on the Monitoring Front
Bob Rader, Executive Director of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education and a founding member of this blog’s Strategic Advisory Committee, has teamed up with two CABE Board members, First Vice President Ann Gruenberg and Vice President for Government …
Don’t Be Seduced By the Siren Song of “Policy Governance”
“We’re in a state of shock and can’t figure out what’s going on.” These were the first words I recall coming out of the board president’s mouth in the conference call she and her superintendent had scheduled with me. They …
Two Seasoned Leaders On Board Engagement
In Governing at the Top (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781475807158) I describe a phenomenon that I’m sure many superintendents have observed over the course of their careers: that school board members “who are actively engaged in shaping their governing decisions and judgments …
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