Board-Superintendent Involvement in External Relations/Resource Development
King Richard III: A Case for Aggressive Image Building
And therefore since I cannot prove a lover to entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain and hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous….
Ah, King Richard III: how …
Harnessing the Power of Ownership: Overwhelming Approval of Highline Schools Capital Facilities Bond
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- Bernie Dorsey
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- Susan Enfield
I learned about …
More on the K-12 Enterprise: Creating Satisfied Indirect Customers
Doug Eadie
Later today Superintendent Nick Polyak (Leyden School District 212, Illinois) will join Geoff Luther, the owner of A-l Tool Corporation, and Frank Holthouse, Leyden’s Careers and Community Outreach Director, in recording a podcast for this blog describing the …
Superintendent Dallas Dance On Making Stakeholder Relations a Top CEO Priority
Dr. Dallas Dance
Public education is under assault these days. And unfortunately the social media offer the enemies of public education a powerful platform for questioning the effectiveness of our public schools and for aggressively promoting alternatives such as charter …
Our Land of Opportunity – Still
Doug Eadie
This article originally appeared at my DougEadie.com blog a little under a year ago. I thought it might resonate with our readers today.
“You know”, I said, “if you go back far enough, the overwhelming majority of us …
Superintendents Leading From Their Bully Pulpit
Theodore Roosevelt
Over the holidays, I re-read Doris Kearns Goodwin’s The Bully Pulpit, a superb study of the Progressive Era and the administrations of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. According to Goodwin, Roosevelt coined the term “bully …
Our Land of Opportunity – Still
This article, which originally appeared at the DougEadie.com blog, has attracted so many positive comments that I thought this blog’s readers might find it interesting and thought-provoking.
“You know”, I said, “if you go back far enough, the overwhelming majority …
Working Hand-in-Hand For Education In Sand Springs, Oklahoma
Sand Springs (Oklahoma) Superintendent Lloyd Snow
“Dueling Boards,” the March 12 post at www.boardsavvysuperintendent.com, tells the true story of school and educational foundation boards at loggerheads – locked in a tense, competitive relationship that wasted oodles of precious emotional …
Capitalizing On Your School Board As a Rich Resource In External Relations: the Charlottesville City Schools Story
Superintendent Rosa Atkins
Public education has taken it on the chin in recent years. School districts around the country have been thrown on the defensive by the apparent widespread skepticism about their educational and managerial effectiveness and by the growing …
Dueling Boards: A Cautionary True Story
The tension in the conference room was palpable, as the superintendent and her board president at one end of the table glared at the educational foundation CEO and his board chair at the other end. I sat in the middle …
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