Board-Superintendent Involvement in Innovation/Change Management
Getting Your Board-Superintendent Retreat Right
Retreats have become a popular vehicle for involving school board members, their superintendents, and senior administrators in accomplishing high-impact governing work that could not be accomplished – at least not as well – in regular board business meetings. Updating a …
The Miami Lighthouse Partners With the Miami Dade County Schools in the Pre-K Arena
Virginia Jacko and I tell her incredible true story in our book The Blind Visionary (www.GovernanceEdge.com): losing her eyesight while serving as a senior financial executive at Purdue University; starting all over as a vocational rehabilitation student at …
The Demand Side of Succession Planning: Ripe for Board Involvement
What a great week it’s been! I was privileged to spend four hours Tuesday morning in Nashville, presenting a workshop (“The Board-Savvy Superintendent”) for – and interacting with – participants in AASA’s National Superintendent Certification Program. I can’t recall having …
Policies Transform Culture in the Ithaca (New York) City Schools
Wearing my governance consultant hat, I’ve read through hundreds of board policy manuals over the years, and I have to say that they don’t make for scintillating reading. After all, policies are essentially rules that govern your district’s academic and …
Two Preeminent Board Development Change Champions
The last post at this blog talked about the all-too-common resistance among board members to change on the governance front, often the result of fear – of losing influence, experiencing discomfort, failing at doing something new, and the like. I …
Board-Savvy Superintendents Don’t Underestimate Resistance to Governance Change
Resistance to change has scuttled more than one change ship in the sea of K-12 governance; in fact, it makes sense to assume that whatever approach your district takes to updating your board’s “governing design” – its role, structure and …
K-12 Enterprise Part 3: Leyden District 212’s Partnership with A 1 Tool Company
This is the third article in our series looking at what we’re calling the “K-12 Enterprise.” We’ve defined the K-12 Enterprise as a public school district that is more secure and better able to thrive in an increasingly competitive and …
Leading the K-12 Enterprise
In Cleveland recently to facilitate a daylong board retreat, I dropped by the administrative headquarters of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District to chat with one of Eric Gordon’s top lieutenants, Dr. Roseann Canfora, the district’s Chief Communications Officer. You might …
Dr. Devin Vodicka and 3 Students Discuss Vista USD’s Personalized Learning Initiative
A few weeks ago, during a conversation about educational innovation with Mort Sherman, AASA’s Associate Executive Director, Mort urged me to get in touch with a man he described as a “consummate innovator,” Dr. Devin Vodicka. Since educational innovation is …
Large-Scale Innovation on the Learning Front in the Wilder (Idaho) Schools
Security and comfort are two of the most insidious siren songs drawing us away from important change. Thinking about my own formal educational journey – as a student from first grade through graduate school and as an ancient history teacher …
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