Tag: board-superintendent relations
Time to Update and Fine-Tune Your Superintendent Leadership Resolutions
There’s wide agreement in the K-12 sector that one of the preeminent vehicles for building and maintaining a close, productive, and enduring board-superintendent working relationship is a well-designed and meticulously executed process for board evaluation of superintendent performance. Superintendent …
How Ironic!
Doug Eadie
Over the years, I’ve been privileged to present a number of governance keynotes and workshops at AASA, NSBA, and state K-12 association meetings. As is my custom, at the beginning of each program, I’ve typically asked for a …
Engaging Board Members Creatively in Shaping the Annual Budget
The October 6 post at this blog made the case that superintendents – wearing the “Chief Governing Process Designer” hat – are well-advised to work with board committees in designing processes for engaging board members in a meaningful fashion in …
Board-Savvy Superintendents Know That Owners Make For Reliable Partners
Doug Eadie
A light bulb went off while I was sitting in on a board-superintendent-executive team work session early in my consulting career. The superintendent, assisted by her associate superintendent for curriculum and instruction and the district’s chief financial officer, …
Taking the Helm as CEO of Your District
AASA Aspiring Superintendents Academy 5/6/17
We spent a lot of our time together last Saturday at the workshop I presented for AASA’s Aspiring Superintendents Academy (“Hit the Ground Running With Your New Board”) talking about the very special nature of …
Don’t Over-rely on Human Relations in Building Your Partnership With the Board
Doug Eadie
The superintendent was a consummate people-person who had from the get-go paid close attention to the human dimension of her working relationship with the board during her three years at the helm of this Midwestern district. As I …
Making Superintendent Evaluation a Powerful Relationship Building Tool
Doug Eadie
Truly board-savvy superintendents make sure that their board evaluates their performance at least annually, employing a well-designed process that gets the heart of the superintendent’s leadership as chief executive of her district. Really board-savvy superintendents know that a …
Demonstrating Your Board Savvy-ness in Board Interview Sessions
One of the K-12 governance trends we discussed during the session I presented at MASA’s Aspiring Superintendents’ Academy on May 20 was the rapidly growing number of school boards that are paying serious attention to the “board savvy-ness” of candidates …
Gary Amoroso and Mia Urick on MASA’s Aspiring Superintendents’ Academy
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- Mia Urick
A quarter-century of work with …
First the Cake, Only Then the Icing
Doug Eadie
A sorely disappointed superintendent and I were talking a few days ago. She, her school board, and her senior administrators had gone through an intensive weekend retreat a couple of months earlier. She explained that it’d been put …
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