Successful School Board Leadership

Lessons from Superintendents

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Success Strategies for School Board Leaders will help school boards effectively lead their districts with commitment, imagination, and courage, while minding legal and ethical constraints. This edited volume— based on words of wisdom from experienced superintendents—features long-term guiding principles to help school board members deal with the challenges of leadership. School boards play a critical role in education and the advice offered in this book will help to strengthen their workings.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2007-11-28
Mått161 x 240 x 22 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor252
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781578866304

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Gary Ivory is department head and associate professor at New Mexico State University. He is editor of What Works in Computing for School Administrators (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2001) and is co-coordinating, under the auspices of the University Council for Educational Administration, the Voices study of school superintendents and principals. Michele Acker-Hocevar is a professor of educational leadership at Florida Atlantic University. She is co-coordinating, under the auspices of the University Council for Educational Administration, the Voices study of school superintendents and principals.

1 Challenge: Leading in an Era of Change 2 Success Strategy: Selling the Vision 3 Success Strategy: Prioritize and Make Decisions 4 Challenge: Fostering Student Achievement 5 Success Strategy: Basing Decisions on Data 6 Success Strategy: Recruit, Keep, Develop, and Rely on Good Staff 7 Success Strategy: Learning About Education and Your Role 8 Challenge: Shortages of Resources 9 Challenge: Mandates and Micropolitics 10 Challenge: Understanding your Superintendent's Perspective 11 Challenge: The Need to be Re-Elected 12 Success Strategy: Obtain Meaningful Community Input 13 Success Strategy: Maintain Good Relationships

I found [this] book very helpful in organizing some of the ongoing challenges of being a member of a successful school board. The balance of what is in the best interests of the students with the ongoing public and private pressures of being on the board are clearly delineated... [the] book clearly expressed the balance that the board must maintain and the potential consequences of not clearly identifying the appropriate role of the board trustee... The conflict between the many roles of the board members makes it a very challenging experience. Your book, which includes a thoughtful discussion of the issues as well as philosophical frameworks and potential solutions, was a very good read... [This] book is a must read for anyone who is thinking of running for a board position as well as...'seasoned veterans.'