Full Description
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.
Contents
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
