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
