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Board Savvy Superintendent Blog Archive
Proven techniques for developing rock-solid board-superintendent partnerships
Don’t Get Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
“I’m caught between a rock and a hard spot, and it doesn’t feel good – in fact, kind of dangerous.” This is how the superintendent opened our...
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...
Gary Amoroso and Mia Urick on MASA’s Aspiring Superintendents’ Academy
A quarter-century of work with public and nonprofit CEOs and their boards has taught me that the preeminent factor...
First the Cake, Only Then the Icing
A sorely disappointed superintendent and I were talking a few days ago. She, her school board, and her senior administrators had gone through an...
Equipping Superintendent-Aspirants To Survive and Thrive In the Governing Arena
The same year the superintendent of a large urban school district was named “Superintendent of the Year” by her state association and was also a...
Two Really Board-Savvy Superintendents On Board Evaluation of Their Performance
I got several quizzical looks when I suggested that school boards should pay close attention not only to the achievement of...
Don’t Let an Insidious Foe Damage the Partnership With Your Board
Preparing for the “Board-Savvy Superintendent” workshop I’ll be presenting later this month for the Midlands Superintendents’ Academy at the...
Superintendents Jose Espinoza and Nick Polyak on Building a Strong Partnership With the Board
I’ll never forget walking into a superintendent’s office a few years ago and finding her distraught. She’d just come out of...
Our Land of Opportunity – Still
This article, which originally appeared at the DougEadie.com blog, has attracted so many positive comments that I thought this blog's readers might...
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Doug Eadie’s professional passion and his company’s mission are to empower public and nonprofit organizations by building governing board capacity and developing rock-solid board chief executive partnerships. A nationally prominent organizational developer par excellence, Doug specializes in building the governing capacity of public school districts, public transit authorities, and economic development corporations.