The following article is based on my column in the September 11, 2014 issue of the American School Board Journal, featuring the tremendous...
Measuring What Matters In The Shaker Heights Schools
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Board Savvy Superintendent Blog Archive
Proven techniques for developing rock-solid board-superintendent partnerships
Wearing Your Diplomat-in-Chief Hat
We were sitting in the superintendent’s office after the board meeting talking about her relationship with the board, and I asked her what she did...
Dueling Boards: A Cautionary True Story
The tension in the conference room was palpable, as the superintendent and her board president at one end of the table glared at the educational...
Use Spear Carriers To Preserve Your CEO Line of Credit
The school board’s Planning & Development Committee held four intensive work sessions over the course of six months in coming up with a list of...
Should You Get Your Board Involved In Doing Non-Governing Work?
The primary mission of all school boards is to govern, which essentially involves making decisions about such governing products as the annual...
Two Seasoned Leaders On Board Engagement
In Governing at the Top (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781475807158) I describe a phenomenon that I’m sure many superintendents have observed over the...
Averting Needless and Costly Partings of the Ways
The last post at boardsavvysuperintendent.com features an outstanding K-12 leader, MaryEllen Elia, superintendent of the Hillsborough County Schools...
Hillsborough’s MaryEllen Elia on the Board-Superintendent Partnership
Looking over columns from The American School Board Journal early this afternoon, I came across one that appeared in May 2009, “Governance: A...
The Importance of Smiling at Fear
Last weekend I listened to a four-CD program by an American Buddhist nun, Pema Chodron. Titled “Smile at Fear,” the program, which was...
Building a Solid Board President-Superintendent Working Relationship
In my newest book, Governing at the Top (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), I describe the working relationship between the superintendent and her...
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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.