A sorely disappointed superintendent and I were talking a few days ago. She, her school board, and her senior administrators had gone through an...
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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...
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...
Superintendents Oliver Robinson and Aaron Spence On Building a Cohesive Board Governing Team
The January 27 article on this blog – “May the (Centrifugal) Force Not Be With You!” – talks about one of the most insidious...
We Could Use Some Pillow Talk About Board-Superintendent Partnership Building
Nicholas Kristof’s thought-provoking column in the July 19 New York Times, “Bill and Melinda’s Pillow Talk,” is mainly about the tremendous progress...
Don’t Be Seduced By the Siren Song of “Policy Governance”
“We’re in a state of shock and can’t figure out what’s going on.” These were the first words I recall coming out of the board president’s mouth in...
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...
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...
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...