The April 4 post at this blog, “What About ‘Rogue’ Board Members?”, talked about tried and true approaches to reining in these trouble makers who...
3 Quick Fixes that Won’t Corral the Rogues on Your School Board
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Board-Savvy Superintendents Use Ritual as a Board Team Building Tool
“The prescribed form or order of conducting a religious or solemn ceremony.” “A ceremonial act or a series of such acts.” These are two of the...
What About “Rogue” Board Members?
We were talking about building school board self-management capacity at the preconference workshop I presented at the NSBA National Conference a...
Two Barriers to High-Impact Governing Performance
This post is drawn from Chapter 3 of my forthcoming book, Building a High-Impact Board-Superintendent Partnership: 13 Critical Questions You Need...
Bake Your Board Cake First, Then Worry About the Icing
A sorely disappointed superintendent and I were talking a couple of months ago. She, her school board, and her senior administrators had gone...
Board-Savvy Superintendents Don’t Underestimate Resistance to Governance Change
Resistance to change has scuttled more than one change ship in the sea of K-12 governance; in fact, it makes sense to assume that whatever approach...
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...
May the (Centrifugal) Force Not Be With You!
A few months ago at a team building retreat I was facilitating, involving the board, superintendent and her top administrators of a large suburban...
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...