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School, Kristen K.; McGoodwin, Middleton K. – School Administrator, 2011
This article shares the authors' personal stories that shed light on what to watch out for when the board takes up a performance review. The authors describe what they considered less-than-satisfying experiences with their board of education's process of performance assessment. They offered to do so with candor in hopes of helping their colleagues…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Superintendents, Job Performance, Administrator Evaluation
Cowart, Scott K. – School Administrator, 2010
This article describes how a school district's use of a transparent tool coalesced support for systemic improvement. The author was looking for a way to push improvement in his 4,000-student school system when he discovered the balanced scorecard, a strategic tool for performance management. The author details how the balanced scorecard helped him…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Strategic Planning, Alignment (Education), Educational Improvement
Vranish, Paul L. – School Administrator, 2011
The evaluation of a superintendent is often a stressful, unpleasant experience for both the superintendent and the members of the school board. Typical board trustees have little experience in evaluating CEOs. Worse yet, they are hamstrung by the limitations inherent to their roles. They lack the advantage of a day-to-day working relationship with…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Superintendents, Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Policy
Kopelowitz, Seymour B. – School Administrator, 2009
The complex nature of a school district demands a unique relationship between the superintendent and the board president. Forging a positive relationship requires a special kind of navigational skill. The author draws lessons for doing so from David Hargreaves' classic 1975 book "Interpersonal Relations and Education". The author outlines some…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Leadership Effectiveness
Newbrough, Arthur T. – School Administrator, 2002
Describes activities and advantages of low-budget retreats to improve the relationship between superintendents and school board members. (PKP)
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
Eadie, Doug; Houston, Paul D. – School Administrator, 2003
Describes the attributes of board-savvy superintendents: Brings the right attitude to working with the board, makes governance a top priority, focuses consciously on the human dimension of the board-superintendent partnership, and functions as a full-fledged, contemporary CEO. (PKP)
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Board Administrator Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
Goodman, Richard H. – School Administrator, 2007
At 75, encouraged by an 18-year veteran board member who decided to seek election to the state legislature, the author decided to run for election to the five-member regional school board that represents the voters in the four-town New Hampshire seacoast. He had been superintendent of a five-town area in New Hampshire and in the Boston suburb of…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Regional Schools, Boards of Education, Superintendents
Domenech, Daniel A. – School Administrator, 2005
An effective and stable school district requires a superintendent and board who work well together. Such collaboration builds positive momentum and public confidence. It also minimizes the turnover that can slow district progress, encourage "flavor of the year" reform agendas and impede academic achievement. Too seldom school governance…
Descriptors: School Districts, Governance, Governing Boards, Superintendents
Bryant, Anne; Houston, Paul D. – School Administrator, 2002
Briefly describes how school boards and superintendents can work together as a team to improve the quality of education. References "Team Leadership for Student Achievement," a new book developed through the collaborative efforts of the American Association of School Administrators and the National School Boards Association. (PKP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Board Administrator Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership
Eadie, Doug – School Administrator, 2005
Superintendents usually do a fine job of preparing documents for their boards by paying close attention to detail. They are masters of finished staff work. Reports are not only meticulously crafted, they also are transmitted to the board far enough in advance to allow for careful review. However, despite these well-intended efforts, many board…
Descriptors: Ownership, Boards of Education, Strategic Planning, Superintendents
Marshall, Marshall – School Administrator, 2002
Personal account of her first-year experience as superintendent of the Pulaski Central Schools in upstate New York. (PKP)
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Board Administrator Relationship, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Kimball, Dale – School Administrator, 2005
With all the social, financial and academic challenges facing schools today, the potential for strain between the board of education and the superintendent is heightened, meaning a good board president/superintendent partnership can do more to determine the effective governance of schools than perhaps any other single factor. Trust is the…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Presidents, Superintendents, Board Administrator Relationship
McKay, Jack; Peterson, Mark – School Administrator, 2004
Should a superintendent become involved in the recruitment of new school board members? Because of the importance of who serves on the school board and their individual and collective motives, does the superintendent leave the recruitment and selection of new board members to chance or does he or she become involved in recruiting? This is a…
Descriptors: Recruitment, Superintendents, Governance, Boards of Education
Banks, Patricia Anne; Maloney, Richard J. – School Administrator, 2007
In most districts, the evaluation of superintendents by the members of the board of education takes place in executive session of the board behind closed doors. Few board members or superintendents question the status quo. Most evaluation forms are merely collections of subjective checklists that catalog approved personality traits, attributes,…
Descriptors: School Districts, Personnel Evaluation, Superintendents, Boards of Education
Kleinsmith, Stephen L. – School Administrator, 2005
In this article, the author, superintendent of the Nixa R-II School District, Nixa, Missouri, describes what it is like to work with a board of education that has been named the Outstanding School Board of the Year in its state twice since 2000? He feels that the keys to the strong superintendent-board relationship are effective communication and…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Boards of Education, Board Administrator Relationship, Trustees
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