Provides step-by-step advice for school board members involved in the selection of a new superintendent. Includes a sample scheduling planner. (MD)

Superintendents give information and counsel to administrators, board members, parents, teachers, and students. A six-item reference list is provided. (Author/DCS)

The future of higher education rests on the decisive leadership of college and university presidents. Governing boards must set the stage for strong, assertive, enlightened presidents and then support them. (Author/MSE)

Maintains that community college administrative policies and rules must grow out of community needs as interpreted by the board of trustees. Stresses the importance of the board's knowing what the community wants and identifying the ongoing problems affecting the institution and making policies accordingly. (DMM)

Part II of the Minnesota Plan is presented. Criteria include problem solving and decision-making, personnel, academic planning and administration, fiscal management, student affairs, external relations, and relationship to the board. Procedures include the evaluation team, presidential self-assessment, institutional visit, exit interviews, and…

This book contains eight articles that explore the relationship between school superintendents and boards of education. In the first article, "Partners in Progress," Matthew King explains that superintendents and boards can model the values and behaviors that they espouse for students and staff when they collaborate. The second article, "Public…

In the mid-1990s the Board of Directors at the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology (SIAST) fused four separate institutes and an administrative center to form a single postsecondary institute with a broad Provincial focus. From this experience, the Board of Directors formed a governance strategy of policy and procedure…

This technical guide is a training tool to help members of Head Start governing bodies, policy groups, agency directors, and Head Start and Early Head Start directors understand their responsibilities in a Head Start environment that emphasizes shared decision-making. The guide offers a framework for clarifying expectations and provides concrete,…

The authority of school boards is being eroded by teacher militancy, administrative professionalism, and technology. Boards are performing a legal rather than a deliberative function. Court decisions regarding due process are forcing important adjustments in board power. (Author/WM)

Advocates giving school principals more authority. The public can then identify him as responsible for decisions, and he can tailor subjects and methods to his school's clientele. (DE)

To be effective, school board members must submit facts, rational analyses, and empirical evidence to provide proof of performance to constituents. (MF)

Reviews the nature of relationships within the schools' bureaucracy; analyzes the move for decentralization and community control. (Author)

Surveyed teachers, school board members, superintendents, and elementary school principals to determine if there is congruence in their perceptions of the normative role of the principal. Results differed from Foskett's (1967) study in concluding that elementary school principals and the other groups perceive principals more as administrators than…

Describes the procedures to be followed by the school board president and the board in a teacher dismissal hearing. (MLF)

A superintendent's contract should be individually designed and negotiated; however, necessary characteristics are suggested in the areas of duration, certification and responsibilities, compensation, vacation and fringe benefits, liability and indemnification, medical examination, evaluation, renewal and nonrenewal, termination, and a…