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Stone, Ronald F. – NASSP Bulletin, 1978
The success or failure of any negotiated agreement depends on the reciprocal support between boards and their administrators. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Board Administrator Relationship, Collective Bargaining, Secondary Education
Rummler, Roy L. – Executive Educator, 1988
Recognizing the effect of learning styles can lead one to modify approaches in order to communicate more effectively. Administering and discussing a learning style assessment between school boards and administration will help everybody understand the sources of some past problems and avoid future ones. (MLF)
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Cognitive Style, Communication Problems, Elementary Secondary Education
Katz, Malcolm – American School Board Journal, 1985
School boards and superintendents can work most effectively together when their operating styles are compatible. Boards may tend toward either the corporate or the familial style, while superintendents' administrative styles may tend toward the structured and task-oriented or toward the personal. Mismatches can be ameliorated through conscious…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership Styles

Smith, David C. – National Elementary Principal, 1973
Discusses some issues that principals should consider when forming administrator negotiating units. (JF)
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining, Contracts

Herstein, Norman – Child Welfare, 1983
The role of the agency executive, reflecting multiple and sometimes conflicting demands, is discussed in terms of how power is wielded in an agency. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Arbitration, Board Administrator Relationship, Community Relations
Bates, R. Clifton – Executive Educator, 1981
Describes five tactics that striking teachers use against superintendents and school boards. Notes their effect on administrator resignations and school levy defeats, and lists three ways administrators can build mutual support, including sharing strike experiences, getting professional associations' support, and establishing statewide networks of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Board Administrator Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Interprofessional Relationship
Herman, Jerry H. – American School Board Journal, 1980
A superintendent outlines the problems caused by a constant flow of new board members and suggests ways in which superintendents can help prepare new members for their jobs. (IRT)
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Superintendents
Bartlett, Thomas; Rooney, Megan – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2003
Discusses how students and administrators at Virginia Tech are angry that the governing board eliminated affirmative action and made other important decisions without consultation. (EV)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Board Administrator Relationship, College Administration, Governing Boards
Suggs, Welch – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2002
Describes how the board of trustees of Gardner-Webb University backed its president, who had ordered an athlete's grade changed, and demoted two administrators who had criticized him. (EV)
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Board Administrator Relationship, College Athletics, College Presidents
Griffith, Robert – Executive Educator, 1990
The key to succeeding in superintendent-board relationships is fitting the school board into a three-part framework of policies, meetings, and goals. Advice is also provided concerning budgeting, becoming acquainted with board members, and handling disagreements. A sidebar classifies board members as builders, shopkeepers, mechanics, cheerleaders,…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Meetings
Ryan, Ellen – Currents, 1989
Consultants offer ideas to frustrated fund-raising administrators about dealing with reluctant, uncooperative, and uninformed trustees. (MSE)
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Fund Raising, Governing Boards, Higher Education
Gokey, William – Executive Educator, 1989
An extended interview process is designed to give the superintendent and the school board a better opportunity to get to know prospective school executives. Each job applicant spends eight or nine hours in activities that offer a revealing look at the candidates. (MLF)
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Selection, Board Administrator Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education

Grady, Marilyn L.; Bryant, Miles T. – Planning and Changing, 1989
When Nebraska's 310 superintendents were asked to discuss critical incidents experienced with a school board or board member, they noted 151 incidents involving family and friends, board member's roles, who's elected to the board, failure to support the superintendent, the board itself, athletic coaches, individual board members, employee…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, Conflict, Elementary Secondary Education
Rogers, Joy J. – American School Board Journal, 1992
Most school boards want those initial months of warm regard between the board and a new superintendent to continue indefinitely. However, trust can break down for a number of reasons. Offers eight suggestions for superintendents to prolong the honeymoon. (MLF)
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Interprofessional Relationship
Rancic, Edward – American School Board Journal, 1992
The board and superintendent can reduce the friction and strengthen their relationship if they can understand one another's role in the school system. Cites some examples of inappropriate board behavior. Offers eight suggestions to board members to prolong the honeymoon. (MLF)
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Interprofessional Relationship