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Gotlieb, Dorothy – American School Board Journal, 1993
The Denver, Colorado, school board has an agenda summary sheet that streamlines communication between the board and staff members. The form, placed after the title sheet of any proposal, lists background issues, options and alternatives considered, and implications of adoption or rejection. (MLF)
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Meetings
Matika, Francis W. – American School Board Journal, 1991
A school administrator who has served as a consultant on many superintendent searches offers 10 selection tips. Board members should refrain from criticizing the former superintendent, advertise for applicants, invest sufficient funds, specify selection criteria, be honest about salary, work diligently during screening and evaluation, honor…
Descriptors: Administrator Selection, Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Marlowe, John – American School Board Journal, 2001
Major causes of "sudden-death syndrome" for superintendents include mismatched priorities, unseen problems, interference from special-interest groups, and misdirected disagreements. Beleaguered superintendents should be positive and proactive, act and speak as one person, understand agreements, seek help, listen, rewrite personnel…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Coping, Dismissal (Personnel), Elementary Secondary Education
Basinger, Julianne – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Discusses how a college's momentum, fund raising, and morale all suffer with the unexpected departure of its leader after a short time in office. Explains that experts encourage colleges to develop plans to maintain key ties with donors or senior administrators during such transitions. (EV)
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Problems, Board Administrator Relationship, College Presidents
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
Caruso, Nicholas – School Administrator, 2004
The author's advice for for a school board superintendent is to assume incompetence instead of malevolence. Board members who behave inappropriately are a minority, and those with malicious intent are extremely rare. Most misbehaving board members act out of frustration. They may not understand the appropriate role of a board member.…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Superintendents, Administration, Behavior Problems
Montenegro, Hector Jose – ProQuest LLC, 2008
The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the strategies Texas superintendents use to both prevent and resolve conflicts between the school board-superintendent leadership team and to examine the effects of gender, age, ethnicity, level of education, experience in education, tenure as a superintendent, leadership style, and type and…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Prevention, Conflict Resolution, Board Administrator Relationship
Smith, Cindra J. – Community College League of California, 2008
This handbook contains eight sections and thirty-five short chapters on topics related to being a member of a California community college governing board. The eight sections are: (1) California Community Colleges; (2) The Governing Board; (3) Toward An Effective Board; (4) Policy, Planning and Monitoring; (5) The Board and the CEO; (6)…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Governing Boards, Trustees, Organizational Effectiveness
Bornstein, Rita – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2006
Strong relationships between presidents and boards are built on communication, education, transparency, and accountability. Boards that are well educated and informed, involved in establishing policy and strategy, and fully aware of new initiatives will support a president through difficult times. This paper offers a comprehensive, knowledgeable…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Presidents, Board Administrator Relationship, Interpersonal Communication
McLaughlin, Judith Block – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2006
When the AGB task force on the state of the Presidency in American Higher Education was meeting last fall in Washington, D.C., to deliberate about the role of the academic presidency, the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education convened across town to examine issues ranging from access to affordability to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Presidents, Governing Boards, Board Administrator Relationship
Cox, Edward P. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2006
The superintendent/board relationship continues to be a subject of particular interest for those who study school leadership and those who serve in the superintendency. One issue that will likely be addressed during any superintendent employment discussion is the inclusion of pay for performance incentives. The widespread use of executive bonuses…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Performance Contracts, Morale, Instructional Leadership
Young, I. Phillip – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2006
In a recent issue of the "AASA Journal of Scholarship and Practice," Hilling (2004) described procedures for obtaining a fair compensation process for principals, and the thrust of this work was on establishing internal consistency for salaries among administrators. This article addresses similar concerns, but differs in several important ways.…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Labor Economics, Labor Market, School Districts
Giles, Douglas E.; Giles Sharon – 1990
California annually experiences significant turnover among its superintendents; 468 out of 1,002 superintendents vacated K-12 superintendent seats in California between 1986 and 1989. Of this number, 92 accepted superintendencies in other districts and 4 became county superintendents. To discover where the other 372 superintendents went,…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Turnover, Occupational Mobility
Pennsylvania School Boards Association, Inc., Harrisburg. – 1986
In 1985, a leadership liaison committee consisting of the board presidents and executive directors of five state school management associations in Pennsylvania appointed a task force to examine the board-superintendent relationship within a team management framework. After providing background information, including various definitions associated…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Board Administrator Relationship, Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
Schaible, Wayne E. – 1981
The superintendent's contract embodies the community's expectations of the school system's chief executive officer. The contract allows the school board and the superintendent to accomplish a number of tasks, including assuring stability in the district's leadership, creating means for resolving conflicts, and establishing procedures for meeting…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Role, Contracts, Elementary Secondary Education