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The Board-Savvy Superintendent
Author(s): Doug Eadie (Author)
- Publisher: ScarecrowEducation
- Publication Date: 23 Nov. 2002
- Language: English
- Print length: 114 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780810844704
- ISBN-13: 0810844702
Book Description
The Board-Savvy Superintendents hard-hitting, no-nonsense, advice on school board leadership capitalizes on Houston and Eadies hands-on experience working with hundreds of boards and superintendents over the past quarter-century. It is a practical, survive-and-thrive book that will help school district leaders—board members, superintendents, and senior administrators—learn to work together successfully in leading their districts in these extraordinarily challenging times.
Filled with detailed, thoroughly tested guidance on how to acquire the skills and knowledge that make up board savvyness, it also addresses how to develop the school boards capacity to produce truly high-impact governance, and how to build a strong, enduring, productive board-superintendent working partnership. The authors take a fresh look at the process of governing, going well beyond the old-fashioned, control-focused policy governance approach. Rather than being preoccupied with developing a static structure of policies to distinguish the boards role from the superintendents, the book describes how the board and superintendent can creatively work together in making decisions about such critical governing products as values, vision, mission, and strategic change initiatives.
School district leaders will appreciate The Board-Savvy Superintendents close look at the gold standard for board involvement in school affairs: leading strategic change. The authors go well beyond the conventional long-range planning approach of merely projecting everything a school district is doing for some arbitrary period of 3 or 5 years, which has generated tons of paper and little important change to provide the reader with detailed, practical guidance on engaging school boards creatively and proactively in a much more selective, vision-driven process that actually results in the implementation of strategic change: the Strategic Change Portfolio.
Filled with detailed, thoroughly tested guidance on how to acquire the skills and knowledge that make up board savvyness, it also addresses how to develop the school boards capacity to produce truly high-impact governance, and how to build a strong, enduring, productive board-superintendent working partnership. The authors take a fresh look at the process of governing, going well beyond the old-fashioned, control-focused policy governance approach. Rather than being preoccupied with developing a static structure of policies to distinguish the boards role from the superintendents, the book describes how the board and superintendent can creatively work together in making decisions about such critical governing products as values, vision, mission, and strategic change initiatives.
School district leaders will appreciate The Board-Savvy Superintendents close look at the gold standard for board involvement in school affairs: leading strategic change. The authors go well beyond the conventional long-range planning approach of merely projecting everything a school district is doing for some arbitrary period of 3 or 5 years, which has generated tons of paper and little important change to provide the reader with detailed, practical guidance on engaging school boards creatively and proactively in a much more selective, vision-driven process that actually results in the implementation of strategic change: the Strategic Change Portfolio.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Relying on the authors” hands-on experience with public and nonprofit boards, the text presents detailed, practical, and tested guidance on what works. It spotlights gaining skills and knowledge to achieve board know-how, addresses ways to build an enduring partnership, and details how to help the board produce high-impact management.
The Board-Savvy Superintendent removes much of the guesswork for superintendents by offering specific advice on everything from developing champions on the board to arranging signatures on the district”s holiday card.
About the Author
Doug Eadie, President & CEO of Doug Eadie & Company, has over the past 30 years helped over 500 public and nonprofit organizations, including many school boards and superintendents, to build their boards’ capacity do high-impact governing work and to develop rock-solid board-superintendent working relationships. Doug is the author of 21 books in addition to Building a High-Impact Board-Superintendent Partnership, including Governing at the Top and Five Habits of High-Impact School Boards, and of over 100 articles on board and chief executive leadership and board-chief executive relations. He administers and writes for a popular blog for public school leaders, www.boardsavvysuperintendent.com. Before founding Doug Eadie & Company, Doug served in a number of senior executive positions in the nonprofit sector and as a Peace Corps teacher in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for three years. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Doug was awarded the master of science in management degree by the Weatherhead School of Case Western Reserve University.
