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The School Board Fieldbook
Leading With Vision
Award-winning administrators give practical information on the responsibilities and challenges of being a school board member in this user-friendly guide.
The School Board Fieldbook
Take a reader-friendly tour through the responsibilities and challenges of being a school board member. Written by experienced, award-winning administrators, this book gives practical guidance on how to best work with school administrators and staff to create and fulfill a shared vision of school system excellence. This clear, concise book helps new board members understand the difference between their expectations and actual duties.
- Get strategies for managing the life-changing responsibilities of being a school board member.
- Understand the true purpose of a school board and what its members must and must not do.
- Learn steps for collaborative decision making and relationship building.
- Examine the crucial role of good board communications with five constituencies: administrators, teachers and other staff, students, parents, and community members.
- Find 10 signals that the board is in trouble and how to respond to them.
- Collect the right data and use it to assess student performance and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Use a model of a district performance scorecard to communicate and monitor goals.
- Gain practical solutions for hiring and evaluating superintendents, negotiating with teacher unions, handling complaints, assessing student achievement, strategic budgeting, and more.
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Additional Information
Product Code: BKF269, EKF179
ISBN: 9781934009444
Published By: American Association of School Administrators
Page Count: 176
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