The School Board Fieldbook

Leading With Vision

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.

A Joint Publication With the American Association of School Administrators

Benefits

• 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.