Building Relationships, Yielding Results: How Superintendents Can Work with School Boards to Create Productive Teams

ISBN-13: 9781612508061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str.

Julie L. Hackett

Opis

InBuilding Relationships, Yielding Results, the seasoned superintendent of an urban school district provides a clear road map for effective collaboration with school boards and the type of relationship-building required to achieve long-term, sustainable reforms. Instead of keeping school board members at arm s length or inundating them with information, Julie L. Hackett demonstrates how to tailor traditional superintendent activities to include board members and increase understanding and trust. In this book, the author:

• Describes how district leaders can adapt existing practices, like entry and strategic planning, to create and develop productive relationships and an inclusive district culture
• Provides strategies that superintendents need to practice consistently in order to implement successful twenty-first-century school reforms
• Includes recommendations for developing and utilizing norms and beliefs protocols, strategic priority lists, and plans for monitoring progress with a school board

In the face of rising expectations, competing goals, accountability pressures, and limited resources, today s superintendents require skills and vision to accomplish their goals and meet the needs of a range of constituencies. Filled with real-world examples and lively anecdotes, Building Relationships, Yielding Resultsprovides current and aspiring superintendents with an abundance of ideas that can be customized to local circumstances."

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CONTENTS
 

INTRODUCTION
Transforming Superintendent and School Board Relationships 1

CHAPTER 1
Prioritizing Relationships for Sustainable Reform 13

CHAPTER 2
Laying the Foundation I: Pre-entry, Entry-plus, and Re-entry 29

CHAPTER 3
Laying the Foundation II: Norms and Beliefs Protocols 45

CHAPTER 4
Establishing a Collective Vision with Strategic Planning 85

CHAPTER 5
Turning Vision into Reality: Inclusive Goal Setting 103

CHAPTER 6
On Matters of Race, Class, Power, and Culture: Leading Together 123

CHAPTER 7
If Not Home, Then Make It the Place You Long to Be 143

CHAPTER 8
Communication That Counts 157 

CHAPTER 9
Time to Change Your Relationship Status 179 

Afterword 193
Janis Nowak

Notes 199
Acknowledgments 203
About the Author 205
Index 207