Doug Eadie
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Building a High-Impact Board-Superintendent Partnership
“Building a High-Impact
Board-Superintendent Partnership” provides detailed, thoroughly tested guidance
that school board members, superintendents, and senior administrators can put to
immediate use in their districts in building the kind of high-impact board
leadership – and really solid board-superintendent partnership – that these
rapidly changing, challenging times demand.
This program draws on presenter Doug Eadie’s 25 years of hands-on
experience in helping school districts and other public and nonprofit
organizations strengthen their governance, and on his 17 books, including three
that focus on K-12 leadership:
The Board-Savvy Superintendent (with AASA’s CEO, Paul Houston);
Eight Keys To an Extraordinary Board-Superintendent Partnership; and
Five Habits of High-Impact School Boards.
“Building a High-Impact Board-Superintendent
Partnership” consists of 6 program modules:
- Board
Governing Role and Work:
a fresh
view of governing as a dynamic decision-making process; practical ways to
map out processes for involving the board in key governing areas - planning;
performance oversight and monitoring; external relations
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Board Standing Committees:
how well-designed board standing committees can contribute
to high-impact governing as powerful “governing engines;” a model committee
structure that corresponds to the board’s streams of governing decisions and
judgments
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Board self-management:
practical ways to develop board member governing knowledge
and skills and to manage board governing performance
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Leading Strategic Change:
description of a powerful new tool
that is much more effective than traditional strategic planning in managing
innovation and change: the Strategic
Change Portfolio; the steps involved in fashioning and implementing the
Strategic Change Initiatives in the Strategic Change Portfolio
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The Board-Superintendent Working Relationship:
the superintendent attitudes, knowledge, skills and
techniques that are required to build a solid, lasting board-superintendent
partnership; practical ways – most importantly board evaluation of
superintendent performance – to keep the board-superintendent working
relationship productive and healthy
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The Governance Task Force as a Board Development
Vehicle: practical
guidance in organizing a governance task force consisting of board members
and the superintendent and employing the task force to update the board’s
governing role, function, and structure
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- Your school district will ultimately be educationally and
financially stronger because your board and superintendent, functioning as a
“Strategic Governing Team,” will effectively address the strategic issues facing
your district.
- Your board members will take greater satisfaction in – and
feel stronger ownership of – their governing decisions.
- The partnership between your board and superintendent will be
rock-solid – able to withstand the inevitable stresses and strains involved in
leading a modern school district in these challenging times.
- Your district’s image and community relations will benefit
from more effective board leadership.
Problems the Program will Solve
- Strategic issues that go
unidentified or unaddressed
- A lack of systematic,
creative, proactive board involvement in the governing process
- Inadequate board
understanding – and ownership – of its governing role and functions
- An under-managed board-superintendent partnership that is not likely to survive considerable stress over a long period of time
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