Around fifteen years ago I was retained to facilitate a half-day work session involving a school board and its superintendent. In our initial call...
CEO-Centric Leadership Targets Are Key to a Solid Board-Superintendent Partnership
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Beating the Odds: Transforming the Culture of the Ithaca City School District
Kudos to the Board, Superintendent and Cabinet of New York’s Ithaca City School District for beating the odds...
CEO-Centric Leadership Targets Are Key to a Solid Board-Superintendent Partnership
Around fifteen years ago I was retained to facilitate a half-day work session involving a school board and its superintendent. In our initial call...
Implementing is a Far Cry From Authorizing in the K-12 Governance Business
One of the more egregious errors I made early in my career as a K-12 governance consultant and coach was allowing myself to be pressured into...
Kick Off 2020 By Updating Your Superintendent Governance Strategy
Preparing for a recent superintendent coaching session, I fine-tuned the process that I’d developed several years ago for updating the...
Don’t Let Yourself Get Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
“I’m caught between a rock and a hard spot, and it doesn’t feel good – in fact, kind of dangerous.” This is how the superintendent opened our...
Collaboration Trumps Conflict in the Shaker Heights Schools
This article featuring a podcast by then-superintendent of the Shaker Heights (Ohio) Public Schools, Gregory Hutchings, and John Morris,...
Cleveland Heights-University Heights Superintendent Talisa Dixon on Dealing with Dramatic Board Turnover
“What can I do at this point?” The beleaguered superintendent in the workshop I was presenting last year on building solid board-superintendent...
The Demand Side of Succession Planning: Ripe for Board Involvement
What a great week it’s been! I was privileged to spend four hours Tuesday morning in Nashville, presenting a workshop (“The Board-Savvy...