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The Board-Savvy Superintendent's hard-hitting, no-nonsense, advice on school board leadership capitalizes on Houston and Eadie's hands-on experience working with hundreds of boards and superintendents over the past quarter-century. It is a practical, survive-and-thrive book that will help school district leaders-board members, superintendents, and senior administrators-learn to work together successfully in leading their districts in these extraordinarily challenging times.
List of contents
Chapter 1
FOREWORDChapter 2
PREFACEChapter 3
Chapter 1: The Board-Savvy Superintendent In a NutshellChapter 4
Chapter 2: Updating Your Board's Governing DesignChapter 5
Chapter 3: Involving Your Board in Leading Strategic ChangeChapter 6
Chapter 4: Keeping The Board-Superintendent Partnership HealthyChapter 7
Chapter 5: Keeping Up With Your Reading
About the author
Doug Eadie, President & CEO of Doug Eadie & Company, has over the past 30 years helped over 500 public and nonprofit organizations, including many school boards and superintendents, to build their boards’ capacity do high-impact governing work and to develop rock-solid board-superintendent working relationships. Doug is the author of 21 books in addition to Building a High-Impact Board-Superintendent Partnership, including Governing at the Top and Five Habits of High-Impact School Boards, and of over 100 articles on board and chief executive leadership and board-chief executive relations. He administers and writes for a popular blog for public school leaders, www.boardsavvysuperintendent.com. Before founding Doug Eadie & Company, Doug served in a number of senior executive positions in the nonprofit sector and as a Peace Corps teacher in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for three years. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Doug was awarded the master of science in management degree by the Weatherhead School of Case Western Reserve University.
