The Hero Maker: How Superintendents Can Get Their School Boards to Do the Right Thing

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The Hero Maker: How Superintendents Can Get Their School Boards to Do the Right Thing is written by Ryan Donlan and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1040415326 (ISBN 10) and 9781040415320 (ISBN 13).

Learn how to turn your school board members into heroes by helping them make smart, worthwhile decisions they will deserve to brag about. In this much-needed book, Ryan Donlan and Todd Whitaker offer practical strategies to help superintendents develop better working relationships with their boards. You’ll discover how to: reconnect board members to the real purpose of education, despite their personal agendas work with your board more effectively during meetings and at times in between guide board members into more productive roles when they overreach beyond policymaking connect and communicate with board members regardless of personal disposition Each chapter contains hero-making tips to help you get started. In addition, this timely second edition features a new chapter on navigating the superintendent–board president relationship. With this practical book, you’ll be able to overcome the challenges of the superintendent–board relationship so that your board can make better decisions for those who matter most—the students.