Team Leadership

Michal Rosenberger

doi:10.5771/9781461733249

Summary

Local school boards are responsible for the two most important issues in most people's lives: their children and their money. Why do these governing bodies fail to develop into high-performance teams? This book answers this question and provides techniques for districts to solve their underlying governance problems. Discusses the complexities of group dynamics, strategies for effective team governance, leadership functions of the local board and their role in school improvement, and the complexities of school politics.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 1998
ISBN-Print: 978-1-56676-526-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4617-3324-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 171
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Introduction No access
1. Current Perception of Local Governance No access
2. Personal Challenges No access
3. Social Challenges No access
4. Organizational Challenges No access
5. Political Challenges No access
6. Improving the System No access
1. Historical Background No access
2. Federal Support and Constraints No access
3. State and Local Influences No access
4. Portraits of School Districts and their Boards No access
5. Before you Run for Office No access
6. Quality Candidates No access
1. Advice for the Novice Trustee No access
2. Pressures on the Family No access
3. Time Requirements No access
4. Information Management No access
5. Learning as you Go No access
6. Effective Orientation No access
7. Advocating for Improved Programs No access
8. Intellectual Integrity No access
9. Board Self-Evaluation No access
1. Creating a Comprehensive Board Development Program No access
2. State and National Conferences No access
3. Cluster Training No access
4. Individual Board Workshops No access
5. The Facilitator No access
6. Interactive Training Strategies No access
7. Board Self-Evaluation No access
1. The Benefits of Team Leadership No access
2. Characteristics of Effective Boards No access
3. Overcoming Inevitable Group Challenges No access
4. Dealing with Opposition No access
5. Cohesive Groups No access
6. Creating Harmony No access
7. Ethical Leadership No access
8. Communicating with the Community No access
9. Communicating with Staff No access
10. Communicating with the Media No access
11. Board Self-Evaluation No access
1. Boards and Superintendents as Educational Leaders No access
2. Seeking the Ideal Superintendent No access
3. Superintendent Evaluation No access
4. What Should a Superintendent Expect of the Board? No access
5. Working in Harmony No access
6. Board Self-Evaluation No access
1. Meeting Preparation No access
2. The Board President No access
3. Public Input No access
4. Communicating in Front of the Public No access
5. Executive Sessions No access
6. Stamp Out Micro-Management No access
7. Board Self-Evaluation No access
1. Creating the Vision No access
2. Sample of a Goal-Setting Process No access
3. The Power of Policies No access
4. The Budget No access
5. Evaluation and Accountability No access
6. Setting Goals for the Board No access
7. Board Self-Evaluation No access
1. Unclear Expectations of Education No access
2. Representing the Community No access
3. Nationally Funded Pressure Groups No access
4. Scarce and Uncertain Funding No access
5. Legal and Judicial Requirements No access
6. Educating Today's Students No access
7. Future-Oriented Education No access
8. Board Self-Evaluation No access
1. Determining Needs No access
2. Why are we here? No access
3. Who are we here? No access
4. What do Students Learn in your District? No access
5. How are Students Learning? No access
6. How well are they Learning? No access
7. When do they Learn? No access
8. Where is Learning Taking Place? No access
9. Physical Plant No access
10. The Wider World of Education No access
11. Preventing Faddism in the District No access
12. A New Model of Education No access
13. Board Self-Evaluation No access
1. Improving the Governance Model No access
2. Linking Social and Educational Needs No access
3. Determining Ends and Means No access
4. Growing a Better Board No access
Bibliography No access Pages 157 - 162
Index No access Pages 163 - 168
Biography No access Pages 169 - 171