Governing at the Top: Building a Board-Superintendent Strategic Governing Team - Softcover

Governing at the Top is an indispensable resource for superintendents who are committed to building a rock-solid partnership with their school board. -- Bruce Caughey, executive director, Colorado Association of School Executives Governing at the Top is chock-full of practical, tested wisdom that superintendents can put to work in partnering with their boards. -- S. Dallas Dance, Ph.D., superintendent, Baltimore County Public Schools, Maryland Doug Eadie offers powerful insights on the nature of school board-superintendent partnerships that result in the kind of high-impact governing these challenging times demand. -- Robert Rader, executive director, Connecticut Association of Boards of Education This book is a practical guide for public schools for administrators and school board members. Gives clear definitions and explanations of governing as opposed to policy making. Gives good ideas to superintendents for ways to make strategies that actually work. Also tells how to involve school board members and to work as a team for the goal of an effectively run school. This book is a great length to encourage people in the administration positions to pick it up and read it clearly. Key points are clearly stated. -- Leann Spears, Era High School

Doug Eadie's Governing at the Top: Building a Board-Superintendent Strategic Governing Team is both a powerful addition to the K-12 governance literature and a practical guidebook for school board members, superintendents, and senior administrators. Opening with a crystal-clear, eminently practical definition of the work of governing that goes well-beyond the outdated notion of "policy making," this exciting new book proceeds to take a close look at the key elements involved in building the kind of rock-solid board-superintendent governing partnership that today's challenging times demand. After describing the critical role of a "board-savvy" superintendent in the governing partnership, Doug examines in detail: *how board-superintendent teams can go about developing the board's governing "architecture" (the board's governing role, its members, and its committee structure). *how to map out processes for active board member engagement in governing work. *and how to keep the board-superintendent working relationship healthy. This book gives you the hands-on, practical advice on how to get the top job and how to "thrive and survive" when you're there, by the country's top specialist in the field of high-impact governing for superintendents and school boards.