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Plucker, O. L.; Krueger, Jack P. – Executive Educator, 1987
Offers superintendents several tips for establishing sound relationships with their school boards, including clarifying roles, understanding the political and professional nature of the superintendency, avoiding close identification with specific board members, educating board members, avoiding provincialism, cultivating good administrative staff…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
MacNaughton, Robert H. – American School Board Journal, 1987
Reminisces about a decade of school board service, highlighting chief frustrations and accomplishments. On the minus side were problems like community and board miscommunication, chronic underfunding, sacred cows (teacher merit pay), and eroding board authority. Still, the public did appreciate the schools' importance, and staff were highly…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Secondary Education
Ross, William L, Jr.; Kowal, Joan P. – American School Board Journal, 1994
A school board member and a superintendent realized in their three years of working together in a Florida school district how crucial the board/superintendent relationship is to a smoothly running school district. Advises board members and superintendents to keep their roles straight and to work as a team. Offers guidelines to board presidents.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education
Peer reviewedHutt, Jean – Social Education, 1985
A social studies department chairperson describes the case concerning the importance of elementary social studies education that she presented at a school board hearing. As a result of her presentation, the board added 50 minutes to the daily time allotted for intermediate grade social studies instruction. (RM)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education, Case Studies, Educational Needs
Kearns, Dorothy K. – American School Board Journal, 1982
The board's and superintendent's task in policy development should be clear: to recognize all members of the education community and to obtain their views before policies are set in concrete. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Advisory Committees, Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Policy
Isherwood, Geoffrey B.; And Others – Education Canada, 1986
Describes the organization, content, and outcomes of a program to train Inuit leaders to be effective school board members for the Baffin Divisional Board of Education when the Inuit first assumed control of that region's schools. Topics include school board role and formulation of educational goals and policies. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Canada Natives, Community Control
Hannon, Bernard E.; Pullin, John E. – 1984
A partnership involving eight rural school districts in Indiana developed out of the need for a cooperative services organization to communicate with its school board members. A Joint Services Cooperative Committee composed of one or two school board members from each district visits classes, reviews program policies, and keeps fellow board…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Educational Cooperation
Direct linkDana, Joyce A.; Bourisaw, Diana M. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006
The percentage of women in the superintendency remained stagnant over 80 years of the last century and has only increased slightly, to just fewer than 14% of the public school superintendents in the U.S. today. In other words, the glass ceiling still exists. The persistent reasons for lack of change are gender prejudice and gender…
Descriptors: Gender Discrimination, Gender Bias, Instructional Leadership, Females
Blackwell, Joel – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006
This book will empower everyone who works in education to build more support in Congress and state legislatures. It is full of personal anecdotes that illuminate successes, failures, and examples that teach from real-life experience. "Empowering School Leaders" is tailored for educators and designed to show them how to increase their political…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Political Power, Educational Administration, Instructional Leadership
Coose, Lee – 1989
Educators are faced with policy development issues that will allow children with AIDS to be educated, provide AIDS education in the schools, and educate groups whose lack of information may cause difficulties for educators trying to implement these policies. This paper provides guidelines for development of a HIV/AIDS policy. The premises of…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Advisory Committees, Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education
Wendler, Richard L. – American School Board Journal, 1987
To meet the demand for control of emotional outbursts and angry confrontations at public hearings, this school district developed guidelines giving the school board a stance of deliberation and utilizing a strong, neutral moderator to limit debate and still meet the public's right to be heard. (WTH)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Hearings
Peer reviewedShapiro, Jonathan Z.; McPherson, R. Bruce – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1987
Introduces the use of problem-finding models to analyze public policy, an approach allowing researchers to study how perceptions of policy problems influence the policy-making process. This study uses problem-finding to analyze 20 years (1964-84) of state boards of education desegregation policy in Illinois. Includes 17 references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Policy Formation, Public Policy, School Desegregation
Johnson, W. Bruce – Executive Educator, 1985
Describes an Ohio school program that awards honorary high school diplomas to outstanding and distinguished Ohioans. (MD)
Descriptors: Achievement, Awards, Boards of Education, High Schools
Sendor, Benjamin – American School Board Journal, 1987
Discusses a United States Supreme Court decision upholding Section 504 protection for an elementary school teacher fired due to recurrent tuberculosis. The school board may need to make reasonable accommodation for employees handicapped by contagious diseases. The Court might also interpret Section 504 as covering AIDS carriers. (MLH)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Communicable Diseases, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Krupa, Lynn – American School Board Journal, 1981
Describes the sex education program in Beaverton (Oregon) and offers suggestions for initiating a similar program in other districts. (WD)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Board of Education Role, Elementary Education, Parent Participation
