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Wolfe, Leslie G. – Updating School Board Policies, 1982
School boards can improve their schools if they focus on four factors that educational research says most strongly influence school effectiveness. The four factors are (1) the time students spend on the subject matter each day, (2) textbooks, (3) teachers and their teaching methods, and (4) principals' support to help teachers achieve…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textHurwitz, Emanuel, Jr.; Porter-Gehrie, Cynthia – 1979
This paper examines the decision making process used by selected principals as they implemented the 1977 faculty desegregation plan of the Chicago Public Schools. A historical summary of the development of the plan, from the 1969 ultimatum issued to the Chicago Board of Education by the Attorney General's Office to the 1977 adoption of the plan is…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Case Studies
Stanley, William L., Jr. – 1979
A reduction in force (RIF), coupled with today's inflation and cost of living increases, impacts on school systems. This paper discusses the effects on an urban school system--the Atlanta Public Schools--and offers suggestions to school administrators on moves to make and pitfalls to avoid when faced with RIF. Some topics covered include legal…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Role, Guidelines, Reduction in Force
Blanchard, Paul D. – American School Board Journal, 1974
In discharging assigned duties, a board member who regards himself as a 'delegate' tends to represent constituent views. A 'trustee' tends to rely more on personal convictions. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Boards of Education, Educational Research
Travis, Rosemary L. – American School Board Journal, 1982
Lists crucial procedures devised by a superintendent to produce board meetings that are both open and thoroughly organized. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Boards of Education, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education
Direct linkKleinsmith, Stephen L. – School Administrator, 2005
In this article, the author, superintendent of the Nixa R-II School District, Nixa, Missouri, describes what it is like to work with a board of education that has been named the Outstanding School Board of the Year in its state twice since 2000? He feels that the keys to the strong superintendent-board relationship are effective communication and…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Boards of Education, Board Administrator Relationship, Trustees
Divita, Charles Jr. – 1968
It has become increasingly important to determine if certain key segments of the population recognize and accept the premise that the occupational preparation of youth and adults is a function of public education. This report, Part I of a two-part series, deals with some of the attitudes toward vocational education held by secondary school…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education
DuVall, Charles R. – 1974
This study specifically attempts to determine and compare (1) the existence of board policies, both written and unwritten, dealing with supplementary free materials; (2) the procedures and criteria used in selection and evaluation of these materials; and (3) the person(s) and/or group(s) responsible for determination of the acceptability and for…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Role, Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education
Jongeward, Ray E. – 1982
The materials in this manual are designed to help workshop leaders prepare for and present a workshop for school board members on relations between school boards and administrators. Four elements basic to the establishment of effective relationships are reviewed: clarification of the roles and goals of the board and the administrators; effective…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Role
Wolfe, Leslie G. – 1982
The materials in this manual are designed to help workshop leaders prepare for and present a workshop for school board members on how to contribute to improved communications between the school organization and the community. The workshop covers one process board members and superintendents can use when determining how to communicate school needs,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Community Relations
Jongeward, Ray – 1982
The materials in this manual are designed to help workshop leaders prepare for and present a workshop for school board members on improving school board meeting practices for increased effectiveness. Based on successfully used procedures and recent research, the suggestions presented in the workshop are organized under seven headings: the agenda,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Decision Making
Caldwell, William E.; Lehr, S. Terry – 1981
A review of the literature on managerial responsibilities in the collective bargaining process in the public schools yields two hypotheses. The first is that the degree of conflict in public school bargaining is related to the role and level of participation on the management bargaining team of the superintendent, the principal, and the assistant…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board of Education Role, Collective Bargaining, Conflict
Peer reviewedGronn, Peter C. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1984
Uses transcripts and subsequent reflections of school board members on a meeting of a primary school council in order to indicate administrator influence and leader-follower dynamics. (JW)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Boards of Education, Case Studies, Elementary Education
Zirkel, Perry A.; Shulman, Bernard – American School Board Journal, 1984
Educators who are also members of the bar offer advice to administrators on how to testify in court in school-related cases. (MJL)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Boards of Education, Court Litigation, Educational Administration
Dawson, Linda J. – School Administrator, 2002
Describes four principles to guide superintendents' presentation of data to their schools boards: Insist the board establish districtwide goals for student achievement; assist the board in receiving customized training on analyzing data related to student-outcome goals; insist the board adopt a code-of-conduct policy on data use; and provide data…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Boards of Education, Data Collection, Decision Making
