How to better guide budget discussions at board meetings
More than half of board members are labeled “silent observers” during budget deliberations, new research confirms. Here’s how superintendents can prompt meaningful discussions.
More than half of board members are labeled “silent observers” during budget deliberations, new research confirms. Here’s how superintendents can prompt meaningful discussions.
In 2013, less than 60% of students in Alabaster City Schools were attending some form of college. Therefore, this superintendent had to make sure the other 40-plus percent had options available to them. Here’s how he did it.
Too often, school board members point their fingers away from themselves, says this school board member. It’s time for leadership to point the finger inward and ask, “What can we do better?”
Schools are now expected to document how they provide regular, clear communication and ensure parents’ voices are reflected in decision-making processes, particularly in the use of federal funds.
As the new year begins, we find ourselves with two questions that have come up during debrief sessions in multiple districts.
Martin County School District Superintendent Michael Maine is in his second year as the top educator in the district. This year, he wants his staff to know that anything short of excellence is not good enough for kids.
The Sevier School District hasn’t hired a principal outside of its system in more than 30 years. Superintendent Cade Douglas shares his model for investing in his administrators.
Superintendents are still on the move, though in smaller numbers than they were earlier in the year. Several districts filled vacancies.
The use of rigorous logic and disciplined methods to apply effective solutions to difficult problems is an essential skill of public education leadership. The higher up you go in the org chart, the more people you need to involve in the problem-solving process.
District leaders are indeed a unique breed of cautiously optimistic in nearly any scenario. Incidentally, it is precisely because of DALI events that many are able to keep their positive outlook.
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