Month: July 2019

The summer series focus this year explores the challenge of navigating the superintendent/school board relationship.  Over the course of the next few blog posts we will dive into this topic and look at tools and techniques to manage this vital and ever evolving dynamic.  It is the superintendent/school board relationship which makes or breaks us in our role.  It changes with each tough decision we make in which the board must support us, and also every time a new board member is elected.  To get started, let’s begin by discussing the “leading” v. “doing” dilemma.  Observing school boards operate over …

I was talking to someone this week who was telling me about nasty social media posts (Facebook and Twitter) which were being written by parents and community members related to school boundary changes in their district.  The superintendent was being vilified over the issue, which had to be addressed to balance the size of the district’s schools.  Some of the comments and questions were appropriate, but many were designed to tear down the superintendent rather than address the issue at hand.  Unfortunately, this is becoming common place in the open forum of social media.  To combat this issue here are …