Let me tell you a tale of two authorities’ very different approaches to presenting financial performance reports at their monthly board meetings. ...
Bagging Three Big Feathered Friends
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Board Member Engagement
Transforming Annual Budget Preparation Into a Higher-Impact Leadership Tool
I’ve never come across a superintendent who wasn’t pretty much an expert in the art of annual budget preparation by the time she first takes the...
The Zoom Muzzle Syndrome Redux
My August 6 post at this blog, “Combatting the Zoom Muzzle Syndrome (ZMS),” begins by pointing out that Zoom has proved to be a very effective...
The Zoom Muzzle Syndrome Redux
My August 6 post at this blog, “Combatting the Zoom Muzzle Syndrome (ZMS),” begins by pointing out that Zoom has proved to be a very effective...
The Lynchpins of a High-Performing Board Committee Structure
While preparing for a four-hour Zoom work session later this week with the superintendent and cabinet of a large Midwestern school district,...
Combatting the Zoom Muzzle Syndrome (ZMS)
Since mid-March of this year I’ve participated – wearing my governance counsel hat – in numerous virtual work sessions of client school boards and...
Welcome to the Frontier!
I opened the video webinar I recently presented for the board and superintendent of a Northern Virginia school division by observing that K-12...
Harnessing the Power of Ownership in the Highline Public Schools
Turning board members into satisfied owners of their governing work through meaningful engagement in planning and other...
It’s Curtain Time
The curtain fell on a splendid production. The superintendent couldn’t have been prouder of the chair of the school board’s new Strategic and...
Engaging Board Members Creatively in Shaping the Annual Budget
The October 6 post at this blog made the case that superintendents – wearing the “Chief Governing Process Designer” hat – are well-advised to work...