{"product_id":"the-boardsavvy-superintendent","title":"The Board-Savvy Superintendent","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Board-Savvy Superintendents hard-hitting  no-nonsense  advice on school board leadership capitalizes on Houston and Eadies hands-on experience working with hundreds of boards and superintendents over the past quarter-century. It is a practical  survive-and-thrive book that will help school district leaders-board members  superintendents  and senior administrators-learn to work together successfully in leading their districts in these extraordinarily challenging times. Filled with detailed  thoroughly tested guidance on how to acquire the skills and knowledge that make up board savvyness  it also addresses how to develop the school boards capacity to produce truly high-impact governance  and how to build a strong  enduring  productive board-superintendent working partnership. The authors take a fresh look at the process of governing  going well beyond the old-fashioned  control-focused \"policy governance\" approach. Rather than being preoccupied with developing a static structure of policies to distinguish the boards role from the superintendents  the book describes how the board and superintendent can creatively work together in making decisions about such critical governing \"products\" as values  vision  mission  and strategic change initiatives. School district leaders will appreciate The Board-Savvy Superintendents close look at the \"gold standard\" for board involvement in school affairs: leading strategic change. The authors go well beyond the conventional long-range planning approach of merely projecting everything a school district is doing for some arbitrary period of 3 or 5 years  which has generated tons of paper and little important change to provide the reader with detailed  practical guidance on engaging school boards creatively and proactively in a much more selective  vision-driven process that actually results in the implementation of strategic change: the Strategic Change Portfolio.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946105532469,"sku":"ByrdShop_0810844702","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780810844704.jpg?v=1769924260","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-boardsavvy-superintendent","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}