The Hero Maker: How Superintendents Can Get Their School Boards to Do the Right Thing [Paperback]

Learn how to turn your school board members into heroes by helping them make smart, worthwhile decisions they will deserve to brag about. In this much-needed book, Ryan Donlan and Todd Whitaker offer practical strategies to help superintendents develop better working relationships with their boards.

Ryan Donlan is a Professor of Educational Leadership at Indiana State University and specializes in school leadership, governance, and team performance, with books for board members, superintendents, principals, assistant principals, and teachers, including Uncommon Sense for New Teachers: A Good Beginning is Half the Work.?

Todd Whitaker is a Research Professor at the University of Missouri. He is a leading presenter in the field of education and has written 65 books, including the national best seller, What Great Teachers Do Differently.?

1. The Hero Maker  2. Constituencies  3. The Board of Education  4. The Superintendent as the Shield  5. The Care and Feeding of Board Members  6. Board Meetings  7. Between Board Meetings  8. The SuperintendentBoard President Relationship  9. Advancing, by Retreating  10. Board Personalities  11. Starting Undefeated  12. The Tour of Duty

Learn how to turn your school board members into heroes by helping them make smart, worthwhile decisions they will deserve to brag about. In this much-needed book, Ryan Donlan and Todd Whitaker offer practical strategies to help superintendents develop better working relationships with their boards.

Youll discover how to:

• reconnect board members to the real purpose of education, despite their personal agendas
• work with your board more effectively duringlc1