School boards are held accountable by the community.
How can school districts and school boards work together to achieve the goals of the schools and the surrounding community? Faith VanderHorst, school board president from the School District of Menomonee Falls, joins Janet on this episode to talk about how the relationship between the superintendent and the board significantly contributes to the success of the district.
This episode addresses questions, such as:
- What’s most important for superintendents to understand when working with the board to have the greatest opportunity to be successful?
- How do goals and measures help build relationships between boards and superintendents?
- We focus our work with organizations using an improvement framework and mind-set. What does that mean to boards?
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