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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.

Youâll discover how to:

Reconnect board members to the real purpose of education, despite their personal agendas;

Work with your board more effectively during meetings and at times in between;

Guide board members into more productive roles when they overreach beyond policymaking; and

Connect and communicate with board members regardless of personal disposition.

Each chapter contains hero-making tips to help you get started. In addition, this timely second edition features a new chapter on navigating the superintendent/Board President relationship. With this practical book, youâll be able to overcome the challenges of the superintendentâboard relationship so that your board can make better decisions for those who matter mostâthe students.

The Hero Maker How Superintendents Can Get their School Boards to Do the Right Thing

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: 9/24/2025
      ISBN13: 9781041012078, 978-1041012078
      ISBN10: 1041012071
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.

      Youâll discover how to:

      Reconnect board members to the real purpose of education, despite their personal agendas;

      Work with your board more effectively during meetings and at times in between;

      Guide board members into more productive roles when they overreach beyond policymaking; and

      Connect and communicate with board members regardless of personal disposition.

      Each chapter contains hero-making tips to help you get started. In addition, this timely second edition features a new chapter on navigating the superintendent/Board President relationship. With this practical book, youâll be able to overcome the challenges of the superintendentâboard relationship so that your board can make better decisions for those who matter mostâthe students.

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