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AASA Board-Savvy Superintendent

Below are articles written by Dr. Phil Gore, Chief Learning Officer for the Idaho School Boards Association. These articles were published in the AASA School Administrator magazine as part of their Board-Savvy Superintendent series.


Other Resources:

Improving School Board Effectiveness offers a clarifying and essential look at the evolving role of school boards and how they contribute to efforts to improve student learning. 

Superintendent evaluation is a unique process that is often neglected but critical in this era of accountability. This invaluable guide provides an overview of the entire process, including: crafting board policy, criteria for good policy, and prototype policy.

Designed to guide educational leadership past difficult and formidable challenges, the governance system outlined in this book will lead to school districts and schools operating at the highest levels of effectiveness.

Take a reader-friendly tour through the responsibilities and challenges of being a school board member. Written by experienced, award-winning administrators, this book gives practical guidance on how to best work with school administrators and staff to create and fulfill a shared vision of school system excellence.

Transforming Education: Building Foundations for Systemic Change and Empowered Communities provides an engaging and pragmatic roadmap for transformational change in education systems. Written for school superintendents and board members, it unveils a five-step theory of action that enables lasting, systemic reforms.


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