Accelerated wisdom : 50 practical insights for today's superintendent /: 50 practical insights for today's superintendent. (2019)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Accelerated wisdom : 50 practical insights for today's superintendent /: 50 practical insights for today's superintendent. (2019)
- Main Title:
- Accelerated wisdom : 50 practical insights for today's superintendent
- Further Information:
- Note: Howard C. Carlson.
- Authors:
- Carlson, Howard C
- Contents:
- Keeping track -- Calendar cards -- Composition books -- Digital archives -- Email management -- Organizing your day -- Organizational checklists -- How to navigate requests, concerns, questions, and new proposals -- Responding to verbal requests or concerns -- Researching before reacting -- Pre-plan spontaneous responses -- Generalities versus specifics -- Responding to questions during public meetings -- Responding to the media -- Reacting to new proposals and ideas -- Promoting ideas, concepts, and organizational changes -- The change continuum: hard, harder, hardest -- Hiring, supervising, and mentoring employees -- Technical competence versus personality and character -- Minoring in the majors -- Circuit training (administrator induction) -- Establishing new or redefined expectations -- Expectation clarity and communication for administrators -- Superintendent/administrative assistant team -- Supervisory continuum -- Interview questions which reveal core beliefs -- Leadership and decision making -- Decisions : i make, i confer, i delegate -- Leadership is gray -- Tyranny of the urgent -- Organizational virus -- The blunt realities of leadership -- Tight-loose leadership -- Root cause analysis -- Politics, legislative influence, and local campaigns -- Develop a district profile -- Getting to know your legislators -- Becoming a key legislative constituent -- Local politics -- Policy versus politics -- Levies, bonds, and overrides -- Mastering school board relationships --Keeping track -- Calendar cards -- Composition books -- Digital archives -- Email management -- Organizing your day -- Organizational checklists -- How to navigate requests, concerns, questions, and new proposals -- Responding to verbal requests or concerns -- Researching before reacting -- Pre-plan spontaneous responses -- Generalities versus specifics -- Responding to questions during public meetings -- Responding to the media -- Reacting to new proposals and ideas -- Promoting ideas, concepts, and organizational changes -- The change continuum: hard, harder, hardest -- Hiring, supervising, and mentoring employees -- Technical competence versus personality and character -- Minoring in the majors -- Circuit training (administrator induction) -- Establishing new or redefined expectations -- Expectation clarity and communication for administrators -- Superintendent/administrative assistant team -- Supervisory continuum -- Interview questions which reveal core beliefs -- Leadership and decision making -- Decisions : i make, i confer, i delegate -- Leadership is gray -- Tyranny of the urgent -- Organizational virus -- The blunt realities of leadership -- Tight-loose leadership -- Root cause analysis -- Politics, legislative influence, and local campaigns -- Develop a district profile -- Getting to know your legislators -- Becoming a key legislative constituent -- Local politics -- Policy versus politics -- Levies, bonds, and overrides -- Mastering school board relationships -- Meaningful board interaction -- Board guidance on handling complaints -- The board operating protocol -- Responding to board member requests -- The friday update -- New board member orientation -- Board retreats -- Living the superintendency -- Scenarios -- Entry plans -- Potholes and pitfalls -- Superintendent mentorship -- Life balance and health -- Knowing when to leave -- Branding your district. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Place of publication not identified : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations
- Subjects:
- 371.2/011
School superintendents -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
School management and organization -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Educational leadership -- Handbooks, manuals, etc - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781475846270
1475846274 - Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.356822
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- 02_339.xml