Issue Area One: Building Mutual Trust and Understanding Within and Between the Board of Education and Superintendent of Schools

Authors

Susan Fisher, Mason City Community Schools

Document Type

Issue Area One

Abstract

Picture the ideal school district where the board of education and superintendent have a perfect relationship built on trust and mutual understanding. The district basks in the brilliant sunshine of a communication system providing information that is honest, sufficient, timely, and legal. Everything works! Ideal situations don't just happen. They begin with the first handshake between a new superintendent and the hiring board, or a new board member and experienced board members and with the superintendent already in place. No doubt communication has taken place before hiring or election and an initial impression has been made. (Specific strategies for developing a communication system can be found in Section 4 of the monograph.)

Journal Title

Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series

Volume

4

Issue

1

First Page

9

Last Page

12

Publisher

Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa

City

Cedar Falls, IA

Copyright

©1993 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and University of Northern Iowa

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Fisher, Susan (1993) "Issue Area One: Building Mutual Trust and Understanding Within and Between the Board of Education and Superintendent of Schools," Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 4: No. 1, Article 5.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol4/iss1/5