Name: All Aboard: A School Board Gets on Track, Paperback/Charles Tollett
Brand: Outskirts Press
Price: 118.99 RON
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Following the election of three new members, the Progress County Board of Education is challenged by one of the new members to become a board that really makes a difference. The board determines that improvement seldom comes accidentally and that experience is not the best teacher. The board learns that reflection on its experiences is a powerful tool in becoming a better board and better board members. In a retreat setting the board explores what it wants to become and commits to improving both its image and its effectiveness. All Aboard Is the story of the Progress County Board of Education getting on track and becoming an effective school board in spite of deep philosophical differences among its members. It's about a school board, but the principles apply to other boards as well. This is a story that every person who serves on any board and wants to be an effective member of an effective board should read. After many years of working with hundreds of board members in board development activities, the authors have learned that board members best learn how they might be most effective, not by being told what to do or how to do it but rather, through exploration of and reflection on possibilities. Unlike any other book on "boardmanship," All Aboard does not provide "how to" advice on becoming an effective board member nor does it give the reader right or wrong answers to questions faced by local school boards. Instead, it presents school board discussions in which members ex