How Not to Be a Terrible School Board Member - Lessons for School Administrators and Board Members (Paperback)

How to Not Be a Terrible School Board Member is a practical guide both for how to become an effective school board member, and for how school administrators can improve their board relations. The intended audience is prospective, present, and past school board members and school administrators.While the overwhelming majority of school board members have good motives, even people with good motives can make bad moves, even terrible moves. This book is dedicated to preventing situations in which good intentions can lead to bad outcomes. The book takes a case based approach that focuses on terrible school board member moves as the fastest and most memorable way to help one learn how to be an effective school board member ,and to see, by contrast, how a successful school board member operates. Case-based learning is used in many professional programs such as business, law, medicine, and even teacher education, and research on learning by example has a strong and growing empirical research base.

General

Imprint:	Sage Publications Ltd
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	July 2011
Authors:	Richard E. Mayer
Dimensions:	254 x 177 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	160
ISBN-13:	978-1-4129-9793-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General
LSN:	1-4129-9793-3
Barcode:	9781412997935

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