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Accelerated wisdom : 50 practical insights for today's superintendent / Howard C. Carlson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carlson, Howard C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School superintendents--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- School superintendents.
- School management and organization--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- School management and organization.
- Educational leadership--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Educational leadership.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 113 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield : published in partnership with the American Association of School Administrators, [2018]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Carlson, Howard C., author. Accelerated wisdom
- ISBN:
- 9781475846270
- 1475846274
- Publisher Number:
- 99984945989
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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