Ways for a Board to Show Its Accountability

Board-Savvy Superintendent

Worried board president to superintendent: “You know we have an oversight role that we’re responsible for. Seems we need to do more about that, so we want a member of the board on the district textbook committee, on the curriculum committee, on the budget committee and on the athletic director interview committee.”

Superintendent to board president: “Let’s talk about that.” (Silent shudder.)