Rick Maloney

Question #46 – Does Your Board Hold Its Members Accountable? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) “A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.” ― Thomas Paine Paine offer Read More …

Question #45 – Does Your Board Respond to Board Monitoring? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) A school board, being composed of persons, may find self-assessment distasteful. Implicit in the process, after all, is the Read More …

Question #44 – Does Your Board Monitor Board Performance? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates Becoming a Better Board Member offers advice to boards for m Read More …

Question #43 – Does Your Board Set Criteria for Measuring Board Success? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) High-performing boards are characterized by a number of observable behaviors. They know what their job is, and they do it Read More …

Question #42 – Does Your Board Hold Itself Accountable? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal Read More …

Question #41 – Does Your Board Respond to District Monitoring? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) There are three questions we always want to be able to answer, and all three start with the same phrase: How are we Read More …

Question #40 – Does Your Board Monitor District Performance? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) The only way a board can responsibly do its job without meddling is by monitoring very well…The best boards keep their n Read More …

Question #39 – Does Your Board Set Criteria for Measuring District Success? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) The board has a responsibility to expect clear evidence that implementation has been carried out. This evidence should be Read More …

Question #38 – Does Your Board Hold the Superintendent Accountable? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) Because board members assume a strategic role and usually aren’t educators themselves, they’re in a poor position to obj Read More …

Question #37 – Does Your Board Assure Accountability? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) Scenario: During a work-study session following annual release of state test score results, the Riverdale school board Read More …

Question #36 – Does Your Board Delegate Authority and Provide Support to the Superintendent? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) The role of trustees is to hold what approximates absolute power over the institution, using it operationally only in Read More …

Question #35 – Does Your Board Set Expectations for Management? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) Superintendent job performance will be monitored systematically only against the Superintendent’s job expectations, w Read More …

Question #34 – Is Your Board Ready to Hire the Next Superintendent? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) Prime evidence of flawed board governance has been high superintendent turnover. Between 1994 and 2004, 35 urban Read More …

Question #33 – Does Your Board Define the Superintendent Role? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) “To start the role clarification process, a board can adopt or revise policies that specify what the board can expect f Read More …

Question #32 – Does Your Board Give the Superintendent Management Guidance? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) …when district leaders are carrying out their leadership responsibilities effectively, student achievement across the d Read More …

Question #31 – Does Your Board Facilitate Governance? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) “Where previously such admonition from the chair had to come from that person’s own belly of conscience, this policy giv Read More …

Question #30 – Does Your Board Set Expectations for Governance? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) The board is responsible for its own performance and commits itself to continuous improvement. The board will assure that Read More …

Question #29 – Does Your Board Define its Own Role? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) The Board’s job is to represent, lead and serve the community and to govern the district by establishing expectations for Read More …

Question #28 – Does Your Board Give Itself Governance Guidance? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) Historically, studies of school boards have tended to examine the behavior of members as individuals but not the behavior Read More …