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Question #49 – Does Your Board Respond to Board Member Monitoring? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) It would have been easy to say our personalities clash and that’s why we didn’t get along with each other, but that exc Read More …

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Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:00:00 -0700

Question #48 – Does Your Board Monitor Board Member Performance? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) The objective of the monitoring process is to flag substandard performance before it becomes habitual and to provide counsel Read More …

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Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:00:00 -0700

Question #47 – Does Your Board Set Criteria for Measuring Board Member Success? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) Come to meetings adequately prepared. Speak only when recognized. Not interrupt each other. Not engage in side Read More …

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Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:00:00 -0700

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 …

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Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:00:00 -0700

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 …

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Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:00:00 -0700

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 …

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Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:00:00 -0700

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 …

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Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:00:00 -0700

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 …

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Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:00:00 -0700

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 …

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Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:00:00 -0700

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 …

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Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:00:00 -0700

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 …

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Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:00:00 -0700

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 …

Rick Maloney commented on the post, Question #34 - Is Your Board Ready to Hire the Next Superintendent?

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 02:52:04 -0700

Bill, I understand your concerns about superintendent hiring. As for the 100-day listening tour, I (as a board member) do not object to such a listening tour for getting her bearing and more fully understanding […]

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Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:00:00 -0700

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 …

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Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:00:00 -0700

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 …

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Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:00:00 -0700

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 …

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Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:00:00 -0700

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 …

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Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:00:00 -0700

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 …

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Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:00:00 -0700

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 …

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Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:00:00 -0700

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 …

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Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:00:00 -0700

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 …

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Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:00:00 -0700

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 …

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Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:00:00 -0700

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 …

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Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:00:00 -0700

Question #27 – Does Your Board Facilitate Boardsmanship? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) If, as is usual, there are several trustees, their chairman has a special obligation to see that the trustees as a group Read More …

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Mon, 19 May 2025 13:00:00 -0700

Question #26 – Does Your Board Set Expectations for Boardsmanship? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) When asked, “How can a new school board member get off on the wrong foot with colleagues?” experienced board members rep Read More …

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Mon, 05 May 2025 13:00:00 -0700

Question #25 – Does Your Board Define the Board Member Role? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) To be brutally honest, many board members simply do not know what their jobs are. They busy themselves doing things, many Read More …

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Mon, 21 Apr 2025 13:00:00 -0700

Question #24 – Does Your Board Give Its Members Boardsmanship Guidance? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) [Board meetings]…were less orderly; had less time spent on student achievement; lacked respectful and attentive e Read More …

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Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:00:00 -0700

Question #23 – Does Your Board of Directors…Direct? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) Scenario: Bernie and Maria were discussing remarks made about the swimming pool during the public comment period at the Read More …

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Mon, 24 Mar 2025 13:00:00 -0700

Question #22 – External Voice: Does Your Board Reflect Community Vision/Values through Advocacy? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) [School boards] establish a strong communications structure to inform and engage both internal and external stakeholders Read More …

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Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:00:00 -0700

Question #21 – Internal Voice: Does Your Board Reflect the Community's Vision/Values Through Policy? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) Vision without action is a dream, and action without vision is aimless. Board policy represents the intersection of Read More …

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Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:00:00 -0700

Question #20 – Does Your Board Connect with the Community to Learn its Values? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) This program first provided a solution by bringing the district together under a unified goal, our communities’ health. D Read More …

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Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:00:00 -0700

Question #19 – Does Your Board Value Transparency? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) …reforms that seek greater transparency are increasingly on the rise…information empowers citizens to hold public off Read More …

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Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:00:00 -0700

Question #18 – Does Your Board Give Voice to Community Values? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) Are the means that the administration uses in reaching the desired ends beyond the scope of the school board’s con Read More …

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Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:00:00 -0700

Question #17 – Do Your Goals Focus on the Long Term? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) “[In reference to nonnegotiable goals for achievement and instruction] In effective districts, the local board of Read More …

Rick Maloney commented on the post, Question #16 - Do Your Goals Focus on Results?

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 06:00:28 -0700

Bill, it is important that the board set enduring, results-oriented goals that focus on student outcomes, as opposed to goals that promote programs and activities, even if those goals are well intended. Such goals […]

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Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:00:00 -0700

Question #16 – Do Your Goals Focus on Results? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) “To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where Read More …

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Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:00:00 -0700

Question #15 – Do Your Goals Focus on Students? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) “School systems exist for one reason and one reason only: to improve student outcomes. [They] do not exist to have great Read More …

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Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:00:00 -0700

Question #14 – Does Your Board Set Goals for the District? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) “First, nonnegotiable district goals should be established for student achievement and for effective instruction, which Read More …

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Mon, 18 Nov 2024 13:00:00 -0700

Question #13 – Does Your Board Give Voice to the Community’s Vision for the Future? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are Read More …

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Rick Maloney wrote a new post

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 13:00:00 -0700

Question #12 – Does Your Board Serve as a Strategic Voice for Your Community? (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) Scenario: Bianca and Sal lingered in the Balboa School District parking lot after a meeting in which next year’s c Read More …

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Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:00:00 -0700

Coming Soon: Questions 12-22 (Strategic Voice) (49 Questions to Ask Your Board) Over the course of the next several months, questions 12 thru 22 will explore the board’s responsibility to provide a Read More …

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