The Hero Maker

How Superintendents Can Get Their School Boards to Do the Right Thing

By: Ryan Donlan, Todd Whitaker

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eText | 30 September 2025 | Edition Number 2

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Learn how to turn your school board members into heroes by helping them make smart, worthwhile decisions they will deserve to brag about. In this much-needed book, Ryan Donlan and Todd Whitaker offer practical strategies to help superintendents develop better working relationships with their boards.

You'll discover how to:

reconnect board members to the real purpose of education, despite their personal agendas
work with your board more effectively during meetings and at times in between
guide board members into more productive roles when they overreach beyond policymaking
connect and communicate with board members regardless of personal disposition

Each chapter contains hero-making tips to help you get started. In addition, this timely second edition features a new chapter on navigating the superintendent-board president relationship. With this practical book, you'll be able to overcome the challenges of the superintendent-board relationship so that your board can make better decisions for those who matter most—the students.