The 5Rs School Board FIELD Manual: From Governance To RESULTS

What if your school board isn’t broken… but misaligned?

Across the country, school boards are making decisions every day—approving policies, reviewing data, and holding meetings that check every box of governance. Yet student outcomes remain stagnant. Achievement gaps persist. And communities continue asking the same question:

“If all this work is happening… why aren’t results improving?”

In From Governance to Results, educational leader MDonnell Tenner challenges the traditional mindset of school governance and introduces a bold, results-driven framework that shifts boards from decision-making bodies to outcome-producing systems.