ABSTRACT
Superintendents often feel this way after the big board meeting happening once or twice per month, and they especially feel it if they have working sessions between meetings, because these can be equally invigorating. This chapter suggests a three-pronged approach to ensure that heroes are made, and maintained, between board meetings for the best of results. Superintendents schedule some official, personal time with one board member per month, for a check-in and update on their perspective as to the superintendent's connection with the community. Hero makers minimize the "exhale" that happens after the big meeting, and consider each next day's work as directly proportional to the next meeting's success. Hero makers remember that if board members resist their overtures to have conversations or spend time with them once or twice per year, they must be forgiven in advance because the refusal is indicative of a future teachable moment, when the hero maker can make a difference in this person's life.
