How do school board members and superintendents build trust, improve transparency, and facilitate better communication? This helpful guide shares the recipe for success!
How do school board members and superintendents build trust, improve transparency, and facilitate better communication? This helpful guide shares the recipe for success!
Developed by the Georgia School Boards Association (GSBA), their board management software, Simbli, helps boards automate and simplify everyday tasks through software that facilitates paperless meetings, strategic planning, policy management, board evaluations, document management, and communications. The guide was developed over years of experience in helping boards achieve better board governance.
It examines important areas that your school board will need to watch out for in order to create an improved education system. The guide also provides answers to questions surrounding how an environment with better synergy and mutual trust can be built between school boards and superintendents.
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Presented as questions, eBOARDsolutions’ guide provides six arguments based on professional experiences from Dr. Gene Bottoms - a seasoned educator and Senior Vice President of the Southern Regional Education Board.
Dr. Bottoms is one of two presenters on a webinar that talks about the same subject: "The Super Six: Top 6 Questions School Board Members Should be Asking their Superintendents."
According to eBOARDsolutions’ guide, school boards can see improved results by including strategic planning in their activities, which will lead to a culture of consistent improvement. Monitoring student achievements will also help district leadership assess the success of implemented strategic plans.
The guide recommends that school boards establish structures for accountability and equity, where responsibilities are shared between all stakeholders and students are given equitable access to the learning resources they need.
It adds that school boards can improve the overall success of programs by taking up a proactive approach and engaging with important stakeholders, including parents and other relevant influencers. In its final point, eBOARDsolutions’ guide recommends that school boards improve fiscal responsibility by ensuring financial records are reviewed and shared with the community.
About the Company
Based in Lawrenceville, Georgia, eBOARDsolutions was founded by the Georgia School Boards Association to develop and deliver board management software to school boards across the US. The organization's sole mission is helping boards lead and govern effectively and operate more efficiently.
A section of the guide states, "Serving as a school board member can be a rewarding experience, but the role also comes with challenges. Fortunately, these challenges can be overcome. But your board is going to need some help. The Super Six Questions covered by Dr. Gene Bottoms will help school board members achieve the outcomes set out in their strategic plan by developing a closer working relationship."
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