Building
Collaborative Relationships It is the responsibility of the board to
build collaborative relationships with
political and business leaders in order to
develop a consensus for student success.
Communicating
During the
Board Meeting
Your meetings can be a gold mine of
information about your organization for
staff and the community but you’ve got to
get people to the meetings and make it easy
for them to get the information.
Peaceful, Productive
Public Meetings (67k
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The living nightmare of almost every superintendent and school board member is the public meeting that turns into a confrontation.
How to
Organize a Successful Community Legislative
Forum When legislators arrived at Forest Grove's
2003 legislative forum, their surprise was
obvious. Well over 300 people awaited them,
filling every chair and standing several
deep around the room.
Back
to School Week Archive While Back to School Week
officially ended in 2004 the ideas offered
here on how to invite the community to your
schools are still valuable today.