Board Training Workshops
Customized board and leadership team training, facilitation, consultation and advice
A school board member holds the most important elected position in the country. Let OSBA help you do your best in service to the students of your district.
OSBA offers school board members the best and most up-to-date training in:
Roles and Responsibilities, a series of three workshops:
1) The basic workshop will help attendees learn about the board’s governance role and its relationship with the superintendent to avoid common pitfalls. While focusing on best practices and boards’ legal roles and responsibilities found in state statute and board policy, this workshop will provide a guide for boards to be effective in governing the district.
2) The intermediate workshop is focused on board culture: how the board does its work and how board members interact with one another. Board culture matters and effective boards understand why it is valuable to examine board culture through the results of the online board self-evaluation survey. In this workshop boards identify desired outcomes for the members’ interactions and develop a board operating agreement that is a living document to help boards continuously improve.
3) The advanced workshop is focused on the board’s leadership role to encourage system-wide change and improvement, specifically in student learning. The board explores how to put collaborative governance into practice and establish an expectation of its continuance. It is recommended that the board have completed both the basic and intermediate workshops before engaging in the advanced level workshop.
Workshops
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Assessment Literacy
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Ethics
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School Finance
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Community Engagement
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Policy 101
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Effective Meetings
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Charter Schools
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Communications 101
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Media Relations
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Public Meetings
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Systems Thinking/Strategic Planning
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Specialized facilitation
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