Strategic Planning for Boards

The Power of Planning: Achieving Strategic and Operational Excellence

Best Practices

Planning is an essential activity that helps individuals and school districts to achieve their goals and objectives. Planning involves thinking ahead, anticipating challenges, and developing strategies to overcome them. It provides a roadmap for decision-making, resource allocation, and performance evaluation. Whether it’s an individual planning their day or a large organization planning its operations, planning is critical to success.

Robert's Rules of Order

Robert’s Rules of Order: Lessons and Tips for Adopting and Practicing Parliamentary Procedure

Best Practices

The most successful boards often adopt clear ground rules and procedures that allow for smooth and equitable decision making. Parliamentary procedure provides a vital backbone of support for effective board operations, but sometimes can seem daunting. Robert’s Rules of Order offers a complete reference guide for every board procedure, rule, and decision.

Superintendent Evaluation - Challenges and Steps to Make It Meaningful and Ongoing

Superintendent Evaluation: Challenges and Steps to Make It Meaningful and Ongoing

Webinars

What are some of your biggest challenges to effective superintendent evaluation? How can governance teams maximize the meaningfulness of this important work? Join IASB Leadership Development Director Harry Heiligenthal and two members of the Carroll Community Schools’ governance team — Board President Jen Munson and Superintendent Rob Cordes—to hear their challenges, observations and insights.

The Top 6 Questions School Board Members Should be Asking their Superintendents

The Top 6 Questions School Board Members Should be Asking their Superintendents

Webinars

Dr. Gene Bottoms, Senior Vice President of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) and Valarie Wilson, Executive Director of the Georgia School Board Association (GSBA) unveil the ‘Top 10 Questions School Board Members Should be Asking their Superintendents.’ A helpful guide for district leadership, this webinar highlights research, strategies, and anecdotes for helping superintendents and board members lead as a united team, with strong collaboration and mutual trust.