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Preparing Urban School Board Preparing Urban School Board Members for Members for

2121stst Century Learning Century LearningNSBA CUBE Conference, Las Vegas, NevadaSunday, September 28th

8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.1

• Karen CatorDirector, Education Leadership and AdvocacyApple

• Mark WillisAssistant Executive DirectorGeorgia School Boards AssociationChief Operating OfficereBOARDsolutions

Session Objectives

• To gain a better understanding of what skills will be required for our students in the 21st Century

• Policy Implications to support 21st Century Learning

• How to effectively govern public education to support 21st Century Learning

Begin with the End in MindWhat is the Purpose of Public Education?

To help every child we serve reach their full potential, achieve their dreams and become

productive citizens.

21st Century Learning

Policy Implications for 21st Century Learning

Purpose of Policy Development

• Provide direction• Support student learning and stakeholder

engagement• Ensure safety• Define boundaries• Satisfy legal requirements

GOAL: Maximize potential while minimizing risk

Policy ImplicationsQuestions to Consider

• What else we do we need to teach?

• What do we no longer need to teach?

• Has education become a 24/7 open campus with numerous opportunities for creating learning opportunities within and outside the building?– Classroom management is no longer just about discipline, it’s

managing classrooms – virtual and physical, collaborative teams, different avenues of communication and presentation for students.

– If so, how do we need to reconfigure our classrooms and buildings?

• Do we need to collaborate more with other entities to serve the whole community?

• How do we create a framework where students are active partners but the teachers and administrators still maintain authority?

• If we believe that each person should be a lifelong learner, what does that mean for the students, for the teachers, for the policymakers? How are we modeling that belief? How are we creating an environment in which students set that goal and live it?

• What data is most appropriate for targeting resources, monitoring performance, and setting goals?

• Whose going to manage all the information and how?

• How do we learn to think critically and evaluate the quality of usefulness of data?

• How do we provide access to resources 24/7/365?

Policy Impact: Issues to Consider• Laptop Initiatives• Use of Web 2.0 tools (Social Networking, Blogs, Wikis, etc.)• Online Expression for students and staff (on campus and off)• Internet Safety• Cyberbullying• Ease of plagiarism and cheating• Definition of school day and year• Virtual classes & schools• Privacy• Creating different methods of assessment to include these new

skills and integrating that into the accountability system

Policy DevelopmentWho should be involved?

• Board Members

• Administrators

• Local school board attorney

• Community

• State School Boards Association

School Board Governance in the 21st Century

Georgia Commission for School Board Excellence

• Formed as a reaction to issues/concerns with some boards behaving in ways deemed detrimental to improving student achievement

• Purpose: To study national school board governance best practices for 90 days and make recommendations for improvements.

Recommendation Category 1Board Governance Accountability

• The SBOE shall establish a state-wide public school board governance review and accountability process.– Oversight process– Assistance and Intervention– Review and Investigate– Receivership Authority– State-wide code of ethics

Recommendation Category 2Education Task Force

• Convene a task force of education leaders and organizations to address the following three areas of school board focus:

– Board roles and responsibilities• Board compensation• Clarification of responsibilities

– State-wide school performance standards• Standardize performance standards and tracking metrics• Require strategic plan• Requirement for regular community communications and stakeholder input

– Comprehensive board member education and proficiency• Candidates• New board members• Ongoing annual refresh and proficiency• Individual and whole board training• # of hours required

Recommendation Category 3Board Candidacy and Elections

• Legislation shall be enacted to strengthen the election process and school board candidacy requirements.– Require board size to be 5 – 7 members– Require non-partisan, staggered elections with four-

year terms– Strengthen minimum qualification requirements for

School Board Members– Board member disclosure during election cycle of

adherence to ethics, conflict of interest guidelines and training requirements

GSBA’s Model for 21st Century Board Governance

21st Century School Board

• Visionary• Collaborative• Data-driven• Aligned• Accountable• Transparent• Creative• Innovative• Empowering• Advocates• Role Models

21st Century Board Governance Tools

• Strategic Improvement Planning

• GSBA Standards for Local Boards of Education

• Board/Leadership Team Self-Assessment

• Superintendent Evaluation

• eBOARD – board governance system

Continuous Improvement

Process

GSBA Strategic Improvement Planning

Monitoring/ Reporting

Continuous Improvement

Process

Action Teams

Planning Team

Board/Staff

Strategic Improvement Plan Model

Who are we?

Where are we now?

Where do we want

to go?

How will we know when we

have arrived?

How do we plan to get there?

Strategic Dashboard

Balanced Scorecard

Board Self Assessment

Superintendent EvaluationStaff Evaluations

GSBA Standards for Local Boards of Education

• Areas of Responsibility– Vision/Philosophy/Goals– Systematic Improvement– Organizational Structure– Board Operations: Policy Development– Board Operations: Board Meetings– Board Operations: Personnel– Board Operations: Financial Management– Board/Staff/Community Relations

1. Board appoints a committee– Board members– School administrators– Community leaders

2. Report made to board of education3. Action Plans adopted by BOE if necessary4. Certified with GSBA5. Re-certification required every

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GSBA Standards for Local Boards of Education

Board/Leadership Team Self-Assessment

Superintendent Evaluation Instrument

• Goals

• Indicators

• Evidence

• Agreed upon by both the board and superintendent

Web based board governance system designed to centralize key data:

Meetings – multiple meeting types.

Policies – for online policy, procedures, and exhibits.

Calendar – posting of organizational events and meetings.

Documents – an online documents repository.

News –post both public and private news stories.

Strategic Plan –report, monitor and track progress.

Performance - link to student achievement or benchmarking data.

Legislation – tracking of public education related legislation

School Law - legal reference database.

Board Member Handbook – online guide for effective boardsmanship

Advanced Strategic Plan Module (coming December 2008)

• Track and Monitor Plan• Strategic Dashboard• Balanced Scorecard• Goal Alignment

Preparing for the Future

• If we say that integrating 21st Century skills into subject mastery is important for students, then how are we using that same skill set in governing and policymaking?

It’s more than just technology.

What’s on your reading list?

CREATING & CONNECTING//Research and Guidelines on Online Social – And Educational – NetworkingNational School Boards Associationwww.nsba.org

www.21stcenturyskills.org

www.skillscommission.org/executive.htm

Presentation Materials

• https://eboard.eboardsolutions.com/sample/– Click on Documents Section– Click on NSBA CUBE Conference

Preparing Urban School Board Preparing Urban School Board Members for Members for

2121stst Century Learning Century LearningNSBA CUBE Conference, Las Vegas, NevadaSunday, September 28th

8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.45