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WE are ALL WARRIORS, Warring Against COVID-19, Ignorance, & Apathy | Retiring from the Position but Not the Mission!

By Art McCoy posted 12-19-2020
If you are reading this message, you know that WE are ALL WARRIORS NOW and veterans of 2020, COVID19 soon, and more! Happy Holidays! Enjoy this video and the articles below. Thank you to the JSD Board of Education for unanimously bestowing the honorific title of Superintendent Emeritus, effective July 2021. News COVID-19 Opinion Entertainment Election Health Business Sports Salute to Excellence NIE Multimedia About Classifieds FEATURE Jennings ...

WE are ALL WARRIORS, Warring Against COVID-19, Ignorance, & Apathy | Retiring from the Position but Not the Mission!

By Art McCoy posted 12-19-2020
If you are reading this message, you know that WE are ALL WARRIORS NOW and veterans of 2020, COVID19 soon, and more! Happy Holidays! Enjoy this video and the articles below. Thank you to the JSD Board of Education for unanimously bestowing the honorific title of Superintendent Emeritus, effective July 2021. News COVID-19 Opinion Entertainment Election Health Business Sports Salute to Excellence NIE Multimedia About Classifieds FEATURE Jennings schools superintendent McCoy announces retirement ...

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The Other Board Member

By Ann Flynn posted 03-16-2018
Thanks to Bob Dillon for authoring this piece about the role of learning spaces In every district there is an unelected board member, this isn’t the person in the community that knows the district and communicates to a huge network of individuals throughout the community. They are important, but they aren’t the unelected board member. The unelected board member isn’t the top businessperson, entrepreneur, professor, or mayor either. Each of these folks have a role in supporting the modern school. The unelected board member is the story that is told by each of your school buildings. These spaces tell the story of learning for the district. These are the ...

SpeakUp Survey Deadline Extended

By Entoria Nicely posted 01-15-2018
The SpeakUpEd deadline has been extended until Jan. 26 th . Gain insights from your students, staff, parents and community members through the annual SpeakUp Survey which has been conducted for more than a decade. This free survey will provide each district’s data next month https://speakup.tomorrow.org/ and allows participating schools and districts to get both a granular view of their own data and see it within a national context.

Annual Digital District Survey Now Open

By Ann Flynn posted 11-30-2017
2017-18 Digital School Districts Survey Call for Entries The Center for Digital Education (CDE), in partnership with the National School Boards Association, invites all U.S. public school districts to participate in the 2017-18 Digital School Districts Survey. Deadline for entries: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 The purpose of the survey is to recognize exemplary school boards and districts’ use of technology to govern the district, and to improve service delivery and quality of education. Top-ranked districts will receive the Digital School Districts Survey award and will be honored at a reception during the National School Board Association’s annual ...

How to Drive a Successful Digital Transformation in Urban Districts, by Dwight D. Jones

By Heather Dean posted 06-29-2017
We are pleased that NSBA’s Equity partner, McGraw Hill Education, has provided the following article: Educational leaders need to be connected with their teachers, students, parents and community leaders for digital success. It’s generally understood that integrating edtech into schools can be complex, but what’s less often discussed is that it represents one of the most universal pain points for administrators and educators today. And when you look at larger, more densely populated school districts–in urban markets like Los Angeles, Philadelphia, or Chicago–district leaders often face added pressures and challenges to do digital right, and often ...

NSBA’s First Equity Symposium

By Ron Skinner posted 06-15-2016
If you attended NSBA’s first-ever Equity Symposium last Saturday then you know—it was an incredible day of heartfelt, difficult conversations about some of the toughest issues in education. The Center for Public Education recently defined equity by writing “equity is achieved when all students receive the resources they need so they graduate prepared for success after high school.” And as NSBA Executive Director Tom Gentzel noted in his opening remarks at the Equity Symposium, “every child should have access to an excellent education in the community in which they live.” Throughout the day-long event the focus was on the ever increasing diversity among ...

Third and final report of The Path Least Taken series

By Naomi Dillon posted 06-01-2016
When we first embarked on the Path Least Taken series, which we conclude with the just released third installment , we did so because we noticed a lot of attention and resources had been poured into making sure students graduated ready to enter college, but not necessarily the workforce. And since not every high school grad will pursue post-secondary education but every graduate will likely work, we thought it was critical that policymakers, school leaders and educators gain a better understanding of how non-college goers fared in the years after graduation. Research identifying the linkage between high school preparation and college success already ...

Electronic School: The Changing Role of Libraries

By Ann Flynn posted 11-02-2015
The college library was one of my favorite places on campus, so it is with a glimmer of sadness that I read the recent CNN story about the end of print production for the traditional card catalogue. I spent hours thumbing through skinny files drawers to find the perfect resources. But this story is just one more reminder about how much the look and role of libraries has changed in the digital age. In 2014, a public library in San Antonio , Texas opened without any traditional books. It’s no surprise that similar trends are starting to appear in public school libraries across the country. During NSBA’s education technology site visit in Mentor, Ohio, participants ...

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By Mark Blom posted 04-22-2014
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By Terri Silver posted 11-25-2013
As we approach the holiday season, I was thinking of all of you who work daily to make school boards the best grassroots governance institutions in the world. Thank you for contributing your time and experience in making my job easier and better. I appreciate every one of you. Happy Thanksgiving to All! Terri

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By Terri Silver posted 09-06-2013
I had a large school district ask me if any districts have board members (just less than a quorum) participate in an agenda prep meeting. It would be the supt, appropriate staff, the pres, the vp, and one or two more depending on the district's board size. I do not know of any. Do any of you? Terri

Board Self-Evaluation

By Phyllis Barks posted 05-17-2012
As a newcomer to this group, I am wondering which state associations have a board self-evaluation tool and related services. I am interested details regarding: content structure - is there a content framework (e.g., Key Work, Iowa Lighthouse principles, other) format (paper, online, scannable, etc.) reporting options, type of results interpretation of results facilitated discussion of results fee structure for any/all of the above In Missouri, we have a tool based on the Iowa Lighthouse principles and organized around our state school improvement goal areas (student achievement, high quality staff, facilities/budget/resources, ...

Mobile Membership (M2)

By Andrew Paulson posted 08-19-2011
The NSBAConnect mobile app, M2 Mobile Membership, enables you to stay connected and engaged on your mobile device through the NSBAConnect Community. The app provides the features of the NSBAConnect Community at your fingertips and is available on iPhone, Android, and Blackberry. Features include: Connected Community Discussions, eGroups, and Messaging Member Directory and My Contacts News & information: including resources, twitter updates, etc. NSBA announcements and notifications Available on 3 mobile platforms ...

NSBA Website Design/Organizational Change

By Andrew Paulson posted 08-05-2011
Recently, we rolled out a template change to www.nsba.org . This change applies to most category pages. For those of you unfamiliar with NSBA’s CMS, a category is essentially a page that behaves like a folder. It contains other documents. That is its primary purpose—to display the content that exists within itself. See the image below for an example. The Council of School Attorneys homepage is a category. This category/folder contains documents, links, and other categories (sub-folders). However, the sub-folders themselves are, again, primarily used to organize more content. With that in mind, I would like to announce that we have ...