School Board Meeting Paper

The Wilson School District Board of Directors meets on the first and third Monday of each month to guide the operations of the district through six strategic vision planks. These planks seek to: improve upon or expand Wilson’s portfolio, grow Wilson regionally and nationally, increase organizational agility and capacity, engage in creative development of new and existing infrastructure, create a flatter organizational structure, and control for fiscal accountability. The following is a summary of the meeting which occurred on September 18, 2017, along with observations and conclusions from the perspective of a future district administrator.

Along the same lines, it is important that when individual board members request information it is sent to every single member. Otherwise, the Superintendent gives up the opportunity to understand from where each board member is coming (Effective Superintendent-School Board Relations). This to some extent could be used as informational leverage, which could help down the line when trying to sway support. Keeping records on request is also considered very helpful when working with Boards. It is important that they stay informed, but it is also just as valuable that they get some feedback as to how much information they are requesting. They may tend to back off from requesting so much information. Regardless as to how and how often, the Superintendent must establish a communication system. Boards do not like surprises. It undermines board members ' trust, and makes them look bad, when they hear information about the district from another source (Effective Superintendent-School Board Relations). Getting the Boards trust can assist in creating a team concept.

Many hours of intensive effort have gone into the development of this plan, but the work is not finished. The district will continue to monitor and adjust this plan according to the changing needs of our school and community to ensure

The Hallsville Independent School District board meeting was very conductive. An agenda was handed out to everyone present, and it had every point to be made at the meeting neat and organized for everyone to follow. The meeting is mostly open to the public which provides a great way for everyone to feel up to date with what is going on in the school district, and be able to help in any way they can when problems arise. Once the superintendent had finished speaking about who was being recognized, the updated itinerary, and the HISD Education Foundation Report, he closed the meeting from the public. School board meetings benefit the community by letting the people not associated with a job through the school know what is going on in the district.

Dr. David Bolton has had an interesting spring, to say the least. He has served in the capacity of the Assistant Superintendent of Elementary Education in Central Bucks for two years. At the end of Dr. Bolton’s second year, the retiring Superintendent planned to retire officially on May 30, 2016 but in a series of events involving new School Board members, he was asked to clean out his office on Monday, May 9, 2016. The Assistant Superintendent of Secondary Education also retired early in March of 2016, leaving Dr. Bolton currently with the title of Substitute Superintendent until a new Superintendent begins on June 6, 2016. Dr. Bolton has been completing tasks since March as Elementary and Secondary Assistant Superintendents and Substitute Superintendent all at once. My original interview was scheduled with the outgoing superintendent during the week of his departure. In light of this complication, Dr. Bolton was gracious enough to answer my questions in an email but I was unable to interview him in person or on the phone due to his busy schedule.

Prior to coming to Hoke County, Dr. Williamson had already served in a plethora of diverse roles in his educational career (e.g., teacher, assistant principal, vocational-educational director, principal, director of secondary and middle school education, director of personnel, associate superintendent, and a boys and girls basketball coach), therefore becoming a superintendent was inevitable; the school board knew he could advance the Hoke County’s School System, however the “key” was: he was a willing vessel.

I live in Abington School district, and I would have attended Abington schools if I did not attend a charter school, so I was pleased that it worked out that on April 11th I could attend a school board meeting there. Because I had to work that night, I arrived twenty minutes late to the meeting, but my father, who is a middle school band teacher in Phoenixville school district, went there early to save me a seat and let me know what happened.

The meeting started at 7:00 p.m. and lasted about 45 minutes. The bored member were five fourth females and two males. Lakota School District Board of Education meetings are held twice a month on the second and the fourth on Monday of each month.

For the community coalition assignment I chose to attend a meeting in the town of Walpole, MA. The meeting was held on Tuesday, March 15th, at 7:00 p.m., and it was held at the Walpole town hall. The meeting was about a two hour long discussion about substance abuse, specifically to the town of Walpole, however I feel that it something that is important because being from a neighboring town, I am aware of the similar problems that exist in my community. The coalition was made up of council members, members of the school district (teachers and nurses), various health officials in the community, police officers, and parents/members of the Walpole community. The meeting opened up to discussion about underage drinking. There was a Walpole town

Do you ever ask yourself what are in luches. Also pop is manley sugar there’s a total of 30 grams of sugar in pop. My opinion is they shouldn’t be selling pop to kids for lunch. It’s not good for them. For junk food they don’t use real meat and eggs they use stuff that they get from a factory and cook it and that’s it. I hope the school board will change something about the lunches.

Every school district has board meetings throughout the school year. Unfortunately, many parents, community members, & school personnel do not attend such important meetings because they don’t realize or understand the importance of such board meetings or how informative they can be. According to Kankakee School District (2017), the Kankakee School District Board of Education is composed of seven elected members, who were elected by the citizens of Kankakee to serve a four-year term that do not receive no salary for they services, are committed to ensuring a quality of educational excellence that will enhance the opportunities and challenges facing today’s student and additional responsibilities that board members include are selection of the District superintendent, developing general polices according to wishes of the community and requirements of law, hiring school personnel based upon recommendation of the Superintendent and the Assistant Superintendent of Personnel, adopts salary schedules, approves funds to finance school operations, must adopt and review the annual operating budget for the District, and setting the property tax levy to produce adequate funds to meet the District’s financial needs ranks among the responsibilities of the Board of Education (Retrieved from https://www.ksd111.org/domain/68). For this paper, the Kankakee School District board meeting will be used, information learned from board meeting, use of

The meeting began when the school board members entered the large group instruction room and took their seats at a panel table angled to the side of the audience. The school board consists of nine elected members from the community. The members are as follows: Paul Ridley (President), Pat Vigliotta (Vice President), Helen Cumminskey

A research study from Goddard et al. (2007) illustrated that teacher collaboration was related to improved student achievement on standardized testing. The target population for this study was compiled of forty-seven schools in an urban school district. A total of 452 teachers’ surveys and 2,536 fourth grade students’ achievement scores were used. Demographically, 67% of the student sample population were on free or reduced lunch, 57% were black, and 48% were female.

The was able to get an interview with the vice president of the school board, Robert Schoen. I asked him the same five questions to analyze his belief and priorities. He responded to the first questions by telling me that he thought the most important thing for him in the town was to make sure that every kid has a safe and successful place to grow and get an education. He told me that the kids that leave Marion School District should be prepared for the world and have a good education allowing them to move forward in life. He believes that a good education is one of the most important thing for anyone which is why he wanted to me on the school board. In regards to question two, he told me that one thing he would change is that the enrolment of the school

On September 25, 2017, I attended the Dallas Center- Grimes school board meeting at Heritage Elementary. When I arrived, a typed-out agenda was provided to each person in attendance. The meeting began promptly at seven o’clock p.m.