A Salute to School Board Members
Who spends hundreds of hours a year – as a volunteer – attending meetings and training, studying documents to prepare for meetings, crafting policies and…
School Leader, NJSBA’s quarterly magazine, focuses on trends and issues of interest to boards of education and their top administrators.
Who spends hundreds of hours a year – as a volunteer – attending meetings and training, studying documents to prepare for meetings, crafting policies and…
As children go through school many of their parents become involved too, attending PTA meetings; volunteering as a class parent; chaperoning field trips or helping…
Do you remember walking into your first meeting as a brand new board member? Tom Maier of Pemberton can easily recall the trepidation of that…
Each year a select number of school boards in New Jersey achieve the status of Master Board. To do so isn’t easy; they complete an…
School district-municipal cooperation thrives throughout New Jersey, in spite of limited state funding, local property tax burdens and the need to make ends meet in…
Sustainability hasn’t traditionally been a top concern for school officials. School budgets, the 2 percent tax levy cap, student achievement, curriculum issues, the health and…
We all know that local school board members are uncompensated public officials who volunteer significant amounts of their personal time, talents, knowledge, skills and expertise…
During my more than four decades in public education, I have found that board members are truly unsung heroes. They work tirelessly for educational excellence…
At the NJSBA annual Workshop in October, NJM Safety Officer Pat McCormick and NJM Consumer Safety Coordinator Erica Rosso conducted three Teen Driver Safety learning…
Volunteerism is usually considered to be a good thing. In fact, many board of education members have found their way to the board through such…
What was your motivation; what made you run for the board? I will bet that no one took on this time-consuming volunteer venture because they…
Technology – and all that is associated with it, including hardware, software, broadband charges and the like – can add up to a big number…