Webinars: Field Services

This webinar will assist board members in planning and completing a superintendent evaluation that provides actionable feedback to superintendents, celebrates district successes, and addresses the challenges ahead. Participants will review the mechanics to ensure all non-conflicted board members can participate easily, and receive instruction on the development of an evaluation calendar to ensure the board completes the process in a timely manner. Best practices will also be highlighted.

Learn how to fill a vacant seat effectively, and examine considerations for preventing resignations.

Learn how developing a well-designed, in-district orientation program can assist your newest board members to become effective members of the BOE / admin team as they are learning their new role.

Join NJSBA Field Service representatives and Dr. Denise Rawding, educator and Morris Plains school board president, as we continue to examine the tools and strategies from the Association’s comprehensive book, NJSBA’s Fundamentals of School Board Membership.

In this session, learn about the critical role that school boards can play in adopting curriculum and how to ensure that teachers and students have the high-quality resources they need. Dr. Rawding will offer her experiences in both roles and discuss the following:

•What is curriculum?
•What are key policies related to curriculum?
•What are the New Jersey’s curriculum requirements?
•What is the school board’s role in the curriculum process?
•What are some recommended board member questions before adopting new curriculum and after it is approved?

Please join us as we share these helpful perspectives that are worthwhile for every board member. Fundamentals of School Board Membership is free and electronically available to NJSBA members through the Association’s password-protected online portal. NJSBA will continue to explore the book through multiple webinars. There are no prerequisites for the courses.

Field Services will cover important concepts in NJSBA’s publication, Fundamentals of School Board Membership. The anthology is about school board membership basics and related topics. This book is so comprehensive that it will be presented in multiple webinars; this one covers the fundamentals of parliamentary procedure. Please join us as we share helpful perspectives on topics of value to every board of education.

One of the board’s primary roles is to ensure that schools have the most highly qualified staff available. Research indicates that the quality of the teacher is the most important in-school factor affecting student achievement. Much of the personnel process takes place with your administrators and the process of hiring and renewing staff is closely regulated by statute and code. But, ultimately the board has to vote on hiring new staff and renewing existing staff. Join us as we discuss the board’s role in the process.