Governance Training

Home Membership and Services School Services Governance Governance Training

This package introduces basic board member roles and responsibilities and general practices essential to creating and/or operating an effective charter school board. This training can be applied to boards of new schools, individual board members, or existing boards needing assistance with structure and operations. This package could include review of the following:

Roles and job descriptions for board members and administration
Committees: their work, structure, and board oversight
Board recruitment
Public relations and marketing
Measuring constituent satisfaction
Evaluating the board and administration
Developing essential operating documents, e.g. board calendar
Running effective meetings
Legal roles and responsibilities of a board member
School bylaws (and possibly other foundation documents) and compliance
Essential policies as they relate to such items as board meeting/operations protocol, conflict of interest, employment, school operations, accountability, SPED, ESL, etc.
Basic contract provisions (especially at the time of charter renewal) and waivers