What does a board member do?
With children always their ultimate focus, school board members act officially only at the board table, working with other board members to accomplish the following:
- Create a shared vision.
- Set student performance standards.
- Oversee development of assessment program based on those standards.
- Account for student achievement results.
- Adopt the annual budget, aligning district resources to improve achievement.
- Create a healthy environment for work and learning.
- Build strategic partnerships.
- Sustain the district's progress through continuous improvement.
- Adopt and maintain current policies in written format.
- Hire and evaluate the superintendent.
- Ratify collective bargaining agreements.
- Maintain strong ethical standards.
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