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Leadership Conference opens with John Merrow
NSBA’s Leadership Conference 2011 kicked off Saturday with a speech from author, filmmaker, and PBS correspondent John Merrow. Merrow took his 14-year-old goddaughter into the depths of the New York...
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Leadership Conference photos available
One hundred photos from Day 1 of NSBA’s 2011 Leadership Conference are available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsbaimages/.
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Vision project to tell the tale of Georgia transformation
“Public educators don’t tell their own story” is a tired but somewhat true indictment. In Georgia, the associations for school boards and school superintendents have gone beyond simply “telling the...
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NYSSBAs multimedia evolution for engaging members
When I began working for the New York State School Boards Association (NYSSBA) about 25 years ago, ink on paper was the primary tool for communicating our messages. We used written correspondence,...
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Federal role in education examined
Given longstanding concerns that the federal role in K-12 education is growing at an unprecedented pace, NSBA is encouraging its state associations and local school boards to take a greater voice in...
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Johnson wins Shannon Award
The nomination form for the 2011 Shannon Award describes him as “a veritable force of nature.” “And we have to agree,” said NSBA Board of Director Carolyn Ortman, in introducing this year’s winner,...
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Are you a ‘cannonball’ or a ‘big toe’ leader?
Are you a “cannonball” school board member? Someone who jumps right into the metaphorical pool of school board leadership? Thomas Gentzel, executive director of the Pennsylvania School Boards...
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Research can help school board effectiveness
New research on school boards and student achievement can help NSBA and state associations help local school board members be more effective. Data from a survey released Feb. 3, “School Boards Circa...
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ELL research can guide district policy
Let’s say your school board is looking for the best way to educate English language learners (ELLs)and some in your community insist that English-only instruction is the way to go. How do you respond?...
View ArticleHigh school quality key to urban communities
A coalition of civil rights and education groups are working to strengthen high school qualityand to ensure that students in urban communities receive an equitable education. That mission is important...
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Baltimore schools’ turnaround tale
One of the most successful governing bodies in American education today is the board of Baltimore City Public Schools. But that wasn’t the case just a few years ago. As recently as 2003, student...
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Board members: Start your ‘great conversations’
Jamie Vollmer, author of Schools Cannot Do it Alone, is an optimist. He said the “pendulum is swinging” back from support of prescriptive, centralized control of schools to a renewed belief in the...
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