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<h4>The school board’s main role is Governance of the school division. This strand covers topics related to governance, communications, working with the Superintendent, and more.</h4>

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<h3><strong>GOV 101</strong></h3>
<strong>Building a High-Impact School Board: Four Questions You Need to Answer</strong>

There is wide agreement that governance is a critical path to educational excellence and student achievement.  The governing decisions and judgments that your school board makes, in close collaboration with the superintendent and senior administrators, have a tremendous impact on your district’s long-range educational performance in terms of student achievement, and on your district’s financial health and institutional stability.  Building your school board’s governing capacity is what this webinar is all about.
Drawing on his newest K-12 leadership book, Building a High-Impact Board-Superintendent Partnership:  11 Critical Questions You Need to Answer, presenter Doug Eadie will provide webinar participants with detailed, practical, thoroughly tested guidance in building their boards’ governing capacity. Workshop participants will be able to answer the following 4 questions:

1. What is the nuts and bolts work of governing a school district?
2. How can we strengthen management of our board as a governing body?
3. How can we employ actual or virtual standing committees as powerful governing engines?
4. How can we strengthen board members’ engagement in major governing processes?

2 Hours- Free Webinar

<a href="https://youtu.be/r06XKC36RN4">Available Here</a>

<a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GOV-101-Powerpoint-Slides.pdf">To view the slides, click here. </a>

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<h3><strong>GOV 102</strong></h3>
<strong>How to Foster a Positive Relationship Between the School Board and the Board of Supervisors</strong>

The school board and the board of supervisors/city council must work closely together to advance the needs of our students. Learn best practices for how to enhance the communication lines between you and your counterparts in local government. Good relations rely on shared expectations and proper communication to determine who makes what decisions.  When we understand and agree with each other then we can play our roles properly.

1 Hour- Webinar

Paid Webinar- Contact VSBA to purchase

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<h3><strong>GOV 103</strong></h3>
<strong>Building a High-Impact Board/Superintendent Relationship</strong>

Join this webinar to hear real life examples and exercises that illustrate key aspects of the board-superintendent partnership. You will be provided detailed, practical, thoroughly tested guidance on building and maintaining a close, productive, and enduring board-superintendent partnership. As well as up-to-date information on significant developments in the rapidly changing field of K-12 governance.

Workshop Topics include:
• A detailed description of the actual work involved in governing a school district
• The characteristics of really board-savvy superintendents
• Practical ways to strengthen the board’s accountability for its governing performance
• Development of board structure and processes for actively engaging board members in key governing processes such as strategic planning and performance monitoring
• Management of the board-superintendent working relationship

Paid Webinar- Contact VSBA to purchase

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<h3><strong>GOV 104</strong></h3>
<strong>Communication Tips for School Board Members</strong>

Communication is a skill that every board member should have in their toolbox. Attend this webinar to learn and discuss the importance of communication, how to communicate as a board member and ways to communicate strategically through various methods. Helpful hints and tips for interviews, social media, and general communication methods will be discussed and attendees will have the opportunity to ask best-practice related questions.

1 Hour- Free Webinar

<a href="https://youtu.be/ulZmXODve74">Available Here</a>

<a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GOV-104-Powerpoint-Slides.pdf">To view the slides, click here. </a>

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<h3><strong>GOV 105</strong></h3>
<strong>The Top 10 Things Every Board Member Should Know About Parliamentary Procedure</strong>

Join Ms. Mary Loose Deviney to learn the top ten parliamentary procedures that every board member should know.  Parliamentary procedure can be tricky to learn, but Ms. Deviney, a Professional Registered and Licensed Parliamentarian, will lend guidance on each of these procedures and why it’s so important for board members to know.

75 minutes- Paid Webinar- Contact VSBA to purchase

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<h3><strong>GOV 201</strong></h3>
<strong>Intentional Governance in Practice: School board actions related to improved achievement</strong>

School boards and the districts they serve are busy about a multitude of things. It is difficult, but of paramount importance, that the school board maintain a consistent and tight focus on the number one priority of a school district. Improving student learning cannot get lost in the shuffle. School boards, together with their administrative team, need to have a plan, monitor the plan for success, and make adjustments when needed. This webinar highlights essential elements of intentional governance for improved student learning. This includes setting SMART goals for improved student learning, regular monitoring through interim assessments, and ongoing conversation among the board and superintendent for improved results.

2 Hours- Paid Webinar- Contact VSBA to purchase

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<h3><strong>GOV 202</strong></h3>
<strong>Bring the Media On Board with Proactive Communication Tactics</strong>

If a crisis happens in your division, are you prepared to manage the resulting media attention and keep your parents informed? Do you have speaking points ready and know what not to say to a reporter? Build your confidence in partnering with the media staff. Learn how to work through both the bad and good news with the media.

1 Hour- Paid Webinar- Contact VSBA to purchase

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<h3><strong>GOV 203</strong></h3>
<strong>Three Keys to Leadership Through Crisis</strong>

Join Rev. Jarvis Bailey to discuss Three Keys for the School Board Members as they Lead Through a Crisis. Jarvis brings perspectives from the his many roles and wraps up for us where we should focus our energy and efforts as we lead our communities through this time of the unprecedented COVID 19 crisis. Jarvis currently serves as a school board member on the Fredericksburg City School Board, as well as the Governor’s Commission on African American History Education. He is a father, administrator, teacher, and former member of the VSBA Board of Directors.

1 Hour- Free Webinar

<a href="https://youtu.be/N8M8cyF97NY">Available Here</a>

<a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GOV-203-Powerpoint-Slides.pdf">To view the slides, click here. </a>

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<h3><strong>GOV 204</strong></h3>
<strong>Division Leadership &amp; Division Culture: Closing the Gaps Between What Sounds Good and What Gets Done</strong>

<strong>Three Part Webinar Series</strong>

<strong>Part I: </strong>If culture is behavior—and it is—then identifying desired behavior is an essential step in consciously creating a dynamic division culture. The first in Jim Bearden’s 3-part webinar series for VSBA is where you’ll begin defining the components of the culture you want to create in your division. Most organizations have completed some variation on this same exercise, and most of their definitions consist of nice-sounding words and phrases. That’s just our starting point.
Using our responses to his pre-webinar questionnaire, Jim will walk us through three steps for translating cultural characteristics (nice-sounding words &amp; phrases) into specific behaviors. Those behaviors include the ones we expect from other division leaders (administrators) as well as those we expect from division employees.
Consciously creating cultures that support behavior essential to division success is a process. This first step in the process is crucial; it is the foundation on which the subsequent steps are based. In this first webinar, we will lay a solid foundation.

<strong>Part II: </strong>Most organizational leaders have defined the cultures they desire; ones I refer to as their professed cultures. Unfortunately, that’s where most of their conscious efforts to create cultures end. And that explains why so few of their actual cultures bear little resemblance to the ones they’ve defined.
The second of Jim Bearden’s 3-part webinar series for VSBA is where you’ll begin developing actionable plans for bringing your defined culture to life, one component at a time. Building on the foundation laid in the 1st webinar, Jim will provide specific guidelines for translating the cultural characteristics you’ve defined into the behavior you expect by:
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 	<li> Identifying &amp; eliminating barriers to that behavior, and</li>
 	<li>Modeling the behavior you expect</li>
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Leadership matters! Since leadership behavior drives organizational culture, our focus in this and the third webinar will be on the things division leaders—board members and administrators—can do to close the gaps between what sounds good and what gets done.

<strong>Part III:</strong> Consciously creating culture is a process, and one of the things we know about processes is that the new wears off most of them long before they produce the results for which they were begun. When the new wears off, most people’s interest and efforts wane, and the process is either abandoned or simply dies on the vine.
In this, the third of Jim Bearden’s 3-part webinar series for VSBA you’ll complete your actionable plans for consciously creating the culture you’ve defined. Building on the steps covered in his 2nd webinar, Jim will facilitate development of leadership behaviors (board member and administrator), for sustaining the process you’ve begun, including:
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 	<li>Measuring performance using expected behaviors as the standards,</li>
 	<li>Honoring efforts and progress made to meet those expectations and</li>
 	<li>Confronting unwillingness/bad faith.</li>
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Leadership matters! In the absence of effective leadership, most organizational initiatives will be short-lived, superficial phenomena. By adapting and implementing the steps covered in this webinar series, division leaders will consciously create cultures that support behavior essential to division success. They will close the gaps between what sounds good and what gets done.

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<h3><strong>GOV 205</strong></h3>
<strong>Being a Brand Ambassador</strong>

When you’re trying to get your school division's message and brand out to the public you probably already know the basics like social media, email marketing and electronic newsletters but there’s a huge resource that many leave untapped: engaging your stakeholders as a brand ambassador! One of the best ways to get the word out about your school division is by getting in touch with your target audience and leveraging them to embrace your brand. In other words, by building a brand ambassador program. This webinar will give a high-level overview of the importance of having an ambassador program and some tips on how to get started immediately.

1 Hour- Paid Webinar- Contact VSBA to purchase