Board Team Development

The objectives of the Board Team Development service are to ensure quality professional development opportunities for board members.  This is accomplished by working with boards in onsite training seminars, regional workshops and a series of statewide professional development conferences.  [In late 2006, this service merged with the Student Support and School Safety Service to include all assistance previously provided by both units.]

Catalog of Assistance:

Voluntary Partnership Assistance Teams (VPAT) to increase student achievement

• ASAP (Advancing Student Achievement to Proficiency) for School Boards data study process
• Advanced board member training
• Board, administration and school councils’ seminars
• Local facilities planning
• Board member in-service training records
• Annual, Summer Leadership and Winter conferences
• School facilities and finance seminar (during Winter conference)
• Student Achievement – Community Discussions

• Provide local boards with information that increases their awareness of student risk factors, barriers to learning and best practices to improves student achievement and other outcomes;

• Conduct risk assessments for individual school districts and communities;

• Broker, develop and provide technical assistance to individual boards on the specific needs of students in their districts as reflected by local data;

• Coordinate and host the annual Kentucky Safe Schools, Successful Students conference;

• Represent the needs of at risk students in the legislative process;

• Collaborate with other state organizations to provide training and technical assistance in the areas of parental involvement, school-based health and mental health services, truancy and dropout prevention and extended learning opportunities;

• Direct the activities of the Kentucky Center for School Safety (KCSS) training component.

KSBA Lighthouse Survey

KSBA/KASC school board, school council training

2007 Primary Numbers:

All board members met annual state mandated training with 87 percent exceeding requirements for a total of 12,000 hours of training achieved.  This marks 15 straight years school board members have met this requirement.

More than 50 boards participated in individual workshops facilitated by KSBA.

More than 1,200 persons attended the 2006 annual conference, including 90 percent of the state’s local board members.  More than 300 persons participated in the 2006 Summer Leadership Institute and more than 200 took part in the 2005 Winter Conference

More than 15 board teams hosted Student Achievement Community Discussions and another five used the Local Facilities Planning service. 

There were more than 250 on-site visits to boards or individual members.

Contacts: Kerri Schelling, Jean Crowley, Marti Goodlett, Tammie Conaster

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