State-mandated Topics

For the convenience of our members, see below for a full listing of board training opportunities to be offered August – December on the state-mandated topics of Ethics, Finance and Superintendent Evaluation. Members have the choice of several webinars as well as clinic sessions during KSBA’s 2023 Winter Symposium (Dec. 8 – 9 in Louisville). 

Note: Pre-registration is required for each webinar at a cost of $50 per attendee. The cost of clinic sessions offered at KSBA conferences are included in the conference registration fee.

Questions? Contact [email protected]. 

The business of school boards is conducted in public. How you do your business has an impact on the image of the school district and on its success. Review the legal requirements and best practices for your meetings, and ensure you are communicating a strong commitment to success for all your students.

While driving your car, you persistently take a glance at the dashboard. The dashboard reflects how fast you are moving, how much fuel you have in the tank, along with other important data points. As a board member, you should also have a consistent dashboard with important values and key stats that give feedback on the current financial state of your school district. 

 

This session, designed for experienced board members, focuses on effectively using the Superintendent Professional Growth and Effectiveness System for district improvements. It covers the board’s role in using SPGES to positively effect change and includes scenarios of success stories, along with examples of how the evaluation process improves board/superintendent relations and how growth plans positively impact districts. 

 

School and district leaders have a greater ability to connect with students, parents, staff and other stakeholders thanks to the growing use of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. But social media outlets carry their own sets of challenges, especially on the ethical management of district and personal use. This course introduces school board members to the basics of social media, ethical problems and opportunities for leaders and their districts.

 

This session helps boards to better understand federal revenue, how it can be spent and the best way to spend the funds in order to get the biggest bang for your buck! There will be emphasis on CARES Act and CRRSA coronavirus relief money, including ESSER and GEERS funds.

 

Evaluating the superintendent is one of the school board’s most important jobs. A high-quality superintendent evaluation process helps develop good board/superintendent relationships, provides clarity of roles, creates common understanding of the leadership being provided and provides a mechanism for public accountability. The KSBA Superintendent Evaluation process is focused on evidence and performance expectations using research-based effectiveness standards and district goals agreed upon by the board members and the superintendent. 

 

This session defines and explores examples of financial conflicts of interest for board members and superintendents. 

 

Learn how internal controls and segregation of duties not only help district fiscal operations but minimize the risk of fraudulent activity.  

 

This session goes deeper into the relevance of the standards to be used when school board members conduct the required annual evaluation of the superintendent. How do we judge performance on such wide-ranging standards for performance? How can boards provide productive input to superintendents to ensure continuous improvement? We will review the standards and discuss audience examples on how we can ensure reviews provide a path for successful school district leadership.  

 

 

 

 

Capital Funds are the source of protected monies to support the renovation and construction of school facilities. Would you like to know how these funds are generated? Would you like to know what restrictions are applied to these funds? This session provides the details about capital funds, bonding capacity, and issuing bonds as well as the capital funds request form and how these funds may be used for operating expenses. 

 

 You don’t have to wait until the end-of the-year superintendent evaluation session to monitor progress on goals. In fact, you will ensure a more productive evaluation if you schedule formative sessions through the year to make sure your system is focused on the goals you have set. Kentucky law provides the opportunity for boards to have closed sessions for this purpose. Hear how making superintendent evaluations a year-round endeavor can ensure focus on goals and reduce the stress of waiting until the last minute to address a year’s worth of questions and pent-up concerns.

 

 

School board members are decision makers. But the choices they face aren’t always clear-cut, and sometimes they involve personal as well as official issues. This class is designed to provide examples of potential ethical questions that school board members face and to encourage thoughtful consideration of how some actions and decisions can be perceived by the taxpaying public.

 

 Learn how internal controls and segregation of duties not only help district fiscal operations but minimize the risk of fraudulent activity.  

 

 

For the board to maintain the trust of its community and ensure high levels of student learning, its decisions and behavior must be grounded in good ethics. Ethical behavior builds trust at all levels, sets the tone for what is right to do, promotes good decision making, helps build collaborative relations and improves morale. This session helps board members have a better understanding of why ethics matter in school board service.

 

Employees are your most important asset, but they don’t come cheap! This session will focus on the district’s annual site base allocation, including the applicable laws, timelines and pitfalls to watch out for in developing the staffing policies pertaining to the allocations. 

 

This session helps boards to better understand federal revenue, how it can be spent and the best way to spend the funds in order to get the biggest bang for your buck! There will be emphasis on CARES Act and CRRSA coronavirus relief money, including ESSER and GEERS funds.