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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
- Charles Kettering
Today I am going to talk about effective board governance. Research shows that effective schools have effective board leadership. Is your board leading or managing the school? The best way to maximize board effectiveness is to ensure that they fully understand it's governance responsibilities and parameters of its leadership role.
To your success,
Doug Halladay
President and Founder
Halladay Education Group Inc.
www.HalladayEducationGroup.com
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In This Issue
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1. In The News
2. Focused Boards the Key to School Success
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1. In The News
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TWO LOCAL PRIVATE SCHOOLS MAY CONSIDER A MERGER
... there have been no formal talks about merging. The schools decided to send the letters home to put some rumours to rest and reassure parents and students.
ENROLLMENT TUMBLES AT Cape Coral SCHOOLS
The school plans to once again offer classes for sixth-grade students for the 2009-10 school year. The loss of students has been painful for private schools...
ENROLLMENT AS ISSUE FOR PRIVATE SCHOOLS? NO HERE, NOT YET
Area private school enrolments aren't feeling the sting of the slumping economy...
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2. Focused Boards the Key to School Success
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Your can not live with them, you cannot live without them. This is the feeling of many people who sit on boards or work with or for them. However, it does not have to always be that way; at least not if they are functioning properly.
As organizational leaders, trustees not only focus on compliance, legal requirements, hiring and firing the CEO, and fundraising, but also stewardship. This means ensuring that an effective strategic plan is developed, implemented, monitored, and operationalized with the administration of board committees. On top of this, boards need to set performance standards, measure efficacy, and build and develop the board itself.
Here are seven pillars to effective governance.
1). Understand Your
A firm understanding of the school’s mission will aid trustees in helping to oversee policies, programs, and priorities that meet the school’s purpose.
2). Understand Your Values and Beliefs:
This guides how you behave towards your staff, students, parents, and community. This governs how you interact with the rest of your school and provides the means by which the mission is accomplished and how you serve your community. The board is charged with the execution of the mission is in keeping with the values.
3). Knowing What Success Is:
You must understand what represents success for your school and what the mission and values lead to by way of success. To realize the mission, how will the board go about this? The most effective approach is through a strategic plan.
4). Identify Your Priorities:
Your priorities are governed by your mission and describe what your school does. You need to clearly define these or you will have no focus and will cause burn out. Knowing your priorities will determine your school’s actions. These are conveyed through your plan’s goals and objectives.
5). Execute Your Strategies
Your school’s strategies refer to your strategic plan and are based on your mission and values. Your strategies (which are really your goals) inform your board, staff, and community how their interconnected activities combine to make the school successful. These will allow your board to confront difficult issues and make proactive choices. Good boards will oversee implementation stay aligned with their strategies.
6). Measure CEO Performance:
The board’s mandate is to evaluate the CEO’s effectiveness in carrying out the mission and priorities of the strategic plan. Board leadership requires an effective relationship with the CEO. This is accomplished through regular performance reviews based on the priorities of the plan and the degree to which the CEO carries them out.
7). Develop Leaders:
The board’s role is to cultivate and develop its trustees and CEO’s as effective leaders. Your school depends on a commitment to growth who serves your community. Ensuring that your board and CEO receive learning opportunities is key. Board leadership requires that governors understand their roles and keep focused on effective governance as the means to the end.
Achieving the mission.
To find out more about our firm’s board governance services and how we can help improve your board’s effectiveness, please email HEG at info@halladayeducationgroup.com to discuss your needs or click on the following link for more information:
Click here: http://www.halladayeducationgroup.com/online_assessments.php
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To your success,
President and Founder
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