Professional development tools for governance teams, assistants
Workshops help boards, superintendents and executive assistants
Published: March 1, 2011
Most school board members and superintendents recognize that annual evaluations can promote growth and professional development. Yet each year many governance teams struggle to complete the process of evaluating the board and the superintendent.
To help answer common questions and provide tools to help teams hold productive and meaningful self-evaluation sessions, CSBA offers two workshops: one for board members and superintendents, and another for executive assistants.
The Board Self-Evaluation and Superintendent Evaluation workshops, as well as the Tools You Can Use workshops for executive assistants, are scheduled at the same location on the same day so that all of a school district or county office of education’s key players can attend simultaneously. CSBA is bringing the paired programs to three regional sites around the state in the next several weeks, including:
- April 6—the Sacramento County Office of Education in Mather
- April 14—the West End Educational Service Center in Rancho Cucamonga
- May 4—the Orange County Department of Education in Costa Mesa
Some of the questions that will be answered during the workshop for boards and superintendents include:
- What is the goals-based approach to annual superintendent evaluation?
- How do performance appraisals differ from regular evaluations?
- How do you tie district goals and student achievement to superintendent evaluation?
- How can we hold a productive and meaningful evaluation session?
- When should we do an evaluation of our superintendent?
- Is staff or the community involved in evaluation?
- How does the board evaluate its own performance?
- We don’t like our current instrument, how do we develop a new one?
- Once we have done the evaluation, what do we do with the results?
Just for executive assistants
Executive assistants play a critical role at the district or county office. The Tools You Can Use workshop will enhance their ability to meet the needs of the superintendent, board and students. They’ll learn how to shape agendas and create reliable minutes of meetings, prevent policy pandemonium, and find out what they need to know about the Brown Act and open meeting laws.
Registration for either workshop, at $125 per person, includes instructional materials, morning refreshments and lunch. Each session runs from 9 a.m.to 3 p.m.