Schlechty Center

School Board Conference (Austin, TX) 01.07.11 - 01.08.11

Capacity Creators: Key School Board Responsibilities

 

Texts:    

·         “The Role of School Board as Capacity Creators,” Section 5 from the Schlechty Center school board tool

·         Selections from Phillip Schlechty’s blog

·         Selections from Seth Godin’s blog

·         Selections from “Bridging Differences” blog (by Deborah Meier and Diane Ravitch)

·         Various news articles illustrating current problems imposed on school districts 

 

This conference, designed for a superintendent and school board members, will offer new ideas about what it means for a board to be capacity creators. The conference will explore current, pressing issues using Schlechty Center concepts. This year’s conference will use the backdrop of federal and state policy’s emphasis on standardized testing, as well as rewards and punishments, to analyze and discuss the challenges facing leaders. In this conference, superintendents and school boards will probe four areas of responsibility that ask school boards to rethink their collective role.

 

Each superintendent and school board team will spend some time at this conference analyzing and prioritizing the pressing specific issues facing them as a school board and using the idea of capacity creators to rethink those issues.

This conference is open to school boards attending with their superintendents.

Dates and Times: The conference will begin at 8am on Friday, January 7, 2011 and conclude at 1pm on Saturday, January 8, 2011.

Registration Fee: The fee will be $600 per person for the first four participants and $500 per participant for each participant above four. The fee includes all conference meals and materials.

Standard-Bearer School Districts may choose to use a half network unit per participant to cover the registration fees.

 

Not sure if you qualify for Standard-Bearer pricing? Both Active and Affiliate districts will receive the discount. (view list)