GSBA Summer Conference & Pre Training Workshops

Traits of High Performing Governance Teams (GVP 5)*

AGENDA (Subject to change)

9:00 a.m.  Registration Opens

10:00 a.m.  Introductions Welcome & Goals
   Valarie Wilson, Executive Director, GSBA
   Tom Odom, President, GSBA
   Tony Arasi, Director, Board Development, GSBA
   Dr. Sam King, Director, Superintendent Searches and Training & Curriculum Manager

10:05 a.m.  Roles & Responsibilities
   Zenda Bowie, Director of Field Services, GSBA

11:00 a.m.   Key Items of Importance for New School Board Members:
   Roles & Responsibilities & Traits of High Performing School Boards
   Zenda Bowie, GSBA Director of Field Services
   Julie Rhame, GSBA Board Development Trainer
   John Zauner, GSSA Executive Director
   Dr. Sam King

12:00 p.m.   Informal Discussion/Participant Topics

12:30 p.m.  Break

1:15 p.m.  Introductions

1:20 p.m.  School Law/Roles & Responsibilities
   Phil Hartley, Harben, Hartley & Hawkins, LLC

3:15 p.m.  Break

3:30 p.m.  Parliamentary Procedure & Effective Meetings
   Zenda Bowie, Director of Field Services

4:30 p.m.  Board of Education – Code of Ethics
   Tony Arasi & Julie Rhame

5:30 p.m.  Summary Day One

Fundamentals of Financial Governance (GVP 7)*

AGENDA (Subject to change)

8:30 a.m.  Welcome & Overview
   Tony Arasi, GSBA Director of Board Development
   Ted Beck, Chief Financial Officer, Georgia Department of Education

8:45 a.m.  Fiscal Responsibilities of Board Members
   Larry Winter, 14th Congressional District
   State Board of Education, Georgia Department of Education

9:15 a.m.  Risk, Internal Controls and Audits
   Larry Winter

9:45 a.m. How Schools are Funded in Georgia
   Ted Beck

10:15 a.m.  Break

10:30 a.m.  Federal Funds and Program Management
   Craig Geers, Division Director, Outreach Programs
   Georgia Department of Education

11:30 a.m.  Budgeting
   Amy Rowell, Director of Financial Review
   Georgia Department of Education

12:00 p.m.  Lunch

1:00 p.m.  Facilities and Capital Outlay
   Mike Rowland, Finance Department
   Georgia Department of Education

2:00 p.m.  Break

2:15 p.m.  Financial Reporting and Fund Accounting
   Amy Rowell

2:45 p.m.   QBE Overview
   Ted Beck

3:15 – 4:00 p.m.  Wrap-up
   Evaluations
   Credit Forms
   Adjourn

Suggestion: We will have the law, you bring your policies.  Bookmark your policy manual on eBoard on your electronic device of choice and bring it with you to the workshop. Then you and your other board members can access specific policies in your manual as they are discussed by the presenters.

(GVP 4, 5, 6)*

AGENDA (Subject to change)

8:30 a.m.  Welcome and Introductions
                        Angela Palm, Director of Policy & Legislative Services

8:40 a.m.   A Renewed Focus on School Safety and How Boards Are Responding   

• Developing a Safety Plan, Policy and Practices and Keeping it Current
• Arming Staff From Teachers to SROs: Options and Best Practices
• Training and Notice to the Public: When Is It Critical or When Is It Dangerous?
• Student Walkouts, Protests and Teachable Moments

10:00 a.m.  Break

10:15 a.m.  The 2018 General Assembly & Other Policy Developments from Washington & the Courts

• Exactly What Passed in 2018 That Matters to Local Boards?
• School Climate Protocol, Suspending Five Year Olds, Medical Marijuana, OCR Backs Off and So Much More
• The Georgia Supreme Court Addresses Immunity and What It Means for Board Policy
• The Year To Come and How Do You Get Ready?

12:00 p.m.  Lunch

1:15 p.m.    Sexual Harassment In The Workplace: #MeToo has Changed the School Workplace

• What Policies Do You Have and What Policies and Practices Do You Need?
• How Should a Complaint Be Handled and What Is the Role of the Board?
• What Can Get the School District Sued and How to Avoid It?
• Who Needs to Be Trained and About What?

 
2:30 p.m.    Break

2:45 p.m.    The Governance Team: The Critical Relationship Between Board and Superintendent

• Who Are You Looking For As Your Next Leader: The Steps and Process of an Effective Superintendent Search
• Maintaining an Effective Governance Team: Protocols, Evaluations and Marriage Counseling
• The Role of Policy in Defining the Relationship
• Preparing For a Transition: Contract Language, Succession Planning, Negotiating a Successful Breakup

3:45 p.m.   Question & Answer Session

4:00 p.m.    Adjourn

PDK International will lead a one-day learning session to increase the knowledge and skills of GSBA members around issues of equity, access, and opportunity in support of greater success for all students. School board members will learn about the results of the 2017 PDK poll of Georgians’ attitudes towards public education and use it to plan for increasing student achievement throughout the State.

PDK International applies a systems approach involving six elements of change: values, governance, resources, content, talent, and culture. These provide a framework for adaptive change management that recognizes:

• learning new ways, shifts in attitudes, beliefs and behaviors are essential; and
• implementation is only as good as the desire of people to make the changes necessary to improve outcomes for all children.

(GVP 6)*

AGENDA (Subject to Change)

8:30 a.m.  Setting the Stage - Overview
    Joshua P. Starr, Ed.D.. CEO, PDK International, and
    Gislaine Ngounou, Chief Program Officer, PDK International

9:00 a.m.  Public Narratives - Participants will learn how to leverage the power of narrative and storytelling as an effective tool for organizing, mobilizing people to action and leadership.

10:00 a.m.  Break

10:15 a.m.  What Data?  Whose Data?  So What?  - Participants will dive into the results of the GA Poll results (public’s perception on public education) to deepen understanding and discuss implications for the work of school systems, policymakers, communities – and more importantly, implications for the role of governance/ boards.

11:15 a.m.  Deeper Dive Through Critical Race Theory - Participants will share stories of their respective contexts and engage in reflection – to further understand the WHY of systemic and persistent inequities in their contexts.

12:00 p.m.  Lunch

1:15 p.m.  Taking a Systemic Approach - Learn a change management approach based on six design principals aimed at furthering equity through adaptive strategies; participants may dive into a mini case study to illustrate the approach and aid in their own action planning.

2:15 p.m.  Break

2:30 p.m.  Assessing your Capacity:  Where are you on the continuum? - Participants will conclude the learning experience by formulating 1-2 goals, based on the self-work they wish to continue to develop, as well as the governing leadership they exercise in their own community.

3:15 p.m.  Commitments 

4:00 p.m.  Adjourn

(GVP All Components)*

AGENDA (Subject to change)

8:30 a.m.  Welcome & Introductions
Table icebreaker, Power of Community

9:15 a.m.  Top 10 Issues in Public Education/EdQuest Georgia
    Caitlin Daugherty Kokenes, MSPP, Project Associate, GPEE

10:30 a.m.  Break

10:45 a.m.  Strategic Plan Evaluation and Awareness
    Dr. Stan DeJarnett, Director – GA Vision Project, GSBA
How do Education Issues across the state most impact your individual district Strategic Plan?
Which of the top 10 issues is most affecting your school district? Does your current strategic plan address it? What three things could you actively do to affect change with this problem?

12:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m.  Engaging the toughest to reach parents: Millennials
    Jimmy Cushingham, Financial Advisor, Edward Jones

• Who we are as Millennials
  • By age
  • By action
• The Slash Generation
• Reality TV lifestyle
• Goal setting with Millennials
• Our Strengths
• How to Engage Us

2:00 p.m.  Building Blocks of Family Engagement Six Standards of Measurement
    Karen Hallacy, President-Elect of Georgia PTA and
    Donna Kosicki, Family Engagement Chair, and Director of the Bi-Annual Georgia Family Engagement Conference

2:45 p.m.  Break

3:00 p.m.  VILLA Overview
    Lisa-Marie Haygood, Consultant, GSBA and
    Kyla Cromer, School Board Chair, Cherokee County

4:00 p.m.  Wrap-up and Adjourn