The Board's Role in Creating a Climate
for School Improvement

This is an ELECTIVE MODULE

Objective:

• To examine the principles of a high performance educational system
• To apply the principles to individual learning organizations

Description: This session will explore the Board's role as a change agent. The focus will be on needs specific to school districts and ways to identify potential responses and solutions to today's pressing needs. Board members will be given an opportunity to evaluate their own board's position as it relates to providing leadership to the challenges of leading schools in a time of major change.

Board members will be asked questions such as:

Dr. Dan Lawson is a Missouri native and is in his third decade as a professional educator having served as a classroom teacher, a high school principal, and for the past eighteen years, a superintendent. He completed his undergraduate work and Masters Degree in Missouri and was awarded a PhD from the University of Mississippi. Dr. Lawson has served Tullahoma City Schools for the past ten years. During that period of time, he has served as the president of the Association of Independent and Municipal Schools. He was named the 2002 Tennessee Superintendent of the Year.

Maximum Enrollment: 25 school board members.

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