Greetings Fellow School Board Members,
I trust we’ve all endured the winter and are now finding ourselves with a touch of spring fever! As the flowers begin to bloom and the grass begins to grow, so does the excitement in school buildings all over the country. We’re all in full-blown budget season now and are all anxiously watching the state legislature to finalize the budget so that we can finish ours. While it is a process that seems to only end when the next state budget is beginning, I am thankful to have J.T. Kessler as our Director of Legislative Services to keep our members well informed of what is happening in Richmond.
As April is Workforce Readiness Month, let us take a moment to celebrate the various trade education programs offered in our school divisions. When I first ran for school board, part of my platform was to recognize that we were pushing too many students into a college setting to find they accrued debt for a partial education that they end up not needing. While I am a strong supporter of higher education, I am also a firm believer in career and technical education. My own son attended a trade program at our career and tech center in Tazewell County and is now finishing a four year degree – both in the same field of study. Sometimes the two can go hand in hand. What is most important, though, is to realize that teaching our students honest pay for honest work is still a thing and while most of us left college with debt that we began paying off (over a long period of time), they can graduate high school with credentials that make them workforce ready – often earning what college graduates make in their fields.
I know, I am preaching to the choir. I am passionate about our trade programs across the Commonwealth, and the job well done by the many instructors and teachers in said programs. I am the son of a mechanic and an accountant, so I can appreciate both sides of the coin. I watched my father work hard for every dollar he brought home. He was proud of his work, and I was proud of my dad. As our students prepare for state competitions in SkillsUSA, let’s take an extra minute to cheer them on, celebrate their accomplishments, and grow our trade programs!
- David Woodard
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David Woodard
VSBA President
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Issue Highlights
Virginia Assembly Adjourns as Fate of Future Budget Revisions Linger
VSBA March 2023 Board of Directors Meeting Recap
Spotlight Article - Danville Public Schools
Sample Policies vs. Legislative Positions
VSBA Legislative Positions Committee Calls for Proposals
Application Process for Nomination and Election of At-Large Officers
Guest Article: The Retreat as a Board Capacity Building Vehicle
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Dates to Remember
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Gina G. Patterson
Executive Director
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From the Executive Director |
The turning seasons from winter to spring never fails to bring a refreshing feeling of newness and possibility. It’s hard not to feel energized by the fresh breeze and motivated by the new growth all around us. Like the green foliage returning to the trees, VSBA continues to grow and flourish with the changing seasons. Our commitment to advocate effectively for Virginia’s public schools and children has never been stronger.
We provide a variety of services to our members with the mission of providing the best service possible for Virginia’s public school boards. Our longevity speaks to the value that our services provide to our members and how when resources are deployed efficiently and effectively, the membership reaps the benefits. This is especially true for rural and resource-limited boards. We provide superintendent search assistance, strategic planning services, governance training, policy and legal services to our members at a value that far exceeds the cost of membership fees. These services allow our boards to address a variety of training and operational challenges that, left unsupported, may hinder a board’s ability to govern effectively.
I want to applaud our members for the work you do locally and for the willingness to use your collective voices to benefit public schools and public school students around the state. There are a myriad of issues facing public schools and members willing to listen to each other, negotiate, compromise, and shared different perspectives make VSBA strong and keep us effective in our leadership and advocacy work. I hope that you will join us for the April Hot Topic Conference in Charlottesville on April 13, 2023. This conference will focus on multiple trending education topics like broadband access, how to work with your local appropriating body, and dual enrollment.
Thanks for all that you do.
-GP
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April 2023 is Workforce Readiness Month |
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In an effort to promote the need to identify workforce development opportunities that enable students to be prepared to succeed in the new economy, VSBA has designated the month of April as VSBA Workforce Readiness Month with April 12, 2023, designated as Workforce Readiness Day in Virginia.
The VSBA Task Force on Workforce Readiness was established by the Board of Directors in 2015 to study how career and technical education programs are being implemented in Virginia school divisions and how these programs are preparing the state’s future workforce.
The task force has been vital in providing school boards with best practices for developing and expanding Career and Technical Education (CTE) as well as workforce readiness programs that offer training on skill sets that will allow students to be globally competitive. It is also critical that we collaborate with the business industry and the community college system to ensure that students have early access and opportunity to participate in workforce readiness programs.
VSBA President David Woodard has a message to encourage participation in VSBA Workforce Readiness Month:
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VSBA School Board News Podcast - Episode 48 |
Listen to the latest episode of the VSBA School Board News podcast as guests Teddy Martin (Henry County), VSBA Task Force on Workforce Readiness Co-Chair and VSBA Immediate Past President, and J.T. Kessler, VSBA Director of Legislative Services join Gina Patterson, VSBA Executive Director to discuss Workforce Readiness Month. |
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J.T. Kessler
Director, Legislative Services
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Virginia General Assembly Adjourns as Fate of Future Budget Revisions Linger |
The 2023 Session of the Virginia General Assembly adjourned Sine Die on Saturday February 25 with lawmakers adopting a four-page stop-gap measure as revisions to the 2022-24 biennial budget (HB 1400/SB 800). The stop gap measure contains $16.8 million in General Fund revenues in Fiscal Year 2023 to ensure that the total of basic aid and sales tax payments a school division receives is at least the total of basic aid and sales tax payments that was communicated to school divisions prior to the discovery by the Virginia Department of Education of an error in the calculation tool for state funding in absence of the grocery tax which was passed by the General Assembly last year.
On March 27, Governor Youngkin amended the four-page stop gap measure to include additional language on budget items not related to K-12 education. These amendments will require consideration by the General Assembly before the stop gap measure can take effect. The General Assembly will consider these amendments during the reconvene session in April.
At the present time, budget negotiators have met as they attempt to make additional revisions to the biennial spending plan. Uncertainty exists whether budget writers will be able to reach an agreement on additional revisions before the General Assembly will reconvene on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, to consider legislation that is either amended or vetoed by Governor Youngkin.
Following the reconvene session in April, VSBA will provide a comprehensive legislative report to all school board members. Please look for this report in your inbox later this spring. In the meantime, if you have any questions regarding legislation passed during the 2023 session of the General Assembly, please contact me at jason@vsba.org. Thank you for all you do on behalf of public education in the Commonwealth!
The VSBA Executive Director and lobbyists are in daily contact discussing proposed legislation and the VSBA Legislative Positions that drive the Association’s lobbying efforts, including the decision to send action alerts to the membership. The Association's lobbying efforts are based on positions contained in the VSBA Legislative Positions Handbook that is approved each year by the VSBA Delegate Assembly. Local school boards are not bound to this handbook and can adopt local positions on legislation and policy.
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VSBA March 2023 Board of Directors Meeting Recap
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The VSBA Board of Directors met in Charlottesville on Friday, March 17, 2023, and took the following actions:
- Approved the 2023 Nominating Committee
- Approved the 2026 VSBA Academy Calendar
- Approved conducting the VSBA Delegate Assembly in Person
- Approved the Interview Rubric for the VSBA Nominating Committee
The Board also heard the following report:
- Update from Dan Gecker, President, Virginia Board of Education
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The Virginia School Boards Association is holding a personal essay/speaking contest where the finalists will have an opportunity to present before an audience of more than 300 school board members and administrators at the 2023 VSBA Conference on Education held at the Hilton Richmond Hotel & Spa at Short Pump on July 13, 2023.
This is the third year the Virginia School Boards Association will hold this contest with the hope that this contest will bring out the very best in students’ writing and speaking efforts to allow our attendees to witness examples of the bright, thoughtful, and accomplished students from around the Commonwealth. This year’s topic is The Meaning of Civility.
Thanks to a generous donation from an anonymous sponsor, the top finalist will receive a $500 scholarship. Submissions are open to all Virginia public high school students (grades 9-12) as a great opportunity to share their unique voices as well as compete for funds to further their education.
The deadline to submit for the 2023 Student Essay Contest is Friday, May 5, 2023 at 4 pm.
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Elizabeth Ewing
Director, Policy and Legal Services
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J.T. Kessler
Director, Legislative Services
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Sample Policies v. Legislative Positions: Same or Different? |
VSBA staff sometimes talk to people who think that VSBA sample policies and VSBA legislative positions are the same thing. This article is designed to help school board members understand the purposes and origins of each type of document.
What is a VSBA sample policy?
VSBA Policy Services provides sample school board policies to members of Policy Services. Virginia law requires school boards to have policies on some topics. In addition, many divisions find it useful to have policies that make them aware of, and help them implement, laws that directly impact school divisions even when a policy is not required by law. The sample policies provided by VSBA Policy Services help school boards comply with those legal requirements and implement relevant laws.
Where do VSBA sample policies come from?
VSBA Policy Services writes and updates policies that follow what is called a “compliance based” model. That means that sample policies from the VSBA are designed to help school boards comply with relevant laws. It also means that VSBA sample policies closely follow the laws on which they are based. The laws on which each policy is based are listed in the Legal References at the end of each policy.
Sample policies are available to school boards that are members of VSBA Policy Services. No member of Policy Services is required to adopt any VSBA sample policy. Local boards are free to closely follow VSBA sample policies, tweak them slightly before adopting a local policy, use them as a starting point for developing a local policy, or ignore them.
Although VSBA sample policies follow the “compliance based” model, VSBA has no authority to mandate that any school board comply with any sample policy. Once a board adopts a policy, the board needs to comply with that policy because it has adopted it. And, of course, boards need to comply with relevant laws, regardless of whether those laws are reflected in school board policies.
What is a VSBA Legislative Position?
Legislative Positions are a set of member driven principles that state VSBA’s stances on issues considered at the federal, state, and local levels of government. Legislative Positions are often generated in response to local issues or arise from federal or state legislation/regulations that member school boards wish the association to support or oppose.
These positions, adopted by a majority vote of the association’s Delegate Assembly each November, serve as foundational beliefs of the association. Additionally, these positions assist the VSBA Government Relations team in making recommendations to the VSBA leadership on how the association will stand on potential legislation and regulations that impact school boards. VSBA routinely monitors legislative and regulatory action within each branch and level of government to ensure the positions of the association are represented when governmental bodies are considering actions that may affect school boards.
For example, the Government Relations team reviews legislation filed during each session of the Virginia General Assembly. In a typical legislative session, there are hundreds of bills filed that impact school boards and school division operations. Each piece of legislation is analyzed by the Government Relations team to determine if it coincides with any of the association’s legislative positions. The VSBA Board of Directors, Executive Director, and Government Relations team discuss legislation throughout the session and decide whether to support, oppose, or take no stance on individual legislation based on the Legislative Positions of the association.
The association's legislative strategies are based on positions contained in the VSBA Legislative Positions Handbook that is approved each year by the VSBA Delegate Assembly. Local school boards are not bound by the positions of the association and can adopt local positions on legislative matters.
Where do VSBA Legislative Positions come from?
Each March, the Virginia School Boards Association’s Legislative Positions Committee (LPC) sends to every school board member a Request for New and/or Amended Legislative Positions. Those Requests are emailed to every school board member so that each school board member is aware of the process for submitting proposed Legislative Positions. Member school boards may submit proposals for New and/or Amended Positions with a majority vote of the local board. Upon submission, the New and/or Amended Proposals receive thorough consideration by the LPC when the committee meets each July.
The LPC invites a representative from each school board submitting a proposal for a New and/or Amended Position to address the committee and answer any questions the committee may have regarding the proposal. The LPC considers each proposal and decides whether to recommend, amend and recommend, or not to recommend the proposal to the VSBA Board of Directors for consideration by the association’s Delegate Assembly at the Annual Convention in November. If the Board of Directors concurs with the recommendations of the LPC, member school boards receive notice of the proposed New and/or Amended Positions that will be heard and debated for final consideration by the Delegate Assembly in the VSBA Delegate Assembly Handbook which is provided to each school board member no later than 45 days before the meeting of the assembly.
At the Delegate Assembly, each school board can send one voting delegate to represent the board during the meeting. All proposals considered by the Delegate Assembly must receive a majority vote of the delegates in attendance at the assembly to become Legislative Positions of the association.
Conclusion
In many ways, VSBA sample policies and VSBA Legislative Positions are like apples and oranges. From a very broad perspective, apples and oranges are both types of food. And, from a very broad perspective, both VSBA sample policies and Legislative Positions are related to educational issues relevant to Virginia school boards. But that is one of the few similarities. VSBA sample policies are based on existing laws. They are designed to help school boards comply with those laws.
VSBA Legislative Positions, in contrast, focus on what VSBA’s member school boards would like the law to be (or not to be). They are based on proposals from individual school boards which are approved by the Legislative Positions Committee, the VSBA Board of Directors, and the VSBA Delegate Assembly. Unfortunately, what the law is and what school boards would like it to be are sometimes very different. Those differences are the reasons that both VSBA sample policies and VSBA Legislative Positions are necessary and why they are very different from each other.
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VSBA Legislative Positions Committee Calls for Proposals |
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On March 13, school board members were sent a Request for Proposals for New or Amended Legislative Positions from committee chair James Coleman. If your board has any proposals for changes or additions to the VSBA Legislative Positions, please submit them on the form that can be found by clicking here.
To be considered by the VSBA Legislative Positions (LPC) Committee, proposals must be approved by a majority vote of a member school board. The LPC Committee cannot accept proposals from individual school board members.
If you have any questions about this process, please call or email J.T. Kessler, Director of Legislative Services at 434-295-8722 or jason@vsba.org. Proposals must be submitted to VSBA no later than Monday, June 12, 2023. The Legislative Positions Committee cannot accept proposals after this date. In addition, a member of your Board should be available to present your proposal to the Legislative Positions Committee when it meets on July 19. More information will be provided to the divisions submitting proposals regarding the July meeting.
To submit a new or amended proposal, please use the form that can be downloaded by clicking here.
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Samantha Bosserman
Deputy Executive Director
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Board Self Evaluations - Are They Important?
School Boards annually evaluate the Superintendent and expect the Superintendent to hold their staff accountable, so why would a Board not expect the same of itself?
Your individual performance as a member of the school board is evaluated when you are elected or appointed to your position, but what about the performance of the Board as a whole? This is where a Board Self-Evaluation may be helpful to move your team to the next level. The board’s willingness to assess itself acts as a model for the rest of the school division.
It is important that all members of the board participate in the evaluation process, as this is a vital step towards building and improving your team. During the self-evaluation, your board can step back and reflect on items that you may not be able to within your typical meeting schedule. This process should allow members to not only rate themselves as a board member, but rate how the team works together, how the meeting agendas are structured, and how members communicate with one another. It can also provide your board with the opportunity to ensure your board agendas are focused on student achievement. As a first step, it is suggested to evaluate how much time is being spent in your meetings on non-student-centered items. Boards should also be intentional about scheduling time for development, this could be through monthly governance topics or an annual or biannual board development training sessions.
If you are unsure where to start, VSBA is available to assist. VSBA offers day-long Board Self-Evaluation sessions where board members complete an evaluation document and come together to discuss the results as a team at a scheduled Governance Training. Please reach out to VSBA if you would like additional information on this service.
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Division Spotlight: Danville Public Schools |
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HOSA students visit Williamsburg for Conference |
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Mrs. Argyrakis and Mrs. Smith took their students to the HOSA Future Health Professionals 43rd State Leadership Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia, from Thursday, March 9 - Sunday, March 12. While attending the HOSA State Leadership Conference, students had the opportunity to expand their leadership potential and develop skills for problem solving, decision making and interpersonal communication necessary as future health professionals.
These students participated in at least 4 Education Symposiums each day with opportunities to meet other students from across the state with similar professional interests and future goals. Students also had the opportunity to volunteer as Courtesy Corps and Voting Delegates. There was also time for social events such as popcorn and ice cream socials and HOSA Night. Mrs. Argyrakis and Mrs. Smith would like to thank all that supported these efforts, and their hope for next year is to increase student interest and involvement in this wonderful opportunity for growth.
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In each newsletter, VSBA will spotlight a recent initiative or best practice taking place in a school division in Virginia. If you have a story you would like to submit for inclusion in the spotlight section of the VSBA newsletter, please email it to communications@vsba.org with the subject: Division Spotlight and your school division's name. Pictures and a link to the story on your division/school's website should also be included with the submission.
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2023 VSBA Building Collaborative Fiscal Governance Teams Cohort |
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Building Collaborative Fiscal Governance Teams to Improve Student Outcomes is the VSBA’s newly coordinated training opportunity that kicked off in March. This program is focused on developing an understanding of the importance of collaboration between school finance and instructional leadership along with school division governance and administration to positively impact student outcomes.
The training is conducted in a cohort group of participating school divisions that include the school board chair or vice-chair, superintendent, chief finance officer, chief academic officer, or other school administrators seeking to strengthen their role as part of a collaborative fiscal governance team. Sessions include:
- Session I: School Governance for Effective Finance and Instructional Decision-Making
- Session II: Teaching and Learning 101
- Session III: School Finance 101
- Session IV: Putting it All Together: Frameworks for Fiscal Collaboration and Student Success
The first cohort group includes Danville City, Isle of Wight County, Petersburg City, Prince Edward County, and Lynchburg City. The training is facilitated by Dr. Jeff Smith - Superintendent of Hampton City Public Schools and Dr. Michael Thorton - VSBA Consultant.
For more information or to find out about the next cohort, please contact Tom Brewster at tom@vsba.org.
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Application Process for Nomination and Election of At-Large Officers |
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According to the VSBA Bylaws, Article IV, Section 2, “A Nominating Committee of five members will annually nominate no more than two candidates for President-Elect and no more than two candidates for each of the two at-large seats on the Board of Directors whose names will be placed in nomination at the Annual Convention. It shall be the duty of candidates for the at-large position to provide a written nomination, approved by a nominee’s school board, together with pertinent biographical information and a signed letter from each nominee confirming willingness to serve. Members of the Nominating Committee will not be eligible for nomination to any position on the Board. The Immediate Past President will serve as Chair of the Nominating Committee and four other committee members will be elected by the Board of Directors.”
Please note that according to the VSBA Operations Manual, adopted by the VSBA Board of Directors, Policy 103.1, no member school board may have more than one person serve on the Board of Directors at the same time and Policy 103.2, requires that Candidates for President-Elect must be selected from the current membership of the VSBA Board of Directors. Also, included in the packet linked below is Policy 102.5, Civility in the VSBA nominating and election process, which was adopted by the VSBA Board of Directors on December 2, 2006.
The application form linked below is required of At-Large candidates to apply for nomination. The members of the Nominating Committee appointed at the March 17, 2023, VSBA Board of Directors meeting are: Chris Johnson (Prince George County), James Coleman (Lynchburg City), Karen Jenkins (Suffolk City), Bill Sturgill (Carr oll County) and Chaired by Past President Teddy Martin (Henry County).
Please return the nomination form and attachments by July 1 to the VSBA Nominating Committee Chair at 200 Hansen Road, Suite 2, Charlottesville, VA 22911. If you have any questions about the process, please call Gina Patterson, executive director, at 1-800-446-8722
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The Retreat as a Board Capacity Building Vehicle
Blog article written by Doug Eadie
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Experience has taught me that a retreat involving your school board and senior administrators can be a powerful tool for building your board’s governing capacity and strengthening the board-superintendent partnership. But – and it’s a really big caveat – you’ve got to make sure the retreat is well-designed. Otherwise, it could fall apart, at the expense of the superintendent’s credibility. The following keys to a successful retreat are drawn from Chapter Six of my new book, Building a High-Impact Board-Superintendent Partnership: 11 Critical Questions You Need to Answer.
- Create an ad hoc Retreat Steering Committee headed by the board president/chair and consisting of two to three other board members and the superintendent – making sure that the Committee is as diverse as feasible in terms of being representative of the board’s composition and board members’ viewpoints.
- Retain a consultant/facilitator with substantial governance expertise and experience to provide high-level support.
- Have the consultant/facilitator develop – on the basis of interviews and review of governance documentation – a detailed retreat design consisting of specific retreat objectives, a description of the retreat structure (including detailed descriptions of the breakout groups that will be employed), and the blow-by-blow agenda and present the design to the Steering Committee.
- Ensure that the retreat design includes several breakout group sessions led by board members to ensure active engagement – typically two to three groups meeting concurrently in each of two to three breakout group rounds (for a total of four to nine different breakout groups over the course of the day).
- Make sure the consultant/facilitator provides the board members who will be leading the breakout groups with a detailed orientation on their role and their groups’ tasks so that they will succeed in leading their groups.
- Distribute the retreat design – in the form of a memorandum from the Steering Committee members and the consultant/facilitator – to all retreat participants at least a week in advance of the retreat.
- Preserve and transcribe the breakout group worksheets, which the consultant/facilitator should draw on in writing the action report following up on the retreat.
- Involve the Steering Committee in reviewing and finalizing the consultant/facilitator’s action report draft, transmitting the action report to all retreat participants in the form of a memorandum for the Steering Committee and consultant/facilitator.
- And have Steering Committee members present the action report recommendations to retreat participants in a special work session and have participants formally approve the action recommendations, typically by adopting resolutions moved by the Steering Committee.
I have found that the peers-presenting-to-peers approach works extremely well in securing board approval for such board capacity building recommendations as fashioning a board governing mission describing the board’s detailed responsibilities and adopting an updated structure of board standing committees, a set of standing committee operating guidelines, an updated set of board member governing performance standards, and a new process for board evaluation of superintendent performance. However, be advised that meticulous preparation is critical to success, including: developing PowerPoint slides for the presentation and making sure Steering Committee members participate in a rehearsal session prior to the formal presentation so that they are comfortable with the slides and have an opportunity to discuss how to address anticipated questions.
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We are aware that some members are receiving email solicitations from vendors. While we are grateful to our corporate sponsors and vendors who generously support many of our events, VSBA does not share the contact information of our members.
School board member contact information is publicly available on most school boards' websites. If you are receiving unwanted solicitations, please contact the companies directly to opt out.
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The VSBA would like to invite you to participate in the eleventh annual Food for Thought Competition, a friendly competition between Virginia’s school divisions to showcase their programs that combat childhood hunger, provide healthy school meals, and encourage wellness and physical activity. There are three separate competition categories. You may apply to be recognized for the division’s efforts in the following categories:
- Meal Access to Fight Hunger
- Healthy School Meals
- Wellness/Physical Activity
Please complete a separate application for each program. If your school division was recognized as a winner previously, you may not submit an entry for the same program.
Thank you to our sponsor:
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VSBA Affiliate Member Profiles
In each issue of the VSBA newsletter, we will feature three VSBA Affiliate Members.
Thank you for your support of the VSBA and Virginia's public education system.
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WHRO
Dedicated to enhancing the lives of the citizens in the communities it serves by responding to their need to be engaged, educated, entertained.
Elmer Seward: (757) 470-3911
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Spectrum Design, P.C.
Architectural and Engineering Services
Amy Lucas: (540) 342-6001
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American Fidelity
Our goal is to act as an extension of your human resources department. We educate, enroll, support the development of competitive employee benefits packages with year-round support. We have been helping schools just like yours across the nation.
Brian “Putty” David: (724) 322-4812
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UPCOMING EVENTS, WORKSHOPS, & WEBINARS
Join this webinar to learn how the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is modernizing its agency data collection and structures around division vacancy reporting. Specifically, this presentation will examine existing data from the inaugural 2021-2022 administration of the fall Position and Exit Collection (PEC) and End-of-Year (EOY PEC) results. The PEC report enables the commonwealth and school divisions to comply with the reporting requirements necessary to address critical staff shortages by position and geographic region, measure the growth and decline of required staffing levels, and evaluate the reasons licensed personnel leave the field. By leveraging this new data source and the Staffing and Vacancy Report Build-a-Table tool, the department has expanded its data collection capacity and increased the granularity of data available for analysis and functionality for stakeholders. The presentation will conclude with an introduction of the VDOE’s Strategic Plan for recruitment and retention informed by this and other state data.
Location: Virtual
Cost: Free
Join us for the ninth annual school board clerks conference held at the VSBA offices in Charlottesville or attend virtually. This conference will feature important topics of interest to both new, as well as seasoned school board clerks. All attendees will learn from Elizabeth Ewing, VSBA Director of Legal Services, on reasons why you perform some of your daily tasks that take place on a regular basis. Next, participants will hear from Tom Brewster and Samantha Bosserman, , VSBA Deputy Director on different resources that can be successful in your role as school board clerk. Following their presentation, attendees will receive an update on the VSBA Database Engagifii. Next, Samantha Bosserman, will provide insight into communications and the role the school board clerk plays within their school division. Lastly, Tiffany Moore-Buffaloe, will give an insight into her new role as a school board member in Norfolk City as she still holds her role as school board clerk in Newport News City. This is a conference you do not want to miss out on!
Location: VSBA Offices in Charlottesville
Cost: $200 per registration
Some school boards utilize numerous committees for a wide variety of purposes. Others have only those committees required by law. This webinar will review the legal requirements regarding committees as well as discuss situations that lead to the questions that VSBA most frequently hears regarding committees. If your board is interested in reviewing its use of committees, this webinar will give you information to help you evaluate how your board’s committees are contributing to the efficient operation of your board and division.
Location: Virtual
Cost: Free
Location: Virtual
Cost: $300 per person for the entire webinar series or $500 for the entire governance team for the entire webinar series
Many of the decisions you make have legal implications that will impact your school division for years to come. The conference kicks off with a presentation from the Division of Public Safety Training and the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety on preventative behavioral threat assessment in an educational setting. Following this presentation is a session on special education. Next, hear about teachers’ free speech rights after the Supreme Court's decision in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District. To close out, there will be a legislative update from the VSBA Legislative Team.
Location: Hybrid, Hilton Richmond Hotel & Spa Short Pump
Cost: $215 per registration
Location: Virtual
Cost: $300 per person for the entire webinar series or $500 for the entire governance team for the entire webinar series
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200 Hansen Road, Charlottesville, VA 22911
Tel: 434-295-8722 Fax: 434-295-8785
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