Board - TSS

Social Emotional Learning & Mental Wellness Keeping our Kids Safe from the Inside Out

Kelly Bowers — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 19:48:32 +0000

In this course, you’ll learn about Social-emotional learning (SEL), which involves developing and using social and emotional skills. People with strong social-emotional skills can better handle everyday challenges, build positive relationships, and make informed decisions. SEL is crucial for improving students’ mental well-being by enhancing their self-perception, fostering healthier relationships, and reducing emotional distress and risky behaviors. Integrating SEL into a comprehensive system of mental wellness support, including promotion, prevention, early intervention, and treatment, is important.

What You’ll learn:

How to build proactive, evidence-based social-emotional learning and mental health support systems in schools to create safer, more stable, and trauma-informed environments for students and staff.

Strategies for threat reduction through early intervention, root cause analysis, expanded data use, and technology tools that help identify and address student risks before they escalate.

The critical role of teaching emotional regulation, resilience, growth mindset, and positive behavior reinforcement to foster lifelong social-emotional skills and reduce stigma around mental health.

Best practices for integrating social-emotional learning into school culture and curriculum, including staff support, community collaboration, mental health first aid training, and measuring program impact for continuous improvement.

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District Decision-Making & Use of Data

Kelly Bowers — Wed, 03 May 2023 18:08:49 +0000

Making decisions with data is a crucial procedure that is especially beneficial to people who work in data-oriented roles. Making well-informed, unbiased decisions can remove doubt about the best options and frequently ensure the best outcomes. Do you want to know how data-driven decision-making may make you a more valuable employee in your company? You will learn in this course the advantages of the fundamental data analytics abilities required to gather, create, and transmit information for organizational strategic decision-making.

What You’ll learn:

How to make sound, transparent decisions by integrating multiple types of data—including qualitative and quantitative—and balancing political, ethical, and community considerations.

Strategies for building trust and support for major organizational decisions through collaboration, clear communication, and stakeholder engagement.

The importance of empowering professionals, understanding leadership decision-making styles, and managing the challenges of change and resistance in complex environments.

Techniques for piloting initiatives, using data responsibly, and adapting decisions based on continuous feedback to foster sustainable and effective organizational growth.

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Bringing Community Together Under A United Governance Team

Kelly Bowers — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 19:53:50 +0000

Living a meaningful life requires being a part of a group of people who share similar attitudes, beliefs, and aspirations. The Executive’s dedication to fostering better community ties and advancing the movement toward a more unified and shared society is reflected in the Building a Unified Community Strategy. The techniques for uniting a community under a single governing team will be covered in this course.

What You’ll learn:

Understand the structure and roles of a united governance team, including collaboration between the board and superintendent.

Learn strategies to build trust, unity, and a non-partisan, team-focused mindset despite external pressures and differing viewpoints.

Discover effective communication, decision-making, and meeting practices that foster transparency, respect, and community engagement.

Explore practical approaches to managing conflicts, power dynamics, and creating inclusive, purposeful board environments focused on student success.

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The Superintendency: Understanding Yourself & Others

Kelly Bowers — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 20:26:52 +0000

This course can assist you in considering the intricate responsibilities of the Superintendency in light of your unique leadership style, traits, and constraints. To build connections, foster trust, and discover common ground, you may obtain insight into the motives and interests of important stakeholders. Also, it will enable you to explore the interpersonal and environmental variables that influence the formation of relationships and leadership.

What You’ll learn:

Develop self-awareness and authentic leadership by understanding your values, motivations, and leadership style to build trust and respect.

Build and lead diverse, effective teams that complement your strengths, embrace varied perspectives, and foster a culture of high care and high demand.

Balance the complex demands of the superintendency role, including crisis management, community engagement, political navigation, and personal well-being.

Practice continuous self-reflection and growth using assessment tools to overcome challenges, stay connected to your purpose, and lead strategically.

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Strategic Planning : How to Develop a Meaningful Planning Process

KeltieJones — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:57:45 +0000

This course teaches you how to build a stimulating atmosphere that will result in a solid strategy and a beneficial experience for your company. It will explore how to build a solid, diverse strategic planning team. It also discusses the significance of developing an interesting strategic planning procedure and using your strategic plan as a roadmap for strategic measures and integrated planning.

What You’ll learn:

How to build an inclusive, effective strategic planning team and engage key stakeholders throughout the process.

The importance of focusing on the strategic planning process itself—emphasizing flexibility, adaptation, and meaningful organizational involvement over simply producing a final document.

Techniques for conducting thorough internal and external assessments, including gathering and analyzing data to inform priorities and avoid common pitfalls like mission creep.

How to create, communicate, and implement a living strategic plan that integrates with all organizational units, fosters ownership, and supports ongoing adaptation and strategic thinking.

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Managing Conflict

KeltieJones — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 20:18:15 +0000

This course will teach you how to explain the nature of conflict in your workplace, choose your responses carefully, and create organizational conflict management solutions. The objective is to raise the likelihood of a successful conclusion while minimizing any potential negative effects resulting from conflicts. Knowing how to settle them is crucial since workplace disagreements are a normal aspect of doing business in an educational setting.

What You’ll learn:

The nature and types of conflict, including interpersonal, intra-group, and inter-group conflicts, and how to identify root causes.

Various conflict styles (competition, collaboration, compromise, accommodation, avoidance) and how assertiveness and cooperation affect responses.

Practical conflict management techniques such as cooling off, using “I” statements, active listening, and validating others’ perspectives.

How integrated conflict management systems and cultural sensitivity improve organizational health, communication, and problem-solving.

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Development of a Strategic Master Plan

Vince Kilmartin — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:58:06 +0000

This is a course designed to describe the Strategic Planning Process that can be used by most organizations including:

School District

Country Offices of Education

Cities

Police and Fire Department

Business Organizations

Volunteer Organizations

Humanitarian Organization

The course focuses mainly on the process of upgrading or building new facilities but also discusses how to improve personnel, budgets, leadership , etc , by evaluating the finished Strategic Plan, Funding the Plan and changing it as necessary on a yearly or bi-yearly basis.

What You’ll learn:

How to lead a strategic facility planning process, from initial assessment to final approval.

How to lead a strategic facility planning process, from initial assessment to final approval. Techniques for gathering community input through surveys, meetings, and stakeholder engagement.

Steps to secure funding via general obligation bonds and build public support.

Real-world examples of planning, implementation, and evaluation in school districts.

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Making Change in a Political Setting

Kelly Bowers — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 19:17:26 +0000

Our lives are driven by change, yet trying to implement reform and lead change in an organization can be daunting.. If due care is not taken during the implementation of any change, the change may result in not only failure to achieve one’s goals, but may also strained and possibly ruined relationships. Assessing an organization’s capacity for change is critical, and it starts with an understanding of the organizations goals and a thorough assessment of the steps required during the change process. Leaders are often called upon to act as “change agents” and this becomes increasingly challenging in the context of political dynamics. In this course, you will learn some proven methods that are essential to making a positive change in a political setting.

What You’ll learn:

How to strategically lead and sustain change in politically complex educational environments.

Tools for self-assessment and reflection to strengthen your personal efficacy as a change agent.

Tools for self-assessment and reflection to strengthen your personal efficacy as a change agent. Practical strategies to overcome resistance, build trust, and foster a collaborative culture.

Ways to evaluate and improve organizational health to support long-term, meaningful change.

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Board Members Responsibilities For Safe And Secure Schools

Scott Martzloff — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:58:02 +0000

Many school safety and security recommendations rightfully focus on stopping the perpetrator once a horrific incident is underway. While this can be helpful and stop a person from killing more innocent people, it usually doesn’t focus on stopping the violence before it happens. This seminar focuses on two important items regarding this. First, what can school boards do to keep schools as safe and secure as possible without overstepping their roles and responsibilities and how can school officials work together along with law enforcement to prevent violence from happening in the first place. This concept has been studied by the US Secret Service, the US Department of Education, and other federal agencies to develop a concept called “Threat Assessment”. This process and the people assigned to a team works to identify true threats to school and district security before they happen so appropriate intervention can take place. By taking this seminar, you will be on your way to keeping your educational institutions as safe and secure as possible.

What You’ll learn:

How to design and implement a comprehensive, multi-layered school safety strategy.

Roles and responsibilities of school boards, superintendents, and staff in crisis prevention.

How to assess threats accurately and involve mental health experts in evaluations.

Long-term planning tools, including safety audits, budgets, and board policy development.

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Financial Accounting for Charter Schools and Non-Profits

Rick Jensen — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 18:01:58 +0000

This course provides an overview of the basics of financial accounting in relation to charter schools and other non-profit educational entities. Topics covered in this course include: comparisons of public accounting with private accounting, generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), the accounting equation, financial statements and reports required by non-profit entities, Governmental Accounting Standards Board vs. Financial Accounting Standards Board, accrual and double-entry accounting, and the standardized account code structure (SACS).

What You’ll learn:

Key differences between public and private sector accounting, including fund-based reporting and fiscal accountability in school districts.

How to interpret and prepare essential financial statements, such as the statement of financial position, activities, and cash flow.

The use of accounting systems and standards, including GAAP, GASB, FASB, and tools like the California School Accounting Manual (CSAM) and SACS.

Best practices for revenue recognition, expense accrual, and internal controls in nonprofit and charter school financial management.

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The Power of Multi-Tier System of Support

Jan Hamilton — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 18:51:34 +0000

This workshop provides an overview of the Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) framework and the entire continuum of intervention and support. The interventions & support encompass the whole child: academically, socially/emotionally, and behaviorally. This workshop highlights needed supports characterized through the MTSS framework levels, namely which are commonly referred to as Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3. Participants will also get a grasp gain an awareness of ways in which to promote for promoting the academic performance of all students.

What You’ll learn:

The structure and purpose of the Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) framework, including tiered interventions to address academic, social, emotional, and behavioral student needs.

How to implement data-driven decision making, universal screening, and progress monitoring to identify and support students effectively.

The roles of the Student Success Team (SST) and collaboration among educators and specialists to design and deliver targeted interventions.

Procedures for determining eligibility for Section 504 plans and special education services through systematic assessment and intervention at tier three.

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Governance and Policy Development

KeltieJones — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 20:07:48 +0000

Effective board operations need good governance procedures. This course examines best practices in governance and policy formation, including board member duties and responsibilities, policy formulation, and community participation. This workshop is an excellent introduction to governance for new members as well as a refresher for experienced members dealing with difficult policy challenges.

What You’ll learn:

Understand the roles, responsibilities, and accountability of individual board members and the board as a whole.

Learn how to develop, adopt, and implement effective policies aligned with your organization's vision and values.

Gain best practices for ethical decision-making, teamwork, and engaging with the community.

Explore strategies to support student health, safety, and create proactive, mission-driven governance.

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