As schools are preparing to resume meetings in person, it is essential that districts develop safety plans to ensure the safety of attendees and also the effectiveness of the meeting. The most important thing you don’t want is a frustrated parent lashing out at school administrators or community members disrupting the board meeting by launching a protest. This article will show you how to create safety strategies for staff members, board members and students.
The process of organizing a board meeting is an extremely time-consuming task. You must collect and compile the input of all board members, pick an appropriate date and time that is comfortable for everyone, reserve an area, and develop a meeting agenda that maximizes efficiency and productivity. Fortunately, thanks to digital tools, organizing secure and efficient online board meetings has never been easier.
Boardable’s online room makes it easy to share presentations, documents and records with the click of a button. Attendees can review and comment on these materials even without internet access and any changes will be automatically synchronized when the meeting participants return to the boardroom in digital format.
Keep your meetings focused by clearly defining the final purpose of every item on your agenda. This will ensure that your board members stay on task and beware of the temptation to bring up irrelevant topics that can take the time of meetings. Instead of moving discussions on field trips or textbook purchases to the “parking lots” section of the agenda Move them to the “parking lots” section to ensure they are out of the way before moving to the more urgent subjects.