What Should Board Meeting Minutes Look Like?
Charter board meeting minutes are a formal recording of transactions that happened at a particular time and place for your board.
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What Committees Should Your Board Have?
Learn the five committees your board needs, what they do, and how to ensure they’re effective -whether you’re governing a single-site charter or a network of charter schools.
Data-Driven Academic Excellence for Charter Boards
The term, data-driven governance, might be relatively new to the charter community — at least if you’re not yet a BoardOnTrack member.
Fix Your Board Meetings, Strengthen Your Board
Board meetings are important. Your full board meetings — and committee meetings in between — are where your board’s work happens.
Top Ten Mistakes of Charter School Founding Boards
Building a founding charter school board is only one of the steps in the charter startup process. And getting it right is vital to the success of your organization.
How To Plan A Successful Board Retreat Agenda
Planning a strategic board retreat may seem daunting at first. However, it is largely similar to planning an agenda for a regular board meeting.
Annual Board Retreat FAQs
Your annual board retreat is where you do deep strategic work and important board-level work like reelect your officers — your board chair, your vice chair, and other key positions.
Are We There Yet? Assess Your Board To Reach The High Bar.
To deliver the exceptional results promised in your charter, you’ve got to be able to answer these questions fully. And the only way to do that is with data.
Who Is Your BoardOnTrack Superuser?
While your BoardOnTrack Champion drives the strategic side, your BoardOnTrack Superuser keeps the board’s operations running smoothly.What is a Superuser?
What is a Governance Committee?
The Governance Committee is essential to support the health and function of your board. It is responsible for recruitment, orientation, training, and evaluation.
What’s a Development Committee?
The Development Committee assumes the primary responsibility for raising non-grant funds to support the organization’s mission.
What is a Finance Committee?
A Finance Committee is essential to ensuring your organization has the financial resources needed to fulfill its mission.
Who’s Your BoardOnTrack Champion?
Every charter needs someone on the team to be their good governance champion; someone who carries the torch for good governance.
How to Evaluate Your Charter School Leader Using the BoardOnTrack CEO Evaluation Tool
Supporting and evaluating your chief executive is among the most important functions of any charter school board.
How to Form and Run an Academic Excellence Committee
Having an effective academic excellence committee is essential to the success of the organization. Here we outline how to form and run one.
How Charter Leaders Can Lead the Compensation Conversation
Like so many things in charter school leadership, successfully negotiating your compensation depends on a good process.
How Charter School Boards Should Contribute to Academic Excellence
There are so many results your charter organization is trying to deliver. But none are more important than academic excellence.
Should I Ask My Charter School Board for a Raise?
Charter school leaders need to better understand the landscape, benchmarks, and quite frankly how to talk to your boards about your compensation.
How to Increase Board Member Engagement
Once the Governance Committee has successfully recruited new board members, it is important to put an equal amount of time into orienting them and keeping them continually engaged.
Survey Your Charter School Staff: How, When, and Why
Surveying your staff is a vital practice for retaining top talent, or uncovering any issues that might negatively impact your organization.
The Definitive Annual Calendar of Board Activities
BoardOnTrack’s annual calendar of board activities will help your board stay focused and productive, knowing who needs to do what and when.
Year-Round Charter School Leader Support & Evaluation
Our year-round charter CEO evaluation cycle allows you to get a bead on how your partnership is doing and touch points throughout the year and then the end of year evaluation.
A BoardSavvy Charter CEO, Defined
An effective charter school organization hinges on a strong partnership between the board and its CEO.
Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid When Evaluating Your Charter School Leader
The top 10 mistakes that charter school boards make when they evaluate their leader — and what you can do to avoid them in the future.
The Four Factors of Stellar Board-CEO Partnerships
We’ve discovered that the stellar board-CEO partnerships in the Charter Board world are built on four vital factors.
What’s a CEO Support and Evaluation Committee?
The CEO support and evaluation committee is one of the most important functions of any governing board. They effectively select, support, and evaluate the organization’s CEO.
What’s an Academic Excellence Committee?
The Academic Excellence Committee is essential to your success. Academics are, after all, at the very heart of your organization.
April is National Volunteer Month. Here’s How to Thank Your Board Members.
April is National Volunteer Month. To help them stay engaged and inspired, show them that you appreciate them. Here’s how.
How To Strengthen Your Board-CEO Partnership
You might feel like your board-CEO partnership could be better, but hesitate to spark the conversation. Do you consider it a partnership?
The Charter CEO’s Guide to Governing for Growth at Every Stage
Part two of a two-part story with Caprice Young & Marci Cornell-Feist as they discuss the CEO guide governing for growth in every stage of the organization.
Governing for Growth at Every Stage, Part 1
Part one of a two-part story with Caprice Young & Marci Cornell-Feist as they discuss governing for growth in every stage of the organization.
How to Keep Your Board Members Engaged
Keeping you board members engaged is a common challenge. Review best practices and put your board members potential into practice.
4 Most Common Questions About Setting Board Goals
Having worked with hundreds of boards across the country, we’ve compiled the top 4 questions asked when trying to set strategic board goals.
Year-Round Charter School Leader Support & Evaluation
Our year-round charter CEO evaluation cycle allows you to get a read on how your partnership is doing with touch points throughout the year and then the end of year evaluation.
What Skills Are Needed on a Charter School Board?
There are a few key skills you want to have amongst your charter school board. Ideally, the board brings a depth of expertise that the staff of the school might never have.
Diversity on Charter School Boards
Discussing diversity is an important part of the process through which a board develops its values and vision and something the best boards do well.
Who Should Serve On Your Board
Should departing CEO’s join the board upon leaving and other tricky recruitment questions. A look at the top 5 questions about recruiting.
Avoid The Top 10 Mistakes Made When Setting Goals
Here are the top 10 most common mistakes to avoid when setting board goals. It’s imperative you set strategic goals. Here are 10 things you don’t want to do.
Putting Goals into Practice At Your Board Meetings
Strategic goals work best when you act! You do not just set them and forget them. Here we review how to set goals and put them into action.
Calendar Updates to Keep Your Board On Track
BoardOnTrack members know we are constantly refreshing our platform to better support them. We’ll keep you organized with new features.
GOVERNANCE IS A TEAM SPORT
Governance is a team sport. Great governance teams find an appropriate balance between the their CEO’s roles and those of their board.
What Are Board Goals?
Board goals will differ from the CEO’s goals. Combined, they’ll help strengthen your board-CEO partnership and help your governance team to meet the organization’s goals.
BoardStar: Frances Teso
A National Board Certified Teacher, Frances Teso set out to provide high-quality education to kids who were being underserved.
Governing for Growth: A Manifesto for Our Movement
BoardOnTrack is here to help you grow. Wherever you are in your journey, your charter is a mandate to grow.
Your Board’s Goals Are Your GPS To Success
Exceptional boards define their priorities, in line with the organization’s priorities. But, the most successful boards don’t stop there.
What Makes An Exceptional Board?
Using data from hundreds of boards around the country, BoardOnTrack has defined exactly what makes an exceptional board.
Keeping You On Track: The Brown Act + BoardOnTrack
With the changes brought about by the Brown Act legislation, BoardOnTrack has adjusted our platform to help you remain compliant.
Board Goals and Management Goals…Where’s the Line?
To understand whether a goal belongs to your Board or your CEO, start with understanding the difference between governance and management.
6 Steps for Better Board Recruiting
With the right people in the right roles, the board can grow an organization that provides quality education for a growing number of kids.
Get Your Goals On Track!
Goals need to be visible to everyone on your team; and you know what needs to get done, when and by whom so that the work actually gets done.
8 Ways to Be a Great Board Member Today
A high-functioning board is made up of great board members who each align with the mission for their organization.
Who Is Your BoardOnTrack Superuser?
While your BoardOnTrack Champion drives the strategic side, your BoardOnTrack Superuser keeps the board’s operations running smoothly.What is a Superuser?
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