NEW!! Newly expanded and updated for the 21st century, this school decision makers "bible" has been revised to incorporate Key Work of School Boards concepts and to reflect new governance realities, including the requirements of No Child Left Behind. Chapters address learning board service; exercising leadership; working with the superintendent and staff; understanding collective bargaining, education law, and school finance; communicating with your colleagues and the public; and contemporary issues in education--including charters, vouchers, and privatization; student demographics; wellness; school construction and design; education technology; and school security.

NEW!!The newly revised edition is an indispensable reference on the 2008 school board elections. This guide will help all candidates understand Michigan election law and the Campaign Finance Act

Provides guidelines for ethical relationships, essential to the successful operation of an educational system. This document presumes a relationship between boards of education, administrators, and community which promotes trust, open and honest communication, credibility and educational purpose.

NEW!! This unique publication offers school board members a wide-angle lens through which to view student achievement, suggests the right questions to bring to their policy deliberations, and provides a working knowledge that will inspire dynamic board leadership to raise student achievement.

2007 MASB Fall Conference Speaker! From the files of one of America's most active motivational speakers, here's a compilation of stories and insights to help you make good things happen.

The ninth edition of MASB's indispensable reference on conducting legal open and closed sessions offers school boards and administrators practical guidance on more than 100 meeting-related topics.

2007 MASB Fall Conference Speaker! Educator Dr. Rudy Crew heads up one of the nation's largest school systems and is responsible for reforming educational programs in major urban centers across the country. Only Connect is his plan for reinvigorating public education in America.

NEW!! Considering the crucial role of funding in education today, it is imperative that educators understand the budgeting process thoroughly. By presenting an overview of the basics of financial matters that affect school districts and individual school buildings, this highly practical book spells out the methodology, individual roles, and rationale for site-based budgeting and describes the relationship between central and site levels.

NEW!! This book serves as a primer for both school board members and school attorneys on board member liability issues. Using layman's terms, this book includes explanations of how our legal system works, board member liability under state tort law, legal defenses and immunities against liability and a special section on how to avoid and minimize board member liability.