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The support and services received from membership in the Nevada Association of School Boards (NASB) are directly related to our mission:  Success for all students through local school board leadership. The Association focuses upon three primary strategies to accomplish its mission—Advocacy, Boardsmanship, and Communication.


FUTURE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Plan to attend NASB's CPO workshop on March 2 and 3, 2012, in order to complete three mandatory modules for the CPO Program. For board members and superintendents who attended the 2010 and 2011 Conferences, this will complete the seven modules mandatory for the CPO Program.

March 2, 4:30pm
CPO Workshop: Module 2-Budgets: Revenue Sources, Projections and Forecasts (2.5 hours)

March 2, 7:00pm
Dinner Break (included in workshop registration fee)

March 2, 7:30pm
CPO Workshop: Module 6-Interviewing and Media Relations(1.5 hours)

March 3, 8:30am
CPO Workshop: Module 7-Employment Law: Keeping Your Agency out of Court (4 hours)

The March 2 and 3, 2012, workshop will be held in Reno at the Hyatt Place Hotel in conjunction with NASB Governance Meeting on March 3, beginning with the working lunch at 12:30pm. Breakfast and internet access are included in the room rate.

For room reservations at the reduced NASB rate of $84.00 per night, please telephone Christine Ugalde, Sales and Meeting Manager at the Hyatt Place: 775.325.3883.

For board members and superintendents working toward completion of the CPO Program, fifty-two additional hours of training are required with minimum units mandatory in these areas:

Public Finance 6 CPO units
Leadership and Governance

6 CPO units

Public Information and Media Relations 2 CPO units
Community Development and Infrastructure 4 CPO units
Employee Relations 4 CPO units
Elective 4 CPO units

Board members and superintendents who have attended NASB professional development activities from November 2010 to the present have earned these units:

2010 November Orientation 2.25 units

2010 NASB Conference
(plus completion of one mandatory module)

4.25 units

2011 January Orientation 4.00 units
Sheila Moulton Workshop, July 30 1.25 units
Karen Beckvar Workshop, October 1 1.25 units
2011 NASB Conference
(plus completion of three mandatory modules)
3.50 units

Mark your calendar for the 2012 NASB Conference
November 16-17.
Location to be determined.

Orientation for New Board Members, November 15.

Vision Statement

The Nevada Association of School Boards envisions a state where the public schools
are widely recognized as the foundation of a free and democratic society, where local citizen governing boards are fully vested with the means to advance the best interests of their students and the public, and where the futures of all children are driven by their aspirations, not bounded by their circumstances.

Strategic Goals

Defining and Expanding Educational Advocacy

  • Defending funding, eliminating unfunded mandates, and getting more resources for K-12
  • Engaging with the general public to better educate everyone about the importance of public education and the needs of today’s schools
  • Supporting strategies for reforming curriculum including P21 skills
  • Communicating more continuously and determinedly with legislators and other elected officials on behalf of K-12, including training for school board members to do so effectively
  • Providing a unified voice that represents school board members in all seventeen school districts

More Efficiently Using Resources

  • Local control and maximum flexibility for school boards
  • Improving accountability and transparency for efficiently using resources
  • Adopting new strategies for surviving the funding crisis
  • Developing teacher evaluation criteria that include elements focused on student achievement
  • Strategies for dealing proactively with declining student enrollment

Recognizing and Diminishing the Impact of Term Limits upon School Boards

  • Targeting professional development for new school board members
  • Identifying leadership earlier and building leadership skills
  • Expanding mentoring opportunities
  • Providing professional development specific to the needs of an individual board and communicating new information that will impact all school boards about federal and State initiatives
  • Recruiting and encouraging new candidates for school board positions