The Effective Charter School Board (Workbook)

Last Call to Get Copies of my New DIY Board Development Workbook at 25% Off, Plus a Free One-Hour Remote Training Session When You Purchase Six or More Copies!

Early Bird Discount Ends Today, Friday July 24th at 5pm PST.

My new 116-page DIY workbook for charter school boards is now live Amazon for $40.00, but you get 25% off per copy if you pre-order from me by 5:00 pm (PST) today.

Here is a quick overview of what's in the workbook:

My newly revised and expanded workbook includes the following:

• a 20-page explanation of the six key differences between governing and managing using my Board CHAMPS Model
• the five most common causes of "collisions" between charter school boards and their chief executive 
• seven "collision-avoidance" practices and policies I have relied on whenever I have led schools
• six "tricks of the trade" that governance pros use in helping boards manage their workload
• My "Three-E Model for Financial Oversight" (useful for boards and chief executives), including 21 red flags, plus a checklist of 21 internal controls every school needs
• the keys to risk management (with actual case examples), including how to create heat maps to help you visualize risk
• templates you can copy (and edit if you wish) for: 
• the chief executive's job description
• a director and officer code of conduct
• minutes for a regular meetings
• an MOU for preserving accountability of ancillary support groups (such as a PTO)
• a chief-executive bi-monthly board report
• my four-sided model for understanding school academic performance at the board-level
• and a whole lot of other great content that will help you cultivate effective governance within your school.

In addition to all this great content, my new workbook also includes an answer key in the back for every fill-in-the-blank throughout the book, and board reflection questions designed to get your board to discuss what to do with everything they are learning from it. After all, the goal of training is to improve performance.

Although I have used earlier versions of this workbook with clients for more than 17 years now, this is the first time I've published it as a DIY tool so that your board has everything it needs to lead its own development! (And nothing requires you to go through the whole workbook at once--just break it up into digestible chunks over the next 10 or 12 meetings and you've got a readymade board development plan.)

BONUS! Okay, obviously I want to sell some workbooks (what author doesn't!?), so, while I'd be happy to sell you a single copy, I'm going to sweeten the pot to make this offer as irresistible as I can with the following bonus for schools that order at least six copies: a free one-hour remote training overview session, normally valued at $750.00 (which I will coordinate with you).

There's only one catch: The order deadline really is 5:00 pm (PST) this Friday, July 24th.

Lastly, as a way of showing my appreciation to any school who has been a full-day board retreat client of mine anytime since January 2023, you get an even better deal: just $15 per copy (plus the free training if your order six or more copies! Just drop me an email with the number of copies you want, and I will invoice your school directly.