As schools are preparing to resume in-person meetings, it is crucial for districts to come up with security plans to ensure the safety of all attendees and the efficiency of the meeting. The ideal scenario is an angry parent lashing out at school administrators or other members of the community disrupting the board meeting with protests. This article explains how to make safety plans for staff members, board members and students.
The process of arranging a board meeting can be a long process. You need to gather and collect input from all board members, choose an appropriate time and date that works for everyone, reserve an area, and develop an agenda that will maximize efficiency and productivity. Fortunately, thanks to digital tools, holding safe and effective online board meetings has never been so easy.
Boardable’s online room makes it easy to share documents, presentations and other records with the click of a button. Participants can read and make comments on these materials, even without internet connection, and the changes will automatically sync when the meeting participants return to the boardroom in digital format.
Keep your meetings focused by clearly defining the end goal of every item on your agenda. This will allow your board members to stay on task, and help them avoid the temptation to introduce irrelevant topics that could take up precious meeting time. For example, instead of pushing discussions about field trip approval or the purchase of textbooks, move those items to the “parking lot” part of the agenda, so they’re out of the way prior to moving on to more pressing discussions.
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