Morris School District
MORRIS SCHOOL DISTRICT
Morristown, New Jersey 07960

Policy
File Code: 9200
Monitored:
Mandated:
Other Reasons X

ORIENTATION AND TRAINING OF BOARD MEMBERS

Orientation of New Board Members

The Superintendent shall provide materials to introduce new Board members to the operating procedures of the district and the details of the curriculum.

Sufficient funds shall be allocated to reimburse new Board members for attending NJSBA training in Superintendent evaluation within the first six months after taking office, and an NJSBA new Board member orientation within the first year of taking office.

Administrative code defines "newly elected or appointed Board member" as any Board member who has never served as a member of either an elected or appointed School Board.

Inservice Development

Attendance at State, regional and national workshops, conventions, conferences and seminars developed by associations (such as the New Jersey School Boards Association, the National School Boards Association, the New Jersey Association of School Administrators, etc.), provide unique opportunities for Board members to:
  1. broaden their understanding of their responsibilities,

  2. learn new tools and techniques for coping with them, and

  3. take advantage of opportunities to keep up to date on educational trends.
Therefore, the Board recommends that, in addition to sending the mandated delegate to the New Jersey School Boards Association's Delegate Assemblies, the Board send representatives to such educational conferences, workshops, conventions and seminars as it shall decide upon each year. The attending Board Member shall present a report of the conference, workshop etc. to the rest of the Board within the next two regular meetings of the Board.

Date: April 14, 1986
Reviewed/Revised: July 18, 2000

Legal References:
N.J.S.A. 18A:6-45 through -50 New Jersey School Boards Association established ...
N.J.S.A. 18A:11-1 General mandatory powers and duties
N.J.S.A. 18A:12-33 Training program for new board members
N.J.S.A. 18A:17-20.3(b) Evaluation of superintendents
N.J.S.A. 18A:54-20 Powers of board (county vocational schools)
N.J.A.C. 6:3-2.2 Annual evaluation of tenured and non-tenured chief school administrators
N.J.A.C. 6:3-9.2 Definitions
N.J.A.C. 6:3-9.4 Board member training

Cross References:
1500 Relations between area, county, state, regional and national associations and the district
*2131 Chief school administrator
*9250 Expenses
 

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