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April 27, 2005

Welcome back

As BoardBuzz arrived home yesterday, there was much reflection on the success of the NSBA conference. Approximately 13,000 attendees gathered to listen, network, and learn how to lead their districts more effectively. Spirits were high and the commitment to children evident. Clearly, today is a challenging, but extremely rewarding time to lead schools.

Now that we're all back in the groove, what does a school board member do with all that excellent information gathered throughout the four-day annual conference? Here are Tips for Sharing Your Conference Experience with Your Community, which offers some great ideas for deflecting the criticism that may come from taxpayers or reporters about school board members' attendance at professional development conferences.

If you didn't have a chance to attend the conference, check out the completed online discussions, which captured questions and answers on four hot topics that school systems face today: 21st century intrusions in the classroom, obesity, teaching religion lawfully, and sexual minority youth. Good stuff. And let us know what other topics you would like to see covered in future online discussions.

Posted April 27, 2005 12:00 AM