Washington State School Directors' Association

Serving Washington State's
1,477 Locally Elected
School Board Members

WSSDA
221 College St. NE
Olympia WA 98516
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Tel: 360/493-9231
Fax: 360/493-9247
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Serving on Your Local School Board: A Guide to Effective Leadership

What does a school board do? What does it take to be an effective school board member? These and other questions are addressed by the Washington State School Directors' Association in Serving on Your Local School Board: A Guide to Effective Leadership. This 52-page manual covers a variety of topics relating to the roles and responsibilities of school board service, including education reform, the structure of our public school system, governance roles, legal requirements, and employee relations.

This booklet is available online in portable document format (PDF). To view this document, you must have the Acrobat Reader utility, available for free download from the Adobe Web Site.

View Guide in PDF (269k)

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RELATED LINKS

WSSDA's Guide for School Board Candidates