Resource Order Form

Board Member's Name:
School Board/District:
Supervisory Union/District:
Mailing Address:
City, State and Zip:
Email (if you would like a confirmation email):
Bill to:

Select the DVDs you would like to order:

Select DVD Title & Chapters Date Released

$20		 Policy Governance Board Role in Budgeting (48 minutes)
Chapters: Introduction, Policy Governance Policy Compliance, Presenting the Budget, Budget Limits, Budget Meetings, Ends, Executive Limitations, The Community.
See a snippet here: http://www.vtvsba.org/streaming/pgb/pgb.html		 2010
January

$20		 Policy Governance Board Role in Communication (38 minutes)
Chapters: Explaining Policy Governance to the Community, Community Input, Grievance Path to the Board, Monitoring, Interpretation of a Policy, Informing the Board, Superintendent Evaluation.
See a snippet here: http://www.vtvsba.org/streaming/pgcomm/pgcomm.html		 2010
January

$20		 Planning Agendas and Managing Meetings
Chapters: The Agenda, Kinds of Meetings, The Meeting "Liturgy", Ideal Agenda, Creating the Next Agenda, Governing Questions, Conversation Map, Follow-up Agenda Items, The Role of the Superintendent, Questions: Public, Board & Staff, Ground Rules, and Proposing Change.
See a snippet here: http://www.vtvsba.org/streaming/agendas/agendas.html		 2009
November

$75 		Roles, Responsibilities & Relationships, Negotiations, Passing Your Budget Under Act 82, School Policies and the Resource Directory
(5 DVD set)
See individual descriptions below. 		2009
March

$20 		Negotiations (2 DVD set) (Total approximately 1 hour 20 minutes)
DVD #1:
Part 1 Preparing for the Negotiations: Ground Rules, Data Driven Decisions, Bargaining Teams, Budgeting for Negotiations, Strategies and Priorities, Union Tactics
Part 2 Insurance Benefits: What is VSBIT?, Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Disability & Life Insurance, Additional Resources
DVD #2
Part 3 Negotiation Laws: Negotiation Laws, Mandatory Subjects of Bargaining, Agency Service Fees, Good Faith Bargaining, Impasse Procedures, Strikes & "Finality", Regional Bargaining, Legal Assistance		 2009
March

$20 		School Policy (40 minutes)
Chapters: Vermont Education Law, Examples, Policy Adoption, Policy Manual Maintenance, Policy Distribution, Purpose, Following Policies. 		2009
March

$20 		Passing the School Budget Under Act 82 (1 hour 30 minutes)
Chapters: Getting Started, Cost Drivers, Strategic Focus, Act 68 (Property Tax), Equalized Pupils, Act 130 (Union School Funding), Act 82 (Two Vote). 		2008
October

$20 		Governance Options and Enrollment Projections (1 hour 20 minutes)
School Governance, Informal Collaboration, Policy Governance, Demographics, Future Enrollment, Private/Home Schoolers, Kindergarten Predictors, Refugee Resettlement. 		2008
April 16

$35 		Roles, Responsibilities & Relationships (1 hour)
Chapters: About VSBA,Local Resources, Stakeholder Groups, Complaints, Policy, Negotiations, Open Meeting and Executive Session, Meeting Management, Code of Conduct. 		2008
March

$20

Improving Board Operations (1 hour 10 minutes)
Chapters: Board Meetings, Assessments/Evaluations/Goals, Board-Chair-Supt Relations, Policies, Complaints, Board Standards, Abstaining from a vote, Code of Conduct, Education Law, Electronic Communication, Board Involvement in Hiring, Parents and Curriculum.

2008
February

$20 		Conducting Board Hearings (40 minutes)
Chapters: What are Hearings?, Due Process, Preparing, Mechanics, Roles, Evidence & Testimony, Executive Session, Conflict of Interest, and The Role of Policy. 		2007
December

$20 		Superintendent Evaluation (30 minutes)
Chapters: Workshop Introduction, Panel Introduction, An Effective Evaluation Process, Objective Evaluations, Evaluation Stakeholders, The Success of the Superintendent, The Evaluation Template, Collecting the Input, and The Job Description. 		2007
December

$20 		The Role of the School Board Chair (1 hour 25 minutes)
Chapters: Board Packet, Meeting Types, Code of Conduct, Effective Meetings, Communication, Complaints, Assumptions, Goals & Action Plans, Self Assessment, The Law, Media Relations, Policy Governance, and Education Philosophy & Resources. 		2007
May

Vermont Education Lawbook/Resource Directory Order Form

Lawbook
The Vermont Education Lawbook is released annually in early December. Vermont School Boards Association holds a standing order list for the lawbook. If you are placed on the list you will receive a postcard in July/August of the release year to confirm your order.
2011 Vermont Education Lawbook ($55.00-nonmember $40.00-members) Quantity:

Would you like to be placed on the lawbook standing order list - no charge.
We would mail you a postcard in August to verify an order for the upcoming year.

2012-2015 Essential Work of Vermont School Boards (resource directory)
The VSBA Essential Work of Vermont School Boards is updated and released every three years. The directory is given to all attendees of the Essential Work workshop.

All books are shipped with an invoice with net 30 terms of payment.

2012-2015 Essential Work resource directory ($15.00) Quantity

Please note: Shipping charge is $5.00 per item.