Founded in 1963, the VSBA is a private, nonprofit membership association dedicated to serving Vermont’s elected school boards. We provide our members with services, support and counsel. As they lead their districts, navigate relationships and promote public education across Vermont.
VSBA's Board Excellence Award
This merit-based award recognizes Vermont school boards that demonstrate outstanding leadership, collaboration, and commitment to student success. It highlights a board’s overall impact, effectiveness, and dedication to improving education for students and benefits the communities they serve.
District Quality Standards: Governance
The Vermont Agency of Education’s District Quality Standards, which include governance standards for school boards, go into effect on July 1, 2025. The standards are general principles of good governance and provide boards guidance on their essential work. The first step in ensuring compliance with these standards is to find out where your board currently is. To help you with this, the VSBA has created a self-evaluation tool for boards to see where the gaps are between your current practices and the new governance standards. For more information see the webinar on this topic on our Webinar Archive page.
Joint Training for Chairs and Superintendents
Please let us know if you have any questions about this resource by contracting Debbie Singiser at dsigiser@vtvsba.aorg
In 2013, the legislature adopted 16 V.S.A. §561(b) requiring at least eight hours of joint training for the superintendent and board chair annually.
Download this self-guided training opportunity, Leadership Expedition. Similar to a self-paced course, the chair and superintendent may select what, when, and how they learn together. In addition to providing more flexibility, this self-guided option offers differentiated learning to meet the needs of governance teams with varying degrees of knowledge and experience.