LAKE BUTLER—Members of the Crown Region of the Florida School Boards Association held a meeting in Lake Butler on Sept. 6. School board members from Duval, Baker, Bradford, St. Johns, Clay, Marion, and Citrus counties discussed best practices and exchanged ideas on how to run their boards more effectively.
Union County’s Becky Raulerson said she was surprised by the wide variance in how North Florida boards conduct workshops: informational meetings in which boards may not take any official action.
“Some of the other board members from the other districts basically asked us, do you have workshops in your district?” Raulerson recalled. “And some of them didn’t. And then some of them had very extensive workshops, like full-day workshops once a month.”
Mary Bolla of Clay County Public Schools said she left the meeting with the idea of a more structured, periodic review of district policies.
“We’re supposed to review them every year annually,” Bolla told her colleagues during their September board meeting. “We all know that we don’t do that as effectively as we should, and I’m hoping maybe at the next workshop that we can talk about setting a schedule for policy review.”
School board members from Duval, Baker, Bradford, St. Johns, Clay, Marion, and Citrus counties gathered in Lake Butler on Sept. 6 to network, exchange ideas and hone their communications skills. Photo: Becky Raulerson
