In the News
The four-minute video explains how City Schools of Decatur, who won Best Use of eBOARD for Meetings in 2011, uses eBAORD for Community Involvement. A must-see!
Congratulations to Eric Waynick, board member for eBOARDsolutions, who was recently honored as a finalist for the Atlanta Business Chronicle's Business Person of the Year Awards.
GSBA's New Board Member Orientation training materials were delivered to new board members through eBOARD Meetings app on individual iPads.
Thomas Van Soelen of City of Decatur Schools shares his story on how they used technology to streamline and improve their preparation for district accreditation.
eBOARDsolutions is proud to announce that our Diane Sandifer was just recognized by Agnes Scott College for her Outstanding Service to the Community. We're so proud!
Read this article published in School CIO Magazine about how four school districts in Georgia recently completed a project funded by the Georgia Power Foundation to help them enhance their use of web-based tools to streamline and align processes including the management of meetings, strategic plans, policies, leadership evaluations, and communications.
Pierce County Schools has been subscribing to eBOARD for several years, but just to a couple of the available eBOARD modules. This week, the board voted to subscribe to all of the eBOARD modules including the Meetings module, Strategic Plan module as well as the new Evaluation Module. Click here to read more and see the article from the Blackshear Times.
Read this article by Deb Gurke in the December issue of WASB's Wisconsin School News that explains why WASB has partnered with eBOARDsolutions. "... the tools alone cannot bring about excellence. excellence will only occur when accompanied by change in processes. As these tools are introduced, they provide an opportunity to evaluate and update processes that may have worked well in the past, but may have outlived their usefulness in today’s context." Click here to see the article in PDF.
In an WRDW-TV News article and video, see how Richmond County Schools, based in Augusta Georgia is trying to spread the good news to the communicty about the advantages of going paperless for board meeting agendas. Richmond County Schools uses eBOARD to manage meeting agendas, strategic plans and policies online.
New TEDx video features Julie Evans, David Thornburg & Mark Willis. They share their visions at the NSBA Conference. (Mark's "talk of his life" starts at about 51 minutes.) We are proud of our Mark! If you'd like to learn more about Mark's topic, you should check out this blog called Wait for Superman or Build Transformational Teams?
eBOARDsolutions donated an iPad to be a drawing at the Alabama Association of School Boards' Leadership Academy held on October 3-4, 2010. The iPad donation was in celebration of the upcoming release of eBOARD's new Meetings "app" for the iPad.
Read the article in the Time-Georgian Newspaper about how Carroll County School District will be using eBOARD's Strategic Plan module to post and manage their strategic plans at both the district and school levels. The strategic plan indicates what the goals of the district and schools are, how the administrators plan on achieving those goals and provides updates on achievements.
Harris County Schools, Georgia's Superintendent Dr. Craig Dowling co-presents effective technology in governance in sharing his system’s evaluation process both for the superintendent and board of education. In implementing eBOARDsolutions' paperless meetings, policy, strategic plan, and evaluation software, Dr. Dowling demonstrates alignment of the systems' five-year strategic plan with their meeting and policy work. Then through the completion of both the superintendent’s evaluation and board of education's self-evaluation through eBOARD, the governance model of continuous improvement is complete. eBOARDsolutions' COO Mark Willis co-presents with Dr. Dowling as they share a best practice of successfully integrating technology tools in the work of the school system. Session is scheduled Wednesday, October 20, 2010 from 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Dan Farley, Executive Director of the Arkansas School Board Association, is referenced in an article published in School CIO Magazine about how associations are starting to partner on the development and support of tools and resources. Farley states, “In these tough economic times, we must look at ways technology can help local systems work more efficiently while sharing best practices for effective governance and leadership."
School CIO Magazine recently printed a news story in the Back Office Business section about how Albertville City Schools, AL recently adopted the use of iPads and eBOARD Meeting and Policy Modules for their school board. Click here to read it!
Read the article in the Arkansas School Boards Association (ASBA) Report Card August Edition. Article is called "For our next agenda item, CLICK HERE!" This article was written by editor Steve Brawner for the August 2010 edition of this magazine for school board members in the state of Arkansas.
See the video of Mark Willis, COO of eBOARDsolutions, explaining the big picture of how eBOARD's governance tool helps systems leverage technology in such a way that aligns the work of the system and keeps the focus on the strategic goal of improving student achievement.
We are so confident that your board will ROCK with savings using eBOARD that we're offering a free OUR BOARD ROCKS T-shirt to anyone who attends one of our free Cost Savings Webinars in October or November. Just attend the webinar and then complete and submit your answers to the new Cost Savings Calculator Tool. Then we'll contact you to get information to send you your great t-shirt.
Read the blog by Mark Willis, COO of eBOARDsolutions. He writes about the "silver lining" of today's budget shortfalls and how it might make us all more efficient in managing meetings, policies and planning.
Read the article in August issue of The School Administrator by Ron Saunders, Superintendent of Barrow County Schools on how his district has discovered the value of using eBOARD for paperless board meetings and policies. Claire Miller, his assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, has discovered cost savings in her areas of responsibility. “In the past, I provided [the board] with voluminous notebooks with curriculum, instruction and assessment information. Now, each board member can view the same information in an electronic format and save us the cost of purchasing notebooks, making copies and binding,” she says. “It is also much more efficient.”
EBS is pleased to welcome the Alabama Association of School Boards and the Montana School Boards Association. Our latest eMEMBERSHIP subscribers!
The Augusta Chronicles newspaper explains how Richmond County Schools uses eBOARD's Strategic Plan Module to put their progress online to ensure coordination and progress towards the plan.
Read about it here.
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See the video interview of Mark Willis, COO of eBOARDsolutions, by Ken Royal in the technology blog, “The Royal Treatment”