Coming to order a guide to successful school board meetings targets both new and experienced board members and should be especially useful to board presidents secretaries and superintendents it answers many questions about best practices for boards performing their duties and exercising their powers within their legal meeting structure. As the structured order of business suggests theres nothing more important to a successful meeting than a well planned agenda at a minimum a good agenda has a start and an end time for the meeting obviously knowing in advance when the meeting will end requires careful planning and a review of every item on the agenda. In the eyes of the board members if the secretary and chair dont put in the time to adequately prepare for the board meeting by getting materials to them early it sets the stage for the rest of the board to do just as little in fact they may not bother to show up at all another misstep is to surprise board members with a lengthy proposal or controversial item that they were not . This item coming to order a guide to successful school board meetings by illinois association of school boards paperback 4795 only 16 left in stock order soon ships from and sold by poverty hill books the governance core school boards superintendents and schools working together by davis w campbell paperback 2779 in stock