eBOARD's Evaluation Module Now Supports Wider Variety of Leadership Evaluations

eBOARDsolutions announces a major update to the eBOARD Evaluation module. The Evaluation module, created to help streamline and align leadership evaluations now accommodates a wider variety of leadership evaluation templates including complex models that include rubrics and multi-layer evaluations. School districts and other organizations subscribing to eBOARD can use these web-based tools to enhance, align and streamline governance and leadership evaluations and assessments such as school board standards, board self-assessments, superintendent evaluations as well as more efficiently prepare for district accreditation

Other than the alignment of the evaluations to the organizational goals, meetings and policies, this paperless tool also helps ensure that the evidence provided is easier to access than the traditional paper-based binders. Furthermore respondents can review evidence at their own pace and submit ratings and comments which are automatically collated by the software to be used by the group review. Finally the tools also provide a systematic way for the evaluation team to gather as a group to review responses, finalize the review and develop concrete action plans based on the results of the review.

Within eBOARD, organizations can design and use their own evaluation instruments or use/modify any of the built-in templates that the eBOARD provides.  These built-in templates and examples, provided or approved by a variety of organizations, include the following (non-exhaustive):

• AdvancED District Accreditation Self-Assessment
• AdvancED Standards for Quality Schools
• Arkansas School Boards Association Superintendent Evaluation
• GSBA Governance Team Self-Assessment
• GSBA Superintendent Evaluation (Example)
• Missouri DESE Superintendent Evaluation
• Missouri School Boards' Association Board Self-Assessment
• North Carolina DPI Superintendent Evaluation Instrument
• NSBA Key Work of School Boards Self-Assessment

These updates are free of charge to existing eBOARD Evaluation Modules.  All eBOARD sites will be updated on November 5th.

Further Reading and Links

• (Almost) Paperless Accreditation
  
• Does your board evaluate itself?
• Seven Steps to Prepare for District Accreditation
• How are we doing? Appreciative Inquiry Style Evaluations
• 10 Do's and Don'ts for Evaluating your Superintendent
• Streamlining and Aligning Superintendent Evaluations (YouTube Video.)

About eBOARD

Imagine your entire team, all operating on the same page, with a clear understanding of the expectations necessary to prepare your students for college, career, and life. eBOARD is more than just a piece of governance software; it is the only system in the marketplace to centralize, communicate, and align strategic and operational plans, leader evaluations, board policies, administrative regulations, meeting agendas and other important communications and documents.

eBOARD is a cloud-based governance tool that helps organizations by:

• Providing a single source for access to pertinent data for effective decision-making
• Stakeholders can easily find information through advanced search capabilities
• Saving time and money by streamlining workflow and eliminating paper dependency
• Enhancing communications with all stakeholders

eBOARD Modules include:

• Strategic Plan - Monitor, track, manage and report on the organization's strategic plan to all stakeholders
• Meetings - Streamline agenda preparation and enhance the effectiveness of all meetings (not just board meetings)
• Evaluation - Enhance, align and streamline governance and leadership evaluations and assessments
• Policy - Publish policies, regulations and exhibits for easy access by all stakeholders
• Communications - Improve communications with all stakeholders
• Documents - Build an online library for easy access to important documents

About eBOARDsolutions

eBOARDsolutions (EBS) is the leader in the effective integration of technology and governance. EBS products are used by over 200 local boards of education, state boards of education, state agencies and associations.

eBOARDsolutions has a strategic partnership with the following associations:

• Alabama Association of School Boards
• Arkansas School Boards Association
• Georgia School Boards Association
• Iowa Association of School Boards
• Missouri School Boards' Association
• North Carolina School Boards Association
• NY Mid-Hudson Regional Information Center
• Rhode Island Association of School Committees

Wisconsin School Boards Association