Dates Friday, September 18 and Saturday, September 19, 2026
Time 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. both days
Location Alameda County Training & Education Center
125 12th Street, Suite 400, Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 272-6467
Tuition $1,000 per person
Included Continental breakfast and lunch both days, and all workshop materials
Seating Limited to 40 participants
School systems exist to improve student outcomes. This is the only reason they exist. School boards exist to represent the vision and values of their community in the pursuit of that purpose. Yet most boards spend the great majority of their meeting time on adult inputs that have little connection to what students know and are able to do.
Board members rarely choose this. It is what the calendar, the agenda, and the habits of the job produce when no one has redesigned them. The work of changing it is learnable, and it starts with the board’s own behavior.
The East Bay Regional Workshop is two days of that work. Over sixteen hours, we will guide your board through the five continuous improvement practices that separate boards whose student outcomes improve from boards whose student outcomes stay flat.
Who should attend
We recommend that governing teams attend together. The behaviors that drive improvement are team behaviors, and a single member returning alone carries the whole weight of change.
This workshop is built for:
- School board members, whether newly seated or long serving
- Board chairs and vice chairs
- Superintendents and their cabinet
- Board secretaries and staff who prepare agendas and monitoring reports
- Charter and county board members who govern under the same pressures
Attending as a full governing team produces the most change. Attending alone still gives you a clear picture of what your board could do differently on Monday.
Agenda
- Why school systems exist, and what follows from that answer
- Inputs, outputs, and outcomes: the distinction that changes agendas
- Focus Mindset -- auditing your board's own use of time
- Clarify Priorities -- drafting goals from your community's vision
- Clarify Priorities -- drafting guardrails from your community's values
- Working session: taking a real goal from your school system and making it measurable
- Monitor Progress -- what monthly monitoring looks like when it works
- Reading a monitoring report, and the questions a board should ask about it
- Align Resources -- reading your budget and calendar against your goals
- Communicate Results -- reporting progress to your community
- Scoring your board on the Great On Their Behalf Index to set a starting point
- Building your board's first ninety days
Why attend
Boards that do this work with the support of a Certified Great On Their Behalf Practitioner typically move from a starting score near zero to a score above eighty over about two years. Boards that attempt it without that support almost always fall short. The adult behavior changes required are simply too large to sustain alone.
Two days will not complete that journey. It will give your board a shared vocabulary, an honest starting point, and a specific plan, which is where every board that has made the change began.
Location and directions
Alameda County Training & Education Center
125 12th Street, Suite 400
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 272-6467
Register
Tuition is $1,000 per person and includes continental breakfast and lunch both days. Use the quantity selector to register more than one person. Seating is limited to 40 participants, and we recommend that governing teams reserve their seats together.
After you check out, please send us the name, role, school system, and email address of each person you registered so we can prepare their materials. Use the form below.
Registration is subject to our workshop refund policy.
Tell us who is coming
If you have registered, or if you are holding seats for a governing team, please send us your attendee list.
Questions
For questions about the workshop, registration, invoicing a school system, or bringing a workshop to your own region, please write to coach@effectiveschoolboards.com.