December 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM - Special Work Session

1. ROLL CALL/CALL TO ORDER

2. Warm Up Exercise

3. Admin Asst Updates

4. BOARD PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES

4.A. Standards for school board leadership

4.B. Practices and Procedures

4.B.1. Legal Update

4.B.2. Social media guidelines

4.B.3. 17 Tenets of effective board-administration leadership team

4.B.4. Minnesota open meeting law

4.C. Standard Operating Procedures

4.C.1. School Board Policies: 201, 204, 210, 210R, 212, 212R

4.C.2. Standard operating procedures

4.C.3. Guidelines for interaction

4.C.4. Partisan politics guidelines

4.D. School Board Salaries

5. OTHER TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION

5.A. No surprises at the board table

5.B. Audience participation at board meetings- regular, special, work session

5.C. Periodic reports from committee chairs

5.D. Board reports- what's allowed, what's not?

5.E. Rules for board members making comments and asking questions

5.F. Board handbook review cycle and process

5.G. Work sessions at round table

6. BOARD ORGANIZATION FOR 2026

6.A. Board meeting schedule 2026 DRAFT

6.B. Committees

6.B.1. Policy 208

6.B.2. Board committees descriptions 2026

6.B.3. 2026 appointments updating

6.C. Discussion of Officers

6.C.1. Responsibility of Officers

6.C.2. School board officers

6.C.3. Policy 207 and 207R

7. BOARD TRAINING

7.A. MSBA Leadership Conference 2026 brochure

7.B. MSBA Workshops

7.C. Mentors

8. OTHER

8.A. Contact Info

9. ADJOURN