Board Member Self-Assessment

The purpose of taking our self-assessment is to allow our school board members to honestly evaluate their own individual strengths and weaknesses when it comes to equity and impact. By using these results and combining them with rubrics developed with our fellows and members, school board members can discover what steps they need to take to become better leaders and help close the opportunity gap for all students — especially students of color.

This assessment usually only takes a few minutes, but there is no time limit — please take all the time you need to make sure every question is answered honestly to get results that are as accurate as possible.

Once your self-assessment is complete, you will be able to evaluate your scores in comparison to our Becoming an Equity-Minded School Board Member and Becoming an Impactful School Board Member rubrics. These rubrics are designed to help you craft a plan for taking developmental steps and, ultimately, improving opportunities for our students.

About the School Board Partners Self-Assessment Rubric

Both our Equity-Minded and Impactful rubrics were created after a year of working with our School Board Partners fellows and mentors in order to understand the current state of our nation’s school boards and what is necessary to finally close our country’s opportunity gap. These rubrics are not comprehensive or prescriptive, but rather illustrations of the nuanced and complex issues we as school board members need to address. As such, they are living documents and can be updated and changed as we receive additional input from school board members like you.

Support for Board Members

If, after taking the self-assessment and examining the rubrics, you have identified areas that you want to improve, School Board Partners has a number of programs that can help. Whether you want to become a fellow, attend the Our Collective Power conference to learn from experts and connect with like-minded school board members or receive individual support and consultation, we can help you find the resources you need.

More Resources for Board Members

School Board Partners is committed to giving board members all the tools and resources they need to enact real, lasting change for students, including:

• Our community of change is full of engaged and dedicated school board members, mentors and experts who are all committed to more just, equitable and liberated school boards and educational systems.

• Tools for change provide policy kits such as governance, superintended evaluation, student safety and more that can help you craft and implement vital changes in your school board.

• Blog resources full of helpful information, examples, stories and more.

• Join us! Sign up for our waiting list to become a member.

If you have any questions about the school board member self-assessment or evaluation process, or any of our other resources, don’t hesitate to reach out — we are happy to provide the information and answers you need.