Lunchtime webinar recorded on January 7, 2021

Do you know this valuable tool is available to you as members of VSBA? If your SU/SD has subscribed to it you can find any contract statewide in the database. You can search by many items such as type of contract i.e teacher, support, maintenance, office staff, administrator, non union or even find fact finder reports.

Tune in to learn more about the contract database and the data we collect which can be very useful preparing for negotiations.

Geo Honigford has served on the Royalton School Board since 2005, and on the executive committee of the Orange Windsor Supervisory Union since 2009.  He is a strong believer in the public school system and potential that it can bring to children’s lives.  He considers his biggest accomplishments on the boards to be a building addition, the start of collaborative bargaining with the teachers association, and closer cooperation between the various schools in the supervisory union.

He started and runs a successful organic vegetable and hay farm.  In past careers he has taught high school, been a park ranger, and spent two years in the Peace Corps in West Africa.  In addition to sitting on the various school boards he has also been on the board of the White River Partnership for 16 years.

He and his wife, Sharon O’Connor, have two daughters that attend South Royalton High School.

Leon Johnson is the vice chair of the Mount Anthony Union High School in Bennington. He is also the vice chair of the Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union. Mr. Johnson also serves on the Southwest Regional Technical Center Board. 

He has been on a school board in the Bennington area since 1993. Mr. Johnson represents the minorities of his community. He works as a liaison with minority parents and the school administrators. 

Flor Diaz-Smith is the vice chairperson of the Washington Central UUSD board and a former VSBA Board Member.

David Chandler is the clerk of the Taconic & Green School Board and the vice chair of the Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union. He is also the VSBA Bennington Regional Representative.

In Vermont, the most important function of school boards is the development of policy -  a powerful tool for the exercise of educational leadership. You will learn about the process for developing, adopting and  monitoring school policy.