For the last two days, I’ve been sitting in school board meetings. Every year the board of ICSB has a two day “retreat” to focus on strategic issues fo the school. This time we were working on transitioning to a concept called Policy Governance. It is a method of operating the board where we can focus more on strategic issues while leaving the details up to the director.

The cool part of the time is that we had a facilitator come and lead our time. His name is John Schimmer and we have a cool connection. His daughter, Jackie, and I went to school at Trinity Christian Academy and Texas A&M together. It was fun to spend some time with him and he did a great job with the training.

It was a busy two days, but we accomplished quite a bit. I don’t always say that after board meetings, but this was a landmark meeting for the school.